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I am thankful for arXiv only made minor adjustments to its UI over the years, and I hope arXiv keep it that way.

I suspect after the job cut, AI is rewriting the cloudflare UI. Today I tried to add a DNS record using the cloudflare dashboard. The UI looks very different from what I remember, …

> "Is anyone still using emacs?" I have never used emacs seriously as an editor, however, I couldn't work without magit. I even manually build emacs 28 so I can re-use the same set…

I wonder how many comments are from bots in this discussion. Few days ago there was a discussion of traffic stall at the strait of Hormuz on HN. One comment from an user with over …

Interesting idea, but somehow I feel the world is shaking. For the processing program, what used to black(0.0) and white(1.0) has became very dark gray and very bright gray.

I use DuckDB and like it. Since many mentioned GB level json in this post, so they have large amount of data. Been column based, DuckDB uses more RAM as row count grows. It can be …

I feel your pain. I also get "chatgpt/gemini/grok... CONFIRMED blah blah" as if these are ground truth. What is even more sad is it sometimes mixed with "from first principles...".…

I have a gut feeling that human as a creature learns better when looking at the information from several different angles, both physically and mentally. Been physically I mean look…

I guess I will setup something similar or more complex. But there are alternatives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12114947 "George R.R. Martin Writes on a DOS-Based Word Pro…

It uses the Python lib Astral, which uses "equations from Astronomical Algorithms, by Jean Meeus", to find location of the Sun in the sky. That method assuming earth motion without…

Content wise the RedHat docs are great, but navigating the doc has a wired feeling that is hard to describe. Everything is black and white, the page has low information density per…

I hope FreeBSD has longer supporting cycle. Its release has a supporting life of less than one year, if missing the upgrade window, then later upgrade is more difficult than others…

I just switched to single thread and didn't try to fix the issue. Single thread is fast enough to me, it has throughput ~ 730 Mbits/s in a OpenBSD 7.8 vm on a 7th gen i7 linux kvm …

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There is a saying that many countries have offshored building hardware, aka manufacturing. Now they are offshoring software building to AI. Perhaps the silicon valley will grow a r…

I tried OpenBSD recently and found it behaves very differently from other OS. The same code works on Linux/FreeBSD/Windows but has poor multi thread performance on OpenBSD, async s…

There are few dnsmasq (only?) features that are indispensable to some. Examples: sending query of *.example.com to certain upstream servers, or returning NXDOMAIN for phishing site…

It is very difficult for people with impaired vision to find the scrollbars, buttons et.al. on windows 11. The scrollbars are too narrow and often auto hidden. The buttons are flat…

Anyone put the standby on ZFS or other filesystems that can take snapshots for backup?

From my very limited experience with duckdb, being a column based database, simple query also need loads entire columns and that uses a lots of RAM if a table has millions of rows.…

Very interesting! For completeness, the job in the article is not strictly parallel, instead, they are separable tasks, which fall under high-throughput computing. HTCondor is a po…