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Re:Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it withou...
on Friday August 21, 2026 @06:58PM (#49394756)
...and still fails to win the ai race at least for now
Re:US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
on Monday July 27, 2026 @09:20PM (#49078073)
can you use a faked account that looks like you but hides all the important information so when your phone is in search mode you just show the agent that, giving them something to work on and protecting your privacy
Re:Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
on Sunday December 21, 2025 @01:43AM (#46342792)
why does the url say 2035?
Re:Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 hallucinates the HN front page 10 years from now
on Friday December 12, 2025 @10:09PM (#46251628)
interesting how it generated 'google killed gemini cloud service' lol
its much easier to learn math now. it's good we have chromebooks + various llms for a low price / for free for poor kids. but i guess being poor means you dont have time to learn math or something.
doing math is way easier nowadays though i mean there's discord, stack exchange, various llms that help you, etc.
erdos & ramanujan have amazing mathematica intuition which is kinda the 'heart' of math imho. btw...
Re:Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What shoul...
on Saturday August 30, 2025 @08:16AM (#45073976)
mullvad with DAITA is pretty good you can also purchase mullvad with cryptocurrencies, cash, etc.
Re:Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
on Saturday August 30, 2025 @07:41AM (#45073812)
staying kinda anonymous saying this... oftentimes for most programmers the road is a pretty simple one yet the fence or gate is a tolling station of some private interest, so yeah if possible just quit arguing and try to destroy it.
Re:The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything
on Saturday May 10, 2025 @12:14AM (#43943175)
i feel the same
is this one of knuth's 'premature optimizations'?
Re:Parse, Don't Validate (2019)
on Sunday June 27, 2021 @07:44PM (#27656537)
a tiny advice: can the blog author do some separation between his next and previous article? it's really hard to read unless you hover your mouse over one of them otherwise. link to what i'm talking about:
Re:In Praise of Open Source Textbooks
on Monday June 07, 2021 @01:17AM (#27419230)
jeff erickson's 'algorithms, etc.' is the textbook for our university's algo class. it's brilliant.
in case, link: https://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/