rbanffy 186,347 karma 17y 11m on HN HN profile →
Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.

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Coverage
We've seen 34 of ~61,635 submissions
Full eval: 5 Lite-only: 6 Unevaluated: 23
Deep Read section-level analysis · 5 full evaluations
HRCB +0.26 range 0.23 · +100% / 0% / 0%−
E-full / S +0.22 / +0.16 SETL +0.08
Signals EQ 0.72 SO 0.42 TD 0.41
UDHR Fingerprint Preamble: +0.19 Article 1: +0.18 Article 2: +0.20 Article 3: ND Article 4: ND Article 5: ND Article 6: ND Article 7: +0.20 Article 8: ND Article 9: ND Article 10: ND Article 11: +0.30 Article 12: -0.46 Article 13: +0.30 Article 14: ND Article 15: ND Article 16: ND Article 17: +0.17 Article 18: +0.20 Article 19: +0.42 Article 20: +0.25 Article 21: ND Article 22: +0.23 Article 23: +0.50 Article 24: ND Article 25: +0.29 Article 26: +0.24 Article 27: +0.30 Article 28: +0.19 Article 29: +0.02 Article 30: -0.03
Quick Scan holistic editorial estimate · 6 lite evaluations
Editorial [E]: +0.10 Llama · truncated content · holistic (not section-level)
SETL History structural-editorial tension over time · 3 days
Editorial Structural SETL
34 stories
1. Getting Started with Snobol – Ratfactor (ratfactor.com)
2 points by rbanffy 2 hours ago | 0 comments | skipped
2. Dbslice: Extract a slice of your production database to reproduce bugs (github.com)
2 points by rbanffy 14 hours ago | 0 comments | skipped
3. PEP 747 – Annotating Type Forms – peps.python.org (peps.python.org)
2 points by rbanffy 14 hours ago | 0 comments | skipped
4. The information space around military AI is being weaponized against us (weaponizedspaces.substack.com)
5 points by rbanffy 14 hours ago | 0 comments | skipped
5. Doc-to-LoRA: Learning to Instantly Internalize Contexts (arxiv.org)
1 points by rbanffy 1 days ago | 0 comments | skipped
6. The Ownership Problem: Why We Get Territorial and What to Do About It (www.thecaringtechie.com)
2 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 0 comments | skipped
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HRCB +0.41
E +0.38
S +0.10
Washington state hotline callers hear AI voice with Spanish accent – AP News (apnews.com)
8 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 2 comments | hrcb v3.7 Workplace Discrimination & AI
8. What Happened to Gem? (dfarq.homeip.net)
1 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 0 comments | skipped
9. A risky maneuver could send a spacecraft to interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (www.space.com)
1 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | | skipped
10. Magnavox Odyssey 2 – By Paul Lefebvre (www.goto10retro.com)
2 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 0 comments | skipped
11. High-Density Hydro Storage System Ditches the Water (spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 0 comments | skipped
12. 18 Years of Intel Laptop CPUs: Panther Lake as Much as 95x Speed of Penryn (www.phoronix.com)
2 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 0 comments | skipped
13. Apple says it has "a big week ahead." Here's what we expect to see (arstechnica.com)
3 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 1 comments | skipped
14. Surviving large migrations: Metrolink and the housing crisis (thesidedish.flipdish.com)
1 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 0 comments | skipped
15. Hubble spotted a 'dark galaxy' that's at least 99.9% dark matter (www.science.org)
3 points by rbanffy 4 days ago | 0 comments | skipped
16. Why Mars Astronauts Need More Than Just Space Greenhouses (www.universetoday.com)
4 points by rbanffy 4 days ago | 1 comments | skipped
17. Why NVLink Is Nvidia's Secret Sauce Driving a 10x Performance Boost in MoEs (www.hpcwire.com)
1 points by rbanffy 4 days ago | 0 comments | skipped
18. Excellence over Mediocrity, from Mamdani to Marx to Food – Corey Robin (coreyrobin.com)
2 points by rbanffy 4 days ago | 1 comments | skipped
19. Magnavox Odyssey 2 – By Paul Lefebvre (www.goto10retro.com)
1 points by rbanffy 4 days ago | 0 comments | skipped
20.
HRCB +0.27
E +0.26
S +0.30
A Man Who Stole Infinity (www.quantamagazine.org)
141 points by rbanffy 4 days ago | 87 comments | hrcb v3.7 Academic Integrity
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HRCB +0.19
E +0.17
S +0.14
Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid (arstechnica.com)
489 points by rbanffy 4 days ago | 461 comments | hrcb v3.7 Energy Transition & Sustainability
22. Inventing the Lisa user interface – Interactions (dl.acm.org)
51 points by rbanffy 4 days ago | 2 comments | skipped
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HRCB 0.00 L
E 0.00
The New AI Consciousness Paper (www.astralcodexten.com)
149 points by rbanffy 100 days ago | 296 comments | hrcb AI consciousness
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HRCB +0.50 L
E +0.50
Whistleblower details how DOGE may have taken sensitive NLRB data (www.npr.org)
1171 points by rbanffy 321 days ago | 542 comments | hrcb Whistleblower rights
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HRCB +0.23
E +0.25
S +0.18
Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail (www.esa.int)
1078 points by rbanffy 671 days ago | 301 comments | hrcb v3.7 Science & International Cooperation
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Investigating why Steam started picking a random font (blog.pkh.me)
794 points by rbanffy 1198 days ago | 166 comments | hrcb v3.7 Technical Debugging
27. “User engagement” is code for “addiction” (medium.com)
711 points by rbanffy 1823 days ago | 266 comments | skipped
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New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects (www.anandtech.com)
747 points by rbanffy 1865 days ago | 532 comments | hrcb v3.7 Content Unevaluable
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HRCB +0.13 L
E +0.13
Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend (twitter.com)
1793 points by rbanffy 1883 days ago | 891 comments | hrcb tech fraud
30. ‘Extremely aggressive’ internet censorship spreads in the world’s democracies (news.umich.edu)
942 points by rbanffy 1929 days ago | 607 comments | skipped
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