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New comment by sillywabbit in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

sillywabbit — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:15:51 +0000

I don't think you've seen many biology field data sets.

New comment by sillywabbit in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

sillywabbit — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:12:15 +0000

It's not even standard in academia.

New comment by sillywabbit in "Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered"

sillywabbit — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:45:02 +0000

What? Eddie and Alexei were the heroes of that story, and they got screwed.

New comment by sillywabbit in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

sillywabbit — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:51:08 +0000

Assuming that everyone you meet is conspiring against you seems to be a pre-requisite to these. The feasibility of that is questionable.

New comment by sillywabbit in "Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?"

sillywabbit — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:34:32 +0000

Back in the day, being a teenager and hanging out on freelancing forums was enough.

New comment by sillywabbit in "The Only Game Worth Playing"

sillywabbit — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:05:21 +0000

I've also heard good things about Celeste and Silksong.

The Only Game Worth Playing

sillywabbit — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:53:42 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.calvinrosser.com/p/207

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47643879

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by sillywabbit in "EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

sillywabbit — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:57:00 +0000

Using the word priors in the way you (and others) do.

Security vendor slams supplier for delayed notice after staff data exposed

sillywabbit — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:10:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/hackerone_supplier_breach/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47505914

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by sillywabbit in "Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD"

sillywabbit — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:02:50 +0000

Could you point me to your research?

New comment by sillywabbit in "Study finds no evidence cannabis helps anxiety, depression, or PTSD"

sillywabbit — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:29:10 +0000

Meth causes brain damage. Dex doesn't.

New comment by sillywabbit in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

sillywabbit — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:55:05 +0000

I used to value this sort of communication. Sometimes I still do. Some feedback I got once that seems relevant to anyone who prefers this style:

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Key takeways:

1. People are more important than code.

2. People have a right to work in an environment free of perceived hostility.

3. There is a legitimate reason for the perception and hard work may be necessary to understand why this is.

Ask yourself these questions periodically during a conversation:

1. Am I listening to the other person?

2. Is there an equal amount of give and take or is my primary objective to make someone understand my point of view?

3. Does the person want to understand what I am saying?

New comment by sillywabbit in "Visualizing Ukkonen's Suffix Tree Algorithm"

sillywabbit — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:37:08 +0000

Like the other poster said, the rabbit hole continues with suffix arrays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix_array#Space_efficiency), then compressed suffix arrays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_suffix_array).

Also explained by the creator of this: https://www.abahgat.com/project/suffix-tree/

> the human genome can be encoded as a 3GB string constructed out of an alphabet of four characters

> As of 2019, a suffix tree indexing the human genome using state of the art algorithms can easily occupy tens of gigabytes.

Veil of Ignorance

sillywabbit — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:11:29 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_position

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47345465

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by sillywabbit in "Visualizing Ukkonen's Suffix Tree Algorithm"

sillywabbit — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:40:22 +0000

In the event someone is encountering suffix trees for the first time and thinking of using one: the amount of RAM required for suffix trees is obscene.

New comment by sillywabbit in "Workers who love 'synergizing paradigms' might be bad at their jobs"

sillywabbit — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:10:26 +0000

Rushing prematurely into precipitate does sound pretty dangerous.

New comment by sillywabbit in "Elite Overproduction"

sillywabbit — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:36:44 +0000

What game-changing insights did the philosophy and political science classes leave out? I'm all ears.

New comment by sillywabbit in "Privilege is bad grammar"

sillywabbit — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:25:21 +0000

Hoodies are very comfortable.

New comment by sillywabbit in "Suicide Linux (2009)"

sillywabbit — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:06:12 +0000

Maybe you could strive to be better than that.

New comment by sillywabbit in "Suicide Linux (2009)"

sillywabbit — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:18:46 +0000

How about Rogue-like Linux?