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Woe Is Em: The Sad Lifecycle of an AI Tell

Article URL: https://stevekrause.org/blog/2026/08/woe-is-em-the-sad-lifecycle-of-an-ai-tell/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409320 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Oneiric, AI-generated, open source [video]

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAg9iDh9_BQ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409332 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Things I want in a modern relational query language

Article URL: https://sporks.space/2026/08/19/things-i-want-in-a-modern-relational-query-language/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49402491 Points: 19 # Comments: 7
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Fast and Hard Code

Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/8/22/fast-hard-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49406285 Points: 81 # Comments: 44
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Iranian hackers shut down UK power plant for 4 days

Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08/22/iranian-hackers-shut-down-uk-power-plant/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49407509 Points: 56 # Comments: 34
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Death to px, long live ch

Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/death-to-px-long-live-ch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49408889 Points: 20 # Comments: 10
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What Is a Harness?

Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/what-is-a-harness/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409092 Points: 27 # Comments: 15
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Authoritarianism of Code

Article URL: https://zedshaw.com/blog/2020-10-07-authoritarianism-of-code/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409184 Points: 5 # Comments: 3
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Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

Article URL: https://risky.biz/risky-bulletin-slovakia-finds-russian-backdoor-in-traffic-speed-cameras/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409200 Points: 21 # Comments: 2
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I divided by possession and made my football data worse

I spent an evening adjusting football statistics for how much of the ball each team had. The correction was obvious, took ten minutes, and made the result measurably worse. The mistake is not specific to football. It happens any time you normalise a count by an exposure variable — requests per user, errors per deploy, sales per visit — and it is invisible unless you measure the thing you were trying to fix. The setup I have a vector space of 1,419 footballers built from 5.3...
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Weekly Challenge: Rearranging Atoms

Weekly Challenge 387 Each week Mohammad S. Anwar sends out The Weekly Challenge , a chance for all of us to come up with solutions to two weekly tasks. My solutions are written in Python first, and then converted to Perl. Unless otherwise stated, Copilot (and other AI tools) have NOT been used to generate the solution. It's a great way for us all to practice some coding. Challenge , My solutions Task 1: Rearrange Binary String You are given a binary string string. W...
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Crowdsourcing User Contributions to Expand US Basketball Court Database in App Development

Introduction: The Quest for the Perfect Court Imagine this: you’re in a new city, the sun is out, and the only thing missing is a basketball court. You pull out your phone, open an app, and instantly find a nearby court with a smooth surface, working hoops, and maybe even a pickup game in progress. Sounds ideal, right? But here’s the catch: without a comprehensive, up-to-date database, this scenario remains a fantasy for many players. That’s where crowdsourcing comes in—a mechanism that tr...
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Building a Cloudflare Integration for Umbraco Automate

When I first started experimenting with Umbraco Automate, I wanted to find a real-world use case instead of creating an integration just for the sake of trying the API. It didn't take long to find one. On several Umbraco projects, we use Cloudflare in front of the website. When content changes, there are situations where we want to invalidate the cached version of the affected page. Traditionally, I would solve this in code: Content published ↓ Notification handler ↓ Deter...
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ASSIGNMENT WEEK 1

Understanding the Git workflow. Introduction Git is a system that is used incase one needs to track their projects or check if there was changes or need to get back to the initial project. Git is important since it simplify the work of re-writting the project over again by keeping track on the initial project through tracking the changes in the file or checking on what has changed or under certain changes. A complete work flow involves, working directory staging area...