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Re:Show HN: I wrote a Java decompiler in pure C language on Tuesday June 03, 2025 @11:34AM (#44171152)
How does the output compare to https://www.decompiler.com/ in terms of correctness?
Re:Working Lego Turing Machine on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @09:23AM (#41647236)
Can't wait to see DOOM running on this one!
Another solution would be to get rid of tenants.
I was sure that subdomains do not share a reputation score.
Re:An unusual 7400-series chip implemented with a gate array on Saturday March 30, 2024 @04:09PM (#39878163)
Why have you wasted 80% of the die?
Re:A beginner's guide to constant-time cryptography (2017) on Thursday February 22, 2024 @06:34AM (#39465667)
Why should it be constant-time, by the way? Wouldn't random-time suffice?
Re:Write libraries instead of services, where possible on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:04AM (#38393479)
It was like this 20 years ago. "software that can be run by the user" - good old times.
Re:Ask HN: Ways to make side income as a SWE? on Thursday November 09, 2023 @02:41PM (#38210015)
I will stop yodeling for less!
Re:SMS Pumping Attack on Thursday August 03, 2023 @08:52AM (#36985200)
Is there a website/service/whatever where I can check the price of sending an SMS to a particular number?
They were bought by Bending Spoons which is located in Milan, Italy.
At some point you can also discover it is Turing complete.
I think we can safely expand it even further: Anything can be a anything if you use it wrongly enough.
I would be more afraid of AI generated questions rather than answers.
But there is also this idea that you can't judge the system while being a part of it. You simply can't see the whole picture.
There is a possibility that everything we output is merely a regurgitation of thousands of human answers, ideas, and thoughts we have encountered before. Including this comment of yours. And mine.
Re:Ask HN: How come YC startups offering <80k$/year? on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @09:08AM (#36124425)
At first, I thought you were referencing the absence of the sugary drink tax when you were talking about "free insulin."
Which version are you currently using? I used to have the same setup back in the days when 1Password was only a standalone app, before it became a SaaS as it is now.

Can you please explain how you have organized your current setup?

Re:Cheating Is All You Need on Thursday March 23, 2023 @03:10PM (#35279818)
This makes me ponder over how predictable we humans can be.

We tend to act similarly when placed in similar circumstances. We think alike when presented with the same context. We find patterns in things. Etc, etc, etc.

And I'm sure I'm not the first person in this thread to have had this exact thought.

Re:JDK 20 will introduce float16 conversion methods on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @06:24PM (#33184472)
I remember when Java 8 was a new hip thing: look Ma, lambdas! Or Java 5: oh wow, generics!
Re:Python type hints are Turing complete on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:07AM (#32780140)
Surprisingly Turing-Complete: https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete
They surely do know how to monetize the traffic. Banners are all over the website.
Re:Writing your own search engine is hard (2004) on Sunday July 24, 2022 @05:42AM (#32211795)
"since they’re using the same templates, large chunks of HTML can be squished down considerably"

It sounds like this same data is not only compressible, but it also has zero useful signal in it and it can be filtered away.

Have you tried that? Are there articles/approaches that talk about it?

Re:Writing your own search engine is hard (2004) on Sunday July 24, 2022 @05:10AM (#32211680)
Why dealing with LTO-6 tapes? Isn't it easier to deploy 8 x 16TB HDDs?
Re:The data rules worth $40k a day on Thursday July 21, 2022 @01:11PM (#32181954)
Don't use floating point for monetary calculations.
Re:The data rules worth $40k a day on Thursday July 21, 2022 @12:16PM (#32181185)
Wow, I've previously had exactly same feelings about couple of people from whom I heard "data lakes".
Why living in a city in the first place? Imagine living in a small town near the farm.
Re:This needs some heavy checking... (line 1029) on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @04:26PM (#30278733)
It could be refactored and it could become less efficient afterwards.
Re:I analyzed SaaS billing dark patterns on Thursday November 18, 2021 @04:09PM (#29270601)
Subscription-based software is already a dark pattern.
Re:How I got wealthy without working too hard on Thursday November 18, 2021 @01:23PM (#29268681)
The most important part is missing: How did he managed to work 2 hours a day while being paid 1000 a day?
Re:Stop paying DocuSign $2 for an e-signature on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @01:52PM (#29257229)
Would you mind sharing that startup you advised?

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