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ape4on Using any C++ library in Godot

A big issue. If you can't ship a library its basically useless.

ape4on Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

If I remember right, it was memory safe - something C/C++ has yet to achieve.

ape4on I don't want the details

A Senior Vice President of ENGINEERING doesn't want the technical details?

ape4on Can gzip be a language model?

There would be some overlap with business sports analogies - eg team huddle.

ape4on Can gzip be a language model?

Or maybe make a list of the most used 1000 words in each language. And see which list has the most occurrences.

ape4on Minimal Phone 2

Sending messages with BBM?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBM_(software)

ape4on Vinix – A modern operating system written in V

This seems to be the language's main page https://vlang.io/

ape4on The Relation Between Mathematics and Physics by Paul Dirac

If an article is a few years old then it could be out-of-date. But if an article is almost 100 years old then its classic.

ape4on What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

It's somewhat odd that filesystems don't have a call to tell you how many files are in a folder.

ape4on LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features

thats_the_joke.jpg

ape4on New all in one 6502 computer (Neo6502kbd)

Do you use memory to emulate memory

ape4on Nobody has built a software factory

Well there's the Factory Method Pattern https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_method_pattern

ape4on Playa Phone

I looked but I don't see how it works. How does it get power? I suppose it uses a some single board computer and VOIP.

ape4on P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names

How are the icons (for the domains) fetched so quickly?

ape4on Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

I understand unskilled humans are used to train AIs

ape4on Apple Introduces New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

How about business where you send in all your old devices and get back a SSD using using their memories

ape4on Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future

It should be possible to make money by inventing projects and services that make people's lives better.

ape4on Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming

What about tides? Would the outline of the island be different based on the time of day.

ape4on How Go detects struct copies with sync.noCopy

I agree, its a nice piece of semantics to be added to a struct

ape4on Incident with Github.com

Will our hug of death now make githubstatus.com crash

ape4on Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code?

Those things don't hallucinate. (Of course, stackoverflow can be wrong but at least its peer reviewed)

ape4on Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree

But if everyone takes GLP-1 ... its a level playing field again

ape4on Waymo in Dallas

Anyone with a credit card

ape4on FFmpeg 9.0

Naive question... would it be possible to make a language that describes multimedia formats that could then be automatically converted into code.

ape4on Critical CVE issued for hallucinated SQLite vulnerability

Create the referenced but non-existent file and then fix it /s

ape4on The true power of regular expressions (2012)

The last thing we need is huge regexs made by AI

ape4on Should you wash your solar panels?

I imagine rain will clean them. In most places it rains every so often.

ape4on Frame – Linux X server in Assembly

I wrote my own.... symphony, novel, programming language, etc

ape4on Show HN: DOM-docx – HTML to native, editable Word docs (MIT)

Just adding, since I don't see it mentioned in the readme, that its written in Typescript. That's what makes this interesting. I imagine Pandoc can do this but its not Typescript (its Haskell).

ape4on Handsum: An LQIP Image File Format

It would be nice if the low quality image also provided a headstart for the full quality image.