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felineflockon America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out

And a cyberattack would justify another war and extra powers of emergency. Perfect!

felineflockon America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out

No, it is more like Reps 75% and Dems 90%, ±5%.

felineflockon Victorian Engineering Connections Diagram from the Brunel Museum

Diagram is in the first link on the page: http://victorianengineeringconnections.net/

felineflockon Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL

Some of those look like thongs.

felineflockon Show HN: I saw this cool navigation reveal, so I made a simple HTML+CSS version

Good job! Looks amazing! It is a great way to call attention to content.

felineflockon Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle

A modern version of the old dongle seems to be the FIDO key (commonly known by the brand Yubikey), although it is for a different purpose than copy protection: anti-phishing/MFA authentication.

Has that been defeated yet?

felineflockon Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle

I did something similar decades ago: ran on debug with and without the dongle, then compared the execution path to identify where exactly it deviated. Then replaced the "jump" with "nop" to prevent it from branching out when the dongle was absent. This was with an early version of Visual C++ and I knew only a little 8086 Assembly.

felineflockon A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

xcancel? What is the purpose or benefit of providing a free mirror to x? Doesn't it end up sparing the x servers and causing their costs to decrease?

felineflockon List of individual trees

I clicked expecting some catalog of data structures but it was a pleasant surprise.

felineflockon Apple Creator Studio

That Synth Player and Chord ID seem to be killer features on Logic Pro. Are they recent additions? Do they work well?

felineflockon US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes

LOL, you live in California? The past affordability you are talking about was not universal. There were plenty of people happily buying homes after moving out of CA to other states.

Anyhow, interest rates are the root cause now. Who in their right mind would do the trade I've described?

felineflockon Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card

It may seem irrelevant for some, but I wonder: will they still offer the laser-etched titanium card instead of plastic?

felineflockon ChatGPT Health

"Medical attention is all you need."

felineflockon US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes

The root cause for the low affordability seems to be that most people don't want to sell a house purchased at 3% interest and have to pay for a new one at 6%. That and zoning restrictions too contribute for the lack of supply.

felineflockon Show HN: Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait

Reads very much like the Drudge Report, just needs the same diagramming style.

felineflockon Cat Gap

The cat gap is due to the long time it took for the mutant descendants of Noah's cats to get to America.

felineflockon An SVG is all you need

"SVG Considered Harmful"

https://www.cloudflare.com/cloudforce-one/research/svgs-the-...

felineflockon Making a Small RPG

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

or

https://www.military.com/defensetech/2015/10/12/raytheon-dis...

felineflockon Étude in C minor (2020)

Bytebeat is kinda cool:

https://dollchan.net/bytebeat/#4AAAA+kUli10OgjAQhK/Ci3R3XXTb...

felineflockon Less Is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks

A model 10,000x smaller is smarter than DeepSeek-R1, o3-mini and Gemini 2.5 Pro

felineflockon Markov chains are the original language models

Have you tried to sequence the 2D bitmap in a Hilbert space-filling curve before applying the Markov chain?

felineflockon New study shows plants and animals emit a visible light that expires at death

I couldn't get to the PDF.

Here are articles commenting some of the content:

https://nrc.canada.ca/en/stories/worlds-first-ultraweak-phot...

https://www.sciencealert.com/we-emit-a-visible-light-that-va...

https://phys.org/news/2025-05-emit-faint-extinguishes-death....

felineflockon EA as Antichrist: Understanding Peter Thiel

Hey, would someone either downvote or upvote this comment? I am currently sitting at 666 karma and don't want that to persist, even less so in a post about the Antichrist!

felineflockon EA as Antichrist: Understanding Peter Thiel

Silicon Valley apparently does.

felineflockon Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

A.K.A., the Great Offshoring Incentive Act.

felineflockon Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

Please share the articles you have about the matter.

felineflockon The sordid reality of retirement villages: Residents are being milked for profit

https://archive.ph/YcLmj

felineflockon DOOMscrolling: The Game

Am I the only one who finds in bad taste to use "Epstein victims demand release ..." in the game? Is rape and pedophilia already normalized and I didn't notice?

felineflockon Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"

Your assumptions are incorrect: felony prosecution is not outside local control, and police politics are irrelevant.

How many times a PD arrests a criminal then a judge later releases? That criminal with 30-year history would never be free if judged in a rural county instead of urban NYC or Charlotte.

The real drivers are prosecutorial policies driven by political priorities.

And we all know that who sides with criminals most of the time are the Democrats.

felineflockon Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone"

You seem to be living in a distant parallel world.

Here is how it looks like on the actual world: urban centers are dominated by Democrats in almost every state. The leniency regarding criminals comes from Democrats, specially regarding violent criminals.

Memphis' Paul Young is affiliated with the Democratic Party https://bestneighborhood.org/conservative-vs-liberal-map-mem...

https://ballotpedia.org/Party_affiliation_of_the_mayors_of_t...