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htk··on Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure
Absolutely, I flagged this post for this very reason. Far left or right websites are no place to get a reliable account of things.
htk··on Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
Thank you for the info. A lot of superficial noise in the discussions here.
htk··on Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year
Most of us wouldn't mind if the limitation was that you can't opt IN more than 3 times/year, but of course Microsoft dark patterned it to limit the opt outs.
htk··on Meta Superintelligence Labs' first paper is about RAG
I like your style, subscribed!
htk··on Austria hails 'brain gain' in luring 25 academics away from US after cuts
It's right in the first paragraph:

"Austria has lured what it calls 25 "top researchers" away from U.S. institutions including Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton with grants set up in response to the Trump administration's funding cuts targeting universities."

htk··on ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps
What a classic "Think of the children!" excuse for abuse.
htk··on Austria hails 'brain gain' in luring 25 academics away from US after cuts
Because it's a reason to bash Trump.

Trump gives plenty of reasons to be bashed, but this news article seems like a stretch.

htk··on Paper Folding Assembly Line [video]
Cool machinery and equally impressive editing skills/production value.
htk··on At least 475 workers detained in major ICE raid at US Hyundai factory
What is so bad about hiring people who are legally allowed to work in the US? Why requiring this would be so disruptive? What is so bad about following the law?
htk··on Optician Sans – A free font based on historical eye charts and optotypes
Nice font, I wish it had lower case letters as well. It looks like it could be a great fixed width font for coding.
htk··on Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine
"The man entered a room at Nassau Open MRI in Westbury, on New York's Long Island, without permission as the MRI machine was running..."

People think they can do anything they want nowadays.

htk··on AI is turning Apple into a "loser"
Unfortunately, this measured (and IMHO very reasonable) opinion doesn't generate clicks.
htk··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)
Great book! I already use python for some simple projects and your book is in the perfect level of practicality that I need. Thank you! Suggestion: create an epub version as well. It would be awesome to read it on a kindle or other e-ink devices.
htk··on Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book
Hmm, couldn't this be used as a benchmark for quantization algorithms?
htk··on Convert photos to Atkinson dithering
Thank you for posting this. Very nostalgic!
htk··on Apple Notes Expected to Gain Markdown Support in iOS 26
I hope they also fix the cursor jumping bug when typing on tables. The bug's been there for years.
htk··on Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?
I used to donate to wikipedia, but after seeing how wikimedia spends the money I stopped. Just like Mozilla, they have plenty of money for their core product but spend a ton on other projects that I don't care for.
htk··on The average workday increased during the pandemic’s early weeks (2020)
More emails and more meetings means workdays increased? Are they adjusting for the fact the in person you don't need as many emails and meetings and can just talk person to person?
htk··on Run LLMs on Apple Neural Engine (ANE)
I always felt that the neural engine was wasted silicon, they could add more gpu cores in that die space and redirect the neural processing api to the gpu as needed. But I'm no expert, so if anyone here has a different opinion I'd love to learn from it.
htk··on Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course
You can submit anything, the community decides if it's interesting enough.
htk··on IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol
Native screen sharing with the high performance* feature works great for me. (requires the native client to work)

*[https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/remote-desktop/apdf8e0...]

htk··on Intel appoints Lip-Bu Tan as its CEO
This author has a very interesting mail list on the semiconductor industry, and kind of predicted the new CEO:

https://irrationalanalysis.substack.com/p/make-intel-great-a...

htk··on The man who spent forty-two years at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool (1993)
Or he never returned to the hotel, just like Irving?
htk··on Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design
Makes sense now, they don't add much, or anything. We already have the upvote button for this.
htk··on Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design
"Hate" was too strong of a word to use.
htk··on Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design
Fair points! Thank you.
htk··on Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design
You guys really hated that I found the discussion interesting?
htk··on Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design
What a great discussion between two prominent figures in the field of software design. Thank you for posting this!
htk··on The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking [pdf]
That's a brilliant strategy to reach ASI, lowering the bar on humans.
htk··on I Conditioned Myself to Fail
Love to read posts like this one. Honest, straight to the point, relatable, and as a bonus makes me want to do something about it as well. I hope the author keeps on writing.
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