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Null-Set··on Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours
Is the memory-unsafe descriptor just saying it wasn't written in rust? Or does it specifically do some UB stuff which happens to work out so far?
Null-Set··on Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors
The goal is to deskill the labor of these workers. If there is a threat of a replacement which can bypass the cost of creating a new skilled worker, then the workers lose their bargaining power. It doesn't matter if the threat is a bluff so long as it is believed enough to give leverage.
Null-Set··on Ending respiratory infections
> We surveyed attendees ahead of the symposium. One of our questions was: if this doesn’t happen in the next ~10 years, what will the primary reason be? The number one reason cited was lack of funding, followed by technical feasibility. Why hasn’t this field attracted sufficient funding, especially given the enormous societal burden?

Isn't a projected problem with technical feasibility an explanation for lack of funding?

Null-Set··on If AI writes your code, why use Python?
I'd argue that while Rust has a high barrier to writing code due to lifetimes and other type constraints, its still quite easy to read.

(Kind of the inverse of perl)

Null-Set··on Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
Emulating the lowest common denominator is the function of an LLM. It works better for things like code because boring code is actually the best code.
Null-Set··on The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok
You should eat your own dog food, but maybe you should not drink your own rat poison.
Null-Set··on Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning
The original reseaech around thinking fast and slow (aka system 1 system 2 thinking) failed to be replicated when researchers tried.
Null-Set··on Rust--: Rust without the borrow checker
I love how everything is an expression with a value. And match expressions are quite nice, especially with the option type. I really miss those when working in javascript.
Null-Set··on macOS dotfiles should not go in –/Library/Application Support
How would you fix the spec? Add a line explicitly stating the /Library/Application Support dir is only for applications with a bundle ID, instead of just implying it?
Null-Set··on Happy BuyNothing Day
Does it track my behavior to sell it to advertisers of less whimsical storefronts?
Null-Set··on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down
It would allow them to negotiate directly with Mastercard, making the deflection in TFA impossible.
Null-Set··on Big agriculture mislead the public about the benefits of biofuels
So fuel would basically become a corn based battery. (Ideally something more efficient than corn would be grown though)
Null-Set··on Why can't HTML alone do includes?
The name of this feature is transclusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transclusion

It was part of Project Xanadu, and originally considered to be an important feature of hypertext.

Notably, mediawiki uses transclusion extensively. It sometimes feels like the wiki is the truest form of hypertext.

Null-Set··on Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor
This looks like it was caused by this update https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/change-log/2025-04-22/ rule 100741.

It references this CVE https://github.com/tuo4n8/CVE-2023-22047 which allows the reading of system files. The example given shows them reading /etc/passwd

Null-Set··on Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor
See https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/change-log/2025-04-22/ rule 100741.

It references this CVE https://github.com/tuo4n8/CVE-2023-22047 which allows the reading of system files. The example given shows them reading /etc/passwd

Null-Set··on My failed attempt to shrink all NPM packages by 5%
No, it can't because the checksums won't match.
Null-Set··on "Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" – A 40-year book-quest
I don't believe it mentioned Twinkle Twankle but your description reminded me of the old radio play The Cinnamon Bear where some kids eventually go to the North Pole looking for their Silver Star.

https://youtu.be/0XIijKoRJ6A?si=zsXuaYNT60jtPt4f

Null-Set··on If not React, then what?
A more generous way to say this is that the code is more readable, which is in fact important in a growing codebase.
Null-Set··on We can mine asteroids for space food
Asteroids which enter a planet's atmosphere will probably yield even better food, because they will be a little meteor.
Null-Set··on Boulder's explicit traffic safety signs are the latest fakes on CO roads
I think that if you simply call someone bitch in place of a name, it has become largely but not entirely degendered, but if you call someone "a bitch" it is still pretty gendered.
Null-Set··on It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word
A CEO has a fiduciary duty to lie.
Null-Set··on As IBM pushes for automation, its AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff
A far cry from the 1979 IBM presentation.

> A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

> THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

Null-Set··on Do programmers need touch typing?
I do non-standard touch typing, just naturally learned from typing over the years. I mostly only use 3 fingers on each hand, but I'm not hunting for the keys, I know where they are. I feel like I do make more typos than a properly trained typist but I'm certainly not spending any attention on the typing.
Null-Set··on Take selfies with public traffic cameras
If anyone wanted to make something similar for California here is a map of traffic cameras there.

https://cwwp2.dot.ca.gov/vm/iframemap.htm

Null-Set··on SQLite: 35% Faster Than the Filesystem
(Very) approximately 10 times faster
Null-Set··on Nonprofit hospitals skimp on charity while CEOs reap millions, report finds
What shareholders? This article is about nonprofits.
Null-Set··on Why companies still want in-house data centres
Extending this metaphor, I would then want to own my two bedroom home, and take a vacation to the rented mansion.

Is there a well trodden way to serve most of your everyday traffic out of your own datacenter, but scale out to cloud infra when traffic peaks?

Null-Set··on Pulsifer v. United States, a case that turns on a federal law’s use of “and”
Do the congressmen who voted for this bill get called to testify on how they interpreted it when making it law?
Null-Set··on Working remotely can more than halve an office employee’s carbon footprint
No, dead people produce about 13 kg of carbon.
Null-Set··on Lodash just declared issue bankruptcy and closed every issue and open PR
There was a trend for a while for people to open trivial PRs against popular projects, I believe in an attempt to pad their resumes.
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