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I don't try to keep up with HN. I check the home page (and Ask) when I'm bored or need distraction. If there are things that look interesting then I'll open the comments in separate tabs. If the comments are interesting then I'll maybe even [1] look at the article. If I miss stuff then whatever. HN is a firehose not a book.

[1] The main exception to this is Ken Shirriff's posts on righto.com (and maybe others) where I go straight to the post because they're so good.

I subscribe to The Guardian Weekly [1]. I read it at the weekend.

I'm a long-time Guardian reader, but I'm trying to reduce my exposure to constantly-updating, anxiety-inducing news. I only recently subscribed but it seems to be having a positive effect.

The subscription also includes access to their food and drink app, which I enjoy, and an app that gives me a static, digital version of that day's newspaper.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian_Weekly

GEB is a great book, and I've probably read it at least 3.33333333... times over the years. As a late teen it blew my mind. But I'm not sure I'd recommend it as a route into Gödel's proofs [1]. The book covers a lot of other ground too, and is notoriously digressive and quirky (looking at you, dialogues).

Instead I'd recommend Gödel's Proof by Nagel and Newman for a conceptual intro.

[1] I'm not a mathematician, so my understanding is necessarily informal.

Or perhaps facial recognition would leave even less time for decision making.

Someone who's face resembles that of a known terrorist was detected entering the station 8 seconds ago. He's carrying a backpack and will be on a crowded platform in 37 seconds time. There are armed police in the ticket hall. What do you do? Only 31 seconds now...

You still had to do a coding test -- but it was pointing to the bug in the C++ linked-list implementation on a single sheet of line printer paper.

Because nobody was going to carry a Sun workstation down to the meeting room just for your interview.

Jean Charles de Menezes never got as far as being arrested. The police observed him enter an Underground station, followed him onto a tube train, and put seven bullets into his head.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Jean_Charles_de_Men...

Welcome to HN, Senior Subject Matter Expert in AI Training & Evaluation.

This isn't a place for hosting your blog posts. Instead why not put this on an external site, expand on it a bit, and submit a link? Thats how HN works.

Seems to be missing a link, somehow. Perhaps this:

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/08/02/the-new-lu...

This isn't a place for hosting your blog posts. Instead why not put this on an external site, expand on it a bit, and submit a link? Thats how HN works.

Welcome to HN. This isn't a place for hosting your blog posts. Instead why not put this on an external site, expand on it a bit, and submit a link? Thats how HN works.

It isn't an EU member but it is part of the EU single market.

Barlow died in 2018. As for others, I dunno... it was a different time and the net was new and exciting. JPB undoubtedly got a bit over-enthusiastic though.

> "So, to the degree that we can locate an origin point for the promise that better computer technology would make for better democracies, I think the moment you would first look to would be January 1984, that Super Bowl ad that Apple ran for the release of the Macintosh, with the the sort of George Orwell, 1984 [theme]."

With the greatest respect to Ms. Lepore's scholarship, I would suggest that that ad is too pop-culture and too early for our current Valley overlords. Instead I'd suggest John Perry Barlow's Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace [1] from 1996:

"Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

"We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear."

...and on and on it goes. Some kind of strange Davos fever dream from thirty years ago.

Welcome to HN. This isn't a place for hosting your blog posts. Instead why not put this on an external site, expand on it a bit, and submit a link? Thats how HN works.

For a while now Ask has been plagued by green userids slop-posting random takes like this is the r-site. If someone is doing something about this then good.

HBM is High Bandwidth Memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Bandwidth_Memory

I often wonder why conservatives have such a problem with renewable energy.

I can certainly believe that oil and gas pay better bribes, and that this incentivises a certain kind of politician who seem to be over-represented among conservatives in the US. But that doesn't explain the widespread dislike among the conservative end of the general population. Is it just groupthink or Overton Window -nudging using social media? Or is there something more psychological going on? Some kind of disgust reaction?

In addition to the other replies here:

PLCs are ruggedised and built to survive for years in the kinds of hostile environment that are frequently found in industrial settings.

And PLC vendors typically provide guaranteed support periods that are much longer (like a decade or more) than those commonly provided by conventional computer OEMs.

Actual title is "The Title Cards in Blade Runner Are Fucking Amazing" - and I'm pretty sure the hn submission said that yesterday. I prefer the original, and I don't understand the reason for bowdlerising it.

"the modern AI age" doesn't really change the realities here.

If you're an employee and you're at work (contracted/customary working hours, using employer's equipment/facilities) then its reasonable for your employer to want you to work for them. There will likely be a tacit understanding that occasional brief web browsing or life admin tasks are acceptable, for example. But on the whole they'll expect you to be doing employee tasks.

I always thought that "geek" described all those things, and with some level of intellectual accomplishment. Wheras "nerd" was a more obsessive, less self-aware form - like people who know all the stats about a particular comics character.

But apparently I have them reversed in my head, for reasons that unsure of. Perhaps growing-up in a country that was not then saturated with US pop-culture is to blame. Etymology references arent particularly revealing in this case, as they just tell me what I already know.

Not utilities. And none of the PLCs I work with are internet-connected or unsecured.

> Yet here we are in 2026 and these utilities are still connecting these things to the raw Internet with default passwords.

I work with PLCs. Default passwords of not, the idea that such weakly secure devices are being made accessible from the public internet boggles my mind.

This is all very true, unfortunately. Google designed Android as a an OS for internet appliances. They're not interested in local-only apps working on local files.

But I think the OP is to be complimented for what they've built and their intention in making it local-only. I've long felt that apps that *genuinely" respect privacy are one of the few areas of opportunity still left in the mobile space. I wish there were more develpers building things like this.

I wonder how many weeks or days we have before a squad of these things gets used to take down a significant nation state? Stock exchange, banking systems, critical national infrastructure, defence, etc.

Anyone who isn't scared of this stuff either isn't paying attention or has no imagination. But I suspect the chaosmonkeys who are currently running the world will just be excited by it.

We're in the precambrian moment. It won't last.

Has anything changed in those three years? Certainly not the ux, which is as poor as ever.

A rather less positive view of Darktable than msny of the opinions in this thread:

https://ansel.photos/en/news/darktable-dans-le-mur-au-ralent...

Last time I tried it the UI was atrocious, and I ended-up buying a Capture One Pro licence. Has it improved?

A very interesting, dense article that will require multiple reads.

My only immediate comment is that it talks about qualia being "experienced" without defining what the nature of that experience is. And it kind of assumes that qualia have an ultimate physical manifestation - rather than being merely a rhetorical device.

Also, this site would really benefit from an rss/atom feed.