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cbrpnk··on Show HN: All Things Banana – banana news, prices, and a daily Wikipedia game
Bananadle hack: [starting word] -> [country] -> economy -> trade -> banana
cbrpnk··on America is becoming less "woke"
Any alternatives?
cbrpnk··on The Cryptographic Doom Principle (2011)
OP didn't say it was "unreasonable", but "unreasonably effective".
cbrpnk··on Weekend projects: getting silly with C
I don't think I've ever thought of explicitly calling main(). Made me chuckle.
cbrpnk··on Claude 3 catches researchers testing it
Can you imagine if that is how LLMs become self aware? By going through multiple cycles of interacting with the world, having these interactions reported in the media, then having their new training corpus include those articles.
cbrpnk··on Writing a TrueType font renderer
"There’s few things in this world I love more than taking an opaque binary and gradually uncovering the organization that was present all along. Dissecting the underlying and general structure of a binary is as gratifying as anything I can imagine."

Yes!

cbrpnk··on Web FM synthesizer made with HTML5
Haven't logged into my hn account in ages. But I did to say this: Awesome.