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Re:Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora on Saturday May 11, 2024 @03:07AM (#40326528)
9 hours later and we saw similar sights in the Pacific Northwest in the US! Pretty awesome.
Re:Engineer 'builds a GPU from scratch' in two weeks on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @02:30AM (#40220193)
I don't think that is the prevailing sentiment. GPU still means Graphics Processing Unit to me and most tech people I know. I think it's more just in the folding and crypto communities that people have repurposed the initialism.
Then they shouldn't be suing imo. Suing implies they think they shouldn't have been fired, which means their risk was not intentional. So they're not heroes.
No, this is just an evidence-free speculative conspiracy theory that is now my new head-canon
Re:The Namingless Programming Language on Monday February 19, 2024 @02:42PM (#39433812)
If I can make a full scale model of the Burj Khalifa in minecraft survival then I don't begrudge this guy doing his thing.

And hacker news is where I come to read about random projects like this.

Re:Show HN: I made a simple daily word puzzle on Monday February 19, 2024 @02:18PM (#39433542)
That was fun! Took all three lifelines for me but I eventually got it, so the difficulty is about right.