Human folly for 02025-12-30

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• (hackerbook.dosaygo.com):

  A 22-gigabyte archive of #Hacker-News. #datasets #archival

• Homo Argentum (en.wikipedia.org):

  Apparently #Homo-Argentum was extremely successful commercially, but did get a $150 million grant (US$100k) from “BA International Production”.

• Baked data (simonwillison.net):

  #Simonw on the #Baked-Data architectural pattern: “bundling a read-only copy of your data alongside the code for your application, as part of the same deployment. (...) With Baked Data, the data is deployed as part of the application bundle. Any time the content changes, a fresh copy of the site is deployed that includes those updates.” But he doesn’t mean just putting a data file in your static HTML site: “Static site generators provide many of the above benefits, but with the limitation that any dynamic functionality needs to happen in client-side JavaScript. With a Baked Data application you can execute server-side code too.”

• Bedrock the sqlitening (mozilla.github.io):

  how Mozilla uses #baked-data #toread

• Directory (archive.softwareheritage.org):

  apparently you can recover deleted GitHub repos from Software Heritage #archival, but this URL isn’t loading for me right now

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of the #Hacker-News #datasets

• Threads (news.ycombinator.com):

  my first #Hacker-News comments from 02008.

• A faster heart for F Droid (f-droid.org):

  #F-Droid has a new server

• Five years of tinygrad (geohot.github.io):

  #Geohot’s #tinygrad is five years old and almost 20kloc now. Not bad!

• Times new American (hsu.cy):

  Chenyang “Platy” Hsu compares #Trump’s favored Times New Roman with other #fonts, like Palatino, Caslon, Baskerville, New Century Schoolbook, Frutiger, Univers, Myriad, and of course Calibri. “At this point, it might sound as though the argument is trending toward a defense of the Department’s earlier choice: Calibri. Unfortunately, Calibri is also a poor fit for formal contexts. While seriousness and authority aren’t the exclusive province of serifs, Calibri does little to convey those traits.” #politics #CC BY-NC-ND

• Log2000Moldy (web.archive.org):

  old #Jorn-Barger Robot Wisdom weblog page, with an archived photo from #Jennicam from 02000

• 268 Shapeways member interviews Bram Cohen (web.archive.org):

  archived #interview with #Bram and his puzzle designs

• (robotwisdom2.blogspot.com):

  #Jorn-Barger's secondary Robot Wisdom weblog page

• Crux (web.archive.org):

  “Crux is a software toolkit for molecular phylogenetic inference that runs on (at least) Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X.”

• Www (web.archive.org):

  the top quotes from the bash.org quote database #humor

• APL (jsoftware.com):

  #ebook of Iverson’s original #APL book #toread

• Falkoff (cs.trinity.edu):

  #PDF scan of Falkoff, Iverson, and Sussenguth’s “A formal description of SYSTEM/360” #paper, the first use of #APL. 67 pp. #toread

• (youtube.com):

  #video #toread with lots of closeup footage of different spiders (and solifugids), including slo-mo. Pretty long on the dramatic narration and short on the science, though. #todelete