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Re:Results from the Jane Street hardware puzzle on Sunday October 04, 2026 @03:47PM (#49957171)
this reply isn't in good faith. OP is being self critical examining contradictions of living in complex interdependent societies. why are your queries so aggressively factional?
whats the story behind the name?
Re:Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode? on Sunday September 13, 2026 @01:40PM (#49686487)
this is dope.
Re:Homebrew 7.0.0 on Sunday September 13, 2026 @01:33PM (#49686395)
Re:Quest for the Eternal Dock – Lambdock on Sunday August 30, 2026 @09:27PM (#49504621)
designing something using gtk4 but it doesn't work in gnome is odd.
I always found the symbols of America interesting and their connections to the history of the European Democratic societies (and their ideals). Concepts that spread like wildfire across the global peasantry, unlanded & slave classes alike.

Who is this Columbia woman? Seriously, why is there a pyramid with an eye on the dollar bill? Compared to many other countries currencies, America has some of the most ambiguous imagery on its bills to the point most Americans don't know or understand their respective meanings.

Americans don't discuss Democracy's relationships to Anarchy (I always found this strange, especially with its obsession with guns); how one complements the other in very important and dynamic ways (this was an ongoing study in the working groups of early democratists).

Why did Americans give up wigs and the Brits did not? are the paris club and imf considered democratic institutions because they originate in democratic countries? Why is capitalism as an economic structure automatically considered democratic?

America as a concept of converging ideas has always befuddled me.

practically any ide built in the last 30 years can do what you need...from micro to zed.

what are you looking for exactly?

What are the stats around internal tool building in the last 2-3 years? rates of adoption? are internal users satisfied?
Re:What's gonna happen to software engineers? on Monday June 01, 2026 @09:52PM (#48364954)
The Swiss govt has done much to protect Swiss labor from external market pressures; whether the watch is a handmade movement or quartz is irrelevant.
For those needing context for the development of this package; this project is presently being developed as part of a RPKI validator.

https://medium.com/@jobsnijders/a-proposal-for-a-new-rpki-va...

Re:OpenBSD 7.9 on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @07:31PM (#48201090)
i wonder how gnome will be supported in the future on systems without systemd. heres a thread of someone beginning the process of replacing systemd with gnu shepherd: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/accompanying-non-systemd-distr...
Re:The vi family on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @04:11PM (#48126842)
"Sam is designed as two synchronous programs: a command interpreter and a mouse-oriented bitmap windowing interface."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_(text_editor)

Its ironic just how many of these tools could simply be marketed as shiny ai emacs.
Re:A Desktop Made for One on Sunday May 03, 2026 @12:58PM (#47998902)
we are there now. depending on boot loader/os combination, one can get to the sub 1-5 sec range, if its cli-only.
Re:Help Keep Thunderbird Alive on Thursday April 09, 2026 @02:21PM (#47707446)
team geary needs more love. geary works well for most day to day tasks with no showstopping bugs.
Re:Interview: Nobonoko, Master of the Minimal Sequencer on Monday March 30, 2026 @08:35AM (#47573486)
tldr; vaporwave musician with cat art.
i found this discussion interesting as it relates to LLMs and Lean 4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47047027
Re:An x86-64 back end for raven-uxn on Thursday March 19, 2026 @02:05AM (#47435536)
Not surprising. the 100R folk are very upfront about their ideology around sustainability and eco justice.

mjk didn't have anything to add to the social economic conversation around llm usage, to the point of even being a bit tone deaf (especially if the 100R were part of his intended audience).

A bit more open constructive conversation to mjk's post on Mastodon would've been helpful for more people to understand the 100R philosophy more intimately; but...it seems the battle lines are drawn. Who wins/loses?

Re:Back to FreeBSD: Part 1 on Sunday February 22, 2026 @08:56AM (#47111032)
Probably bc, Windows users live in walled knowledge domains that tend to reinforce levels of competence (or lack of competence).

Gamers tend to be somewhere in the middle though.

The GPT found this and thought it was relevant: "an introduction of library operating system for Linux" - https://lwn.net/Articles/637658/
Bad and expensive.
Re:Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015) on Sunday December 07, 2025 @12:36PM (#46183439)
where in mexico? sounds really cool
From the Website: "If you write math in MATLAB and hit performance walls on CPU, RunMat is built for you."
Re:The IDEs we had 30 years ago ... and we lost on Saturday October 18, 2025 @09:39AM (#45627280)
Schoolaged 1995 coder self with a fpuless Mac would like a word about what we lost/gained (no available c compilers at the time).

The need for tui argument is vague outside of muscle memory. Lots of beautiful poetry though.

That age of computing the author is romanticizing was expensive and corporate fed stupid (RIP Mr Bollenbach my hs cs teacher who gave us weekly insider tech reports).

I feel like tui folk need their stack/os/integrated environment...oh wait. Nevermind.

"Is FreeDos the Moderate Libertarian TempleOS?"

Re:The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] on Monday August 25, 2025 @10:34AM (#45014312)
That Ken Pier quote in the preface is still nasty work.