<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: throwaway29303</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=throwaway29303</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:26:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=throwaway29303" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throwaway29303 in "Chuck Norris has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Godspeed. ;~;7</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:40:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455237</link><dc:creator>throwaway29303</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455237</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throwaway29303 in "We "solved" C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it (2003)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><p><pre><code>  The date (2003) is incorrect.
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You're right, it's even older than that; it should be (1999).<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.kegel.com/c10k.html" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.kegel.com/c10k.htm...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:47:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46415304</link><dc:creator>throwaway29303</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46415304</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46415304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throwaway29303 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds interesting and challenging. There's something similar, although not the build part just the modular aspect of it inspired by CPAN called CCAN: <a href="https://ccodearchive.net/" rel="nofollow">https://ccodearchive.net/</a>. Very few people know about it, I believe, and it goes way back. I'm not involved with that project, though. Good luck!</p>
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<p>Maybe <i>fs/select.c</i> or the polling machinery.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://twitter.com/andrew_michels/status/1992330739615182998">https://twitter.com/andrew_michels/status/1992330739615182998</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46039355">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46039355</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:09:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://twitter.com/andrew_michels/status/1992330739615182998</link><dc:creator>throwaway29303</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46039355</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46039355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throwaway29303 in "LLMs Achieve Gold Medal Performance at the IOAA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Had to shorten the title due to its size. The original is<p><pre><code>  Large Language Models Achieve Gold Medal Performance at the International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics (IOAA)</code></pre></p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05016">https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05016</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618383">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618383</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:11:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05016</link><dc:creator>throwaway29303</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618383</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45618383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throwaway29303 in "What's New in Python 3.14"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Missed opportunity to call it Pithon 3.14 just for this release. :-)</p>
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<p>Godspeed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:53:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45441710</link><dc:creator>throwaway29303</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45441710</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45441710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by throwaway29303 in "Ask HN: What industries are being overlooked by tech?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would say management. Think Chief $SOMETHING Officers, etc.</p>
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<p>Can someone, more informed than me, about the job landscape, name these jobs people keep claiming AI is creating? Thank you in advance.</p>
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<p><p><pre><code>  I turned to Academic Torrents, a platform widely used by researchers to share datasets. There, I downloaded a large NSFW dataset often cited in AI research. I unzipped the file in my Google Drive to begin preprocessing. A few days later, my entire Google account was banned — without warning, without explanation, and without any clear path to appeal.
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Why did you think this was a good idea?</p>
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<p>That's a cool project, OP.<p>I'd like to share other historic projects which I had a hard time searching for and they seem to be gone from most search engines (at the time I searched for them anyway):<p><pre><code>  https://archives.darenet.org/ (not available)

  https://arsiv.behroozwolf.net/index.php (it seems to be working)
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Those are software repositories for a lot of IRC related projects from clients to servers and bots, etc.<p>Cheers.</p>
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<p><p><pre><code>  Too much gameable measurement on the tax end, and too much unnecessary bureaucracy both to support that on the tax end and the retraining end;
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I'm not sure if I agree with this because, after all, AI systems are going to be taking care of this so... What's bureaucracy for us is a couple trillion cycles on a CPU/GPU on a machine somewhere in a data center.<p>An agent to take care of the bureaucracy, another to retrain someone for a new job, etc.<p>And, yes, the long-term plan would be to fund UBI at some point; because if these systems become so capable and so efficient might as well let them do everything for us while we humans enjoy leisure time.</p>
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<p>Nothing but we should most definitely progressively tax these systems based on a percentage of the difference between the <i>least efficient model</i>[0] and the <i>most efficient human</i>. (Assuming, of course, that the least efficient model is more efficient than the most efficient human.) Use those funds to retrain people who lost their jobs for the mythical jobs every manager/CEO keeps talking about.<p>Suppose the <i>most efficient human</i> produces $250k/y worth of labour and the <i>least efficient model</i> produces $1M/y worth of labour. So $1M - $250k = $750k. %1 of $750k = $7.5k. Now multiply that by the number of companies/people who bought these services.<p>Models are assumed to a) become more efficient and b) be competent on several and different types of jobs.<p>This would also include robots but those systems aren't yet ripe, IMO. I'd let them marinate a little further before taxing them.<p>Apply this tax to very large companies that produce/sell these systems.<p>[0] - This incentivizes companies to keep investing in more efficient and capable models/systems.</p>
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<p>Amazing.</p>
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<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17848882">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17848882</a></p>
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<p><p><pre><code>  Gaming should be fun full stop
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Wholeheartedly agree.<p><pre><code>  and this idea that like games need to feature attractive women to pander to men.
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This works both ways. It shouldn't pander to anything other than the people writing the game. Let creatives be creatives. After that let the free market decide what is and isn't fun to it.</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Education" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Education</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath</a></p>
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<p>Reminder that shred(1) doesn't work on journaled filesystems.[0][1][2]<p><pre><code>  CAUTION: shred assumes the file system and hardware overwrite data
  in place.  Although this is common, many platforms operate
  otherwise.  Also, backups and mirrors may contain unremovable
  copies that will let a shredded file be recovered later.  See the
  GNU coreutils manual for details.
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[0] - <a href="https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/shred.1.html" rel="nofollow">https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/shred.1.html</a><p>[1] - <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/913282/shred-doesnt-work-on-journaled-fs" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/913282/shred-doesnt-work...</a><p>[2] - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system</a></p>
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