jruohonen

History.

In-class exams, either written or oral. If you don't do homework, it is only on you. And with paper and pen, the next semester, yes.

A duplicate, but for the good cause.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50219275

> Europe will never slow

I am not sure about the word choice, but they, ...

> European governments

probably like BDSM or something.

"alternativ til Microsoft Office-pakke"

That says it all; that governments run with this "pakke".

What a disaster.

The list is here:

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...

Looks like good progress to me.

Aeon continues to raise its bar (or maintain it continuously, which I suppose is even more difficult), I think. A good read.

Go Yle!

Related from today's feeds:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50140096

Kudos!

As someone downvoted me elsewhere, indeed, having to open the EU's own (insecure) app on a smartphone for accessing, yes, Wikipedia and such, would in practice kill Wikipedia and such. And the brilliance is also that the Act would in practice outlaw Linux and other open source operating systems along the way. And of course the EU app also work only on Android and iPhone, so they're basically intentionally causing further lock-in and preventing European alternatives. (I won't go into privacy as that is another story.)

I suppose Wikipedia needs to go to the dark net for allowing British kids (and adults) to read it freely. One might reckon that reading Wikipedia would be good for kids (and adults), but I suppose the Soviet Uni... err. disagrees. I mean, sarcasm aside, that is the real, fundamental danger here; VPN use has already seen big increases in Australia and the UK, and the dark net is the last place no one should go but may have to. Soon in the EU too, I suppose.

https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Wikimedi...

An interesting post mortem, in 2026. He was right in some respects and wrong in many respects, I'd reckon. The same with the journalist of this piece.

Alas, no, not really.

Yet, I was left wondering about a potential issue in the underlying premise and the graph presented: it could well also be because the AI field is booming, not only because people are using AI for "paper engineering". A similar point applies to the arXiv's recent policy change; it could well also be that OA is gaining more and more traction. And it could further be that pre-prints are gaining more and more traction precisely because the peer review system is more or less broken in the big picture of things.

Fair enough.

I read from local (European) news that people in the US could now get, e.g., passports online, so that was my reasoning about improvements.

But it is still an improvement (?), I reckon, even if with flaws, so credit to whom credit belongs, I suppose.

Thanks!

I am the poster and what prompted this post was:

https://jruohonen.hcommons.org/2026/10/10/eukidsact/

And, yes, "we must call madness madness wherever we see it". But it gets kind of tiring because the insanity show just goes on and on.

But I reckon now we could just simulate all this with a LLM?

Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47775021

Nice to read something cool from arXiv once in a while (vs. LLM research).

It was kind of an okay read until it went into "practice" section.

> The poetry is just a way of obfuscating...

Yes, but, well, poetry is like that, don't you think?

While I agree with the points raised about incentives, the logic is once again in the antagonistic camp and even plain wrong (cf. if they only would be "afraid of having their careers damaged"). No.

That is: the problems are in the system.

Better: if not plain fraud, the "faulty" papers should stay where they are, and editors (or conference chairs, etc.) should encourage follow-ups (incl. replications, commentaries, and whatever), which, with "modern" technology, could be linked to the papers.

Nice work but I wonder whether the methodology is sufficient (and, yes, I skimmed through the paper's Section 3.2).

The online interface was buried somewhere there, but that is pretty nice for educational purposes:

https://cppinsights.io/