WalterGR

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by WalterGR 2mo ago
> Actually, I'll donate $250 to a charity of your choice if you show me you on x.com mobile browser, logged out, and then load that link. Sure. https://waltergr.com/misc/hn-scrap-on-x/1.png https:/&#
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
I can read it fine. I’m not logged in to X. That you personally can’t read it doesn’t imply that everyone else here is a horrible person.
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
> From the perspective where local reasoning is the most desirable property a language can have That's a perspective. If you're looking for a low-level language, then Scheme isn't it. (Forget iconicity - Scheme is garbag
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
Homoiconicity.
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
That’s somebody’s highlighted copy of the PDF. Here’s a clean version: https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
“Maybe later” and variants annoyed me to no end until I realized that the implication is that you’re not making an indelible choice. As with anything, it can be overused, but I personally enjoy not having to think about whether I can chang
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
Related and recent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49375996 "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM" (github.com/zachahn) 285 points | 23 hours ago | 288 comments
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
> Made from durable fiberglass panels What sort of fiberglass bends as much as depicted without breaking?
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
The 404 Media report referenced in the article was submitted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330742 “We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility” (404media.co) 164 points | 3
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
From yesterday: The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49358327 - 108 comments
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
From yesterday, 68 comments on the original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303350
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
Source?
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
618 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303202
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
This is new: > Log in to use old Reddit > To keep Reddit safe, accounts are required to access old Reddit. Log in, or continue without an account on Reddit.com. Here’s an un-old-ified link: https://reddit.com/r/N
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
I think it’s a good change. As I recall, the original title was “You’ll never forget how Postgres works after watching this!” Aside from the obvious and off-putting clickbait tone, it doesn’t hint about what you mean by “works” and what “t
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
The first line of the summary would make for a better title: > Whiteboard lesson walking through postgres architecture basics. Part 1
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
You're referring to this conspiracy theory? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_scientists_conspiracy_...
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
Thanks. (That’s what it suggested for me as well. Clarifying that I meant in the context of software, it suggested a misspelling of SOAD - Service-Oriented Analysis and Design.)
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
This is a decent place to start: “FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX” (fortune.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858246 233 points | 3 months ago | 170 comments
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
What is SAOD? Do you mean SOAD?
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
304 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49299605
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
There’s some healthy discussion on the submission of that link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49292932
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
The "What is it?" section of the introduction in the manual is informative and answers your "platforms?" question. Reading between the lines it seems like Lua is the only supported language. https://docs.crow
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
> broadcasters have of every broadcast they've ever had It depends - especially if you go back further than 20 years. The Wikipedia article for "Lost television broadcast" goes into detail: https://en.wikipedia
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
From yesterday, with 26 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49264334
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
Past 24 hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274027 - 190 comments - "Grok 4.6" (x.ai) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49275385 - 149 comments - "SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 Scores
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
Submitted 3 hours ago with 63 comments so far: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273478
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
84 comments so far on the submission of OpenRouter’s model page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274600
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
With 104 comments at the moment, that’s where the bulk of the discussion is happening.
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by WalterGR 2mo ago
Graph layout is a very interesting, very hard problem. There's even a yearly competition - started in 1994 - whose results are announced at the yearly Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization. It's not a subject I&#x27

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