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I learned from geoguessr pro, Rainbolt, that every tree and its species is mapped for NYC: https://tree-map.nycgovparks.org/tree-map Now I am curious if there is a dataset for the …

>So if your aim in doing mathematics is to achieve some kind of immortality, so to speak, then you should understand that that won’t necessarily be possible for much longer — not j…

> In April 2024 I confided in an Amazonian that I was "not really doing a good job of owning FreeBSD/EC2 right now" and asked if he could find some funding to support my work, on t…

I felt like one or two decades ago, all the rage was about rewriting programs into just two primitives: map and reduce. For example filter can be expressed as: is_even = lambda x: …

See also https://antirez.com/news/150 https://antirez.com/hnstyle?username=pg&threshold=20&action=... Which lets you find the alts of a handle

And their code example doesn't actually return a value!

Because people on the internet will call you a fake gamer if you don't play souls like games and those are best experienced on a controller?

Highlight: AE said at one point: “My proposal is to replace the logically complex question with a form of prompt injection . Instead of playing within the rules of the logic puzzle…

This is completely tangential but as someone who used to be a competitive programmer in the 2010s, I feel like this year marked the end of an era for me. I don't have time to do re…

I remember comments saying the stock went up because the average joe didn't realize how much of the internet was powered by AWS until all their day to day apps started failing. To …

It's interesting to see which codeforces blog posts get traction on HN. For context, in competitive programming a lot of combinatorial problems (find some formula to count somethin…

Another infamous example is Brock's "jelly filled donuts" in pokemon https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/brocks-jelly-doughnuts

>On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to r…

I have many years of experience writing C++. I still can't iterate and delete from a map without looking it up (if not allowed to use erase_if).

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/addr... https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-pr... >Krebs ... falsely and baselessly denied that the 20…

This is cool. Does it only use a few recent comments or entire history? I'm trying to figure out where it figured out my city when I thought I was careful not to reveal it. I'm scr…