Hacker News: rsecora

The Deadly Civil War That Tore Apart a Group of Chimpanzees in Uganda

rsecora — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:04:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/ngogo-uganda-chimpanzee-civil-war-99f04332

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720964

Points: 4

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Programming Without People: Designing a Language for LLMs

rsecora — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:50:23 +0000

Article URL: https://dshills.medium.com/programming-without-people-designing-a-language-for-llms-2192618d2540

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166062

Points: 1

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The Myth of the Chad

rsecora — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:48:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/the-myth-of-the-chad-b7626d85

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154972

Points: 2

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Rust Foundation tries to stop maintainers corroding

rsecora — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:48:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/05/rust_foundation_announces_maintainers_fund/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46046943

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rsecora in "Pyscripter – Open-source Python IDE written in Delphi"

rsecora — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 21:55:03 +0000

And with LLM Support: OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok and local LLM models using Ollama.

An embarrassing failure of the US patent system: Nintendo's latest patents

rsecora — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:11:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/an-embarrassing-failure-of-the-us-patent-system-videogame-ip-lawyer-says-nintendos-latest-patents-on-pokemon-mechanics-should-not-have-happened-full-stop/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45224901

Points: 118

# Comments: 56

New comment by rsecora in "A Software Development Methodology for Disciplined LLM Collaboration"

rsecora — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 19:24:09 +0000

Back in the day, when business computing emerged (COBOL, Mainframes...), it appear the distinction between systems analysts and programmers. Analyst understand business needs, programmers implemented those specs in code.

Years later, the industry evolved to integrate both roles, and new methodologies and new roles appear.

Now humans write specs, and AI agents write code. Role separation is a principle of labor division since Plato.

New comment by rsecora in "Giving people money helped less than I thought it would"

rsecora — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:55:35 +0000

Results for Group A (1000$/m) closely resemble results for control Group C(50$/m). Metrics like % of Unsheltered participants, change in full-time employment, % of participans in a house they rent or own... have a diference of 1 or 2 points.

Thats the point of the author, those are minimal variances, and insuficient to claim inpact due to basic income.

Personal opinion. The study itself exert a nontrivial influence on participants. The act of being engaged, regular check-ins... affect positively. Their lives improve independent of the financial component because they are part of the study, not because of the amount of money in the procedure.

New comment by rsecora in "Classic Common Desktop Environment coming to OpenBSD"

rsecora — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 06:13:53 +0000

I was surprised when the 64bit fork appears in github.

The OpenLook 64bit fork is available at [1], it has 64bit & X11R7 patches. It has a miriad of changes related to ids sizes, %ul, function casts, and a migration from X11R4 to X11R7.

Sadly, if a legacy applications is old enough to be linked to OpenLook, it surelly require adaptation. They need their own migration to transition to 64 bits and X11R7. This openlook fork is the start of the journey to resurect them.

[1] https://github.com/ggodd/xview-64bit

How to Use T-SNE Effectively

rsecora — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 10:29:02 +0000

Article URL: https://distill.pub/2016/misread-tsne/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44453545

Points: 1

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Fire Breaks Out at a Data Center Leased by Elon Musk's X

rsecora — Sat, 24 May 2025 14:28:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-x-datacenter-fire/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44081354

Points: 6

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I was wrong about AI Coding

rsecora — Tue, 13 May 2025 11:53:39 +0000

Article URL: https://arslan.io/2025/03/26/i-was-wrong-about-ai-coding/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43971875

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

They All Use It

rsecora — Mon, 12 May 2025 19:03:34 +0000

Article URL: https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/they-all-use-it

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43966455

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rsecora in "Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io"

rsecora — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 08:01:20 +0000

I usually go with the FOSS https://pgmodeler.io

Its feature-rich, albeit focused on Postgres. And it's ability to compare database schemas makes updating and applying diffs much easier.

New comment by rsecora in "Winners of the $10k ISBN visualization bounty"

rsecora — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:31:40 +0000

The dataset consists of books from the Anna Archive, each identified by an ISBN. The ISBNs and titles are extracted from datasets [1], which include magazines and books primarily in Chinese, English, and French.

Example: Germany publishes five times more books than the Netherlands [2], and Spain publishes twice as many books as the Netherlands. However, in visualizations, Germany appears similar to the Netherlands, while Spain and Mexico do not aligned with the high-level labels [3].

[1] https://annas-archive.li/datasets

[2] https://internationalpublishers.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/...

[3] https://software.annas-archive.li/AnnaArchivist/annas-archiv...

Palantir CEO's new book says Silicon Valley has 'lost its way'

rsecora — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:47:13 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/23/palantir-ceos-new-book-says-silicon-valley-has-lost-its-way/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43171796

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

A look at the performance of expression templates in C++: Eigen, Blaze, Fastor

rsecora — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 12:04:26 +0000

Article URL: https://romanpoya.medium.com/a-look-at-the-performance-of-expression-templates-in-c-eigen-vs-blaze-vs-fastor-vs-armadillo-vs-2474ed38d982

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43035061

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Becoming a Video Engineer

rsecora — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 13:36:40 +0000

Article URL: https://drud.is/today-i-learned/2025-01-24-becoming-a-video-engineer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42908555

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rsecora in "Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space"

rsecora — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 11:59:35 +0000

Impressive presentation.

Note: The presentation reflects the contents of Anna's archive exclusively, rather than the entire ISBN catalog. There is a discernible bias towards a limited range of languages, due to Anna's collection bias to those languages. The sections marked in black represent the missing entries in the archive.

Cheap rj45 ethernet to USB adapter contains malware

rsecora — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 02:41:24 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/evapro30/status/1878416900016705783

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42679498

Points: 32

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