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New comment by failingforward in "Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica"

failingforward — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:19:52 +0000

Sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers%27_paradox

New comment by failingforward in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

failingforward — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:12:34 +0000

Not necessarily. Double entry bookkeeping catches errors in cases where an amount posted to one account does not have an equally offsetting post in another account or accounts (i.e., it catches errors when the books do not balance). It would not on its own catch errors where the original posted amount is incorrect due to a mistaken assumption, or if the offset balances but is allocated incorrectly.

New comment by failingforward in "I Am Mark Zuckerberg"

failingforward — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 16:15:11 +0000

“said in an interview conducted Wednesday evening through his Ring doorbell in Huntington Station, Long Island, from his current location in Florida.”

We are truly living in the future.

Rise of the 'porno-trolls':how one porn platform made millions suing its viewers

failingforward — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:22:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2025/nov/04/strike-3-porn-copyright-lawsuits

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45823798

Points: 5

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Hacking with AI SASTs: An Overview of 'AI Security Engineers'

failingforward — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:48:50 +0000

Article URL: https://joshua.hu/llm-engineer-review-sast-security-ai-tools-pentesters

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45813787

Points: 1

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New comment by failingforward in "Facts about throwing good parties"

failingforward — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:45:11 +0000

This is, if not the best, likely the most concise history of Wikipedia I have ever read.

New comment by failingforward in "A comparison of Ada and Rust, using solutions to the Advent of Code"

failingforward — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 16:09:28 +0000

You probably know this but, for anyone else who is interested, the easiest way to get a feel for Icon nowadays may be through its descendant Unicon which is available at unicon.org.

New comment by failingforward in "I only use Google Sheets"

failingforward — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:09:49 +0000

s/programs/applications/

New comment by failingforward in "Sora 2"

failingforward — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:03:41 +0000

> That would make reading Fourth Wing or Twilight a more connecting experience than most classics.

I prefer classics myself, but this is exactly why booktok works (and why Fourth Wing blew up the way it did).

New comment by failingforward in "Is life a form of computation?"

failingforward — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:17:30 +0000

Yes, the article appears to be a short excerpt from a book and probably loses a lot of context because of that. I am interested in the questions raised by the author but will wait for the book to come out. The good news is that it appears the book will be open access - MIT Press seems to be encouraging this lately (at least by allowing this as an option for authors).

New comment by failingforward in "Easy Forth (2015)"

failingforward — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:59:25 +0000

Forth started as Chuck Moore’s solution to the problem of how to bring up an interactive programming environment on hardware with limited memory. The base of the system used a small number of primitives written in assembler or machine code upon which more complex functions were built. The genius of the system was that you could easily bring it up on different hardware by translating the primitives, which was quite helpful at a time when software was frequently customized to the hardware (which itself was not as standardized as today). Nowadays Forth is probably most useful on embedded systems.