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codeulike··on Scream cipher
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codeulike··on This map is not upside down
It kindof is upside down though, isn't it? In the sense that its the opposite way round to that which we are accustomed to.
codeulike··on How to self-host a web font from Google Fonts
They had something on the front page the other week about how SQL views can show you whats in your database
codeulike··on How older parents divorce affects their adult children
Not sure if it was that paper, but there was a similar paper showing this phenomenon which later turned out to contain an error:

https://retractionwatch.com/2015/07/21/to-our-horror-widely-...

People who left the study were actually miscoded as getting divorced.

After the adjustment the correlation was less but was still there.

codeulike··on Full Moon: Seestar S50 vs. Samsung S25
Its likely the S25 did well because it knows what the moon looks like so it fakes the details.

Since the Galaxy S21 series, Scene Optimiser has had the capacity to recognise the moon as an object. This means that the detail enhancement engine, a key feature of Scene Optimiser, is applied to photos of the moon.

When you take a photo of the moon with your Galaxy device, the camera system uses deep learning-based AI, along with multi-frame processing, to enhance details.

https://www.samsung.com/uk/support/mobile-devices/how-galaxy...

The OP has not said anything about turning the relevant options off.

codeulike··on Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver
Why haven't we collectively emphasized the creation of new tools to reduce boilerplate and grunt work?

You dont understand how things evolve.

There have been plenty of platforms that got rid of boilerplate - e.g. ruby on rails about 20 years ago

But once they become the mainstream, people can get a competitive edge by re-adding loads of complexity and boilerplate again. E.g. complex front end frameworks like react.

If you want your startup to look good you've got to use the latest trendy front end thingummy

Also to be fair, its not just fashion. Features that would have been advanced 20 years ago become taken for granted as time goes on, hence we are always working at the current limit of complexity (and thats why we're always overrun with bugs and always coming up with new platforms to solve all the problems and get rid of all thr boilerplate so that we can invent new boilerplate)

codeulike··on Hungry Hungry Hippos Autoplay (2017)
The video where he controls the hippos via Alexa (1 million views) is a masterclass in patience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB0nCFxV3PQ

Try asking "tell me a hippo fact" to learn more about them

codeulike··on Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up
Its really interesting to bring graphs of 'new ios releases per month' or 'total domain name registrations' into the argument - thats a good way of keeping the argument tied to the real world
codeulike··on Delete tests
But before you delete the test, write a test that tests whether the test is deleted, and make sure that test is failing as expected. Then delete the test. Then run the other test that makes sure the test is deleted and it should now pass /s
codeulike··on A Ritzy L.A. Enclave Learned a Bitter Lesson About the Limits of Its Wealth
paywalled. tldr: A posh bit of LA called Calabasas, home to "Will Smith, John Travolta, Justin Bieber, Kevin Hart, Jessica Simpson, Jake Paul, Katie Holmes, Kanye West and a bunch of Kardashians" happens to have a Landfill site in it, which most of the posh people had not noticed was there. The LA fires of 2025 generated 2.6 million tons of waste - more than the entire city of Philadelphia produces in a year. That waste was _potentially_ classifiable as toxic but the official site for toxic waste was too far away for such a large amount so someone decided to send it to local landfills including Calabasas. There was legal basis for local landfills to accept fire waste. Then there's lots of details about how posh people tried to stop it from happening but it happened away. "That, for many residents, was the most haunting revelation of all. The 2025 fires had augured a future in which even a Calabasan could suffer sudden and catastrophic environmental injustice."
codeulike··on The Therac-25 Incident (2021)
It was a distributed system lashed together by 'consultants' (read: recent graduates with little real world software engineering experience) in an era where best practices around distributed systems were non-existent. They weren't even thinking about what kind of data inconsistencies they might end up with.
codeulike··on People stuck using ancient Windows computers
Read the article. Its mostly to do with inertia in large organisations or multiple failed projects to replace old systems

For the people who use this old technology, life can get tedious. For four years, psychiatrist Eric Zabriskie would show up to his job at the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and start the day waiting for a computer to boot up. "I had to get to the clinic early because sometimes it would take 15 minutes just to log into the computer," Zabriskie says. "Once you're in you try to never log out. I'd hold on for dear life. It was excruciatingly slow."

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Most VA medical facilities manage health records using a suite of tools launched by the US government in 1997 called the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS). But it works on top of an even older system called VistA – not to be confused with the Windows Vista operating system – which first debuted in 1985 and was originally built on the operating system MS-DOS.

The VA is now on its fourth attempt to overhaul this system after a series of fits and starts that dates back almost 25 years. The current plan is to replace it with a health record system used by the US Department of Defense by 2031. "VA remains steadfast in its commitment to implementing a modernised, interoperable Federal [electronic health record] system to improve health care delivery and positively impact patient care," says VA press secretary Pete Kasperowicz. He says the system is already live at six VA sites and will be deployed at 19 out of 170 facilities by 2026.

codeulike··on You Should Add Debug Views to Your DB
I use sql, views, sps and sql functions a lot but wouldnt touch database triggers with a bargepole I totally agree there
codeulike··on You Should Add Debug Views to Your DB
I'm trying to work out why 'views can help you see whats going on in your database' has got to the front page of HN. Is it that we've had a whole generation grow up with ORMs and so only people over 50 know how to actually use a RDBMS?
codeulike··on You Should Add Debug Views to Your DB
now we're talking
codeulike··on Open office is giving you secondhand ADHD
Then the post title should use the plural
codeulike··on Open office is giving you secondhand ADHD
Thats why I use LibreOffice instead
codeulike··on The Timmy Trap
Well I, for one, can't beleive what that guy did to poor Timmy
codeulike··on Claude Code is all you need
Some companies are pretty careful and each cloud has to have the right certifications and there will be an internal data protection policy about what sorts of things are allowed to be uploaded there. Something like Claude Code which arbitrarily yeets local files to some cloud somewhere is a liability in that environment ... unless they have a very good privacy policy. hence my question.
codeulike··on Claude Code is all you need
How does privacy work with Claude Code in the real world? Its arbitrarily sending files from current folder/subfolders to anthropics cloud, right? Does Claude have a good privacy policy? E.g. do they promise not to retain what gets sent?

Because I think 'sending everything to the ai' would be a bit of an obstacle for most company environments

codeulike··on Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers
They could scribble each customers name on the printouts with a sharpie

"Got a flat black and white parking ticket appeal form for Kim"

codeulike··on GPT-5
I feel sorry for audiophiles because they have to work so much harder to get the same enjoyment of music that I get via my laptop speakers
codeulike··on Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition
Link to Canva presentation for the winning entry

https://www.canva.com/design/DAGmr3ubC8E/LHHAeeAIGGQe_TkZVs-...

codeulike··on Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping (2017)
Previously posted in 2017

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15534622

codeulike··on It's rude to show AI output to people
Brilliant analogy with the Scramblers of Blindsight
codeulike··on Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines
haha sorry it just seemed such a plausible hn comment
codeulike··on Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines
I work with charities and non-profits, they tend to use Microsoft stack and things like Salesforce due to the large charity discounts and readily available support. I get to work with nice people doing meaningful things.
codeulike··on Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines
Which web app or startup uses them?

Well with that question you neatly define the bubble that you inhabit.

https://db-engines.com/en/ranking ranks Oracle at number 1 and MS Sql Server at number 3, their method being a broad range of statistics based on job offers and web search statistics.

codeulike··on Analyzing database trends through 1.8M Hacker News headlines
MS Sql Server not even mentioned. This tells us there is a whole world almost totally omitted from discussion on HN: "Enterprise"
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