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New comment by asplake in "Mistral Large 4"

asplake — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:57:28 +0000

AGI with people skills?

Asos users receive pop-up notification apparently sent by hackers

asplake — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:51:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cjkg7205q9ret

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49976693

Points: 7

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New comment by asplake in "Haunted by the ghosts of materialism"

asplake — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 05:41:25 +0000

There are less reductive forms of materialism. For the view of a Nobel prize physics laureate see A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down by Robert B. Laughlin. From the philosophy world, read Manuel DeLanda or Alicia Juarrero.

New comment by asplake in "Turbo Haskell"

asplake — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:46:15 +0000

Odd — server can't be found

A Trump team wants to automate USWDS accessibility testing. Experts are worried

asplake — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:24:56 +0000

Article URL: https://fedscoop.com/trump-team-automate-uswds-accessibility-testing-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49904703

Points: 4

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New comment by asplake in "UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told"

asplake — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:45:52 +0000

In my household, we refer to coins as “parking tokens”.

New comment by asplake in "I think you should almost never use AI to write"

asplake — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:35:14 +0000

Can you be one without the other? Serious question – I’ve written five books, and the first draft was like 5% of the work.

NATS publishes preliminary report on technical incident of 8 September

asplake — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:24:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nats.aero/news/nats-publishes-preliminary-report-on-technical-incident-of-8-september/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49754064

Points: 59

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Introducing wrapture

asplake — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:23:15 +0000

Article URL: https://grahamdumpleton.me/posts/2026/08/introducing-wrapture/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49520474

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by asplake in "Every shape can be cut exactly in half with one straight line"

asplake — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:21:22 +0000

> 3. Why the Obvious Answer Fails: The Center-of-Mass Trap

Half of vaccines are binned – 'fridge-free' versions could change that

asplake — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:54:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce85qe8j0nzo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49192605

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant (2011)

asplake — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:44:58 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113993

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by asplake in "Show HN: Lucen a Python compiler that parallelizes for-loops via comment pragmas"

asplake — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:14:40 +0000

You can @decorate a for-loop?

I wish there were easier ways to play with syntax in Python, but there we are.

The little type that could too much

asplake — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:33:24 +0000

Article URL: https://raphael-proust.gitlab.io/code/the-little-type-that-could-too-much.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991501

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by asplake in "The Definition of Done"

asplake — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:26:46 +0000

My take (several years old now) https://www.agendashift.com/done

A mirror universe might tell a simpler story: Neil Turok (2023)

asplake — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:16:20 +0000

Article URL: https://perimeterinstitute.ca/news/a-mirror-universe-might-tell-a-simpler-story-neil-turok

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794908

Points: 3

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New comment by asplake in "The vibration of the pager has a sound all its own"

asplake — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:33:10 +0000

> It’s one of the ways you can tell the true lover of the emdash from an LLM

Quite apart from this tiresome and unreliable LLM detector, it’s also a way tell an American from a Brit. We Brits use spaces (and endashes).

New comment by asplake in "Britain's prime minister to step down, Burnham puts himself forward as successor"

asplake — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:10:34 +0000

Michel Barnier (EU's Brexit negotiator and later PM of France) suggests otherwise.

Exclusive: Former chief Brexit negotiator says staying out of euro and Schengen area would be ‘perfectly possible’" https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/18/uk-could-ke...

New comment by asplake in "Trump administration to pay £765M to cancel 4 more wind projects"

asplake — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:33:09 +0000

Via (with a rather more ironic headline) Paul Krugman: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-trump-champion-of-...

Trump administration to pay £765M to cancel 4 more wind projects

asplake — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:31:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/climate/trump-wind-farms-cancel-millions.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48607148

Points: 5

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