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Hi HN, My group and I have used Roll20 for years, and have tried several other popular VTTs without success; usually we find them bloated, clunky, or slow. So I made one for oursel…

Agents are destroying open source. There will only be more of this crap happening and projects will increasing turn read-only or closed.

The company features on the front page was a great opportunity to point out their positive impacts on the world. Instead, they focus on $BBB. Nice new site though.

I agree with the second statement but public ridicule can be understood to have a stronger effect, and be in bad faith itself.

I think that a warning of public ridicule may be fine. However, actually doing it is quite low brow IMO. I'm sad to see more and more otherwise admirable projects step down to that…

> The industry had reason to be optimistic that 2025 would prove pivotal. In previous years, AI agents like Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex had become impressively adept at tackling…

Thanks for sharing. I always enjoy reading author-publisher process articles as they get to the true behind the scenes story. I can relate to most things mentioned, and the terms s…

Neal delivers. I recently learned that viruses are not considered living being, but I'm nevertheless happy they're included here because they're both relevant and interesting in th…

Cool! Essentially Fortran coarrays from 2008.

Just vibe clean it when GPT-6 comes out.

I and many others do. It's common in formal writing such as academic papers. It's also the most agreed upon correct use of em dash.

"Recent large-scale upticks in the use of words like “delve” and “intricate” in certain fields, especially education and academic writing, are attributed to the widespread introduc…

This site breaks the browser's back button.

"True peer review begins after publication." --Eric Weinstein

As a real-world counter-example, CLiMA (Julia) lists 54 people on their Sci&Eng team, and the project has been going for several years now. It is far from production ready. Granted…

Developing projects like this in Fortran is not any more difficult than other languages. I can't speak to Julia because I don't understand it well enough, but in my experience writ…

There are a few other active projects porting weather, ocean, and climate models to Julia, C++, or Python. Getting a weather or climate model from zero to production grade requires…

A few more: https://github.com/modern-fortran/neural-fortran (disclaimer, I originally created this one) https://github.com/BerkeleyLab/inference-engine https://git.exeter.ac.uk/he…

You're correct about the compiler flags. 10K will be the line length limit; the 1M limit is for a statement length that can span any number of lines.

Fortran-lang's role (as an open-source org) has been 4-pronged: Tooling (build system and package manager, testing, eventually compilers etc.), modernized and maintained libraries …

And the line length limit will soon (with Fortran 2023 later this year) practically go away--a hard limit of 10,000 characters.