#ycombinator

#lambda #calculus #lambdacalculus #symmetry #ycombinator #omega #simple #simplicity #computing #computerscience

NB being fascinated by the symmetry of the Y combinator may be purely due to our bias for symmetry.

At the cost of breaking it, we can simplify it, going from:

\f.(\x.f(xx))(\x.f(xx))

to:

\f.(\x.xx)(\x.f(xx))

Personally, I like the simpler version better.

It is more apparent in this simpler formulation that what does the replication is the omega term (aka Δ or U):

\x.xx

Blender Cyberattack November 2023
https://www.blender.org/news/cyberattack-november-2023/
#ycombinator

The Case for Never Reading the Book Jacket
https://thewalrus.ca/the-case-for-never-reading-the-book-jacket/
#ycombinator

Charlie Munger has died
https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov2823.pdf
#ycombinator

Google's .meme domain is here to serve your wackiest websites
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/28/23979595/google-registry-meme-domain-launch
#ycombinator

The `hanging-punctuation property` in CSS
https://chriscoyier.net/2023/11/27/the-hanging-punctuation-property-in-css/
#ycombinator

Climbing 50 steps a day can cut your risk of heart disease by 20%
https://news.tulane.edu/pr/walking-more-five-flights-stairs-day-can-cut-risk-heart-disease-20-study-says
#ycombinator

We have lost access to approximately €6k in bounties
https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announcement/we-have-lost-access-to-bountysource/
#ycombinator #NewPipe #YouTube #Android #player #background #privacy #PeerTube #Bandcamp #Soundcloud

Is the S&P 500 Broken?
https://disciplinefunds.com/2023/11/21/is-the-sp-500-broken/
#ycombinator

7k UK pubs forced to close in last 10 years
https://harpers.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/30418/7,000_pubs_forced_to_close_in_last_10_years.html
#ycombinator #hospitality #Inflation #UKHospitality #Kate_Nicholls

X may lose up to $75M by year-end on advertiser exodus
https://www.reuters.com/technology/x-may-lose-up-75-mln-by-year-end-advertiser-exodus-nyt-2023-11-24/
#ycombinator #MTPIX #ADVMK #ADVMK1 #BACT #BIZ #BLR #CCOS #CMPNY #CYCS #CYCS08 #DLI #ENT #GEN #ITSE08 #LIF #MDIA #MDIA08 #NETSV #PUB #PXP #RES #RESF #SMED #SOCI #SOCMED #SWIT #TECH #TECH08 #TMT #WWW #AMERS #NAMER #FIN

Cory Doctorow

https://www.todayintabs.com/p/defective-accelerationism

Writing in @todayintabs, @fka_tabs nailed Altman to the wall:

Altman's history goes like this: first, he founded a useless startup that raised $30m, only to be acquired and shuttered. Then Altman got a job running #YCombinator, where he somehow failed at taking huge tranches of equity from "every Stanford dropout with an idea for software to replace something Mommy used to do."

42/

Show HN: Perfect Pitch Puzzle – a musical Wordle daily ear training game
https://www.perfectpitchpuzzle.com
#ycombinator

Please ignore the deluge of complete nonsense about Q*
https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1728126868342145481
#ycombinator

Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-limit-ad-blockers-starting-june-2024/
#ycombinator

FBI director admits they rarely have probable cause for using NSA collections
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/21/fbi-director-admits-agency-rarely-has-probable-cause-when-it-performs-backdoor-searches-of-nsa-collections/
#ycombinator

FDA considers first CRISPR gene editing treatment that may cure sickle cell
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/31/health/fda-considers-crispr-treatment-cure-sickle-cell/index.html
#ycombinator

YouTube is reportedly slowing down videos for Firefox users
https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-reportedly-slowing-down-videos-firefox-3387206/
#ycombinator

Advertiser exodus expected to deeply impact X ad revenue, analysis indicates
https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/20/advertiser-exodus-expected-to-deeply-impact-x-ad-revenue-analysis-indicates/
#ycombinator

YouTube has started to artificially slow down video load times for Firefox
https://twitter.com/endermanch/status/1726602144097395150
#ycombinator

For Altman to come back, board must issue statement absolving him of wrongdoing
https://twitter.com/emilychangtv/status/1726389177879818566
#ycombinator

It's time for a change: datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated
https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/it-s-time-for-a-change-datetime-utcnow-is-now-deprecated
#ycombinator #python #datetime #deprecation #timezone #utc

HoneyPot – I Made a Text Field Only Bots Use – Heres What Happened
https://github.com/lee101/hidden-form-on-the-internet
#ycombinator

OpenAI Investors Scramble to Reinstate Sam Altman as CEO
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2023/11/18/openai-investors-scramble-to-reinstate-sam-altman-as-ceo/
#ycombinator #Sam_Altman #openAI #greg_brockman #Ilya_Sutskever #Microsoft #Vinod_Khosla #Reid_Hoffman #Mira_Murati #Adam_D_Angelo #sequoia

A software epiphany
https://johnwhiles.com/posts/programming-as-theory
#ycombinator

Kara Swisher: there will be more departures of top folks at OpenAI tonight
https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725678074333635028
#ycombinator

Greg Brockman quits OpenAI
https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1725667410387378559?s=20
#ycombinator

Advertisers Flee X as Outcry Grows Over Musk’s Endorsement of Antisemitic Post
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/technology/elon-musk-twitter-x-advertisers.html
#ycombinator

Covid strain that killed 8k cats found in UK
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/covid-strain-cats-cyprus-sypmtoms-fcov23-b2446492.html
#ycombinator #Cats #COVID_19 #Scientists #Coronavirus #Cyprus #Internal

Amazon cuts 'several hundred' jobs in Alexa division
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/17/amazon-cuts-several-hundred-jobs-in-alexa-division.html
#ycombinator #Amazon_com_Inc #Internet #Technology #Breaking_News_Technology #Personnel #business_news

The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable
https://trstringer.com/oss-compensation-broken/
#ycombinator

How I optimized Portal to run on the Nintendo 64 [video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4KGm7ixcqI
#ycombinator #portal #n64 #nintendo

4 weeks ago

GitHub Actions Are a Problem
https://felix-knorr.net/posts/2023-11-11-github-actions.html
#ycombinator #Programming #Rust #Python

New Outlook sends passwords, mails and other data to Microsoft
https://mailbox.org/en/post/warning-new-outlook-sends-passwords-mails-and-other-data-to-microsoft
#ycombinator

What If We Replace Guns and Bullets with Bows and Arrows?
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/11/what-if-we-replace-guns-and-bullets-with-bows-and-arrows/
#ycombinator

Show HN: Patterns – Habit Tracker App
https://apps.apple.com/ua/app/patterns-habit-tracker/id6469007119
#ycombinator #Patterns_Habit_Tracker #Andrew_Tanchuk #Productivity #Lifestyle #ios_apps #app #appstore #app_store #iphone #ipad #ipod_touch #itouch #itunes

Test browser for web tracking – EFF
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
#ycombinator

Toyota recalls nearly 1.9M RAV4s to fix batteries that can cause a fire
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/02/toyota-recalls-nearly-1point9-million-rav4s-to-fix-batteries-that-can-move-during-hard-turns-and-cause-a-fire.html
#ycombinator #Transportation #Breaking_News_Business #Autos #United_States #Environment #Toyota_Motor_Corp #business_news

X says it is worth $19B, down from $44B last year
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/technology/x-twitter-19-billion-dollars.html
#ycombinator

Python Expertise Level – Self-Assessment
https://safjan.com/python-expertise-level-self-assessment/
#ycombinator #python #programming #interview #job_interview #skills

Woman's Pockets Are Inferior
https://pudding.cool/2018/08/pockets/
#ycombinator

#HackerNews #YCombinator #junk

2 months ago

Google has sent internet into 'spiral of decline', claims DeepMind co-founder
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/10/14/google-internet-spiral-of-decline-deepmind-mustafa-suleyman/
#ycombinator #ChatGPT #Technology #Business #Standard #Internet #Artificial_Intelligence #Big_tech #DeepMind_Technologies #US_content #Google

Petty indeed!

This is also your regular reminder that "Hacker" "News" is neither.

Mammals’ time on Earth is half over, scientists predict
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/25/science/future-earth-warming-mammal-extinction.html
#ycombinator

2 months ago

Blocking Visual Studio Code embedded reverse shell before it's too late
https://ipfyx.fr/post/visual-studio-code-tunnel/
#ycombinator #security #powershell #Active_Directory #Bloodhound

Cisco Acquires Splunk
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/leadership/splunk-and-cisco-unite-to-accelerate-digital-resilience-as-one-of-the-leading-global-software-companies.html
#ycombinator

OpenTF renames itself to OpenTofu
https://github.com/opentofu
#ycombinator

iFixit – We Are Retroactively Dropping the iPhone’s Repairability Score
https://www.ifixit.com/News/82493/we-are-retroactively-dropping-the-iphones-repairability-score-en
#ycombinator #iFixit #Mac #MacBook #iPod #iPhone #Repair #Parts #XBox #PlayStation #Game_Boy #Nintendo_DSi #tools

Man Who Invented a Tech Used Billions of Times a Day Doesn't Get Credit for It
https://www.entrepreneur.com/science-technology/the-barcode-inventor-didnt-get-credit-now-hes/458787
#ycombinator #Science_Technology #Leadership #Business_Culture #Innovation #Career #Technology #Retail_Businesses #IBM #Solving_Problems #supermarket #Barcode

New Study Identifies United States as 'Planet-Wrecker-in-Chief'
https://www.commondreams.org/news/united-states-planet-wrecker
#ycombinator #Australia #Canada #Fossil_Fuels #Norway #Oil_Change_International #United_Kingdom #United_States #climate_ambition_summit #Climate_Emergency

NaNdy Stalick

Is there at all a tech-news site that is not explicitly anti-worker and packed with libertarian jerks? I am sick of #YCombinator #HackerNews and #Slashdot has been trash for decades.

But I do want to read about #javascript somewhere...

NASA's Oxygen-Generating Experiment Moxie Completes Mars Mission
https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9474/nasas-oxygen-generating-experiment-moxie-completes-mars-mission/
#ycombinator #Mars #missions #NASA #rover #Curiosity #Opportunity #InSight #Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter #facts

New LoRa RF distance record: 1336 km / 830 mi
https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/article/new-lora-world-record-1336-km-830-mi
#ycombinator #lorawan #lora #internet_of_things #iot #the_things_network

Timo Tijhof

#siri #apple #wikipedia #wikidata #ycombinator

Apparently the 🪙 coin emoji, is associated in Siri Knowledge with Y Combinator.

Usually when stuff like this happens, it's because a redirect article exists in Wikipedia, or an alias label Wikidata. But... not this time.

I wonder if it comes from another dataset, or an inside joke at Apple?

Scientists in Antarctica say they were left alone against sexual harassers
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/women-working-antarctica-left-fend-sexual-harassers-102596137
#ycombinator #Workplace_culture #Sexual_assault #Crime #Assault #Business #Science #World_news #General_news #Article #102596137

Ig Nobel Prize Winner Higashiyama Atsuki and the “Between-Legs Effect” Mystery
https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-topics/c12403/
#ycombinator #science #physiology #Ig_Nobel_Prize #psychology

Major U.S. energy org targeted in QR code phishing attack
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/major-us-energy-org-targeted-in-qr-code-phishing-attack/
#ycombinator #computers #windows #linux #mac #support #tech_support #spyware #malware #virus #security #Email #Energy #Microsoft_365 #Phishing #QR_Code #Security #virus_removal #malware_removal #computer_help #technical_support

Andrew Tropin

https://youtu.be/kIppahbBkns

A quick dive into Y combinators and how to make a recursion without referencing a function by its name.

#scheme #lisp #ycombinator #lambda

Limitless white hydrogen under our feet may soon shatter all energy assumptions
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/07/13/white-hydrogen-disrupt-global-energy-net-zero/
#ycombinator #Mining_industry #Opinion #Comment #Oil #Ambrose_Evans_Pritchard #Business #Net_Zero #Gas #Hydrogen #US_content

𝗠𝗔𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗠𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗠𝗔𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀

@pu_zucker #ycombinator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_Combinator

Jeff Forcier

5 months ago

Today's cursed "learned a new word": dysgenics 😖

(Learned it from a #HackerNews #YCombinator screenshot, which further cements my desire to not read that fucking cesspool of a news website. it's basically a couple of the worst subreddits smooshed together, with none of the upside…)

Doc Edward Morbius ⭕

6 months ago

The Reddit story goes deeper, and drags in Ycombinator and its popular news aggregator Hacker News

My submission earlier today about Reddit seeking to seize my personal subreddit of going on ten years drew 405 votes and 299 comments, but ranked 42nd on the archive page https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-06-22&p=2, well below posts with far fewer votes and/or comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36434885

I've inquired as to whether that was due to flags or HN moderator actions (automated or manual).

But ...

... HN's chief moderator dang had commented earlier today that Reddit content is now penalised, and has been since "a while ago": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36435312

I note that this conflicts with, and contradicts, a comment from a week ago reiterating HN's policy of moderating less not more on stories concerning YC companies, specifically noting that this was despite the somewhat distant-in-time and tenuous present relationship between YC and Reddit.

And that comment appears to be the first HN's mod team bothered mention the fact, as an HN site search reveals:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36366909

The fact is that Reddit are an Internet juggernaut, that they are going explicitly against prior commitments, promises, and policies (both sitewide and in my case specifically communicated to me three years ago by a Reddit admin ggAlex: https://web.archive.org/web/20230612102634/https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/dt527o/no_this_subreddit_is_not_fully_dead_yet_but/f6vj489/

This war-against-its-power-users has made international headlines.

HN plays a de facto role of customer-support-of-last-resort, which dang has specifically acknowledged:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20customer-support-of-last-resort&sort=byPopularity&type=comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34320816

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34941474.

And yes, that can be repetitive and annoying and repetitively annoying ... but ... it is often one of the only viable venues for those who are disempowered to be heard.

Or, in /u/toxlab's case, the dead: https://web.archive.org/web/20230612102634/https://old.reddit.com/r/TalesFromRetail/comments/5a2xj3/everett_redditor_utoxlab_of_rtalesbytoxlab_passed/

HN's present Reddit policy both amplifies an existing power discrepancy (that of Reddit members against the company) and puts HN's own credibility at risk.

HN cannot simultaneously claim to:

moderate YC companies less,
impose a penalty for submissions concerning a specific YC company, and ]- fail to disclose the existence of that penalty at all.

I'm well aware of the jump in Reddit-related traffic, and have commented at length on it (per my wont): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36435319

The fact that HN have now put their thumb on the scale without notifying either submitters or the general readership concerns me greatly.

How about HN:

De-thumbs that scale
Clearly and prominently disclose the fact of the penalty, and the dates at which it was applied and lifted.
Applies a case-by-case assessment based on new significant information.
Provides a mechanism for aggregating similar classes of stories. E.g., the tens to hundreds of thousands of small and/or personal subreddits which Reddit are now acting to seize control of.

Hacker News's own credibility is very much at risk here and that itself is a serious concern to the site.

(Communicated to HN's mod team via email, toot here adapted slightly.)

#Reddit #HackerNew #HN #RedditStrike #RedditBlackout #ycombinator

dumb ass hot head

9 months ago

This is probably Quite A Bad Thing For All Of Us… but it’s really hard for me to see Y Combinator’s soulless society-fucking leaders squirm and not feel a spark of something warm inside. 🥰 #SiliconVallyBank #YCombinator #SVB

Kevin Karhan :verified:

9 months ago

@foone @cadey #HN, like all of #Ycombinator, has no moderation whatsoever.

It's like /b/

Sasha

11 months ago

Got this link from a friend. Extremely interesting discussion on #YCombinator about #engineering, #metrics and #productivity

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34221194

Doc Edward Morbius ⭕

https://nitter.kavin.rocks/paulg/status/1604556563338887168

YCombinator founder Paul Graham has left Twitter:

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34041985

He's now at @paulg

(That's paulg@mas.to, omitting the leading '@' sign.)

#HackerNews #PaulGraham #Twitter #YCombinator #Twexodus #Plexodus

watzon :crystal:

#crystal #crystallang #ruby #news #ycombinator #programming #developer

Crystal for Rubyists hit the front page of #hackernews https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33763127#33784523

Anonylysk

@ChanceyFleet
Brilliant idea! When I read your message my first thought is "this is a great idea for a profit for purpose #startup ".
Perhaps you could contact the #ycombinator team or a local #makers / #makerspace organisation who can advocate and champion your idea.
I'm in Australia and I have some electronics contacts here if you are in this region?
It's a great idea and I think it is worth pursuing.

Colin Hayhurst ✅