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I would add another Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon

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

A collection of (mostly) spoiler-free quotes to emphasise my point: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon

haastedon WeWork says will file to withdraw IPO

Cloudflare? Not sure whether they are profitable at the moment, but their product seems substantial.

haastedon A large number of Stack Exchange mods resigning over new policies

There is an unfortunate karma-reward for making edit suggestions. This regularly results in people making tonnes of similar edits across the site, eg correcting a common spelling error, adding slightly-related tags, or, like your case, removing things that to a Puritan appears superfluous to the question.

haastedon In Defense of Richard Stallman

Same author as the original medium post, so I would assume identical agenda and a risk of cherry-picking and distortion of the incidents described.

haastedon An erroneous paper on religion and generosity is retracted

My rule of thumb is that anything that’s not part of a calculation will be a string. Any chance I ever want to multiply a zip code? Doubtful. String, it is.

haastedon The Spinner

They should add an “expose target to qanon and conspiracy theories”-option. There was an article not too long ago about what obsessing over this can do to personal relationships. It was not pretty.

haastedon Going Fast Slowly

I’m interested in how this works in Go, which doesn’t have a built-in assert statement. Do you have somewhere I can read up on it?

haastedon Going Fast Slowly

Footnote 6 is interesting:

“I prefer asserts over comments for this, since the compiler can also see them. The good news is, the compiler can also see that they don't do anything so a lot fewer are present in the binary program. Interestingly, a couple of them allows the compiler to optimize much harder. No, I won't tell you which those are.”

I appreciate the pattern of having “comments” that are equally useful to compiler and reader. And I’m impressed that some compilers actually use them to optimise the output. And I’m slightly baffled that the examples of these are apparently a secret. :)

haastedon Harvard Student Says He Was Barred From U.S. Over Friends’ Social Media Posts

I imagine they would consider a HN account “social media”.

haastedon What is autism? How the term became too broad to have meaning any more

There is a saying making the rounds: “If you’ve met one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism”

It’s apparently very hard to make any general assumptions or observations about people with the condition.

haastedon Germany in Uproar as Negative Rates Threaten Saving Obsession

That would introduce an exchange risk for the savers. Euro and USD can fluctuate quite a bit between them.

haastedon Show HN: I made online community for unusual people

Did I imply it wasn't loading for me?

haastedon Show HN: I made online community for unusual people

Help for the lazy: https://holynetr.com/groups/

haastedon I quit my job today to make video games full time

> I would sketch out game ideas and maps while pretending to take notes in the endless deluge of meetings... stand-ups... backlog grooming... weekly-syncs... retrospectives... and project kickoffs...

haastedon Lorem Picsum, death by a million pixel-gigabits

What kind of traffic does your service attract?

haastedon Thousands of tardigrades crash-land on the moon. Did they survive?

Alternate source for story: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/aug/06/tardigrades-...

haastedon British Expedition to Abyssinia

Even more apropos of nothing: it’s also used in a famous episode of MAS*H, “Abyssinia, Henry”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyssinia,_Henry

haastedon Chelsea Manning Can Remain in Jail for Another Year, Judge Rules

Keeping someone confined? It’s not NOT cruel.

haastedon What We Can and Can’t Learn from Copenhagen

Just to add a bit of info: Aarhus has a quite happening software development scene, while Odense is the place to be if you want to work with robotics.

haastedon Ask HN: How can we destroy AMP?

Add an option in adblocking software that automatically redirects to the real article. I imagine there’s a fairly big overlap between users of adblocking software and users that dislike amp.

haastedon The Secret Seat of the Knights Templar

I’m curious why you felt it necessary to create a throwaway for delivering that piece of information. :)

haastedon How is China able to provide enough food to feed over 1B people?

That guy sure enjoys adding satellite imagery to his posts.

haastedon Ministers pledge to end 'poor doors' in new build housing

How well did it go?

haastedon Why is Stack Overflow trying to start audio?

Right. And he could ditch his keyboard as well.

haastedon Liu Cixin’s War of the Worlds

Orson Scott Card being the prime example of this.

haastedon Top UCLA Doctor Denounces HBO's “Chernobyl” as Wrong and “Dangerous”

Gorbachev is played by a Swedish-Danish actor as well.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1399770/

haastedon A Technical and Cultural Assessment of the Mueller Report PDF

> With guesses or context you can fill those in with high probability. In an extreme case, the redaction might be a name of let's say a member of Congress

Something like this actually happened somewhere in the report. A name was at the end of a line, causing a part of it to break unto the next line. The few, black characters present on the second line lead readers to theorise that the name ends with “jr”.

haastedon Matrix.org hacked

I just enabled that after seeing this incident.

For people in the same boat, it can be done trivially using the YubiKey Manager CLI: https://developers.yubico.com/yubikey-manager/

haastedon Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track

Well, I would be willing to settle for a mix of 1-2 hours. :)

haastedon Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track

Great article. Is an extended edition of aisatsana available for download anywhere, or is it only available through generative.fm?