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Aaaand a newer post with 176 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319143

This is an essentially follow-up to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50315409 “NASA's Voyager 1 mysteriously lost touch with Earth” (mashable.com)

44 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50299182

Dupe.

130 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50305480

98 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300853

Here’s an archive.org mirror of the broken “Why no one should use the AT&T syntax ever, for any reason, under any circumstances” link: https://web.archive.org/web/20251128060318/https://outerprod...

This is about a different person, but it's similar in spirit: "Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50173487 | 6 days ago | 158 comments

For more, see “Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time” with 464 comments from 9 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50131256

Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166579 - “eMudhra intermediate CA compromise” - 947 points | 19 hours ago | 408 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50177916 - "Eight Bits of Trust; eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds" - 604 points | 7 hours ago | 270 comments

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166579

“eMudhra intermediate CA compromise” | 947 points | 19 hours ago | 408 comments

It opens with “This article provides a historical account of the major developments in the area of curves and surfaces as they entered the area of CAGD – Computer Aided Geometric Design – until the middle 1980s.” So your gut instinct appears to be correct.

It’s the most-upvoted submission of the last 24 hours, according to https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&sort=byPopularity&...

(1998)

Submitted 15 hours ago, 181 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50136536

Yesterday, 137 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120101

Someone posted that today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50141076

Can you add any context?

677 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961057

Submitted here a couple days ago, with 730 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101813

> They make file managing so comfortable compared to stuff like Windows Explorer or Nautilus (not saying they are bad though, I just prefer two panes).

When I’m on Windows and need two panes, I open two Windows Explorer windows.

How did you get your prescription?

Clickable link: https://wokwi.com/

They get closer to AI if you read forward 2 sentences, moreso if you stop reading before “perhaps”:

“Over the longer term, the nature of programming will change even more significantly as programmers become able to describe desired functions in a nonprocedural way, perhaps through a set of rules or formal specification languages.”

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50101813

“AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware” (citizenlab.ca)

512 points | 2 days ago | 721 comments

Recent and highly related: “Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over”. 15 days ago; 751 comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891295

> Were decomps/recomps a hobby because people wanted to make sure their old games could run on modern hardware and be extended with mods etc., or were they a hobby because people enjoyed the actual process of using Ghidra and reverse engineering by hand, and the decompiled game was just a side effect?

It’s interesting to dwell on what ‘we’ appreciated before versus what we appreciate now. Since LLMs lowered the bar, it feels like raw human effort has come to be held in higher esteem.

Are we going to re-evaluate what we were impressed with in the past based on that new metric? For example, will accomplishments by experienced engineers be devalued in comparison to accomplishments by outsiders? Will the software engineering equivalent of ‘folk’ or ‘outsider’ art become more valued? There will be a natural instinct to distrust outsider contributions because, well, how did they get so good?

Are some metrics of human effort going to be de rigueur going forward?

I was curious so I looked up that quote. It’s from here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/10/04/the-world-ca...

“The world cannot afford an AI bubble right now” by Andrew Orlowski.

I didn’t find a corresponding HN submission but Algolia seems to be janky in lo these heady days.

> I get these all the time

What are the agents trying to do?

15 comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49961538

Mostly about the claim and not the (purported?) author.

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50013525

There’s an interesting comment thread (including potential downsides) about this technique in the submission for “How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026” from a couple days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923594