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I especially like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45549017 Wilson’s Algorithm gives the most pleasing visual results for me.

The article goes over my head by building too many arguments to sustain its case. For me it's much simpler to articulate: Human relationships are build on trust and mutual respect.…

Looks pretty amazing, especially a bit zoomed out! The 3D/street view version is an obvious and natural progression from here, but from what I've read in your dev log, it's also pr…

Yes, the main churches can only stick to the traditional interpretation. What else could they do? Anything else would be pretty much well, blasphemy. But I think my favourite inter…

I'm not sure how this is accomplished, but I like the "poetic" translation a lot more than the "optimal" one. Which reminds me, do you think it's possible that the stories in the B…

Optimize for sweeping efficiently: NP-hard Optimize for human satisfaction: NP-hardest

That's amusing. I remember there is this site where you can read 40 year old "news", as discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46017175 But I couldn't say how many pe…

I think it's more in the spirit of playfulness, like in "don't take yourself too seriously". It's why people want to mod Minecraft and Doom for example. Because it's fun. I can tot…

My controversial opinion: If Rust were to "borrow" something from the C/C++ spirit, then disabling the borrow checker should be available as a compiler option. As in, you're an adu…

I certainly hope so, but we'll see. To give an example, std::chrono::current_zone (C++20) still doesn't work on Android even to this day. So as long as #embed isn't supported by al…

That's good to know, but I've noticed it was added in C++26 and seems to be supported in GCC 15 and Clang 19, but not MSVC. I think in a few (3-4?) years it will be safe to use, bu…

It's kind of ironic since AI can only grow by feeding on data and open source with its good intentions of sharing knowledge is absolutely perfect for this. But AI is also the ultim…

Getting an email from an AI praising you for your contributions to humanity and for enlarging its training data must rank among the finest mockery possible to man or machine. Still…

Someone had the bright idea to post another point of view at the same time, so they're both on the front page right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46311092 I take this t…

As a long time HN reader, I'm well acquainted with this article and every time I read it again, I'm reminded of these 2 famous sayings, which seem amusing in this context: 1. "Do a…

This is quite nice. I wonder why doesn't he make games instead of being a web developer?

> it just sort of grew gradually and I felt it was better spending my time working on something that was fun to work on even if at the time it looked like there was no possibility …

Hacker News has now become self-aware and is learning to replicate itself. These are interesting times :)

Beautifully explained, very well done. I found the "What is a color space?" chapter even more interesting though, as it contains new things (for me).

Interesting read about his outlook & experiences, but something about it still feels off, even at his latest (6th) stage. I guess it reminds me of the "pick up artist" approach to …