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plantsbeanson Researchers complete first human trial on viability of enteral ventilation

https://www.cell.com/med/abstract/S2666-6340(25)00314-9

DOI: 10.1016/j.medj.2025.100887

plantsbeanson The Full Chess Cheating Report of Hans Neiman

1/20 GMs is a minority, but it means that top players play cheaters all the time.

plantsbeanson Moving the Linux Kernel to Modern C

I believe the commenter is referring to system where you take a giant “git sed” and automate a rather complicated process: 1. break up one huge diff into a set of many (hundreds or thousands) patches, where each individual patch only touches files in a particular subsystem. 2. send all those patches to the appropriate system owners and run the appropriate tests. 3. manage the actual merging of successful patches, as well as communicating to the original author any individual patches that might need more attention e.g. based on patch review feedback.

as you might imagine, it’s probably a pretty involved process to touch thousands of lines of code in a complicated system.

plantsbeanson How to Work Hard

It’s a frustrating essay, because it comes close to having a helpful message. A phrase like “being engaged” seems closer to what he tries to get across, but a lot of young people will probably mostly take from this essay that they need to hustle, which is the kind of useful advice you’ll hear from a high school guidance counselor.

plantsbeanson Dear Google: Public domain compositions exist

I don’t understand how perjury applies here.

plantsbeanson SiFive P550 Core: High-Performance RISC-V Processor

They mention “performance/area” as being dramatically better than Cortex-A75. I’m not familiar with whether area is expected to relate to power usage.

plantsbeanson The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business

Apparently the overwhelming majority of HN audience doesn't really know how the basics of what a stock exchange functionally does (including myself). I'm starting from here, "Getting to Know the Stock Exchanges"...

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/basics/04/092404.asp

Anyway, maybe a good question for someone familar with the technical details - why is there so much volume already flowing through LTSE? Is it just arbitrarily included in some standard broker software application such that it doesn't make a difference to them? Since apparently there is already nearly as much volume traded on LTSE as there is through Nasdaq.

plantsbeanson Launch HN: Got-it (YC W19) – Bluetooth labels for tracking things at work

What kind of background do you need to understand a decent amount of this tech? I basically only understand software and there seem to be many different areas advanced in this product.

Maybe the kind of answer I'm looking for is: are there any documented DIY projects that touch some of the tech used here?

plantsbeanson Learning from OpenBSD can make computers marginally less horrible

IIUC, ABI compatibility is one of the key design goals of the Fuchsia OS project.

Is that accurate?

plantsbeanson Farm bankruptcies on the rise according to new Fed report

How do you know that Americans are unusually price conscious?

plantsbeanson Librarian wins surprise judgement against Equifax in small claims court

This is not exactly related to your lawsuit, but I gather from your Twitter feed that these days, librarians are spending a lot of time helping people use computers and especially the Internet. I don't go to the library hardly ever these days, but I have heard of this phenomenon elsewhere, too.

plantsbeanson Craft Beer Is the Strangest, Happiest Economic Story in America

I think the author made the same point. The three tier system didn't help, but once there was an exception for craft brewers there was an opening, because the three tier system maybe prevented eg. chains of cheap bars run by AB.

plantsbeanson Miners Aren’t Friends

If you can keep your majority a secret, you can avoid the devaluing scenarios. The trick is to use the majority only when you need to, and to avoid detection.

plantsbeanson Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music

On the page that asked me to star specific works, it only asked a few standard ones, and didn't include works from most of the composers that I had starred on the previous page.

plantsbeanson Hush: The World's First Smart Earplugs

Love the radiation question in your FAQ. It is confusing that you say in the FAQ that you personally change the foam tips weekly, but the product only comes with 3 pairs. What happens after 3 weeks? Will it be economical to buy these en-masse, or will you effectively pay double the price after a year of paying for tips that you have to throw away? It also seems very wasteful to recommend throwing them away every week.

plantsbeanson 180,000 Child Programmers Versus 44 Ogres

Autocorrect, code completion!

plantsbeanson Insecurities in the Linux /dev/random

Using a "false entropy" model feels partially like a response to criticism of things like RdRand, for example.

plantsbeanson Vim PDF Documentation

the "c" verb is called "change"