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by jdnier 17d ago
I really enjoyed the writing style in this article. And the bot progression from "alter user agent" to "change IP addresses" to providers having to ban whole subnets, whole ASNs, and realizing "proxy SDK monetizatio
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I run a pizzeria out of my Smart car in NYC [video](cnbc.com)
13 points by jdnier 24d ago|0 comments
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by jdnier 24d ago
I asked Fable to transcribe three short lines of Korean-language text in a small image. It suspected the image might contain song lyrics and refused. Haiku transcribed it with no issue.
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by jdnier 28d ago
There are Python bindings via the stretchable library. https://github.com/mortencombat/stretchable
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by jdnier 29d ago
You can read a lot more about it here: https://mojolang.org/docs/vision/
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The 400-Ton Linchpin of American Electrical Power(nytimes.com)
6 points by jdnier 29d ago|0 comments
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by jdnier 1mo ago
Seriously, wow.
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by jdnier 1mo ago
See their in-depth vision doc here: https://mojolang.org/nightly/docs/vision/
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The shock revelation that light bulbs are wrecking your metabolism(newscientist.com)
4 points by jdnier 1mo ago|2 comments
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by jdnier 1mo ago
Check out the last video on the page. It zooms in and you get a sense of just how much resolution there is.
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by jdnier 2mo ago
Really, don't use LLM for polish; that's what wrecks it imho. People write idiosyncratically and that's a good thing. That's your voice.
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by jdnier 2mo ago
Tells like "load-bearing" and "real", for example. "the heap's simplicity is load-bearing: once..." "It's a real thing" "It's a real trade-off" "The design buys real thin
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In a first, Chinese woman wins the prestigious Fields Medal(npr.org)
5 points by jdnier 2mo ago|1 comments
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by jdnier 2mo ago
And about Volume 5... > Syntactic Algorithms, in preparation. 9. Lexical scanning (includes also string search and data compression) 10. Parsing techniques
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by jdnier 2mo ago
From Future Plans... > And after Volumes 1--5 are done, God willing, I plan to publish Volume 6 (the theory of context-free languages) and Volume 7 (Compiler techniques), but only if the things I want to say about those topics are still
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68 Quadrillion Underground Miles of Fungi(nytimes.com)
5 points by jdnier 3mo ago|0 comments
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by jdnier 4mo ago
"Ü programming language" brings up the Github docs with Google, as does "U programming language", although this HN post comes up second. On a Mac "Ü" is typed "option-u shift-u".
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by jdnier 4mo ago
Some more resources from that post: > See examples ( https://github.com/Panzerschrek/U-00DC-Sprache/tree/master/s... ) to get a general idea what Ü is and how it looks like and feels. Read the documenta
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by jdnier 4mo ago
There was a "Show HN: Ü Programming Language" from the author last October. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45769161
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by jdnier 4mo ago
That "Another angle" truly is spectacular.
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by jdnier 4mo ago
Just fyi, the author is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph_Lefkowitz , creator of Twisted.
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by jdnier 4mo ago
The parent reads more like "it works in practice but does it work in theory? " The innovations that have come out of the DuckDB team seem to always focus on "in practice" instead of focusing on how things are supposed t
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by jdnier 5mo ago
Looking more carefully at the original image ( http://www.thehistoryblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Emp... ) I can see the mapping of letterforms you made. Thanks for that!
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by jdnier 5mo ago
Not understanding Greek, I ran that through Google Translate (Greek -> English) just to see what it might say. > AND THIS … THE MAJOR … BUT THE BOTH … ARE MEANING … PEUSIS PAN GAR SEEMS.. OBVIOUS.. SPECTRA … OF SONGS SO … MAJOR … AND
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by jdnier 6mo ago
Finally, a bracket I can enjoy (that doesn't involve basketball).
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by jdnier 7mo ago
> I think Claude Shannon’s spirit is probably proud to know that his name is now being associated with such advances. Hats off to Claude! I didn't realize Claude was named after Claude Shannon! https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science(nature.com)
5 points by jdnier 7mo ago|0 comments
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Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy(nature.com)
15 points by jdnier 10mo ago|4 comments
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by jdnier 10mo ago
I had not heard of Glyphs, the tool the author used. I used to use Fontographer long ago. https://glyphsapp.com/learn/recommendation:get-started It's a great article!
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by jdnier 10mo ago
DuckDb has a new "DuckLake" catalog format that would be another candidate to test. https://ducklake.select/

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