ape4··on A SQL Heuristic: ORs Are ExpensiveThe OR query certainly states user intent better then the rewrite. So its better at communicating with a future programmer.
ape4··on Zlib visualizerUm, sorry, I don't really get it. Is "the bee movie script? really? how original" a comment?
ape4··on SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3How about Tortoise Shell - a little joke because its so fast
ape4··on Random Mosaic – Detecting unauthorized physical access with colored rice (2021)The article anonymized a face using the compromised swirl method
ape4··on Tesla influencers tried coast-to-coast self-driving, hit debris before 60 milesAnd a self-driving car should have better sensors than a human (like lidar)
ape4··on Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot itYou can pass in different text. eg:https://unscreenshottable.vercel.app/?text=Bonjour
ape4··on Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver valueI can't quite understand - did they use brute force?
ape4··on Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on demand (2023)Use `powerprofilesctl set power-saver` to set to a low use profile
ape4··on Toronto’s network of pedestrian tunnelsSince its extensive there are multiple ways to get somewhere. So I see it as a shortest path algorithm. Some tunnels are smaller, some are larger (but sometimes congested, etc)
ape4··on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on AndroidI know Android apps are already in a pretty tight security environment. Perhaps they could put unsigned side-loaded apps in an actual container.
ape4··on RFC 9839 and Bad UnicodeSeems like libraries that serialize to JSON should have an option to filter out these bad characters.
ape4··on Project to formalise a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in the Lean theorem proverIts a "dog ate my homework" situation
ape4··on Without the futex, it's futileWaitOnAddress() allows 32 or 64 bit addresses. "[in] AddressSize The size of the value, in bytes. This parameter can be 1, 2, 4, or 8."
ape4··on The Photographic Periodic Table of the Elements (2017)"FedEx Office" https://www.office.fedex.com
ape4··on Breaking the sorting barrier for directed single-source shortest pathsSounds a lot more complicated that Dijkstra. But I guess that's the way it goes.
ape4··on Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS ModelOnce the license issues are resolved it would nice if you could install it on a distro with the normal package manager.
ape4··on How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast"How to print floating-point numbers accurately" by Steele & White https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/93548.93559
ape4··on Try the Mosquito Bucket of DeathThere are "Honey Pot" programs. "Mosquito Bucket of Death" is a name waiting to be claimed.
ape4··on “Dynamic programming” is not referring to “computer programming”Its called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoization
ape4··on Thunderbird: Fluent Windows 11 DesignMaybe I am the only one who didn't know this. It seems "fluent" doesn't refer to a fluent interface in programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent_interface but rather its a name of a Microsoft style https://fluent2.microsoft.design