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Re:Hey linker, can you spare a meg? on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:02PM (#50311241)
That's quite a cliffhanger…

The storytelling is nice, but the philosophising seems a bit unwarranted after all this work only managed to save such a pittance.

Re:How we made claude.ai 3x faster in two weeks on Thursday September 24, 2026 @01:01AM (#49826433)
It shows the author have a deep understanding of the fact that premature optimisation is the root of all success
Regarding storage, a single data center using only slow but dense storage (magnetic tapes) can store far more data than a data center providing regular web services.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairview_%28surveillance_progr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Public information shows that the NSA has been active intercepting as much data as possible.

It doesn't require the budget of a FAANG to peek through a significant volume of internet data.

Re:A/I shuts down – Stay human on Sunday September 06, 2026 @02:22PM (#49589312)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making alternative political movements care a lot about how decisions are taken. For instance, authors like David Graeber consider that majority voting only makes sense in the context if backed by violence.
Re:Splitting a Git Commit on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @05:28PM (#49352967)
Also, `jj split` can use alternative tooling to the built-in TUI, whereas I don't think `git history split` can.
Re:Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @08:35AM (#49257307)
The VCR became widespread during the 1980s

> The industry boomed in the 1980s as more and more customers bought VCRs. By 1982, 10% of households in the United Kingdom owned a VCR. The figure reached 30% in 1985 and by the end of the decade well over half of British homes owned a VCR.

Re:KOReader on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @08:21AM (#49096515)
I wish you could disable fullscreen (enable the navigation bar) on Android though :-(
Re:Almost Always Unsigned on Thursday July 09, 2026 @01:19AM (#48841285)
> Where unsigned does benefit here is when these are used as indices into an array. The signed behavior will almost certainly produce invalid indices which leads to memory unsafety issues. The unsigned way will never do that, it’ll stay bounded, even if the index it produces is actually wrong. This is a much less-severe logic bug, but can still be used maliciously depending on context.

The argument for signed often goes that it's easier to detect an invalid operation on an index by checking for bounds, or the higher probability of segmentation faults, than if your index is always “valid”. Granted, even with signed your invalid operation might still give a valid index. Simply put, seeing a negative index in your debugger is an obvious red flag you lose with unsigned.

In general I want to complain about the idea that a subtle bug is less severe than an obvious bug. Obvious bugs can be caught automatically or manually and are therefore less severe than subtle ones. This is a mistakes all students do btw. Segmentation faults are your friends!

Also in French, different similarity, av2il hav2e

Slightly worse in English, av2age mav2ick

Re:Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu on Sunday May 24, 2026 @06:58PM (#48261850)
I believe this is the most common scenario, yes. If you're used to actively pushing and pulling from the same branche as your colleagues, you need to learn how to manipulate diverging changes and conflicting bookmarks, but other than that all the jj magic is limited to your local activity.
Re:Space Cadet Pinball on Linux on Sunday May 10, 2026 @09:14AM (#48083728)
I intuitively feel like more realistic games could be more fun, and that I might just have fondness for Space Cadet from growing up with it; but the more I played other pinball games the more I appreciate that space cadet is a simply great game to play, it feels great and there's a great variety of things to keep you hooked.

I wish I could find another pinball game I enjoyed as much. The closest experiences I could find are Xenotitle and Demon's Tilt but I found them harder to get into and get good at.

The next best thing imo is Yoku's Island Express.

To those who do not know about this subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_of_Moldova_and_Rom...

(My external barely informed understanding is that proponents of unification are largely right wing nationalist, pro-Russians call for a unification with Bessarabia while ceding Transsinistria to Russia; Moldovans are largely against union in polls.)

Re:Make some art with your phone sensors on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @06:07AM (#48034433)
Even just the plain etch-a-sketch using motion sensing is cool enough.

I suppose this might have been done already?

Re:HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @03:20AM (#47945123)
I was not aware of Radicle; it's a truly peer-to-peer Git forge which aims to guarantee commits are signed by current maintainers (among, I suppose, other goals).

The article mentions an us and a you, but I feel like it would have been an useful occasion to explain why move (from where?) and why Radicle. Maybe this was already discussed elsewhere?

I suppose similar discussions regarding GitHub are happening today and could explain why this was posted to HN.

After a quick search, there is an NFC web API, but with no general support https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_NFC_API
Sounds like they might have been working the gigs? Maybe a sounds engineer
Re:The Clock on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @02:32AM (#47686165)
Yeah, this screamed US date format to me! (Though there's no year in this clock)
Re:LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua on Sunday April 05, 2026 @05:42PM (#47654183)
I like the Trosh game
Re:JSLinux Now Supports x86_64 on Monday March 09, 2026 @05:33PM (#47315857)
Similarly I've used it for technical interviews.
Re:System76 on Age Verification Laws on Friday March 06, 2026 @03:04AM (#47272283)
To my surprise, this graph [0] shows that even when taking into account vaping, it seems that smoking has truly gone down in the US.

[0]: https://ecigone.com/featured/vaping-statistics/

Your instinctive reaction matches with scientific consensus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing

> Each historical invention of writing emerged from systems of proto-writing that used ideographic and mnemonic symbols but were not capable of fully recording spoken language. True writing, where the content of linguistic utterances can be accurately reconstructed by later readers, is a later development. As proto-writing is not capable of fully reflecting the grammar and lexicon used in languages, it is often only capable of encoding broad or imprecise information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_speech

> vocal languages must have begun diversifying at least 100,000 years ago

Re:A CPU that runs entirely on GPU on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @04:25AM (#47245079)
The dedicated term GPGPU [0] didn't catch on.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_g...

Re:Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes on Friday January 23, 2026 @05:42PM (#46738995)
These rely on undoing within a game's constrained environment. There isn't a way to magically undo any possible procedure with side effects.
I appreciate the fact that they waited two months to check their results before sharing them publicly. However, this feels like there should be a hypothesis for explaining the difference other than “this fits expectations”, especially after the author extensively claims this does not fit their own expectations. Did I miss something?
Re:HTML Slides with notes on Friday November 07, 2025 @03:05AM (#45844445)
A vimmer*
His crusade is in part about how pods are overdosed which can reduce their effectiveness (and be super wasteful)
Re:The Farmer Was Replaced [video] on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @08:25AM (#45810755)
The game looks fun and pretty, but am I the only one to get triggered by the “replaced” naming?

All of these eager claims to replace humans feel violently antisocial. (And in many instances hypocritical if coming from people who defensively claim “it's just a tool”…)

Is this bait? The whole context is malicious software being installed en masse via NPM micro dependencies.

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