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Finally, I was there and using it when the website went down and this did not resemble an actual hack but technical issues. First there were a couple of hours where the website was up but no posts went through for anyone except occasionally when a new threat was bumped, mirroring the normal pattern of downtime issues that sometimes occur and then it just went down completely. This doesn't really resemble how a hack plays out but looks more like technical issues to me.

Even now, going to the front page, it loads for me, except very slowly and incompletely. This does not resemble a hack but technical issues.

You'd be surprised how many don't even realize it's artificial, and/or welcome it. The average Google user is most certainly not similar to the average Hacker News commenter.

> For all intents and purposes, UB as we understand it today with spooky action at a distance didn’t exist.

The first official C standard was from 1989, the second real change was in 1995, and the infamous “nasal daemons” quote was from 1992. So evidently the first C standard was already interpreted that way, that compilers were really allowed to do anything in the face of undefined behavior. As far as I know

Some people on the internet keep saying that that's wrong; I find that very strange.

>because we don't pluralize any other word that way.

Certainly we do “platypodes”, “matrices”, “irides”, “clitorides” and “vortices”, are all quite common words.

Besides, in HTML one can directly link to the relevant part.

I do not much care what font the auctor finds pleasant to read, but what I find pleasant to read, and this font isn't it, and neither are the colors.

I would assume that the majority of persons on HN are not looking at their keyboard as they type.

They argued that PDF was superior because the publisher could control how it looked and it looked the same everywhere but the point is that it should not. Things such as font size and line spacing should be at the control of the consumer, not the publisher. This isn't simply blind people but for instance also persons with dyslexia who use particular fonts to make it easier to read for them. Or in my case, someone who simply gets a headache from fronts and line-spacing that is too big. I've also been using darkmode everywhere for so long now that reading black text on a white surface on a screen gives me a headache.

I remember that there was a fairly severe one which was caused by patching OpenSSL I think? But I remember the change they made being fairly weird and no one understood why but it was easy to see that it would introduce a vulnerability.

Also:

> Supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies have long been known to emit enormous amounts of energy. This causes the surrounding gas to heat up and flow far away from the center. This, in turn, makes the black hole less active and lets cool gas, in theory, flow back.

This is a very strange way to word that the immense friction in the accretion disks of black holes creates immense heat and light, is it not? As far as I know, the actual energy black holes emit in the form of hawking radiation is rather very minute and undetectably low with current censors.

This is useful to recognize various processes I suppose. I have written code that scans the environment of processes to find particular processes and group them together.

Consider for instance something as simple a implementing a shell. Such a program needs to be able to set the environment based on user interaction and this change needs to show up in /proc/$pid/env.

The way it's explained suggests these “tooth buds” they use disappear in adulthood however, so I'm not sure how that works.

Linux in particular started because a student made a task scheduler on his home computer with no real goal to make a Unixlike kernel, and it grew into it and it so happened that at the time there was a big vacuum for a free Unixlike kernel. kFreeBSD and kMinix were not yet free at that time, had they been, Linux would have no doubt stayed a hobby project.

Of course, that's all mostly because much of that was bundled with the original MSDOS.

Also, in terms of video games, a great deal of innovative techniques and games game from John D. Carmac, which of course also is a result from Id Software pushing it.

That's not that amazing at all, because the fame and weight of being the creator of the former led to the adoption of the other as it became the official version control management system on which Linux was developed. — These are not two independent results.

If someone completely unknown developed Git 0.01 in 10 days, it would probably have stayed relatively obscure, and the reason for it's quality is because it became so famous due to being tied with Linux, attracting many developers.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/25/women-h...

Apparently it's very normal. On top of that “abnormal” does not mean “unhealthy”, but then again, that's something psychologists very often don't understand either.

Having an I.Q. above 145 is certainly not “normal”, but not a cause for concern either.

My “excuse” for not having children is the same “excuse” I have for that I'm not a firefighter: I have no interest in it.

Interestingly enough, when galaxies collide, the supermassive black holes at their centres do typically merge as their gravity is strong enough to attract each other.

It's by the way not particularly unlikely for stars to pass through other solar systems. Apparently about 70 000 years ago a binary star system flew through the Oort Cloud.

I assume the entire performance of FreeBSD hasn't improved a hundredfold by this small change.

I often see this interpretation that monotheism is somehow more “advanced” than polytheism, even Age of Empires suggested so but why exactly? Because Christianity and Islām became so popular?

Type erasure at runtime simply isn't really possible with full union typing and looking at it as a consequence Ceylon has to box everything into a structure which contains a type tag which is obviously not an overhead a language such as Rust is willing to pay.