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by pbohun 8d ago
Iryna Zarutska's killer had 14 prior arrests. There are many examples of people having dozens of arrests for violence before they murder someone. There are dozens videos of people taking trash bags into stores and wiping them out becau
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Ask HN: Does HN block mobile browsers?
5 points by pbohun 15d ago|7 comments
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by pbohun 21d ago
This is so cool! I mean, we really wouldn't need it if we had 100% ipv6 (no cgnat), but this is the next best thing. I think people underestimate the innovation that could happen if we had trivial p2p.
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by pbohun 26d ago
Russ also has a great blog, with the most recent entry on fast floating-point printing and parsing. I believe these performance improvements have landed in the latest version of Go. https://research.swtch.com/fp
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by pbohun 29d ago
I feel the same way. I think the difference is that new tech used to be an improvement to your life. New tech is there simply to suck life (your attention) and money away from you. There are exceptions of course, But the general trend is wo
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by pbohun 29d ago
An idea I've played around with in the past is to have some sort of law that limits how much revenue a company can make from ads. For example, a law that says "A company cannot make more than 10% of its gross revenue from ads or s
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by pbohun 1mo ago
People are finally understanding consequentialist vs deontological ethics. All the worst criminals in history were consequentialists.
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Simplicity(commandcenter.blogspot.com)
3 points by pbohun 2mo ago|0 comments
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by pbohun 2mo ago
I read a sci-fi story years ago that had prediction markets in it that helped markets become more efficient. I thought it was a good idea at the time. What neither I nor the author anticipated was that the easiest way to make the markets &q
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by pbohun 2mo ago
If all you care about is the end product and not how it's made, then you never become a better person. Your capacity for thinking and solving problems will never grow. You will never be an expert. Experts care about the process. Of cou
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by pbohun 2mo ago
There are some good points here, but I disagree that programs are slow because they are accessible. Computers are ridiculously fast, and it doesn't take more time to display a string in Japanese than it does English. The problem is ult
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The Pros and Cons of Cons(8dcc.github.io)
3 points by pbohun 2mo ago|0 comments
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by pbohun 3mo ago
Honestly, I think starting from win32 again would be a breath of fresh air. Also, note that I described it as an option, no one would be forced on Windows Lite. It was my own speculation that it would become popular.
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Microsoft Needs Windows Lite(philipbohun.com)
146 points by pbohun 3mo ago|196 comments
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by pbohun 3mo ago
It's kind of crazy that we have a hobby OS that supports Linux infrastructure so that can support Wine infrastructure to support a Windows application. Very impressive!
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by pbohun 3mo ago
I looked into writing an http server based on iouring myself, but all the resources I could find said iouring is less safe from a cybersecurity perspective. Is there a safe way to use iouring for a webserver, or is libuv the better way to g
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by pbohun 4mo ago
No, the idea is that the actual key is the XOR of 3 completely independent keys. I think you were thinking of XORing a key with itself 3 times, which would just return the original key. In the book, there is a cargo ship carrying 1/3 o
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by pbohun 4mo ago
No, the GPUs used in AI data centers don't have the capability to do normal graphics. They're completely useless for games and content creation. Additionally, B200s can consume up to 14kW of power. There are no consumer power supp
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by pbohun 4mo ago
I really like Iosevka, and though I haven't used it, I do like Berkley mono. Maybe I'll incorporate this into my list of terminal fonts in the future. It does look pretty sharp.
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by pbohun 4mo ago
How many tokens did this port consume?
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by pbohun 4mo ago
There need to be some serious regulations around prediction markets. I'm not sure they should even be legal. These "markets" are encouraging large amounts of fraud and manipulation. As far as I can tell, they offer no positiv
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by pbohun 5mo ago
One possibility is that most of the code that matters is being written by hand, while enormous amounts of code are being generated for other things. People are being evaluated on their AI usage after all.
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by pbohun 6mo ago
This makes me think of the color scheme of Plan9. I think they chose that color design for similar reasons.
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by pbohun 7mo ago
You probably also don't use a calculator because it uses a scary language called arabic numerals. Why write 123,456 when you could write out in english: One Hundred Twenty-Three Thousand Four Hundred Fifty-Six? English is your programm
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by pbohun 7mo ago
It's not ape coding. It's skill coding. People who don't have the skill to do math and logic ask others to do it for them. The reason we have programming languages is the same reason we have musical notation or math notation.
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by pbohun 7mo ago
Thanks for the update!
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by pbohun 7mo ago
This page was put together very well. It has interactive illustrations when needed (not excessive), and the explanations were informative yet concise. I also like how it brings up other uses of quadtrees, such as for images. This encouraged
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by pbohun 7mo ago
This looks very interesting. It says it has networking, cryptography, etc. Is there any documentation of the APIs? I can't try this out if I don't know what they are.
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by pbohun 7mo ago
As far as I know, only Go uses Go's back end because it was specifically designed for Go. But the architecture is such that it makes it trivial for Go to cross compile for any OS and architecture. This is something that LLVM cannot do.
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by pbohun 7mo ago
QBE is a tiny project, but I think illustrates a better intermediate language design. https://c9x.me/compile/

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