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by altairprime 5d ago
A lot of tech folks turn out to enjoy management roles more than engineering roles, but until now human subordinates were the only option available. Now that subordinates without feelings, whimsy, and labor rights have been introduced as
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by altairprime 5d ago
Soluna is like eating crispy wine and is currently at the top of my list. Prior to finding that, Lady Alice improves on Pink Lady, and it was my rockstar favorite. Envy is my go-to year-round when I can’t find rarer varietals; I’ve eaten hu
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by altairprime 6d ago
> Built with GPT-6 Astra. AGPL-3.0. The AI-generated code has no copyright (which is only assigned to human works) and so, presumably, this is largely public domain?
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by altairprime 6d ago
Because doing so does not materially devalue Apple’s product. Sure, a dedicated attacker could try to overcome it, but few will, and only people of such serious consequence that they can afford the effort of modification. By and large this
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by altairprime 6d ago
I often saw the same pattern in engineers who hated Agile and Jira, but then would spend weeks coding automation to avoid one-time drudgery that would have taken a tenth of the time to complete. So I am being careful not to judge “Lazy”, be
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by altairprime 6d ago
That’s not Power User, that’s Lazy User: just like how Agile tries to offload the work of managing ticket statuses onto developers, their demand offloaded the work of recording post-it note outcomes onto attendees.
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by altairprime 6d ago
Miro was always fine to use at work. It’s no Visio desktop or OmniGraffle but it wasn’t offensive and I only somewhat preferred LucidChart over it.
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by altairprime 7d ago
I'm just reaching the age where I need reading glasses late in the day, and so in a couple years when I'm out of school and employed again, this is starting to look like the best option in the Kindle / Tablet space: it isn&#x
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by altairprime 9d ago
> It is now: Matt added bzip3 to the benchmark seemingly after the last year thread. If the zstd benchmark, last update at max 22 in 2016, were to be updated for today’s zstd (for long-range if nothing else) after coming across this th
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by altairprime 9d ago
It’s also used in this paper blending an aspect of LZ77 with BWT: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.05937 https://github.com/nicolaprezza/lz-rlbwt Which leads me to wonder if someone did, in fact, solve
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by altairprime 10d ago
“Additional benchmarks on the same dataset” (2025) explores various compression levels with and without long range mode: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42901476
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by altairprime 10d ago
“for fairness, the benchmarks have been performed using single thread mode” (2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902241
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by altairprime 10d ago
Previously: “Hi, tool author here.” A useful explanation of Burrows-Wheelers transform as used by bzip3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902407 “bzip3 is not yet listed on the large text compression benchmark” It is
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by altairprime 10d ago
There’s a list of them in the Intercepting section of the source video.
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by altairprime 10d ago
Chrome would be more likely to implement a persistent and identifiable (to Google alone) tracking cookie replacement and ship it worldwide, which iirc they did — and then cancelled, of course. They seem to be focusing instead on improved tr
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by altairprime 10d ago
Your intentions can reasonably be interpreted by a court as attempting to avoid paying a commercial software licensing fee. Use of Fable is, in your specific instance, irrelevant to whatever the outcome would be; the finding of intent holds
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by altairprime 10d ago
Client TLS is rather unusable on the Internet by a typical random end user visiting a random public site, so that should at least keep the specific scenario you describe at bay.
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by altairprime 12d ago
For those just now encountering isomorphic keyboards, my experience with them is purely in software on a tablet, courtesy of a pair of extremely tangential links that I encountered a while back. While esoteric, they're what have made
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by altairprime 12d ago
This, with state default-off and remembered per-domain. Not my invention but glad for it!
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by altairprime 12d ago
The layout can also be tuned for microtonal variants that wouldn't normally be playable without handcrafted custom instruments or per-string adjustable guitar frets or etc. I'm not fully familiar with the domain yet but as part of
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by altairprime 12d ago
Having previously worked near a bounty program, I can confirm that they are regardless flooded with people fishing for bounties, even before AI, no matter how cheap the bounty may be — people will grift anything with the most pathetic skr
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by altairprime 12d ago
The discount Google is getting on bounties versus internal spend is easy to estimate: # assumed to be $0.5mil USD or greater A := What quantity of salaries-and-benefits and AI-dollars does Google spend on zero-day research? # assum
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by altairprime 12d ago
Enable JavaScript and let the site issue a “not an AI” cookie and it should then be usable. (I have a JS button for this on my toolbar and it’s come in handy a lot recently..)
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by altairprime 12d ago
Amazon on HN, recently: Announcement of the FTC lawsuit; (2 days ago, 12 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529685 > An Amazon senior VP in charge of ads said internally that in Amazon’s auctions, “the sec
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by altairprime 13d ago
The SVCB HTTPS rfc considers downgrade attacks here: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9460/#name-handling-resol... And essentially boils it down to ‘either the client implements wire-security to a known dns serv
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by altairprime 13d ago
(2 days ago, 276 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49529621
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by altairprime 13d ago
Yes, DMARC isn't solving the same problem — but DMARC is showing how the category of PSL problems can be solved with DNS. With HTTP/3 now fully expecting browsers to be able to benefit from transparent-upgrade record responses
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by altairprime 13d ago
Yeah, that’s why RFC 9989 replaced use of PSL with a dns signifier.
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by altairprime 14d ago
I may not be able to write a proper post for the blue here at the orange, but I’m glad to see it’s enjoyed all the same :)
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by altairprime 14d ago
This content is from 2014-15; perhaps they AI-rehashed the Yahoo! News story about them? https://www.yahoo.com/news/16-old-girls-win-google-science-f... They posted a video summarizing their efforts in 2014: https:&#x

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