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pretext··on The Price of Palantir's Politics
Archive: https://archive.ph/5VVH2
pretext··on Does a token buy you more or less now than it did a few months ago?
We built a consumer price index (CPI) for AI coding output from Anthropic's Opus 4.6 model in SWE-chat, Feb 5–Apr 15, 2026.
pretext··on My two-part desk setup (2025)
What brand and model of ergonomic armchair does he use?
pretext··on Archive Page
Archive Page is a browser extension that makes it easy to preserve snapshots of web pages using Archive Today—a time capsule for the internet. With a single click, you can ensure that important pages remain accessible, even if the originals are altered or removed.
pretext··on It's Known as 'The List'–and It's a Secret File of AI Geniuses
https://archive.ph/Xp9cN
pretext··on Essential Gardens to See in Your Lifetime
Archive: https://archive.ph/LSIlt
pretext··on Ukraine's desperate draft-dodgers drown in the river of death
Archive copy: https://archive.ph/AtE1o
pretext··on The Good Soldier Švejk (2018)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
pretext··on Neovim interactive evaluation for Lisp family languages
Supports Clojure, Fennel, Janet, Racket, Hy, MIT Scheme, Guile, Common Lisp.
pretext··on Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
Opinion: very lovely and has a great potential. Feature request: toggle dark/light theme depending on system theme, just like VSCode and JetBrains IDEs.
pretext··on Gang crisis shaking Sweden
Maybe it’s time for thousands of Russian murderers, rapists, and pillagers to get out of Ukraine first?
pretext··on Janet Language
Janet is a functional and imperative programming language. It runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, BSDs, and should run on other systems with some porting. The entire language (core library, interpreter, compiler, assembler, PEG) is less than 1MB. You can also add Janet scripting to an application by embedding a single C source file and a single header.
pretext··on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers
I wonder why nobody posted it here.

LibRedirect: A browser extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok... requests to alternative privacy friendly frontends and backends.

https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect

pretext··on OnlyOffice: Free open source office suite with business productivity tools
If someone sees a smorgasbord of heinous crimes [0] and doesn't speak out against it then them are supporting it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Russian_inva...

pretext··on The Power of Prolog
Discussed here a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31641014

Anyway, wonderful site and I'm glad to see this topic recurring.

pretext··on America’s school day starts too early. That’s beginning to change
https://web.archive.org/web/20230909150606/https://www.econo...
pretext··on The Top Programming Languages 2023
Not in a position to advise anybody how to bring up their children, but I would focus on ideas, not languages. So for me Racket is evident choice in teaching how to program.
pretext··on Networking for introverts
https://web.archive.org/web/20230907143540/https://www.econo...
pretext··on As Smartphone Industry Sputters, the iPhone Expands Its Dominance
https://web.archive.org/web/20230911093739/https://www.nytim...
pretext··on Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail
The right man in the right place.
pretext··on Sci-Hub founder receives EFF award for providing access to scientific knowledge
> Is it possible to access the nexus project thru the web and just simple download from there instead?

Yes, it's possible. Their current web gate: https://standard--template--construct-org.ipns.dweb.link/

More info: https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/13cms8m/how_to_use_...

pretext··on LazyVim
Have you tried VimR — Neovim GUI for macOS? https://github.com/qvacua/vimr
pretext··on OpenCore Legacy Patcher
A Python-based project revolving around Acidanthera's OpenCorePkg and Lilu for both running and unlocking features in macOS on supported and unsupported Macs.

Our project's main goal is to breath new life to Macs no longer supported by Apple, allowing for the installation and usage of macOS Big Sur and newer on machines as old as 2007.

pretext··on Brave launches private search ads
LibreWolf is just a Firefox with telemetry removed.
pretext··on Brave launches private search ads
Genuinely interested why do people keep using Brave instead of LibreWolf or ungoogled-chromium?

EDIT: LibreWolf Browser: A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom. https://librewolf.net/

ungoogled-chromium: A lightweight approach to removing Google web service dependency https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

pretext··on A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers
A curated and opinionated list of resources for Chief Technology Officers and VP R&D, with the emphasis on startups and hyper-growth companies.
pretext··on Fake Books
It seems the aforementioned Mikkelson Twins are acting like meta-parasites: their scam is to sell the way how to scam somebody out of money.
pretext··on Questions candidates can ask about equity compensation
What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn: https://gist.github.com/yossorion/4965df74fd6da6cdc280ec57e8...

TLDR Stock Options: https://equity.ltse.com/calculators/tldr-stock-options

pretext··on Slackware 15.0
I think more precise definition is naive rather than dumb.

Added: 8-9 y.o. who installs Linux is smart, not dumb in my perception.

pretext··on Ulysses at 100: The Birth of the Modern
For those who love deep reading there is annotated hypertext Ulysses: https://www.joyceproject.com/
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