<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: b0in</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=b0in</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:44:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=b0in" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by b0in in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Having the prebuilt client and art assets you hack and change on saves you <i>million</i> of up front cost.<p>The foldingideas videos about decentraland talks about this. "Dead" mmorpgs work on a small skeleton crew despite the original game having taken 100s of people years to make. Looking it up the turtle wow server was like 5-10k concurrent players? A lot for sure but bordering on that category.<p>It takes a lot of work to manage that but nothing compared to making an original IP from scratch.</p>
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<p>Someone in the mailing list thread linked the man pages that they were able to extract out<p><a href="https://gitlab.com/segaloco/v1man/-/blob/master/man1/stat.1?ref_type=heads" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/segaloco/v1man/-/blob/master/man1/stat.1?...</a><p>for sdrwrw:<p>- column 1 is s or l meaning small or large<p>- column 2 is d, x, u, -; meaning directory, executable, setuid, or nothing.<p>- the rest are read-write bits for owner and non-owner.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:15:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43114249</link><dc:creator>b0in</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43114249</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43114249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by b0in in "Relaxed Radix Balanced Trees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>this looks like draw.io with a custom font. edit: nope, i'm wrong, its excalidraw but the effect is almost identical in draw.io.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:09:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105277</link><dc:creator>b0in</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105277</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43105277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by b0in in "Trump says he has directed Treasury to stop minting new pennies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The "coinage clause" of the Constitution.<p><a href="https://constitution.findlaw.com/article1/annotation37.html" rel="nofollow">https://constitution.findlaw.com/article1/annotation37.html</a><p>> Article I, Section 8, Clause 5 is known as the coinage clause. It gives Congress the exclusive power to coin money. The Supreme Court has also interpreted clause 5 as giving Congress the sole authority to regulate every aspect of United States currency.<p>That supreme court interpretation is from 1820 so it's both "settled law" and "an outdated ruling", depending on who you ask.</p>
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<p>someone already said but it's an emulator the way java vm or python vm are emulators. they emulate a computer architecture and environment that is uniform across different hardware types.<p>in the uxn case the different hardware types include small raspberry pis, Nintendo DS, etc. So having the baseline be really simple means knowing the code you've written for uxn will run on all these different hardware types.<p>You can also build a CPU that runs uxn code directly on hardware (I assume).<p>if you are a user then the only reason you'd run uxn on modern powerful hardware is if there is an app written for it that you wanted to use. Just like java, or python, or rust.<p>For a developer, grabbing uxn might be an aesthetic or political choice, like the language, or you want to target low power hardware use cases.</p>
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<p>my first open source experience was thinking i knew better than the mana world devs about something and just screwing things up. i dont blame them for being standoff-ish as the internet is full of teens who got up one day and said "i could build my own MMORPG. how hard could it be?"<p>i have my own reasons for avoiding open source (ask me about them!) but i hope your experiences got better</p>
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<p>The CURP paper doesn't define a new leader election algorithm and assumes you use an existing one like raft¹. Xline is using raft based on the readme<p><a href="https://github.com/xline-kv/Xline/tree/master/curp/tla%2B">https://github.com/xline-kv/Xline/tree/master/curp/tla%2B</a><p>¹warning, I skimmed and ctrl-fd for "leader election"</p>
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<p>Idk even in the face of geopolitical conflicts I don't think most people are rabid like this. Maybe in pre-WWII Europe they were, but they ended up gassing millions of people (Jews, communists, homosexuals, Romani).<p>So again, why is Canada giving this guy a standing ovation?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 09:04:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37762672</link><dc:creator>b0in</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37762672</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37762672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by b0in in "Fighting against the USSR didn’t necessarily make you a Nazi"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks! I was looking at stuff that lasted the mentioned 3 years which I couldnt track to anything, and grouped the Poland invasion as part of this pact, though it's worth mentioning separately.<p>Fwiw, Non-aggression pact means no aggression against each other but it was an coordinated invasion of Poland, so your right.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2023 21:10:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37757623</link><dc:creator>b0in</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37757623</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37757623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by b0in in "Fighting against the USSR didn’t necessarily make you a Nazi"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> In a post for the SS Galichina veterans’ blog Combatant News, Hunka wrote that 1941 to 1943 — after Germany invaded Ukraine and before Hunka enlisted — were the happiest years of his life. He also recalled eagerly awaiting “the legendary German knights” to come and attack “the hated Poles,” using a slur for Polish people, in 1939.<p>Idk dawg he doesn't sound like most people.<p>If he was a typist, why would the Canadian pairlament give him a standing ovation fighting against the Soviets? The two options sound like war criminal or stolen valor.<p><a href="https://forward.com/news/562504/yaroslav-hunka-anthony-rota-canada-ukraine-nazis/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://forward.com/news/562504/yaroslav-hunka-anthony-rota-...</a></p>
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<p>You had a chance to. The gp did too. You did not take it yet and instead asked my permission. Thank you, I guess. Go ahead, you may.</p>
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<p>> For the first 3 years of WW2 USSR was an ally of nazis.<p>This sounds inaccurate or at best an oversimplification of the complicated pre-WW2 treaties flying all over europe. I only see this idea in reference to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, but that only lasted 2 years and was a non-aggression pact, not an alliance. But maybe you are talking about a different agreement?</p>
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<p>I appreciate your followup but this ideology isn't random alignment. it's just a kinder, softer version of the dominant ideology. how do you think the 0.1% of a given "good" country gets all that money to tax? from resource and wealth extraction from the "poor" countries! Even presuming we should have a 0.1% to tax (instead of treating them like the french aristocracy, for example) is an ideological position. It's capitalism.<p>Fwiw, these were my biases too and then I think I just got jaded that you can't stay here. Ignoring the first world / western chauvinism at play, we could get there but i think even these "nice" countries are all going to backslide if, idk, we run out of computer chips, the global extraction economy fully shifts to China, or the IMF decides to punish them like they did Greece.</p>
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<p>Was life ever like this? and if so, is it a failure of that life that it devolved into... this? and if not, how would you get there? These are facetious, here is my point:<p>You're drowning in ideology while decrying ideological wars because you have decided the way things should be, outlined that this would be a shared vision of all (if only they were as clear-headed as you), that this way would never ever devolve, and provide no path for getting there and hope no one asks. it's magical realism!</p>
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<p>looking around online, yes there are robots. very very expensive looking robots like the Hadrian X and SAM100, both for stacking brick walls. but who is building full buildings with 100% brick these days*? we probably got more productivity gains when we stopped digging dirt manually.<p>My guess is that any tech like this coming out now is at the far right end of an S curve and the real gains are to be made politically and socially, though i doubt it's a regulation issue like the quote.<p>*turns out its australians.</p>
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<p>Strange, Chrome and Safari on OSX still render xml with referenced xsl stylesheets just fine (pointing to 192.168.x address). Browsers still have XSLTProcessor accessible in javascript too so I'm guessing they still have XSLT engines.<p>xsl-stylesheet with css works for me as well.</p>
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<p>I wonder if it's possible or worth applying an xsl stylesheet or transform on this? Or would it create usability issues for dedicated readers?</p>
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<p>As others mentioned this is a libertarian/crypto site so it's going to gloss over the loss of labor union influence that really sped up in the 70s (we can argue later about why this happened).<p>A correlation was graphed already, though it's comparing top 1% income share vs union membership:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_union_membership_and_inequality,_top_1%25_income_share,_1910_to_2010.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_union_membe...</a><p>This one includes graphs on the top 10% and also "middle-class" but i was only able to skim the article to make sure it didn't sound insane:<p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/who-killed-american-unions/258239/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/who-kil...</a></p>
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<p>Closer elections means they can't call it quite as early, more mail-in ballots post-COVID (these cant be counted early even if they get delivered early), almost certainly some changes to how we consume the news or how the news presents the details.</p>
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<p>was negative intention assumed here? It's not in the quote.</p>
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