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New comment by self in "RISC-V and Floating-Point"

self — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:50:35 +0000

You buy a https://www.spacemit.com/products/keystone/k3 board. A few links:

- https://sipeed.com/k3

- https://milkv.io/jupiter2-dev-kit

More here: https://redd.it/1tcrx4o

New comment by self in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

self — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:37:50 +0000

They cost under $500/launcher: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/one-for-history-books...

$300/launcher here: https://www.un.org/depts/los/nippon/unnff_programme_home/fel...

A decade ago it wasn't terrorist groups funding them.

New comment by self in "An update on rust-coreutils for Ubuntu 26.04"

self — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:15:56 +0000

> cp, mv, and rm continue to be provided by GNU coreutils in 26.04. These utilities have remaining open TOCTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) issues (8 as of Apr 22, 2026) that need to be resolved before we are confident shipping them.

An update on rust-coreutils for Ubuntu 26.04

self — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 08:09:17 +0000

Article URL: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-rust-coreutils/80773

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873317

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Kerala, Breasts, and the Tax That Wasn't

self — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:53:02 +0000

Article URL: https://waatcoconut.substack.com/p/kerala-breasts-and-the-tax-that-wasnt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47732066

Points: 8

# Comments: 5

New comment by self in "Emacs Hugo Theme"

self — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:38:28 +0000

A Hugo theme that transforms your blog into an Emacs-like experience with buffer management, keyboard navigation, and authentic styling.

Blog post: https://blog.aheymans.xyz/post/hugo-emacs-theme/

Emacs Hugo Theme

self — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:38:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ArthurHeymans/hugo-emacs-theme

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859529

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

I got paid minimum wage to solve an impossible problem

self — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 03:15:34 +0000

Article URL: https://tiespetersen.substack.com/p/i-got-paid-minimum-wage-to-solve

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46536753

Points: 11

# Comments: 3

New comment by self in "I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon"

self — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:55:51 +0000

> Would it still be possible to participate in conversations, would people still be able to subscribe to you?

Yes. I follow several remote users who default to "unlisted" posts. (To be honest, I don't know if they're unlisted or follower-only posts -- I can't tell.)

New comment by self in "Solarpunk is happening in Africa"

self — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 11:05:29 +0000

Extending the grid to power a remote village is not the same thing as the villagers running their own microgrid.

New comment by self in "IRCd service (2024)"

self — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 09:20:27 +0000

A summary: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af4...

The RISC-V Hardware Wars: A Streetfighter's Unfiltered Take

self — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:59:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.eejournal.com/article/inside-the-risc-v-hardware-wars-a-streetfighters-unfiltered-take/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45687053

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by self in "Getting syntax highlighting wrong"

self — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:34:34 +0000

On the archive at https://archive.org/details/humanfactorstypo0000baec

New comment by self in "ProofOfThought: LLM-based reasoning using Z3 theorem proving"

self — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:41:25 +0000

Three movies with overlapping themes came out in mid-1999: The Matrix, The Thirteenth Floor, and eXistenZ (probably in that order of box office revenue).

New comment by self in "Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects"

self — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:39:03 +0000

I don't know if it uses the vector instructions.

https://gist.github.com/faried/6955a992c6d68362fd1e07a1cd575...

New comment by self in "Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects"

self — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:38:11 +0000

I bought the 32 GB emmc module for it, for the root filesystem. I have a 500 GB nvme drive for everything else. I believe an nvme-to-sata riser will work, but I don't have one to test with (plus you'd need to power the sata drive with something else).

New comment by self in "Orange Pi RV2 $40 RISC-V SBC: Friendly Gateway to IoT and AI Projects"

self — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:35:14 +0000

Spacemit's website is a pain to use, but the processor appears to work almost exactly like the K1, so:

- go to https://developer.spacemit.com/

- click on documentation

- click on Keystone

- click on K1

New comment by self in "Why Elixir? Common misconceptions"

self — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:05:44 +0000

I think their point is that Elixir lets you write

    defmodule Multiply do
      def m9(m1), do: m1 * 9
    end

    # elsewhere...
    defmodule Caller do
      def doit() do
        Multiply.m9(2)
        Multiply.m9("hi")
      end
    end

It won't raise an exception or give you a warning while compiling it (tested with 1.18.4). Even adding

    @spec m9(integer()) :: integer()

above its definition doesn't do anything.

Finding Peter Putnam: the forgotten janitor who discovered the logic of the mind

self — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 06:05:44 +0000

Article URL: https://nautil.us/finding-peter-putnam-1218035/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44374067

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by self in "Smalltalk-78 Xerox NoteTaker in-browser emulator"

self — Thu, 15 May 2025 08:30:24 +0000

You can run Smalltalk78 locally by cloning (or downloading) https://github.com/codefrau/Smalltalk78

Any web server that serves static files will do (like "python3 -m http.server").

To use the full Lively interface, start here: https://www.lively-kernel.org/development/