News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

kentbrew

Re:Amazon Achieves Enshitification Inception on Friday September 04, 2026 @05:45PM (#49570607)
Came here to say this. Otherwise it's pronounced "en-SHITE-if-fication."
Re:A practical index for evolving peptide research on Thursday July 30, 2026 @10:54PM (#49118481)
Researcher6076 organizes accessible summaries of peer-reviewed and preclinical research across performance, recovery, longevity, and more. Explore topics, sources, and the limits of the current evidence.
Re:Forth on Monday July 27, 2026 @10:07PM (#49078367)
My dad proudly flew one that said FORTH <3 IF HONK THEN. Yes, people did honk.
Re:Leaving Mozilla on Saturday June 13, 2026 @04:38AM (#48514947)
That would be JR Conlin, national treasure. Worked with him on YDN in 2007 and Netflix in 2009; veterans of the Netflix API team will never forget his hack day entry, which was "Mac and Me" playing on a toaster oven.
Re:Duso on Thursday March 26, 2026 @03:17AM (#47527519)
Most languages prioritize human expressiveness and can be challenging for AI. Duso is intentionally boring and predictable. No clever syntax tricks. No multiple ways to do the same thing. Every pattern is consistent and straightforward so AI can reason about code reliably, write better scripts faster, and use fewer tokens doing it.
Re:Thagomizer on Monday March 23, 2026 @03:21AM (#47486369)
Last night I heard Morgan Freeman solemnly intone the word "thagomizer" on Episode 2 of Netflix's The Dinoosaurs, and simultaneously felt very old but also very good.
If I were an evil person I would be thinking about how to get the Walmart bot to talk to the Amazon bot.
Re:New Epstein files just dropped; data set 9 has no archive on Saturday January 31, 2026 @01:22PM (#46839166)
r/DataHoarder is a national treasure. That's it, that's the tweet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1qrd9ma/commen...

Re:New Epstein files just dropped; data set 9 has no archive on Friday January 30, 2026 @12:51PM (#46827498)
Data sets 10 and 11 have zip archives; no archive available for data set 9. And no idea how many pages are actually in here; I'm in the 6000s and climbing with no end in sight.

Some pages, like this one:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-9-f...

... all show the same set of files, starting with EFTA00039025.pdf and ending with EFTA00039881.pdf. This is the same page you get when you ask for page 0.

Not sure how to find the end of this dataset ... setting up the server to supply an infinite number of busted Next links with something important on page 8675309 seems like a fine way to keep things hidden.

Re:Eat Real Food on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @08:02PM (#46535624)
Beef <= cows <= corn <= fertilizer <= oil. It always circles back to oil.
Re:Sauron, home security startup, plucks CEO out of Sonos on Monday December 29, 2025 @04:49PM (#46426170)
Right, right, because Sauron's home had really great security. :/
Re:2025 Word of the Year: Slop on Friday December 19, 2025 @11:29AM (#46327609)
I was thinking "upended," but "slop" is also a fine choice.
Re:Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @03:31AM (#45962726)
Re:Why do AI models use so many em-dashes? on Sunday November 02, 2025 @11:13PM (#45795802)
Robert A. Heinlein used a lot of em-dashes and much of the Internet was created by Heinlein fanboys?
How many machines have you tried? This sounds like it might be one of those things that only happens on a dev box.
Re:Why Self-Host? on Thursday October 09, 2025 @06:45PM (#45533816)
Small typo: under Calendar and Contacts, "let's other" looks like it wants to be "let others."
Truth: "PureGym probably has a roadmap, sprint planning, and very good reasons for not implementing Apple Wallet. Maybe it's not a priority. Maybe they have data showing only 0.3% of users would use it. Maybe their KPIs are based on the number of online classes previewed in the app, and forcing users to see them every time the app loads secures someone's annual bonus."
Re:Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer on Saturday August 16, 2025 @02:37PM (#44925852)
columns = 420 has an interesting set of troughs down the sides and middle.
Re:Snapshots of Kids Bike Jumping in the 1970s on Friday August 15, 2025 @04:24AM (#44909858)
Oof, that one kid way out behind his seat, about to come straight down onto the front wheel? That's me, fall 1974, about to scrape most of my face right off.
This sounds like the title of a Charlie Stross novel.
Re:There Is a Monster in the Forest on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @01:45AM (#43969902)
Sorry, this is a duplicate to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43944951 ... please send all good karma that way.
Re:Plain Vanilla Web on Monday May 12, 2025 @02:37AM (#43960213)
That's a code smell. If you're creating the element you ought to already know about it. If you're not creating the element you should inventory them all at once as the page (or component) loads.

Older »