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I don't think someone mentioned yet, but the (now defunct?) company Outrun Labs built a product Revery which seems almost exactly like what Jane Street has done (to my amateur eyes…

I was able to upload hacky unpolished amateur game demos long before LLMs existed.

Clang pointer authentication makes any type of vtable attack impossible in C++.

According to Apple, are there any tech companies in the galaxy who haven't stolen their trade secrets?

It would only be effective if the significance of this work is clear. They certainly felt this message needed to reach people, and that it did work makes it self evident they were …

Personally I hated Publix when I lived in Florida and it made me homesick. I've never had so much food come with mold in the packaging than from Publix.

As much as I loved growing up with HEB, my fondest memories are of eating Central Market squid salad and brie in its playground/music venue backyard.

This seems like the "obvious" solution. Why was the rejected? EDIT: It appears to be an objection to GPU programming entirely.

I have been a ClearFlow user for over a year now. Generally I like it, but there absolutely are still common words that are hard to input consistently. The THEA cluster has given m…

A Pascal string has a leading length byte. Because that is one byte, the text can't exceed 255 characters.

Clang and GCC both let you use Pascal strings in C if you would like (with `\p`). But Pascal strings aren't that useful today because the maximum length is too short.

I feel like I've never gotten a compelling explanation for why Nastaliq is hard/unavailable. I'm not an expert on abjads, but it doesn't look harder to render then Naskh (and it se…

Isn't it customary for the author of a post shared on HN to leave a comment on the thread?

I find it very funny to imagine Keralam and Tamil Nadu part of Sri Lanka.

I've got really comfy `just` scripts for generating Clang "intermediaries" in my CMake project. I can generate `.ii` files which get formatted and edited in a manner making them di…

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Obviously 5 year olds deserve access to safe abortions whether they are trans or cis. It's not safe to carry a pregnancy so young.

The point here is that these examples need to be updated because @cImport, the syntactic feature of Zig, is being deprecated and removed. That there exists an alternative isn't rel…

These demos honestly look pretty good to me. But it is objectively true that this and similar technologies are used at huge scale by every leading autonomous vehicle manufacturer, …

Does anyone else miss KWrite? I had it configured as a very slightly more advanced Notepad.exe clone. I really enjoyed opening it for quickly writing out thoughts that crowd my ADH…

These are some very extreme examples of this that push the feature's limits: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47256810 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26495059