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The most important lines to me are the CFTC Chairman's quote: > These are financial exchanges that offer financial instruments and operate across state lines. They match the bid fr…

They did the same for a Samsung Fold phone delivered to me last month (in the US).

Awesome! How did you find that out?

Using fragments for secure data has been discussed before on hn: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23036515 . Tldr: it may not go directly to the server (unless you are using a …

That hasn't been true for a few years at least. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/clion/cmake-debug.html is has had CMake debugging since cmake 3.27. Ditto for vscode and probably oth…

> One reason is that far more of their students actually applied than would be expected. This sentence is buried midway through the article. It would be good for a future post to e…

If you were looking at the parse link in the author's comment, you were looking at a spec (called a module interface in OCaml/OxCaml, similar to an interface in Java). The parse im…

Since the link is paywalled, the TLDR paragraph is: > Boasberg said in the ruling that the FTC had incorrectly excluded YouTube and TikTok from the market where it challenged Meta'…

> The first main disadvantage is that they require the kernel to support syscall tracing, which essentially means they only work on Linux. I have Ideas™ for how to get this working…

Good advice but still: > investors warn the good times won’t last forever Umm ... these aren't short-term investors. They are investing because they think at least one of their bet…

Introduction paragraph: Metalang99 is a firm foundation for writing reliable and maintainable metaprograms in pure C99. It is implemented as an interpreted FP language atop of prep…

Yeah, I don't disagree. I'd go further and say the examples are on-point for a "human oriented" language. But the formal spec reveals how simple or complicated this language is. (A…

Not OP, but I think it does run Postgres as a process. However, IMHO the general use case for SQL is for external actors (humans, machines) to get access to the underlying data in …

For something like this I would love to see a formal spec to go along with the examples.

Disclaimer: I took over maintenance of the Cap'n Proto C bindings a couple years ago. That makes sense. There is some opportunity though since the Cap'n Proto RPC had always lacked…

Since Cap'n Web is a simplification of Cap'n Proto RPC, it would be amazing if eventually the simplification traveled back to all the languages that Cap'n Proto RPC supports (C++, …