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RestartKernel··on Tectonic: A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine
A tool like this is sorely needed for LaTeX, and Tectonic is especially intuitive to embed into other applications, but the divergence of XeTeX from pdflatex makes it incompatible with most Overleaf projects. This is just an unfortunate ecosystem gripe, but for most workflows I end up having to reach for latexmk instead for this reason.
RestartKernel··on Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git
This seems incredibly useful, but it's somewhat a shame you can't just organically grow language support through LSPs.
RestartKernel··on Writers Are Going to Extremes to Prove They Didn't Use AI
I've started using parentheses with notes/tangents to circumvent any false accusations of AI usage. They're nice to write, but bad form, so LLMs don't use them much.
RestartKernel··on Show HN: Fakecloud – Free, open-source AWS emulator
This is sold as an emulator, but couldn't it inadvertently replace AWS entirely in production too?
RestartKernel··on Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)
> I suppose I should also note the vast majority of people developing on mac books (in my experience anyway) are actually targeting chrome.

Point taken. Most developers probably make do with Linux containers rather than MacOS VMs.

RestartKernel··on Apple Silicon and Virtual Machines: Beating the 2 VM Limit (2023)
This is a really cool article, but the existence of such an arbitrary limit on any serious development platform is weird.
RestartKernel··on Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice
I've been there, but it definitely felt like more of an enthusiast experience. Someone who's just looking into getting their first mechanical keyboard would do better at a larger shop stocked with cheaper keyboards and a greater variety of common switch types.

That being said, the shop is located in a surprisingly quiet area, surrounded by other small enthusiast shops. I especially liked "High Beam" a few stores down, which specialises in handheld PCs.

RestartKernel··on Perfmon – Consolidate your favorite CLI monitoring tools into a single TUI
But it's blazing fast though
RestartKernel··on Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM
People look for tells, systems detect word distributions. Though neither is as reliable as active fingerprinting using an encoded watermark.
RestartKernel··on Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]
This is an entire Unity project that won't load due to however many content blockers I've got running on my phone. The incompetent one loads instantly, though it's admittedly laggy.
RestartKernel··on OpenScreen is an open-source alternative to Screen Studio
I think it's mostly just that a subscription seems weird for a tool like this. Most users would probably only need it occasionally, and with a subscription you can't just add it to your toolbox to grab when that time comes.
RestartKernel··on Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit
The real story is in the poison fountain dataset this uses:

https://rnsaffn.com/poison3/

> [...] we want to inflict damage on machine intelligence systems.

This almost strikes me as roleplay, but maybe I'm childish for finding it difficult to empathise with this genre of hacker ideology.

RestartKernel··on A bad day to use Python [video]
This video is about the recent LightLLM security breach.
RestartKernel··on Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs
How many compatibility issues is MacOS realistically expected to spur? Windows DX felt unusable to me without a Linux VM (and later WSL), but on MacOS most tooling just kinda seems to work the same.
RestartKernel··on A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)
That's like avoiding the West because of fancy cutlery rules. Japanese people are not as thin-skinned as lists like these lead you to believe.
RestartKernel··on Identity protection firm Aura suffers data breach exposing 900 000 records
> Aura says a targeted voice phishing attack against one of its employees led to unauthorized access to about 900,000 records [...]

Employers are often surprised when I ask for less access, but I firmly believe no random employee should have personal data access like this. Ideally you'd want to require the customer to be in the loop to access their data as employee.

RestartKernel··on Show HN: GitClassic.com, a fast, lightweight GitHub thin client (pages <14KB)
Nitpick, but it bothers me that your logo icon is not vertically aligned with your logo text. (Neither is it visually aligned.)
RestartKernel··on Specimen Gallery – CC0 transparent specimen PNGs organized by taxonomy
You probably already know, but iNaturalist allows you to filter by CC0 licensed observations.
RestartKernel··on Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games
I love how stylised it is while remaining more responsive than the vast majority of websites today.
RestartKernel··on Cloudflare Issues
I think these recent outages are caused by me recommending CloudFlare to an important client a few months ago.
RestartKernel··on We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science
Maybe it's a matter of code switching? I've read that some Japanese teams prefer English for practical reasons, since a shared second language prevents anyone from getting bogged down in formalities. That is not to say Japanese is unable to be formulated with just as much precision.
RestartKernel··on Nederland threatens Polymarket with €420K/week fines for unlicensed gambling
Somewhat related: the most prominent lottery in the Netherlands is government-run, but you wouldn't know it based on its ruthless advertising. At least it's going into the national budget and charity, I suppose.
RestartKernel··on OpenAI Has Murdered Orion
In a decade's time we'll have many companies willing to envelop its customers in fictions like these. Even if "IQ" plateaus, optimising for "EQ" has too much financial incentive to be anything but inevitable under current economic conditions.
RestartKernel··on Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you
I am not arguing for tipping culture, but I question the incentive for rejecting a tip as a US Starbucks employee. I very much doubt that playing a part in desired society-wide change overcomes the immediate incentive of the tip itself.
RestartKernel··on Green’s Dictionary of Slang - Five hundred years of the vulgar tongue
I always love seeing what people dedicate their time to when money is no longer a factor. May we all be so lucky.
RestartKernel··on Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you
Isn't this directly taking money out of their own pocket, or are tips going to corporate?
RestartKernel··on Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you
At Schiphol they offer tipping options to presumably prey on Americans, but the attendant physically reached over the counter to reject it after I ordered in (native) Dutch. Can't imagine how much trouble locals had been giving the shop before training staff like this.
RestartKernel··on Google identifies over 100k prompts used in distillation attacks
"Distillation attack" feels like a loaded term for what is essentially the same kind of scraping these models are built on in the first place.
RestartKernel··on Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure
Would you consider serving this as a CLI tool as well?
RestartKernel··on Maple Mono: open-source monospace font
I like it. Makes me think of a neater, monospace, Comic Sans.
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