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Re:The Aaronson Oracle on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @10:09AM (#50088043)
The last commit of the github project [0] is 2 months old.

[0] https://github.com/hyphen656/Oracle

Re:Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:26AM (#49843052)
The author behind the twitter account has been discovered [1] (source in french and behind paywall). It's team leaded by a french essayist and journalist at "Le Figaro" named Samuel Fitoussi.

[1] https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/qui-se-cache-derriere-le-com...

Re:Former NSA Employee Arrested on Espionage-Related Charges on Friday September 30, 2022 @07:52AM (#33033657)
I would be extra careful about the "billions" of social fraud in France. Wikipedia make a difference between the shortfall due to unpaid contribution (undeclared work for example) and the loss due to benefit fraud.

Different figures are given but it looks that most those "billions" are in fact shortfall and not benefit fraud.

Re:Retraction of Roomtemperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous s... on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @10:45AM (#32995923)
This short article in Science [1] give more information and summarize the whole story.

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/something-seriously-...

Re:Retraction of Roomtemperature superconductivity in a carbonaceous s... on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @10:06AM (#32995404)
That was a bit expected, and the reason given by Nature are not the whole story. Some of the same authors also claimed to have found metallic hydrogen [0], which is also highly controversial since the proof hold mainly on pictures taken using a Iphone camera.

[0] https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aal1579

Re:The origin of the strong form of superconductivity on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:56AM (#32940749)
It is a very active domain, with lots and lots of techniques to do some clever approximations. Brute forcing is not feasible, even for the simplest systems.
Re:The origin of the strong form of superconductivity on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:52AM (#32940688)
That is essentially the idea of Random Structure Searching [0], but the precision of quantum simulation (better known as ab initio) for solids is not perfect and very time consuming.

[0] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0953-8984/23/5/05...

Re:The Reason Why Are Trucks Getting Bigger on Thursday August 11, 2022 @10:01AM (#32425709)
A 2021 Chevrolet Silverado weight 5190 lbs [0], which is 2.35 tonnes, which is extreme but in the range of the article.

[0] https://www.edmunds.com/chevrolet/silverado-1500/2021/featur...

Re:Show HN: I made a deceptively simple but hard sliding puzzle on Thursday June 02, 2022 @10:31AM (#31595356)
Same as you, but I took 90% on the time only on the last line, the first three are solved use basic swipe of two squares, as in a beginner cube method.
Re:Ask HN: Why is there so many different text editors? on Friday April 08, 2022 @05:26AM (#30954981)
I understand that employers' choices are not really yours. But why did you choose to use Sublime Text for developing and vim for the command line ?

I don't know very much of vim but I think it is very extensible and can be used as a complete IDE for most of languages. Wouldn't it be more convenient to always use vim over switching between vim and Sublime ?

Ask HN: Why is there so many different text editors?

Posted by routeroff on Friday April 08, 2022 @04:38AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Hi HN,I wonder why there is so much different text editor/IDE on the market.In my daily job, I only use Emacs to develop in Fortran, write small script in python/bash and write documents/presentations in LaTex. I don't see the point to switching to different editors/IDE for each use case.IMHO, it is has much more value to always keep the same shortcuts and macros than switching to a specialized...

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Re:Gitlab is down on Monday January 31, 2022 @10:28AM (#30148971)
overleaf.com is also down, https://status.overleaf.com/

Maybe some common severs ?