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kevinastock

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    Show HN: I made an AI agent write a spoiler-free wiki for the novel Anathem

    I made an LLM agent build a spoiler-free wiki about a novel where the reader can select the latest chapter they've read, and then see pages written with only contents of the book u…

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    Comment #35254898

    I like ` `; ctrl-t opens fzf and pastes any selected files onto the command line. If you choose to abort you end up back at the prompt after ` `.

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    Comment #31230858

    You might enjoy Semantle: https://semantle.novalis.org/

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    Comment #19534543

    I use a strip of electrical tape.

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    Comment #8246958

    What's the reason for 'asm("");' in 002.c (and other c codes)? All I can see that doing is intentionally breaking the compiler's ability to optimize over loop iterations, which put…

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    Comment #8212137

    Shouldn't it be 'float * restrict a'? When could one get into trouble thinking that "restrict == this will not alias"? If X is never modified during B it seems like aliasing wouldn…

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    Comment #7895555

    Nah, I'd just like to take a look at it, but you might be able to get someone else to use it on ARM compilers if you release it.

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    Comment #7894372

    Have you or will you be releasing code for Orion?

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    Comment #7539820

    It should be alternating lines with red, black and blue not greys, it's to increase reading speed: http://www.beelinereader.com/

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    Comment #7504020

    Aliasing information is one place the programmer can help the compiler. The 'restrict' keyword in C/C++ is a great example of this. Also information provided by 'const' can be very…

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    Comment #6908543

    It's visible in view source: "The requested document is no more.", 'No file found.', "Even tried multi.", "Nothing helped.", "I'm really depressed about this.", "You see, I'm just …

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    Comment #5457597

    In level 9 rank (among contacts and global) is shown, but percentile would be more interesting.

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    Comment #4913929

    Here's how I did it: https://bitbucket.org/teoryn/image-approximation For converting the polys to pixels I render it with OpenGL and then extract the resulting image. I use ppm for…

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    Comment #4789256

    The faster version looks like it might not be numerically stable; if sum(l_quantity) is greater than the maximum value that can be represented it would overflow and give meaningles…

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    Comment #2978093

    Naive fibonacci is a much more interesting example for memoize than factorial: fib = +lambda {|n| return 1 if n

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    Comment #2947627

    I fully agree it's satire or a really bad survey, but that doesn't disqualify Ubuntu from being an operating system.

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    Comment #2947007

    How is Ubuntu not an operating system?

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    Comment #2860240

    From the problem definition: Q: What if there are multiple valid segmentations? A: Just return any valid segmentation if there is one.