Ask HN: Why does Chrome text scaling not work in HN
Chrome text scaling is applied on comments. But it does not apply to the links shown in the main HN page. Any idea why?
sreeramvenkat
Re:Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things
on Friday January 10, 2025 @07:59AM (#42655225)
Read it as if you are reading it the second time.
Re:Is My Blue Your Blue?
on Monday September 02, 2024 @11:44PM (#41431043)
It is also possible that I say something is blue because rest of society says so. My blue can only be known to me
Re:Babylon's Mystery Goddess
on Saturday June 22, 2024 @07:54PM (#40763337)
The left hand seems to hold something like a noose which is an oft repeated item in Hindu iconography (pasha/pasa)
Re:
on Friday February 09, 2024 @10:13PM (#39323216)
Ironic that the article begins with an image of server chassis with wires running around while the description is entirely about cloud infra.
Re:Ask HN: Has anyone here learned COBOL for fun? How did it go?
on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:29AM (#37506032)
IIRC it doesn't have a stack. So all variables are globals. There is no way to call a function with a parameter - to be accurate, there are only subroutines; no functions.
Re:Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize...
on Friday May 12, 2023 @12:18AM (#35911838)
Another option is to watch Doordarshan - Indian national news. https://www.youtube.com/@DDIndia
Re:The Little Book of Deep Learning [pdf]
on Monday May 01, 2023 @06:16AM (#35770903)
Any recommendations for a set of hands on exercises that go well with this book ?
Re:Ask HN: How should one work with severe chronic pain?
on Thursday April 13, 2023 @10:16AM (#35555804)
I had a severe pain in my neck (cervical spondylosis) for 2 years radiating to my arms and head. At a point, I started getting black outs and random head tingling, driving me crazy. I consulted an Ayurvedic doctor & applied a medicated oil with daily sun exposure for an hour. The pain became manageable after 6 months. I have a livable/bearable pain for the last 10 years - but it no longer bothers me much. The oil saved my mind. I can share more details if anyone is interested (email in profile).
Re:Ask HN: Ask HN: How do you structure your code
on Sunday April 09, 2023 @11:27PM (#35508885)
I am finding many things to learn on this from the book 'Philosophy of Software Design' by John Ousterhout. There is a video in YouTube where John Ousterhout outlines the core principles present in his book.
Re:Ask HN: HN for Finance?
on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @08:57AM (#34708051)
I think its not HN but it's the openness and inclination to help that makes HN very unique.
Re:Exclusive Q&A John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General...
on Friday February 03, 2023 @02:28AM (#34638187)
> So I asked Ilya, their chief scientist, for a reading list
Just curious, if this reading list is available somewhere.
Re:Why is the state of mathematics education so abstract and uninspiring?
on Saturday November 26, 2022 @06:16AM (#33751754)
Nice article from Oliver Heaviside. Essentially, it comes down to the realisation that experimenting with mathematics holds as much virtue as reason with logic.
Ask HN: Tech stack suggestion for a simple desktop app
Hello HN,I want to develop a simple desktop application for a non-profit, that will be used to store monetary contribution data from donors.There should be a facility to generate receipts, get monthly reports and query the data offline.The software will be running in a Windows based Desktop machine. The desktop machine is low end (1 GB RAM).
Tamil Nadu woman disguised herself as man for 3 decades to raise daughter
Re:Emacs Lisp Readable Closures (2013)
on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:29AM (#28875292)
Zenlisp by Nils Holm has readable closure too. http://t3x.org/
Re:Chennai, India's sixth biggest city, has a water crisis
on Sunday June 23, 2019 @11:30AM (#20256208)
Palar river is mostly dry. The last time I saw any water was during 2015 floods.
Re:How to Draw Animals (1930)
on Thursday June 06, 2019 @08:04AM (#20113671)
I have observed the same (abstracting the essentials) in some of young children's drawings. They seem to be adept in identifying the essential elements from the details.
Re:Ask HN: Mathematicians, what textbooks are best for learning these ...
on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @06:48AM (#19613345)
There is a good set of recommendations from mathwonk in this physicsforums thread (pretty detailed) https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/the-should-i-become-a-...
Re:Case Study: IBM's System/360-370 Architecture (1987) [pdf]
on Sunday April 07, 2019 @01:21PM (#19598302)
Sometimes I wonder if anyone can write a JCL from scratch. A new JCL is always copied from an existing one and the gets modified. The first couple of lines of a JCL are particularly scary if I recollect properly.
Re:Show HN: Thoughter
on Thursday April 04, 2019 @10:15AM (#19572546)
I am very curious if OP can share some stats on number of times two people were thinking about each other at the same time.
Re:Ask HN: What should a systems/low-level software engineer know?
on Friday January 11, 2019 @04:45AM (#18882121)
IMO the book "Computer systems : a programmer's perspective [Randal E Bryant; David R O'Hallaron]" provides a good foundation on this and other lower level system details.
Re:Ask HN: High-Quality Online Degree for Mathematics?
on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @07:06AM (#18854951)
Sure - Please suggest. I have been buying books (the likes of Apostol, Spivak, Artin) and doing self study. The typical pattern is start solving the problems and I get stuck with tough ones. And I hardly go past the third chapter of all the books that I had bought because of this.
Re:Ask HN: High-Quality Online Degree for Mathematics?
on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @05:36AM (#18854633)
Just the learning would suffice.
Ask HN: High-Quality Online Degree for Mathematics?
Hello Hackers,I am looking for suggestions on online mathematics degree options (something similar to OMSCS from Georgia Tech). I have background in CS but have always wanted a degree in Math. Cannot leave my job and study - have mouths to feed. I can self study but I find myself switching my topics of study too often. Following a strict regimen of syllabus will discipline me to complete what...
Re:Why MIT uses Python instead of Scheme for its undergraduate CS prog...
on Saturday December 29, 2018 @02:16AM (#18782438)
Scheme is not my first language and I am still greatful for it. I am self learning SICP for past 3 years (after working 15+ years in non-lisp languages). Though still in chapter 2, it has cleared up and simplified my thinking about programming. I no longer consider bottoms up approach to be sin. Understanding new functional language specs becomes a breeze and it 'just clicks'. Though I am yet to understand why Clojure could not implement tail recursion without the 'recur' keyword.
Re:Why Not to Use Quora
on Monday December 10, 2018 @12:53AM (#18645535)
Yes. Apparently from an 'Idea machine'