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throwaway29303··on Weird Machines in Transport Layer Security
Amazing stuff.
throwaway29303··on Is anyone else losing their motivation to nerd out and tinker because of AI?
No. Quite the opposite.
throwaway29303··on Musk's secretive backer builds $40B SpaceX stake
False. It's Vy Capital.
throwaway29303··on Sam Neill has died
Godspeed. ;~;7
throwaway29303··on NSA tries to weaken mlkem standardisation
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/XIckyKVIEgKNus-koX...
throwaway29303··on Chuck Norris has died
Godspeed. ;~;7
throwaway29303··on We "solved" C10K years ago yet we keep reinventing it (2003)

  The date (2003) is incorrect.
You're right, it's even older than that; it should be (1999).

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.kegel.com/c10k.htm...

throwaway29303··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
Sounds interesting and challenging. There's something similar, although not the build part just the modular aspect of it inspired by CPAN called CCAN: https://ccodearchive.net/. Very few people know about it, I believe, and it goes way back. I'm not involved with that project, though. Good luck!
throwaway29303··on Linux Kernel Explorer
Maybe fs/select.c or the polling machinery.
throwaway29303··on LLMs Achieve Gold Medal Performance at the IOAA
Had to shorten the title due to its size. The original is

  Large Language Models Achieve Gold Medal Performance at the International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics (IOAA)
throwaway29303··on What's New in Python 3.14
Missed opportunity to call it Pithon 3.14 just for this release. :-)
throwaway29303··on Jane Goodall has died
Godspeed.
throwaway29303··on Ask HN: What industries are being overlooked by tech?
I would say management. Think Chief $SOMETHING Officers, etc.
throwaway29303··on Ex-Google Exec Says "The Idea That AI Will Create New Jobs Is 100% Crap"
Can someone, more informed than me, about the job landscape, name these jobs people keep claiming AI is creating? Thank you in advance.
throwaway29303··on When Google plays judge and jury: account gone, zero due process

  I turned to Academic Torrents, a platform widely used by researchers to share datasets. There, I downloaded a large NSFW dataset often cited in AI research. I unzipped the file in my Google Drive to begin preprocessing. A few days later, my entire Google account was banned — without warning, without explanation, and without any clear path to appeal.
Why did you think this was a good idea?
throwaway29303··on Show HN: IRC /Whois Gallery
That's a cool project, OP.

I'd like to share other historic projects which I had a hard time searching for and they seem to be gone from most search engines (at the time I searched for them anyway):

  https://archives.darenet.org/ (not available)

  https://arsiv.behroozwolf.net/index.php (it seems to be working)
Those are software repositories for a lot of IRC related projects from clients to servers and bots, etc.

Cheers.

throwaway29303··on Ask HN: What can we as humans do to defeat the AI?

  Too much gameable measurement on the tax end, and too much unnecessary bureaucracy both to support that on the tax end and the retraining end;
I'm not sure if I agree with this because, after all, AI systems are going to be taking care of this so... What's bureaucracy for us is a couple trillion cycles on a CPU/GPU on a machine somewhere in a data center.

An agent to take care of the bureaucracy, another to retrain someone for a new job, etc.

And, yes, the long-term plan would be to fund UBI at some point; because if these systems become so capable and so efficient might as well let them do everything for us while we humans enjoy leisure time.

throwaway29303··on Ask HN: What can we as humans do to defeat the AI?
Nothing but we should most definitely progressively tax these systems based on a percentage of the difference between the least efficient model[0] and the most efficient human. (Assuming, of course, that the least efficient model is more efficient than the most efficient human.) Use those funds to retrain people who lost their jobs for the mythical jobs every manager/CEO keeps talking about.

Suppose the most efficient human produces $250k/y worth of labour and the least efficient model produces $1M/y worth of labour. So $1M - $250k = $750k. %1 of $750k = $7.5k. Now multiply that by the number of companies/people who bought these services.

Models are assumed to a) become more efficient and b) be competent on several and different types of jobs.

This would also include robots but those systems aren't yet ripe, IMO. I'd let them marinate a little further before taxing them.

Apply this tax to very large companies that produce/sell these systems.

[0] - This incentivizes companies to keep investing in more efficient and capable models/systems.

throwaway29303··on I accidentally built a vector database using video compression
Amazing.
throwaway29303··on Google’s two-year frenzy to catch up with OpenAI
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17848882
throwaway29303··on GamerGate foreshadowed the toxic hellscape that the internet has now become

  Gaming should be fun full stop
Wholeheartedly agree.

  and this idea that like games need to feature attractive women to pander to men.
This works both ways. It shouldn't pander to anything other than the people writing the game. Let creatives be creatives. After that let the free market decide what is and isn't fun to it.
throwaway29303··on Ask HN: Is Musk unusual in his interests in both tech and economics?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Education

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath

throwaway29303··on A thorough Linux clean-up script
Reminder that shred(1) doesn't work on journaled filesystems.[0][1][2]

  CAUTION: shred assumes the file system and hardware overwrite data
  in place.  Although this is common, many platforms operate
  otherwise.  Also, backups and mirrors may contain unremovable
  copies that will let a shredded file be recovered later.  See the
  GNU coreutils manual for details.
[0] - https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/shred.1.html

[1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/913282/shred-doesnt-work...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system

throwaway29303··on David Lynch has died
RIP, master. You'll be missed. ;~;7
throwaway29303··on The death of American software developer premium
No mention of LLMs?! Interesting.
throwaway29303··on Google Executive Picked to Supercharge News Efforts Has Resigned

  Google is the greatest source of traffic to publishers’ websites, because when people search for information, the results often direct them to news articles. Publishers have balked in recent years at payment offers from Google, arguing their content is worth more than Google has been willing to pay.
throwaway29303··on Can Applications Recover from fsync Failures? [pdf](2020)
https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Fsync_Errors
throwaway29303··on A mathematician's experience proving a new theorem with AI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.00315
throwaway29303··on A 29-Year-Old Just Gave the Best Explanation Why Millennials Aren't Having Kids
Education.
throwaway29303··on Ask HN: What's the most affordable and efficient DB for a newbie?
SQLite.
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