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Rexxaron The Free Universal Construction Kit

There is some interoperability provision to patents and copyright in European union if I remember correctly but I don't know how broad they are and if they apply to this.

Rexxaron Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert

This one is doing the job on almost every body you know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demodex

Rexxaron France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

There is already 100000 workstations in a branch of the police with this Linux distribution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu

It's not performative.

Rexxaron Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C

I don't work regularly on it but I have a proof of concept go to c++ compiler that try to get the exact same behaviour : https://github.com/Rokhan/gocpp

At the moment, it sort of work for simple one-file project with no dependencies if you don't mind there is no garbage collector. (it try to compile recursively library imports but linking logic is not implemented)

Rexxaron France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain

It's probably just a technical accounting update. Old assets are often kept valued at their buy price and not reevaluated every year to avoid taxes (Banque de France is not exempt from taxes). As they swap a type of gold by another and do a sell/buy action, the new gold is valued to current market price while the old one was valued in accounting at an old value.

They had a deficit last year, so they can probably avoid to pay tax this year by balancing last year loss with this year profit.

Rexxaron A Claude Code skill that makes Claude talk like a caveman, cutting token use

  > Someone didn't get the memo that for LLMs, tokens are units of thinking.

Where do you get this memo ? Seems completely wrong to me. More computation does not translate to more "thinking" if you compute the wrong things (ie things that contribute significantly to the final sentence meaning).

Rexxaron Herbie: Automatically improve imprecise floating point formulas

The input should be the range and the distribution of probability on this range. Intuitively we have a tendency to assume an uniform probability for range [-1, 1] which is not the case if we check every doubles.

Rexxaron Spanish legislation as a Git repo

https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/

If you go on particular laws, you can see the previous versions and how it changed. Example: https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/section_lc/LEGITEXT0000...

Click on "version" then "comparer" buttons and you will see a diff.

Rexxaron Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust

Original zlib code: https://github.com/madler/zlib/blob/develop/contrib/puff/puf...

The code of the article: https://github.com/ieviev/mini-gzip/blob/main/src/main.rs

Top level declarations of the C code:

    #define MAXBITS 15   
    #define MAXLCODES 286
    #define MAXDCODES 30
    #define MAXCODES
    #define FIXLCODES 288

    struct state

    local int bits(struct state *s, int need)
    local int stored(struct state *s)

    struct huffman

    local int decode(...)
    local int construct(...)
    local int codes(...)

    local int fixed(...)
    local int dynamic(...)
    int puff(...)

Top level declarations of the Rust code:

    const MAXBITS: usize = 15;
    const MAXLCODES: usize = 286;
    const MAXDCODES: usize = 30;
    const FIXLCODES: usize = 288;
    const MAXDIST: usize = 32768;
    struct State<'a> 
    struct Huffman<'a>

    fn decode
    fn construct
    fn codes
    fn fixed
    fn dynamic
    fn stored
    pub fn inflate

Rexxaron Gzip decompression in 250 lines of Rust

The difference in size seems to be mainly due to the missing documentation before each function.

Rexxaron ZJIT removes redundant object loads and stores

Indeed, I see they now wait 28 days to not been displayed in green before commenting.

Rexxaron The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)

Did you have envisioned the possibility that your were the one that have missed other people joke ?

Rexxaron EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime

It was only hard because UK wanted to stop immediately to participate to budget while continuing to benefit from already agreed multi-years policies.

Rexxaron NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun

> There are many counter-examples to your examples, such as “direct” and “indirect”, “humane” and “inhumane”.

They are not counter-example. You use the other "in-" prefix that take an adjective and give the opposite adjective, not the one that create a verb from a noun.

Rexxaron NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun

It's just a parsing error. "in-" is also a prefix to create verbs from a name or another verb like inhume, inflame, induce, incite, inject, infiltrate. Inflammable is (inflame)-able and not in-(flammable)

Rexxaron NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun

He probably misuses "propeller" which is strangely restrictive to "rotative blade propulsion" in English whereas "to propel" is generic in its meaning.

Rexxaron Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens

Maybe it would made the immune system age faster if it is "used" too much.

Rexxaron Best performance of a C++ singleton

The fact that he calls the generated code good/bad without discussing the semantic differences tells that the original author doesn't really know what he is talking about. That seems problematic to me as he is selling c++ online course.

Rexxaron Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions

Doesn't seem necessarily a contradiction. Job posting growth logically happens before effective job growth.

Rexxaron US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February

I saw a lot of comments trying to guess where the job were lost in other comments and I think this give a little more context. I put the original source, there are 42 pages of data, if you want more details.

Rexxaron US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February

Here is the official source: https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/economicdata/empsit_03062026.pd...

Some of the main categories (page 8 of the pdf):

  - Construction:                          -11.0k
  - Manufacturing:                         -12.0k
  - Transportation and warehousing:        -11.3k
  - Private education and health services: -34.0k
  - Information                            -11.0k
  - Leisure and hospitality                -27.0k

It seems to go down in lots of different sectors.

Rexxaron Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension

I would say "facility" instead of "simplicity" here.

Rexxaron OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading

I don't think that two 13 and 14 years old accounts with not that many comment per week are bots.

Rexxaron Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid

Which countries do you think of when discussing industrialised countries that use slave labour?

Rexxaron Stripe valued at $159B, 2025 annual letter

The account is strange, two years old account with barely any comment for two years then a lot of comments in the last 3 days. The 3 first comments of the account capitalise the first letter, everything is lowercase in the last 3 days. He never replies to comments under his own comment. Sadly, a comment of someone who was telling it was a bot account has been flagged ...

Rexxaron Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements

Here is the "artificial intelligence" part of a French engineering diploma in 2001:

https://web.archive.org/web/20030526120130/http://www.ensta....

There are four courses:

  - Expert Systems
  - Machine Learning
  - Artificial Evolution
  - Cognition and Reasoning

Rexxaron Covering electricity price increases from our data centers

Maybe because your tone is needlessly aggressive and lot's of people don't want HN turns into Reddit/Twitter. There is enough people raging on everything on all social networks maybe we are here hopping to have more civilised discussions.

Rexxaron France's homegrown open source online office suite

Git is distributed, the repository can be hosted concurrently at many places.

Rexxaron Students using “humanizer” programs to beat accusations of cheating with AI

For example, native English speakers often make phonetic spelling errors (such as its/it’s, your/you’re) that non-native English speakers usually avoid. It’s probably a sign that someone speaks more fluently when he starts making these types of mistakes from time to time.

Rexxaron Are we all plagiarists now?

There is some LLM trained only with old content, maybe someone can describe a style invented after the more recent content and told the AI to do a novel with that style and see what the result is and compare it to the "real" style.