rogerallen

Anyone else reminded of that old Crighton book, Congo?

THIS! THIS! THIS!

I cannot believe that in 2026 companies can get away with not confirming your email address. So damn annoying…and apparently something that can get YOU into legal jeopardy. Could we use this case as class-action precedent to sue a few large companies and get them to change?

Same as it ever was.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555642

In United States v. Heppner, Judge Rakoff of the Southern District of New York ruled that written exchanges between a criminal defendant and generative AI platform Claude were not protected by attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine.

I wonder if putting this choice on the user would be most appropriate?

People fearful about being scammed should buy a phone with a hardware lock to prevent it from ever accepting sideloads--no option to go to dev mode, ever. You could even charge more for the extra security.

People who want the freedom to sideload can choose to buy a phone without the extra hardware security feature.

This is really, really well done. I’m very impressed by all the features implemented here and I wish I could look over the source. I wonder how it is done.

This is the content I come here for.

Followup here: https://excamera.substack.com/p/the-great-ads1115-pricing-my...

And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658163

James returns with a followup to his earlier article

https://excamera.substack.com/p/how-bad-can-a-297-adc-be

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582462

Can someone give more info on the relevance of this particular code?

They could at least fall back to "context sensitive" ads like you suggest.

Also, don't try to make me feel guilty for having an "ad blocker". I don't specifically block ads, instead I have a "tracking me without my consent blocker".

Very nice article. I don’t think I was aware of these experiments, but maybe I’ve forgotten?

Apologies if I just missed this, but is there a link to Maxwell’s original findings?

Wish it worked on mobile and used the xyz accelerator...

and only 1 link still works. 19 years is a long time to the internet.

My top post ever on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/6dwg/wired_unve...

They also post to Threads

https://www.threads.net/@fireflyaerospace

Is there a wisp frontend? Seems like it would be appropriate. :-) https://github.com/stereobooster/wisp

Found this HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38633668

Would like to hear more about this. I thought there was an effort to adjust this...did that fail?

If you're interested, Wikipedia also has a decent discussion of this function and it's history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root

Wish my VRML Spirograph still worked. :) https://web.archive.org/web/19970617133952fw_/http://reality... [1997]

Wow -- TIL Bill Budge put the code for this up on github. I had no idea!

https://github.com/billbudge/PCS_AppleII

Twenty-year-olds should not be in charge of UX.

There is a nice article providing more information about gamma in Graphics Gems 3 Chapter 24, available at https://developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpugems3/part-iv-image-...

I wish it was easy to render western text to multiple columns that are fit to the screen. Reading like a multicolumn paper newspaper and scrolling horizontally. I think this shows that it would be pleasant to read text on the web this way.

What you say can be true, but it sets a certain bar for clearly conveying the message artistically. I would say that bar was not met in this case. I found it so distracting I was compelled to go off to Desmos to draw it myself.