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influx··on NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation
I wonder at what point the astronauts can veto NASA on this. In airplanes, the pilot in command has the last word about whether to take an aircraft into the air.
influx··on Common Lisp Community Survey 2024 Results
I like Lisp, but if it was as powerful as the advocates say it was, they'd be running circles around everyone else shipping powerful software. I haven't seen many powerful pieces of software in my everyday life that is written in Lisp.
influx··on Show HN: Blip – Incident Management Platform Built by Ex-FAANG Engineers
Can't tell if sarcastic?
influx··on Show HN: Blip – Incident Management Platform Built by Ex-FAANG Engineers
Great looking product! You're right about the rising tides, this is important work.
influx··on Show HN: Blip – Incident Management Platform Built by Ex-FAANG Engineers
Great feedback, working on that!
influx··on The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning
Have any famous psychological tests replicated?
influx··on Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for YC startups
A Googler who benefits from GOOG RSU going brrr says Google is better than a competitor. OK? Are you authorized to speak on Google's behalf publicly?
influx··on AI crawlers need to be more respectful
Do you feel the same way about Google spidering for their commercial search engine?
influx··on Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands
I don't know, but in hindsight I would have asked for an X-Ray. I think it was a borderline call and they went on the side of doing it because I had good insurance.
influx··on Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands
I've had dentists discover that I needed a filling after they found out how good my dental insurance was. Their justification was that the tooth seemed "soft". They never took an X-ray or provide any other data than that.
influx··on Meta removes Trump account restrictions ahead of 2024 election
I'd love to hear the arguments why Meta shouldn't do this.
influx··on Three years in North Korea as a foreigner (2021)
Which do you think is more likely, the scif was compromised, or one of the people in the scif was?
influx··on Girls in Tech closes its doors after 17 years
You’ve never heard anyone in those groups have imposter syndrome? It’s very common.
influx··on Never ask a candidate to rate themselves out of 10
3. Have I tested this question on current employees?

4. Is this a puzzle question with only one answer, or are there subproblems they can still solve and I will get actionable data from?

influx··on Pattern of brain damage is pervasive in Navy SEALs who died by suicide
Can’t men just identify as women to avoid the draft?
influx··on CriticGPT: Finding GPT-4's mistakes with GPT-4
No it can't, I should have said code that has valid syntax, but are using APIs or libraries that don't exist.
influx··on CriticGPT: Finding GPT-4's mistakes with GPT-4
Wrong is code that doesn’t compile. Hallucinated is compilable code using a library that never existed.
influx··on I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA
India killed a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil... What exactly would the US do to North Korea that we haven't done already?
influx··on I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA
Considering they have performed assassinations outside of their soil, I would be slightly concerned.
influx··on DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate
I know a bunch of FAANG engineers that retired in their 30s and 40s, so the rest of their life is vacation time...
influx··on DJI ban passes the House and moves on to the Senate
What's the counter examples to highlight Europe's tech successes? Skype? Nokia? Soundcloud? Spotify?
influx··on Discussion on why SQLite is gaining popularity [audio]
This is one of the reasons I love Go, it can not only build to a single statically linked library, but you can embed files your app needs like html templates into that same binary. Deployment is copying that binary to where it needs to go.
influx··on WebKit fix: Quirk news.ycombinator to skip TextAutoSizing
Why is that?
influx··on Debian's /tmpest in a teapot
I was really impressed how Boccassi "project managed" this change, gathering feedback, addressing feedback where necessary, and continued to push the ball forward even under lots of objection. Many people would have just given up and the status quo would have remained for another couple years.
influx··on Einstein went to his office just so he could walk home with Gödel
What would be the top 1 or two you could share?
influx··on Brave launches Search Ads in key markets after successful test phase
Google pays them off not to innovate or launch anything that would compete with their search monopoly.
influx··on 25 Years of Krita
Sounds like developing in QT is awful. They have had to do so much work porting it to new versions of QT.
influx··on Caddy 2.8
I recently found certbot and it makes TLS with nginx a breeze. I like Caddy as well, but if you're forced to use nginx, try certbot!
influx··on I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business
Do you ever calculate your GOOG salary and multiply it by the number of years you've been bootstrapping and have any regrets?
influx··on TTE: Terminal Text Effects
Code looks very clean, congrats. I wish for selfish reasons this was written in Go, so I could stuff the binary somewhere easily :)
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