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Resolving the Great Undo-Redo Quandary
posted on Fri Nov 11 12:59:15 UTC 2022 by kerblang | view on HN
The article discusses the Great Undo-Redo Quandary, or the GURQ, which is a problem that occurs when you're editing something and undo a ways, make some changes, and your redos go {{{poof!}}} because the editor doesn't know what else to do with them. The article suggests that the problem can be solved by implementing a Clippy-ish thing that records everything you do so that you can rewind if you change your mind about
The sad story of Laika, the space dog, and her one-way trip into orbit (2018)
posted on Fri Nov 11 13:28:50 UTC 2022 by cinbun8 | view on HN
The article is about the Soviet space dog Laika, who was the first living creature to orbit the Earth.
Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator
posted on Fri Nov 11 14:32:11 UTC 2022 by nfriend | view on HN
posted on Fri Nov 11 14:31:44 UTC 2022 by wusel | view on HN
The article is about a personal experience with Shopify and the Datenschutzbehörde in Rheinland-Pfalz, and how the latter declared the use of Shopify to be illegal and threatened a fine of 4% of the author's last year's sales if they continued to use it.
Is it time to start eating algae?
posted on Fri Nov 11 16:13:02 UTC 2022 by Brajeshwar | view on HN
The article discusses how entrepreneurs are tapping into the potential of algae to make products such as bacon, and how the global seaweed market could be worth $95 billion by 2027.
How Australia became the world’s greatest lithium supplier
posted on Fri Nov 11 15:23:04 UTC 2022 by hhs | view on HN
The article discusses the environmental concerns of the lithium mining industry in Australia.
FTX group companies commence voluntary chapter 11 proceedings
posted on Fri Nov 11 14:17:07 UTC 2022 by jhshah | view on HN
The article is about how to enable JavaScript in order to use twitter.com.
Zuo: A Tiny Racket for Scripting
posted on Fri Nov 11 13:19:56 UTC 2022 by soegaard | view on HN
The article discusses the benefits of using Racket to write scripts, as well as the Zuo language, which is a smaller version of Racket designed for scripting purposes.
FTX to file for U.S. bankruptcy, CEO resigns
posted on Fri Nov 11 14:32:30 UTC 2022 by mfiguiere | view on HN
The cryptocurrency exchange FTX will initiate bankruptcy proceedings in the United States while its Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried resigned, the company said on Friday.
What it’s like to dissect a cadaver
posted on Thu Nov 10 18:35:39 UTC 2022 by yuppiemephisto | view on HN
The article is about the author's experience learning about biology by attending a human dissection class, and how much they enjoyed it.
School of Haskell: Basics (2013)
posted on Wed Nov 09 12:10:41 UTC 2022 by bjourne | view on HN
This article is a series of tutorials on Haskell, a functional programming language, and dispel some myths about functional programming.
The Fateful, Final Journey of the Edmund Fitzgerald
posted on Thu Nov 10 11:26:47 UTC 2022 by DrScump | view on HN
The final voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald began November 9, 1975 at the Burlington Northern Railroad Dock No.1, Superior, Wisconsin.
Deepnote (YC S19) is hiring engineers to build a better Jupyter notebook
posted on Fri Nov 11 13:38:13 UTC 2022 by Equiet | view on HN
Deepnote is a company that is creating new tools to help data teams with the scientific and creative process of data science.
Mapping Out the HPC Dependency Chaos
posted on Fri Nov 11 15:48:10 UTC 2022 by setheron | view on HN
The article discusses the packaging, distributing, and administering of software stacks of hundreds of dependencies for High Performance Computing (HPC) systems.
Key staff driving Apple search engine leave to rejoin Google
posted on Fri Nov 11 14:59:06 UTC 2022 by alphabetting | view on HN
The article discusses how the three employees left Google to work for Apple, and how their work there is one reason why Apple is predicted to launch its own search engine.
Arduino Unveils the Opta, Its First “Micro PLC” for Industrial IoT
posted on Wed Nov 09 05:45:36 UTC 2022 by gregmac | view on HN
The article is about Arduino's new micro PLC, the Opta, which is designed with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in mind.
The World Is Run by People No Smarter Than You
posted on Fri Nov 11 15:43:39 UTC 2022 by swyx | view on HN
The article is discussing how even the most successful people in the tech industry make mistakes, and that if they can do it, anyone can.
Scaling Mastodon in the Face of an Exodus
posted on Fri Nov 11 15:40:59 UTC 2022 by NoraCodes | view on HN
The article discusses how a recent migration to a well-established Mastodon server called weirder.earth went poorly due to storage issues, and how this coincided with a huge amount of traffic.
posted on Fri Nov 11 08:53:10 UTC 2022 by WithinReason | view on HN
The article talks about the cost model for the implementation of Nim version 2, which is focused on embedded, hard real-time systems.
NSA urges orgs to use memory-safe programming languages
posted on Fri Nov 11 12:55:11 UTC 2022 by AlexeyBrin | view on HN
posted on Thu Nov 10 08:02:46 UTC 2022 by hkhn | view on HN
The article discusses how the data collected by the Post45 Data Collective can be used to study culture industries and how they have been affected by the pandemic.
posted on Fri Nov 11 14:38:26 UTC 2022 by todsacerdoti | view on HN
The article discusses how the command line utility 'stdbuf' works, and how it changes the buffering mode for a given program.
Books recommended by profitable founders
posted on Fri Nov 11 12:40:32 UTC 2022 by wyem | view on HN
NeuRRAM – New chip for running large-scale AI algorithms on smaller devices
posted on Fri Nov 11 12:32:56 UTC 2022 by nsoonhui | view on HN
This article discusses the difficulty of creating new chips that perform computations where memory is stored, a technology known as compute-in-memory.
posted on Fri Nov 11 05:30:15 UTC 2022 by ingve | view on HN
Today we celebrate the thirteenth birthday of the Go open source release.
YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/newest” option
posted on Fri Nov 11 08:54:26 UTC 2022 by nixass | view on HN
The article is discussing how the website Reddit has not had an option to sort by oldest first on their site, and the author is saying that it is not a difficult thing to do.
Hackers behind Medibank breach are now advertising access to Deutsche Bank
posted on Fri Nov 11 15:43:00 UTC 2022 by malwarebeasts | view on HN
Overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law
posted on Fri Nov 11 03:13:16 UTC 2022 by andromaton | view on HN
posted on Wed Nov 09 14:19:43 UTC 2022 by sklargh | view on HN
The author describes the process of voting by mail while living in Antarctica and notes the surprising efficiency of the postal system in delivering mail to and from the continent.
posted on Fri Nov 11 06:55:48 UTC 2022 by hunglee2 | view on HN
The article discusses how the Queen and Prince Charles knew that the governor-general was planning on dismissing the government two months before he did, without any warning to the prime minister.