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New comment by _false in "I dumped Apple’s word list"

_false — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 21:00:21 +0000

if autocorrect is disabled this will be empty

New comment by _false in "Radiation Map of the World"

_false — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 02:20:15 +0000

this makes no sense, but at least it's provocative and it gets the people going

New comment by _false in "Tomáš Mikolov awarded the Medal of Merit by the President of the Czech Republic"

_false — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:39:44 +0000

This is my first time hearing about Tomas in a while. Does anyone know what he has been up to since word2vec?

New comment by _false in "The future of programming (1982)"

_false — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 23:08:56 +0000

> In particular, the programmer trying to debug a high level language program often must work with debugging tools that require use of the machine instructions generated by the language compiler.

Today spec-driven development is in the same place.

New comment by _false in "I paid people to try and follow my README"

_false — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:57:16 +0000

There's the famous quip that Steve Jobs hated focus groups. What people miss is that he (and Apple overall) was heavy on UX testing.

New comment by _false in "NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect"

_false — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:53:09 +0000

Nine states (incl. CA) already require click to cancel. This is largely a non-event

New comment by _false in "Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge"

_false — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:08:12 +0000

I first thought you were teasing Jane Street instead of OP. Maybe shows that OP is a good culture fit for Jane Street :)

New comment by _false in "I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards"

_false — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:12:23 +0000

at least bugzilla is actively maintained. Abandonware over something Mozilla, Red Hat, Apache, GNOME, and KDE still run production workflows on isn't an obviously sane choice

New comment by _false in "SFO Quiet Airport (2025)"

_false — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:15:30 +0000

I didn't realise that "quiet airport" still means there are targeted announcements

New comment by _false in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

_false — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:52:53 +0000

> start wishing for at least a spreadsheet

What exactly makes you wish that? I used to use google sheets for workouts but realised:

1. plain text notes are more ergonomic on the phone

2. dumping them into Claude produces more useful analysis than I could hope to extract for the same amount of effort.

New comment by _false in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

_false — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:04:18 +0000

I solve it by using Apple Notes for quick capture and then copy pasting from my mac to obsidian daily/specific notes, that I want to keep.

I also just keep long running notes for tracking things workouts and meals with headers for dates.

Works better than things like obsidian mobile and copy pasting is a natural filter.

New comment by _false in "Want to write a compiler? Just read these two papers (2008)"

_false — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:05:15 +0000

Great thread. If you have 1 hour to get started, I recommend opening Engineering a Compiler and studying Static Single-Assignment (SSA) from ch 9.3.

The book is famous for its SSA treatment. Chapters 1-8 are not required to understand SSA. This allows you to walk away with a clear win. Refer to 9.2 if you're struggling with dominance + liveness.

http://www.r-5.org/files/books/computers/compilers/writing/K...

New comment by _false in "Show HN: Cursor for Userscripts"

_false — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:47:19 +0000

Love the decision to edit DOM directly. More LLM tools should carefully consider their training environments instead of treating LLMs like AI Gods.

New comment by _false in "The $LANG Programming Language"

_false — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:37:17 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/showlang is the first time I've seen a direct URL that adds an element to the navbar. Did you make this HN feature just for showlang or are there any other similar links?

New comment by _false in "The $LANG Programming Language"

_false — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:30:32 +0000

Not because it's not a PL, but because:

> This article doesn't use the name "Lisp" enough. The language with the best chance of lasting a long time is the one with the simplest syntax. That is Lisp...

It's Mainframes All the Way Down

_false — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:53:45 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/supplyframe-hardware/its-mainframes-all-the-way-down-73de55d2884b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45813850

Points: 15

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New comment by _false in "Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997"

_false — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 00:22:17 +0000

Took me a while to realize it's not a linux distro. Incredible!

New comment by _false in "TruthWave – A platform for corporate whistleblowers"

_false — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 23:11:29 +0000

I'm curious what subset of whistleblowing are they looking for:

> National Security Disclaimer We do not accept any tips or material of any kind related to matters of national security.

> Legal Violations Disclaimer Do not send any information or material that violates or breaches any contracts or legal obligations.

New comment by _false in "Show HN: Katakate – Dozens of VMs per node for safe code exec"

_false — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:23:23 +0000

What about this: https://github.com/apple/container

The Incentive Failure of Contemporary Art Market

_false — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 16:36:57 +0000

Article URL: https://arminbagrat.com/modern/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45405711

Points: 1

# Comments: 1