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forks··on Proving a human wrote something
> One could work around Semoi by, for example, typing out a bunch of gibberish, leaving their editor open, and then pasting in an LLM generated texting and minting the proof. To which I would respond: why? That’s really pathetic.
forks··on LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire
https://archive.is/zUou2
forks··on Ask HN: What surprised you about Estonia e-Residency and running an Estonian OÜ?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47500239
forks··on California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info
Worked fine on Safari on macOS.
forks··on California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info
> Processing begins August 1, 2026.
forks··on Finland gave two groups identical payments – one saw better mental health
Ah neat, thank you for sharing!
forks··on Finland gave two groups identical payments – one saw better mental health
Out of curiosity, why does the Algolia result for this submission show '4 days ago', the submission timestamp '3 hours ago', and the metadata on the submission timestamp '2025-12-18T15:34:11 1766072051'?

Is this an example of an article being resubmitted (by the same user?) or otherwise boosted back onto the front page?

forks··on Frank Gehry has died
RIP. 8 Spruce is a personal favorite.
forks··on Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
If you click through to the article shared yesterday[0]:

> Microsoft denies report of lowering targets for AI software sales growth

This Ars Technica article cites the same reporting as that Reuters piece but doesn't (yet) include anything about MSFT's rebuttal.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46135388

forks··on iHeartRadio web has exposed all its source code
> Remember: Always disable sourcemaps in production!

I wish I could downvote this comment from the README.

Minification to reduce bandwidth is noble. But to obfuscate? Why?

forks··on We rewrote OpenFGA in pure Postgres
> The big problem that we kept running into was keeping everything in sync all the time. Every time we add a new user, organization, repository, etc. in our database, we also had to add the corresponding tuples in OpenFGA.

This is a fundamental problem with all Zanzibar-inspired authorization systems[0] that require centralizing ~all authorization data and led us @ Oso to build a more flexible system[1] that grants more control over what authorization-relevant data you centralize vs. decide keep locally.

0: https://www.osohq.com/post/authorization-for-the-rest-of-us

1: https://www.osohq.com/docs/develop/facts/local-authorization

disclosure: founding engineer at Oso

forks··on The company behind the Dia and Arc browsers is being acquired
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45126358
forks··on Polars Cloud and Distributed Polars now available
- Polar, the authorization DSL created by Oso

It's a common name

forks··on The Theoretical Limitations of Embedding-Based Retrieval
So, back to BM25?
forks··on Why LLM Authorization is Hard
Just to make sure I'm following: that's ongoing discussion of the same issue, but not the same post, right?
forks··on We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube
If you accept 30 years as the average lifespan of an nfl stadium, 3.8
forks··on Comparing Claude System Prompts Reveal Anthropic's Priorities
> The only disappointment I noticed around the Claude 4 launch was its context limit: only 200,000 tokens

> The ~23,000 tokens in the system prompt – taking up just over 1% of the available context window

Am I missing something or is this a typo?

forks··on TV Garden
One of those things that's so cool it's hard to believe it's legal
forks··on Cake is watching you: I built a camera cake
The cake has a Li-ion
forks··on Crabtime: Zig’s Comptime in Rust
What are some examples of other language features that comptime makes redundant?
forks··on TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S.
I think (hope) you mean the former :-)
forks··on I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare others the pain
jujutsu: https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/
forks··on Algorithm = Logic and Control [pdf]
Fantastic podcast interviewing the author: https://thesearch.space/episodes/1-the-poet-of-logic-program...
forks··on Steve's Jujutsu Tutorial
Could you say more about how/why "graphite does not work"?
forks··on Asterinas: OS kernel written in Rust and providing Linux-compatible ABI
I don't see how the relevance is in question. GGGP said "There's actually a decent amount of comments (for rust code)." GGP seems to be responding to that parenthetical.
forks··on Ask HN: What's Prolog like in 2024?
I'll second the plug: it's an excellent podcast
forks··on A Logic Language for Distributed SQL Queries
Can't please everyone :P
forks··on Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners
How does this compare to BuildJet?
forks··on Closure, from why the lucky stiff (2013)
Does this link from the repo's README help? https://www.dropbox.com/s/c0n2dljz8anih62/CLOSURE.pdf?dl=0
forks··on Introduction to Datalog
I love The Search Space. Waiting patiently for new episodes!
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