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rawling··on English: A vs. An
It is. Yours is acknowledging that your things are distinguishable and the other person might want one in particular.

GP's should be used when offering a specific one, like "the red one".

rawling··on Understanding Is the New Bottleneck
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Understanding%20Is%20the%20New...
rawling··on IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
... who also have their employees "organically" push this stuff all over Reddit.

OP here looks innocent enough at least.

rawling··on A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await
I think it's down to them noticing that nothing is waiting for the result of the task and handling it differently?

C: if nothing is waiting for it, don't run it at all.

ABC: if nothing is waiting for it, wait for it when it's run.

rawling··on Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4
Front-page discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568506
rawling··on Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem
The last box, per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49568667
rawling··on Ask HN: What would happen if your company stopped using all AI tomorrow?
I've been using it at work since we moved from TF source control to TF-Git, close to a decade ago. feature/ticketno, release/number and user/initials/...

TF at least gave a nice folder view on the branches screen, which we've lost now we've moved to GitHub, but it has made it easier to enforce.

rawling··on Debian Votes to Allow "Responsible Use of Generative AI"
450+ comments of discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489982

rawling··on Twitterwebviewer.com Service Discontinued
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49482422
rawling··on Logging in Was Never Supposed to Be This Complicated
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49429359
rawling··on A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
How did they pivot from just providing a redirect to

> we decided to start proxying radiosonde ingestion data through SondeHub

Redirecting to the habhub UI doesn't seem like it would also let them intercept people uploading their data to habhub.

rawling··on Star Wars: A New Hope – A Visual Guide to Changes in the Disney+ 4K Version
Do the other pages work for you?
rawling··on How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
https://developer.android.com/security/fraud-prevention/acti...
rawling··on old.reddit.com Now Requires a Login
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49249931

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49248862

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103041

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983857

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753129

rawling··on Accounts are required to access old Reddit
Discussions

So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe (610 points, 19 days ago, 668 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005747

Reddit will require you to log in to use old.reddit.com (123 points, 1 month ago, 42 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740217

Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires login (88 points, 1 month ago, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753129

Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login (47 points, 21 days ago, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983857

rawling··on Windows 11's Weather app uses ~1GB RAM
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232138
rawling··on Incident unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175233
rawling··on US used 'virtually all' long-range precision missiles during Iran war
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166860
rawling··on FFmpeg 9.0
No domain knowledge at all here but "find missing backports" doesn't sound like writing/porting code.
rawling··on Building a native C# implementation of CEL engine
Is the "chore" commit subject prefix an AI thing? I've started seeing that at work too...
rawling··on Google will expand age checks on Android worldwide till the end of the year
> expand... worldwide till the end of the year

So at the end of the year they contract again?

Or should the headline read _by_ the end of the year?

rawling··on Show HN: Kokuin – A TypeScript library for deterministic JSON hashing

  if (stack.has(obj)) {
    writer.writeByte(CIRCULAR)
    return
  }
Does this mean that if a nested object holds a reference to itself, it will produce the same hash as if it held a reference to any of the objects it is nested in?
rawling··on Doom running on nothing but regex find-and-replace
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060166
rawling··on What else do people draw on gradient.horse?
... does one of the pictures jump occasionally?
rawling··on AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals
Some discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548

rawling··on Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is false
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010895

Some discussion from current top post

rawling··on OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack
Some discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548

rawling··on HuggingFace Security Incident
Some discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548
rawling··on OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evalu
Some discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548

rawling··on OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face
Some discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548

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