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It's almost as though "economic freedom" (whatever that means) and the government schmutzing in citizens' personal affairs are completely unrelated things!

kachnuv_ocasekon Book of Shapes – Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns

Beautiful. Reminds me of the amazing visual art of Adam Fuhrer[1].

[1]: https://adamfuhrer.com/

kachnuv_ocasekon Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'"

And of by one errors

kachnuv_ocasekon GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks

Hacker News saves the day once again!

kachnuv_ocasekon Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

ChatGPT is commonly referred to as Chappie (チャッピー) in Japan.

kachnuv_ocasekon Switzerland's Federal Government Is Replacing Microsoft on 3k Computers

I don't think you appreciate what a hack job Windows really is. It's just that it's quite visible in the Linux world, but more obscured in the case of proprietary software.

kachnuv_ocasekon Solving the Jane Street reverse engineering challenge

Can you share more about the connection between MCMC and SAT/SMT? That's a crossover I never thought I'd see.

kachnuv_ocasekon Fastpotify

I just listen to NTS most of the time.

kachnuv_ocasekon RAG Is Simpler Than You Think

And you can't fundraise on some old "information retrieval".

kachnuv_ocasekon Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics

I don't think these two possibilities are entirely exclusive. He could be using GH as a synonym for Git, but it's also the case the Palomar only works for GH repositories

kachnuv_ocasekon Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

It's as much "human nature" as being a slave was once the nature of some (chosen) peoples.

kachnuv_ocasekon Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

I, for one, would appreciate if we could just move on past these incessantly destructive power struggles as humanity.

kachnuv_ocasekon Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index

GLM 5.2

kachnuv_ocasekon Pareto Front

Just copy-paste that description to Claude and have it create the spreadsheet.

kachnuv_ocasekon Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time

Thankfully, synchronous condensers, flywheels and other fossil-free technologies exist.

kachnuv_ocasekon Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time

Perhaps the "uncompetitiveness" (is it with us in the room right now?) is self-inflicted due to lack of ambition and innovations.

kachnuv_ocasekon DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status

Bets on which AI lab it is this time?

kachnuv_ocasekon Carolina Cloud pays SOFR on unused prepaid credits

I'd guess that's a part of the TOS.

kachnuv_ocasekon AI revenues are growing fast, but not fast enough

What's the play for software engineers that lands them in a better place but doesn't leave money on the table for the capitalists?

kachnuv_ocasekon We have proof automation now

Haskell does not have dependent types.

kachnuv_ocasekon Show HN: Brolly, a plain-text weather forecast site

How do you turn on the text-only mode? I've tried Accept: text/plain but I always get HTML.