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www.sec.gov 2mo ago

SEC vs. Consent Motion for Entry of Final Judgement [pdf]

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www.wsj.com 2mo ago

OpenAI Misses Key Revenue, User Targets in High-Stakes Sprint Toward IPO

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www.bbc.com 2y ago

The 420-year-search for Shakespeare's lost play

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www.wsj.com 3y ago

Tether Used Falsified Documents and Shell Companies to Get Bank Accounts

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www.wsj.com 3y ago

FBI Director Says Covid Pandemic Likely Caused by Chinese Lab Leak

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www.wsj.com 3y ago

New Ring Discovered Around Small, Icy World in Our Solar System

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www.wsj.com 3y ago

YouTube Stars Cash in Video Rights for Millions of Dollars

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www.politico.com 3y ago

Crypto kingpin bet a fortune on Democrats. Now he’s lost it all

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www.politico.com 3y ago

DOJ takes aim at Adobe's $20B deal

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blog.netbsd.org 7y ago

First report on LLD porting

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www.youtube.com 7y ago

Michael MacInnis: Oh a New Unix Shell – BSDCan 2018

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github.com 9y ago

Show HN: MPW Shell

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geocar.sdf1.org 9y ago

How to allocate memory

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www.youtube.com 9y ago

GopherCon 2016: Rob Pike – The Design of the Go Assembler

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www.colm.net 9y ago

Ragel will Target C, C++ and ASM Only

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github.com 10y ago

ClassicMacintoshFonts

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www.pagetable.com 10y ago

Macross 6502, an assembler for people who hate assembly language

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agner.org 10y ago

Proposal for an ideal extensible instruction set

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sblom.github.io 10y ago

An Implementation of J

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www.cs.utah.edu 10y ago

Provably Correct Peephole Optimizations with Alive [pdf]

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lapsedhistorian.com 10y ago

The Long Way Round: The Story of the California Clipper

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motherboard.vice.com 10y ago

FAA Grounds ‘Uber for Planes’

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www.allenpike.com 10y ago

The worst app

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starcastle2600.blogspot.com 10y ago

Star Castle 2600, the Story

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www.filfre.net 10y ago

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards

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asciinema.org 11y ago

Asciinema – Record and share your terminal sessions, the right way

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qz.com 11y ago

If you’re pitching Marc Andreessen, here’s the bottle of bourbon to bring him

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grumpygamer.com 11y ago

Grumpy Gamer – SCUMM Notes from the C64

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ninetimes.cat-v.org 11y ago

New 9front Release “DON’T FORGET TO VOTE”

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www.youtube.com 11y ago

CppCon 2014: Howard Hinnant “Types Don't Know #”

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Somebody had fun with the web page.

Any-who,

--mono: "Berkeley Mono Trial", "Berkeley Mono", "IBM Plex Mono", "SFMono-Regular", Consolas, "Liberation Mono", Menlo, monospace;

Berkely Mono (which has been discussed on HN multiple times) is a fine font. The trial version reportedly has swapped / \ and # * glyphs which makes it an odd choice for first place.

Scenario: It's Friday night. You don't have to work tomorrow. Are you more likely to pull out your hammer and chisel and work on a classical marble sculpture -or- get shit faced at a dive bar? Hey, maybe the vomit splatters will evoke Jackson Pollock!

This looks like a variation of the Peter principle. That is, your agent is a competent agent, so you give it more access. And you keep giving it more access until one day it's an incompetent agent with no restrictions. But at least you can cap it off with an LLM-written twitter post blaming everyone but yourself for deleting your database or whatever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

By default, strings needs a run of 4+ (printable|ascii) characters. This sounds like it was 1 ascii character at a time in a sea of random data (with other alpha chars removed).

Wow, I think this is flying under the radar.

I've noticed the orange juice at my grocery store 1. seems kind of expensive and 2. is (almost?) entirely from brazil and from concentrate. My favorite Florida OJ brand is gone. Turns out they went bankrupt and shut down a few months back.

This doesn't look good for orange blossom honey, either.

If you had a kid, would you tell him not to bother learning to read since he can just listen to audiobooks? Would you tell her not to learn math because she can just use a calculator? Would you tell them not to learn a musical instrument because they can just listen to spotify?

The Sam Altman Molotov guy has been charged with ... attempted murder.

I realize we're living in a day and age when people are put on trial (and acquitted!) for assault with a deadly sandwich but I don't think a reasonable prosecutor would file attempted murder charges for a flaming bag of dog shit.

Historically, Unix (and many other operating systems) stored file names as an unsorted list so using the FS as KV store had O(N) lookup times whereas a single-file hashed database like dbm, ndbm, gdbm, bdb, etc gave you O(1) access.

If you're using a relational DB, like SQL, as a relational database, then it gives you a lot the FS doesn't give you. If you're using a relational database as a key-value store, SQLite is 35% than the filesystem [1]

Perhaps one of the biggest users of the filesystem as a KV store is git -- (not an llm, I just wanted to use --) .git/objects/xx/xxxxx maps the sha1 file hash to the compressed data, splayed by the first 2 bytes. However git also uses a database of sorts (.git/objects/pack/....). To sum up the git pack-objects man page, it's more efficient.

1. https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html

Browsing through the library DVD shelves is somewhat reminiscent of browsing through a 80s/90s mom & pop type video rental place [1]. I think it's better for randomly finding something interesting than the algorithm (tm). [1] But without the room in the back with the ADULTS ONLY sign. Your library my vary.