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Welcome to HN. This isn't a place for hosting your blog posts. Instead why not put this on an external site, expand on it a bit, and submit a link? Thats how HN works.

For a while now Ask has been plagued by green userids slop-posting random takes like this is the r-site. If someone is doing something about this then good.

HBM is High Bandwidth Memory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Bandwidth_Memory

I often wonder why conservatives have such a problem with renewable energy. I can certainly believe that oil and gas pay better bribes, and that this incentivises a certain kind of…

In addition to the other replies here: PLCs are ruggedised and built to survive for years in the kinds of hostile environment that are frequently found in industrial settings. And …

Actual title is "The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing" - and I'm pretty sure the hn submission said that yesterday. I prefer the original, and I don't understand the…

"the modern AI age" doesn't really change the realities here. If you're an employee and you're at work (contracted/customary working hours, using employer's equipment/facilities) t…

I always thought that "geek" described all those things, and with some level of intellectual accomplishment. Wheras "nerd" was a more obsessive, less self-aware form - like people …

Not utilities. And none of the PLCs I work with are internet-connected or unsecured.

> Yet here we are in 2026 and these utilities are still connecting these things to the raw Internet with default passwords. I work with PLCs. Default passwords of not, the idea tha…

This is all very true, unfortunately. Google designed Android as a an OS for internet appliances. They're not interested in local-only apps working on local files. But I think the …

I wonder how many weeks or days we have before a squad of these things gets used to take down a significant nation state? Stock exchange, banking systems, critical national infrast…

Has anything changed in those three years? Certainly not the ux, which is as poor as ever.

A rather less positive view of Darktable than msny of the opinions in this thread: https://ansel.photos/en/news/darktable-dans-le-mur-au-ralent...

Last time I tried it the UI was atrocious, and I ended-up buying a Capture One Pro licence. Has it improved?

A very interesting, dense article that will require multiple reads. My only immediate comment is that it talks about qualia being "experienced" without defining what the nature of …

> The purpose of knowledge is the sheer power it brings A dismal prospect. When knowledge is acquired at a human scale, and under the influence of a human culture, then extraordina…

I'm not a mathematician or any other kind of scientist. Just a toiler in the software mines, and an onlooker. > It goes entirely against the culture of research mathematics to hoar…

A few predictions: 1. I fear that AI is about to change from being a human art to becoming something like a bulk-extruded, industrial product. 2. I also suspect that mathematics is…

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A few years ago I was "between roles" and applied for a developer position at Roku. For a short time they seemed moderately interested, and I exchanged a few emails with a senior i…