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Replication is unpaid QA on someone else's product. Nobody gets tenure for finding the bug, hence the field has been meaning to get around to it for 20 years.
Re:How I use LLMs to learn complex topics on Sunday August 09, 2026 @05:35PM (#49236231)
These are high quality at first glance. the visualizations and exercises are helpful.

What is your process for creating these resources?

Re:What Is Plus Times Plus? (Lambda Calculus Intro) [video] on Friday September 05, 2025 @03:40PM (#45142767)
Remarkable visual intro to lambda calculus.
Re:Map of GitHub on Sunday December 15, 2024 @08:50PM (#42427327)
Can you elaborate?
Marcellus Williams was executed yesterday, Tuesday. https://apnews.com/article/missouri-execution-marcellus-will...
Re:Show HN: ChatGPT UI for Rabbit Holes on Thursday May 30, 2024 @09:07PM (#40530481)
Have you tried asking the llm to elaborate? There’s message box.
Re:Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone on Thursday January 04, 2024 @08:16PM (#38874524)
No trackpad?
Re:Cuis-Smalltalk on Sunday December 31, 2023 @01:52PM (#38826446)
Monticello lets you export/import code between your image and text files which can then be managed by a vcs like git. Created by Avi Bryant.
Re:E Online has left a Gist url on the top of their site on Saturday December 15, 2012 @08:22PM (#4926945)
I'm a Krux employee. Just before midnight PST, after friends noticed this post on hacker news, we got to work and resolved the problem.

Thanks a ton for all the eyes out there that helped us find this one. It's great when the community has your back.

Proof one more time of the dangers of making production changes on a Friday afternoon, and that there's no substitute for manual monitoring of a site.

Derek Brans Technology Krux