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New comment by ac50hz in "Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008)"

ac50hz — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:22:35 +0000

Sadly, Richard died in January this year. This book is available to download from one of his academic pages:

https://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/r_bornat/#compilerbook

https://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/r_bornat/books/compilin...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bornat

New comment by ac50hz in "Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure"

ac50hz — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:02:57 +0000

Share an attribute, not an identifier, https://yivi.app/en/for_developers/

Age Verification in the EU, Ambitious goals, missed privacy opportunities

ac50hz — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 08:19:25 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.yivi.app/blog/2025-age-verification/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44699721

Points: 3

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Clojure as a First Language

ac50hz — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 08:48:41 +0000

Article URL: https://mccue.dev/pages/7-14-25-clojure-as-a-first-language

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44668510

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by ac50hz in "One Billion Cells – Another Multiplayer Demo with Clojure"

ac50hz — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:32:42 +0000

I’m looking forward to it.

New comment by ac50hz in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

ac50hz — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 09:34:12 +0000

Exactly. Yivi isn’t new having been renamed from IRMA (https://privacybydesign.foundation/en/). Nevertheless, adoption outside the Netherlands remains almost non-existent.

Except for the additional download requirement for a user, the friction is pretty low once it’s setup and you have created some attributes.

The project would benefit from a rebranding review, standardization, an enterprise-capable infrastructure to promote and support alternative service providers, and a review of clients. The current Yivi mobile app hasn’t changed much over the years and when I last used it I still needed a PIN instead Face ID.

New comment by ac50hz in "Ooloi Music Notation Software"

ac50hz — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:32:52 +0000

https://github.com/PeterBengtson/Ooloi-docs

Ooloi Music Notation Software

ac50hz — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:29:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ooloi.org/overview.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44499027

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by ac50hz in "One Billion Cells – Another Multiplayer Demo with Clojure"

ac50hz — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 09:48:54 +0000

Anders’ blog is a joy to read.

New comment by ac50hz in "People instantly decide whether to trust a product based on design"

ac50hz — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 08:54:11 +0000

The absurdity of the use of beauty in the descriptions of designs, code and equations is as absurd as telling me, who is certainly not a beauty, that there are clear personal defects and deficits because of that property, or lack of that property.

This can join the absurdity of the websites that proclaim _Made with love_.

Marketing nonsense that has nothing to do with functionality, utility, usability may certainly be useful for marketing, promotion, and leveraging nostalgic pangs, but let’s remember that these are usually vacant, sometimes deceptive and often inaccurate.

The deception of beauty and its insidious insertion into many different fields does little to advance those fields and detracts from accuracy, improvement and inevitability reality.

New comment by ac50hz in "Kylie Minogue song about a typeface"

ac50hz — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 18:12:33 +0000

And then there are the similarities, both video and song, between Can’t Get You Out Of My Head and Doll on a Music Box/Truly Scrumptious from the UK musical/movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang… There was a mashup floating around somewhere, years ago. Probably lost.

New comment by ac50hz in "It is hard to recommend Google Cloud"

ac50hz — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 09:00:49 +0000

Great analogy.

New comment by ac50hz in "OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show"

ac50hz — Thu, 23 May 2024 09:54:13 +0000

Of course, it’s possible that the intent or otherwise wasn’t the objective. They’ve succeeded in bringing together several associations which allude to a sophisticated and peaceful future for all of us, in spite of the possibility of any minor legal hiccups. Whether the man with something of the dark about him was responsible, involved or unaware, the company continues to lay out its strategy, concerns and targets in plain sight. I’ll try to remain outside of this chaotic arena.

New comment by ac50hz in "NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching"

ac50hz — Tue, 21 May 2024 16:14:32 +0000

This could be a useful alternative:

https://github.com/quentinlesceller/macmediakeyforwarder

New comment by ac50hz in "They thought they were joining an accelerator – instead they lost their startups"

ac50hz — Fri, 03 May 2024 12:20:03 +0000

> It charged startups between a few thousand dollars and $18,000 to $20,000 for its training programs

This was one of several red flags for me…

New comment by ac50hz in "Building an email-to-calendar LLM"

ac50hz — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:04:25 +0000

I simplify my prioritization strategies to use only 2 priorities: High (do it now) and Low (do it later). There should only be 1 high-priority item at any time, and when it's completed, the (next) low-priority item becomes the single high-priority item.

Maintaining multi-level priorities requires more decisions to evaluate relative priorities of different tasks and possible priority re-evaluation when new tasks arrive. Throw some colleagues, friends or others into the mix and agreements on the decisions become more distant.

Within the low-priority list these are sorted on the date and time required. If you then choose to ignore the priorities or sorting, the deviation will take you down the priority re-evaluation rabbit hole again. It's then your choice to follow the process, or not. Avoiding adding complexity to task scheduling and processes ensures I have focus.

Of course, this will not be for everyone. Good luck with that LLM!

An Unexpected Strategy Lesson by Alistair Campbell

ac50hz — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 14:16:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sepaforcorporates.com/thoughts/unexpected-strategy-lesson-alistair-campbell/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39511430

Points: 1

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New comment by ac50hz in "Lab Notebooks (2020)"

ac50hz — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 22:55:12 +0000

Whilst i agree with all of this, I like paper, and to set time aside (with coffee) to review batches of notes.

New comment by ac50hz in "Lab Notebooks (2020)"

ac50hz — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 22:53:01 +0000

I’ve been heading in this direction, and Quarto continues to be the end point, on the road from pandoc.

New comment by ac50hz in "Lab Notebooks (2020)"

ac50hz — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 22:50:45 +0000

Record keeping, for better or worse, is essential.

Memories fade. Ink fades but rarely corrupts.