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max_··on Ask HN: In which programming language is it better to make your own language?
If really depends on what you want the language todo and gow much time you want to spend on it.

A smart contract language (for Blockchains)

- Rust

A desktop executable with browser support

- Nim

A cross platform language (iOS, Android, Linix, Mac, Windows)

- Dart

Talk to GPUs

- C++ or C on top of Tensorflow

A toy language for learning compilers/interpreters

- Python

max_··on The Bluesky Dictionary
This website is so pretty!
max_··on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year
"More than half of Helsinki’s streets now have speed limits of 30 km/h."

This is the only secret.

People over speeding is what kills.

max_··on The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025
Promoting awareness of an upcoming scam is good.

It keeps us aware of how stupid the powers that be are.

max_··on Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork
VSCodium I think was abandoned. It was extremely buggy last time I used it.

Either way it uses electron. Which I hate so much.

max_··on Performance and telemetry analysis of Trae IDE, ByteDance's VSCode fork
Why isn't there a decently done code editor with VSCode level features but none of the spyware garbage?

Any recommendations?

This seems like an easy win for a software project

max_··on You can now disable all AI features in Zed
What an amazing selling point!

It requires lots of independent thinking (which I value) from founders to refrain from something everyone else is hitting the gas pedal on.

max_··on Most people who buy games on Steam never play them
Most books I get, I don't read
max_··on Ask HN: What do you do with your list of articles links?
Is there something like archive.is but for YouTube Videos?
max_··on Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"
Grok's mission is to seek on truths in concordance to Elon Musk
max_··on Xenharmlib: A music theory library that supports non-western harmonic systems
Thank you so much. This is brilliant.
max_··on Xenharmlib: A music theory library that supports non-western harmonic systems
Is there a good resource to learn basic music theory?

Like learn what the meaning of A B C and other letters mean?

And how the come together to make actual music?

max_··on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
Is this the real Jack Dorsey? I see he even has commit/push access to repos at Block
max_··on Are we the baddies?
The bitter truth is that Nirvana doesn't exist.

There is no perfect system. But we can choose the least detrimental.

max_··on Sleeping beauty Bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2B
Ross Ulbricht?
max_··on Gene therapy restored hearing in deaf patients
I see alot of advances powered by genetics now days.

Is there a specific field in genetics pushing this?

I used to hear buzz about CRISPER/CAS9 is it what is underlying most of these advancements?

How come alot of gene editing stocks have taken a serious beating if the tech is so good.

Many, many gene editing stocks have lost more than 90% of thier value since IPO.

max_··on The Chan-Zuckerbergs stopped funding social causes
"The East Palo Alto project was the billionaire couple’s second major intervention in a city’s education system, after a controversial 2011 gift of $100 million to the Newark public schools. Some experts and community members claimed that the money was largely squandered"
max_··on Ask HN: Why doesn't HN have notifications for replies?
Try using hnreplies.com
max_··on Jane Street Boss Says He Was Duped into Funding AK-47s for Coup
"I was lied to" — Jane Street Boss.

This sounds very suspicious.

So Jane Street, a large commodity derivatives trader has no interest in an oil rich South Sudan?

They just wanted to finance the "human rights"

max_··on US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels
- [Palantir] A surveillance company used by by spy agencies

- [Meta] A social media company that has all your personal conversations & pictures, video, audio

- [Open AI] Something many people at work & school are uploading sensitive data to

- All run by acolytes of Peter Thiel

- Current president & vp are bankrolled Peter Thiel

- Top executives formally recruited into US Army.

USA is sleep walking into something very nasty. I still don't know what it is.

But please when it unravels. Let us not pretend we never saw it coming.

I am very worried about this. Something is being set up.

max_··on Mathematical Illustrations: A Manual of Geometry and PostScript
Is there a single giant PDF for this?
max_··on Random Walk: A Modern Introduction (2010) [pdf]
Hackers don't also work on real world problems.

They are in physics labs, hedgefunds, university departments, hospitals.

PG for example describe Richard Feynman as a hacker.

The view that a hacker is someone who's interest is restricted to computers and startups is very narrow IMHO

max_··on Builder.ai did not "fake AI with 700 engineers"
From the article — "This is why I want to share the truth about Builder.ai’s tech stack: that there was no conspiracy to deceive users into interacting with 700 devs in the mistaken belief they were working with a cutting-edge AI. The devs did solid work, and the company’s demise was totally unrelated to their efforts"

Either way, it is a sobering take on the AI hype.

Devs are still very much needed.

max_··on A Primer on Molecular Dynamics
How do I get in touch?

My email OTOH is in my bio.

max_··on A Primer on Molecular Dynamics
Hi,

Do you have any resources that you recommend on coarse graining?

I am really interested in the topic.

max_··on A Primer on Molecular Dynamics
There is brilliant video by the hedge fund manager DE Shaw about molecular dynamics simulation.

Its very accessible and I found it very interesting — https://youtu.be/PGqCeSjNuTY?feature=shared

max_··on Why Bell Labs Worked
A more appropriate question.

Why did Bell Labs die?

Why don't they pump out as much innovation today as they did in the past?

max_··on "AI Will Replace All the Jobs " Is Just Tech Execs Doing Marketing
It has no mind.

Also from IBM,

"A computer should never be put incharge because a computer can never be held accountable"

max_··on RFK Jr's 'Maha' report found to contain citations to nonexistent studies
I think LLMs are a net negative.

I am part of Value Investors Club.

And Stock analysis submissions have been halted as too many people were simply submitting AI generated slop [0]

[0]: valueinvestorsclub.com/ideas

max_··on FlowTSE: Target Speaker Extraction with Flow Matching
This is brilliant.

It can allow calls be be made clear when people talking in noisy places.

Assuming this can be made to work in real time.

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