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Same as it ever was.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555642

In United States v. Heppner, Judge Rakoff of the Southern District of New York ruled that written exchanges between a criminal defendant and generative AI platform Claude were not …

I wonder if putting this choice on the user would be most appropriate? People fearful about being scammed should buy a phone with a hardware lock to prevent it from ever accepting …

This is really, really well done. I’m very impressed by all the features implemented here and I wish I could look over the source. I wonder how it is done.

This is the content I come here for.

Followup here: https://excamera.substack.com/p/the-great-ads1115-pricing-my... And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45658163

James returns with a followup to his earlier article https://excamera.substack.com/p/how-bad-can-a-297-adc-be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45582462

Can someone give more info on the relevance of this particular code?

They could at least fall back to "context sensitive" ads like you suggest. Also, don't try to make me feel guilty for having an "ad blocker". I don't specifically block ads, instea…

Very nice article. I don’t think I was aware of these experiments, but maybe I’ve forgotten? Apologies if I just missed this, but is there a link to Maxwell’s original findings?

Wish it worked on mobile and used the xyz accelerator...

and only 1 link still works. 19 years is a long time to the internet.

My top post ever on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/6dwg/wired_unve...

They also post to Threads https://www.threads.net/@fireflyaerospace

Is there a wisp frontend? Seems like it would be appropriate. :-) https://github.com/stereobooster/wisp

Found this HN thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38633668

Would like to hear more about this. I thought there was an effort to adjust this...did that fail?

If you're interested, Wikipedia also has a decent discussion of this function and it's history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root

Wish my VRML Spirograph still worked. :) https://web.archive.org/web/19970617133952fw_/http://reality... [1997]

Wow -- TIL Bill Budge put the code for this up on github. I had no idea! https://github.com/billbudge/PCS_AppleII

Twenty-year-olds should not be in charge of UX.