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  1. How I launched 3 consoles and found true love at Babbage's store no. 9 (2013) (arstechnica.com)
    79 points 24
  2. Ask HN: Tesla switching from "Godot" to "Unreal": is this ~informative?

    I read on many sites, e.g.... * English: https://www.theverge.com/news/759016/tesla-in-car-graphics-unreal-engine * German:…

    10 points 6
  3. Ask HN: Do modern AI engines still need to do full re-trainings?

    I learned about ~AI algorithms in the 90s: backprocessing & clustering networks, and a little bit of genetic algos. I then focused & programmed & played for a while with the model of the "backpropagation" network, until…

    11 points 4
  4. Ask HN: Super-summary to go from "grapheme" to "bytes"?

    Is this super-summary correct, to understand how what's shown on the user's screen is expanded into single bytes? 1) A user sees some character on his/her screen => that's a "grapheme", which is a collection of... 2)…

    2 points 4
  5. Ask HN: Are Google's Android and Apple's iOS “too big to fail”?

    Just a honest question. As a starting point I'm thinking about the global market share of mobile smartphones being split between just 2 companies: Google's Android (X manufacturers & X vendors) and Apple's iOS (1…

    4 points 3
  6. Ask HN: Why was the “Rust” programming language named like that?

    I indirectly started asking myself this question yesterday & today while struggling to query Google with e.g. "rust ammonia keep cleaned elements" ("Ammonia" is an HTML lib which I just started to use to transform…

    6 points 4
  7. Ask HN: Did HN's page rankings become more extreme?

    Sorry, the usual question... :P This morning I read the post "The Rust Performance Book (2020)" and when I wanted to upvote it 10 hours later I had to go to page #4 (ranked currently #108 with 184 votes "20 hours ago")…

    3 points 3
  8. Putin’s Strategic Failure and the Risk of Escalation (themoscowtimes.com)
    75 points 33
  9. “rsync” 3.2.0 and higher can use zstd and more (download.samba.org)
    8 points 3
  10. Ask HN: Website listing/explaining common Python pitfalls&tricks?

    Is there any site which has a good list of things that programmers that come from other languages have to pay attention to, respectively, that lists some (useful) tricks that are commonly used? Examples: 1) I think that…

    2 points 6
  11. Facebook's “like”-button: using it can be a crime when used on forbidden posts (finance.yahoo.com)
    2 points 2
  12. Volvo/Geely: final base prices for Polestar 2 in European countries (electrive.com)
    1 points 1
  13. Video of Tesla Catching Fire – 21.Apr.2019, Shanghai (twitter.com)
    1 points 0
  14. U.S. traffic safety agencies probing 2 fatal Tesla crashes in Florida (cbc.ca)
    2 points 0
  15. Ask HN: Good documentaries about finance?

    I have always more or less hated accounting, but recently I had to admit that it can be as well very interesting => therefore yesterday I watched: - "Enron - The smartest guys in the room"…

    21 points 9
  16. Open source licensing: What every technologist should know (2017) (opensource.com)
    8 points 1