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ape4··on Landlock-Ing Linux
Pretty big loophole!
ape4··on Flight disruption warning as Airbus requests modifications to 6k planes
And inertial guidance too?
ape4··on A Fast 64-Bit Date Algorithm (30–40% faster by counting dates backwards)
Perhaps nicer to avoid the comment and write:

    const C1 = 505054698555331      // floor(2^64*4/146097)
as

    constexpr int C1 = floor(2^64*4/146097);
ape4··on New OS aims to provide (some) compatibility with macOS
How about the immutable OSes like Fedora Silverblue
ape4··on Myna: monospace typeface designed for symbol-rich programming
Might be nice if the ligature of != was ≠
ape4··on You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say
echo face | lpr
ape4··on John Carmack on mutable variables
In a real application meaningful names are nearly always possible, eg:

    const pi = 3.1415926
    const 2pi = 2 * pi
    const circumference = 2pi * radius
ape4··on Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?
As long as the uninstaller can find it
ape4··on John Carmack on mutable variables
I would be nicer if you gave x1 and x2 meaningful names
ape4··on Tell HN: Azure outage
Perhaps they could set the time to when it really started after executive approval.
ape4··on Language models are injective and hence invertible
Or maybe paste the essay into the question and ask what prompt was used to produce it.
ape4··on Tell HN: Azure outage
2026: the year of your own metal in a rack
ape4··on SpiderMonkey Garbage Collector
Sounds very impressive. That "precise" feature is new to me.
ape4··on Keep Android Open
Perhaps Android could run sideloaded apps in a container. I know Android apps are already somewhat contained by userid.
ape4··on JetKVM – Control any computer remotely
I couldn't see if it could "press" the reset button.
ape4··on Rust cross-platform GPUI components
A link to toolkit (GPUI) since I don't see it mentioned... https://www.gpui.rs/
ape4··on Microsoft Teams will start tracking office attendance
Most likely the article is glossing over details. It probably works by the network your connected to (wired or wifi).
ape4··on Disable AI in Firefox
Yeah, just searching for "AI" in settings find some choices. eg "Use AI to suggest tabs and a name for tab groups" And far more false positives - eg dAIly
ape4··on Traffic Light Protocol
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_Light_Protocol

Its NOT about controlling traffic lights. Some are networked ("synchronized") so it might be interesting to read about how that's done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_light_control_and_coor...

ape4··on Compiler for "Easy" language from "Etudes for Programmers" book (1978)
The "FI" for "endif" is like bash.

The semicolons are like C.

The "PROGRAM" section is like COBOL.

ape4··on Building a message queue with only two UNIX signals
I hope this is a joke / hack.

A named pipe (like Postfix sendmail uses) seems slightly more sane.

ape4··on Could the XZ backdoor been detected with better Git/Deb packaging practices?
Wouldn't the next malware use a different way to embed itself
ape4··on The early Unix history of chown() being restricted to root
It was one of those restrictions that seemed unjustified to me but I figured someone smarter than I had seen a reason.
ape4··on Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network
Time to re-designed our artificial neural networks
ape4··on David Byrne Radio
I can't see any info about the current song in the popup player. Am I doing something wrong.
ape4··on Garbage collection for Rust: The finalizer frontier
If only there was a C++-like language with garbage collection (Java, C#, etc)
ape4··on Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture
Next article - why we switched from our own servers to serverless for reliability. A small performance hit was worth it.
ape4··on Show HN: CSS Extras
Obvious question: are CSS functions Turing complete?
ape4··on Where it's at://
So the atmosphere is in the cloud
ape4··on Webbol: A minimal static web server written in COBOL
Some things are COBOL aren't too bad - eg:

    MOVE SPACES TO REQUEST-BUFFER
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