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internet_pointson I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M

Put their own email in there, ceo@that-dumb-company.com

internet_pointson Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

It has me through my open source contributions, but interestingly it claims the same regardless of what I use as a given name, as long as I keep the (fairly unique) surname. So my whole extended family are open source contributors.

internet_pointson Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving

Weell, it's not completely untyped, but it is runtime type-checked. There's stuff like `(if (integerp foo)` and `(defcustom ... :type '(choice (const tag "abs" abs) 'integer))`

And then there are more ambitious projects like the static analyzer and language server https://github.com/emacs-elsa/Elsa I haven't tried Elsa yet since it seems to require setting up a package manager like Eask (I don't really understand why I have to install a package manager to run a language server, especially when they support four emacs-specific package managers?) and the docs were very light on whether eglot is supported or just lsp-mode.

internet_pointson Ice water drowning survival of young patient (2025)

I was also reminded of this :)

Direct link to the write-up of the previous such record: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01960...

internet_pointson Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving

Nah. It's great that they're making it less of a hassle to use, but it's still going to be more of a hassle than just using the plain regex-based modes, and treesitter in itself doesn't really make much of an improvement if you already have working syntax highlighting for some mode.

The main exception is if you want to program in a language that only has a treesitter-mode, or I suppose if the regular mode has quite buggy syntax highlighting / the ts-mode has much better features.

(There are also fancy minor mode packages like combobulate that make special use of treesitter, but that's tinkering territory.)

internet_pointson Midjourney Medical

This is one of the creepiest "big AI" product launches I've read. I know it's becoming a meme, but that spa looks like something from a Black Mirror episode.

If they were just creating a new less-invasive and differently informative alternative to fMRI / PET / EEG / CT for researchers and doctors to use in hospitals, where experienced human doctors were given agency in finding out how best to use the tool and interpret the results (understanding all the caveats that go for full body scans, false positive rates and so on[0]), then that would be amazing, a tiny step forward for the human race. But packaged like this, eww.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580255

internet_pointson Even more batteries included with Emacs

...except ruler-mode uses dragging of middle mouse button to move the fill column, which on my system scrolls.

internet_pointson Even more batteries included with Emacs

TIL about ruler-mode; now I can delete my own half-assed implementation of the same.

And compare-windows looks really handy. I was about to write a note in my init file to my future self telling me to start using that, but then I saw there is already a note there from my past self, telling me about compare-windows.

scroll-all-mode seems useful, but it seems to only handle keyboard scrolling, not mouse-wheel?

internet_pointson What the Fuck Happened to Nerds

Putin is right now considering how to get on that Mafia show and improve his public image in the US

internet_pointson Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)

You can! But the set of just one thing tends to be easily guessable, just like the set of all things. The hardest (or most frustrating) rules are the ones that have two or more "components" like "smelly but also is in our house", we had to ban those. Gauge your audience I guess. "Must be one of the colors of the rainbow" was toeing the line.

internet_pointson A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown

also we can close our eyes and stop monitoring it

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/03/climate/ocean-monitoring-...

internet_pointson Conversations with a six-year-old on functional programming (2018)

We play another hypothesis testing game in our family where one player invents a secret rule and gives a single example of a thing that's acceptable. Then the others have to guess other things that might also be acceptable, and the inventor answers yes no. So the inventor starts off with for example

    - Roquefort.

and then the q&a follows

    - Gouda? 
    - no
    - Milk? 
    - no
    - a Nac Mac Feegle? 
    - yes!
    - oh maybe it's everything blue, my backpack! 
    - no
    - the whole universe
    - since that includes gouda, no
    - a cat
    - which cat?
    - greebo
    - then yes
    - it must be something smelly!
    - Yes, that was quick!

It's a bit like Zendo[0], but with .. anything. Could be "words rhyming with -ing" or "flat stuff" etc. etc. Rules have to be fairly simple to be guessable since it's so open, but I did once manage to guess my kid's rule of "things that don't fit into any of the categories made in any of today's rounds of this game".

Some rules can lead to interesting (heated) arguments, which is always entertaining. One thing that could be better is we don't really have a good system for when you can guess a rule vs just giving exemplars, it can get a bit boring if people just guess rules, but OTOH you don't get too far that way since you can't get a "yes" from any other rule than the right one.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zendo_(game)

internet_pointson How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math

Intriguing. You should notify Narayanan and Kapoor so they can update their post with your counter-example :)

internet_pointson How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math

If "the latter hypothesis" of parent commenter was that "AI will replace ~80% of white-collar jobs", then that hypothesis clearly not supported by the current layoffs. AI isn't replacing workers, AI just happens to be an easy excuse for it. Could as well have been "COVID" or "tariffs" or "the economy" or "the end of Zero interest-rate policy"

internet_pointson How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math

https://www.normaltech.ai/i/201537309/the-stories-of-ai-driv... suggests AI is used as an excuse rather than being a real reason.

internet_pointson The Future of Email

I've been a happy Fastmail customer for years, and one of the best things about Fastmail has been how they just incrementally make things slightly better, as if they somehow haven't learnt how to enshittify.

So on seeing this title, I was a bit worried.

> It’s worth being transparent about what that looks like at Fastmail: we haven’t integrated AI into your inbox, and your mail isn’t being processed by a model in the background. Our MCP server is simply an API endpoint available if you want to connect an AI client of your choosing with your explicit authorization, and nothing changes if you don’t.

Phew.

internet_pointson WikiLambda the Ultimate

"The Search for the Perfect Language" is a really entertaining book if you like codes, languages, occult history, and/or chuckling at hubristic academic endeavors.

internet_pointson Emacs appearances in pop culture

The air traffic control one is my favorite :)

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And when searching for emacs air traffic control I stumbled on https://www.idsairnav.com/main-areas/aim/airport-em-environm... haha:

> EMACS, Electromagnetic Control and Survey, is an AIM (aeronautical information management) tool that applies advanced simulation techniques to perform airport and Enroute electromagnetic environment analysis as well as airport and en-route electromagnetic site verification.

internet_pointson Report on an Unidentified Space Station – J.G. Ballard (1982)

And Piranesi

And House of Leaves

internet_pointson AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42

from OP:

> It's unfortunate to see that the operator's takeaway from this incident is that "next time a better agent is needed".

internet_pointson H2JVM – A Haskell Library for Writing JVM Bytecode

see also https://github.com/Frege/frege and https://github.com/mchav/froid (though both are kind of dead I guess?)

internet_pointson Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design

Don't be. Keep writing! Boring people gonna be boring. I for one found it a fun article with a great title, and I also liked your other https://handson.money/blog/2026-05-20-ai-coding/

internet_pointson The EU Open Source Strategy

is any money going into it, or are they just "supporting"?

internet_pointson To end animal suffering, the most ethical choice is to kill wild predators

Author is the same person whose job it was "to teach Claude how to be good".

There was a good follow-up: https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/10/9308195/killing-off-wild-...

internet_pointson Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies

Some bread is! Check the ingredient list. When I bake at home, I use whole wheat flour, water, yeast, a tiny bit of salt and oil.

Things I do not include when I bake at home, which I found from the first hit I got by searching for "bread" in a local Norwegian store's web site: E 472e emulgator, E 471 emulgator, margarine, dextrose, E 300 flour treatment, amylase enzymes, xylanase enzymes.

And that's a fairly short list compared to Walmart bread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411980

internet_pointson Do we need billionaires?

by that argument, we definitely don't need billionaires

internet_pointson French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56

Sorry, I was imprecise. What it must have felt like to some iranians. I'd love to hear if you have tips for books that show other experiences from that period!

internet_pointson French-Iranian author Marjane Satrapi, author of 'Persepolis', dies at 56

The graphic novel was very good, showing what Iran must have felt like to iranians before the revolution, and the sadness at having lost that way of life. I highly recommend reading it.

internet_pointson U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse

Paul Samuelson: When events change, I change my mind. What do you do?

Trump: If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.

Previously https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-pres...

internet_pointson Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground

I don't think current mathematician's jobs are at stake, as much as the field itself, if LLMs take all the "easy" problems that phd students would try to learn by solving on their own. Mathematics is susceptible to the same ladder-pulling situation that we see with junior programmers and LLMs.