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Me, but You, but Me

https://blog.anaisbetts.org/posts/me-but-you-but-me/
2•NaOH•3m ago•0 comments

The One Question I Can't Stand at Restaurants

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/10/restaurant-phone-number-question/688926/
2•samizdis•3m ago•0 comments

R&D doesn't pay pharma shareholders. What does?

https://www.baybridgebio.com/blog/pharma_returns
1•aaavl2821•4m ago•0 comments

ClickHouse outcompresses Parquet: Surprises from our migration

https://tomalard.github.io/posts/clickhouse-outcompresses-parquet-surprises-from-our-migration/
1•TomAlard•5m ago•0 comments

Netflix plans to cut 5% of its workforce

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/netflix-plans-cut-5-its-workforce-puck-news-report...
3•theanonymousone•5m ago•0 comments

Making a not-jailbreak in 3 weeks

https://www.hrtowii.dev/blog/making-a-not-jailbreak-in-3-weeks/
1•davikr•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What is your favorite book of all time, and why?

1•chistev•8m ago•0 comments

Trump announces deal with Putin to release Russian diesel

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm1dwgr666wno
5•defly•8m ago•0 comments

Software developers are not okay

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-software-developers-are-not-okay/
2•birdculture•9m ago•0 comments

tiny-audio, nanoGPT for speech-to-text

https://github.com/alexkroman/tiny-audio
2•mazesmazes•10m ago•0 comments

Did You Mean Deprecated?

https://www.olafalders.com/2026/10/09/did-you-mean-deprecated/
1•oalders•11m ago•0 comments

open-slopware – Alternatives to FOSS projects choosing to use LLMs/AI

https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware
3•smartmic•12m ago•0 comments

Batteries are now cheaper than natural gas turbines used at many data centers

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/batteries-are-now-cheaper-than-natural-gas-turbines-used-at-man...
1•speckx•12m ago•0 comments

I Reverse Engineered a Popular iPad App with AI

https://computerchale.com/writing/i-reverse-engineered-a-popular-ipad-app-with-ai
1•melon_taeppe•17m ago•0 comments

An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to the police

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/an-anthropic-ai-model-sent-a-false-homicide-tip-to-philadelphia...
2•mikelgan•17m ago•0 comments

Pay It Forward

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_it_forward
1•chistev•19m ago•0 comments

Turning educational content into interactive simulations

https://w0sks3xp1l.hdply.com
1•shallawma•20m ago•0 comments

Aaron Swartz's domain aaronsw.com has expired

2•karimelgazar•20m ago•1 comments

The Science of Creativity

https://lpsonline.sas.upenn.edu/features/science-creativity-how-train-your-brain-innovative-thinking
2•jruohonen•21m ago•1 comments

You will lose it in a meeting. The leadership is in the repair

https://unleashyouradhd.com/blog/the-repair/
2•ohjeez•23m ago•0 comments

Plane Crazy: Building a Plane in 30 Days [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSNzF-KSGiw
1•js2•23m ago•0 comments

Experimenting with HashCortX Lately

https://github.com/Hash-7777/HashCortX
1•New_Hash•24m ago•1 comments

Postgres sharding with Citus and StackGres – scaling coordinator nodes

https://stackgres.io/blog/scaling-citus-beyond-one-coordinator-announcing-query-routers-stackgres/
1•samokhvalov•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Talus, a small terrain diffusion model that runs in the browser

https://talus.tersa.tech/
1•osfv•26m ago•0 comments

The Contingency Plan I Almost Had to Use

https://www.garybell.co.uk/blog/the-contingency-plan-i-almost-had-to-use/
1•speckx•26m ago•0 comments

What do you do while waiting for a prompt response?

1•rfmoz•26m ago•1 comments

Agent swarms in business is AI larping

https://agentic-larp.ing/
1•saintvinasse•27m ago•0 comments

A Critical Look at Lean4

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/zHhGa3iQBQcdSifFL/a-critical-look-at-lean4-1
3•mathgenius•28m ago•0 comments

Bitwarden: Published version update in app stores

https://community.bitwarden.com/t/published-version-update-in-app-stores/102750
5•bennett_dev•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Lacuna – open-source inline AI writing suggestions for your Mac

https://jackdamon.org/blog/lacuna/
1•jdamon96•31m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Ask HN: Why is big O often used in CS when omega or theta should be used?

2•amichail•1y ago
Do most people not know about omega and theta or perhaps they intentionally misuse asymptotic notation?

Comments

adrianN•1y ago
Finding lower bounds is generally more difficult.
amichail•1y ago
People often use big O notation in all cases including for lower bounds.
adrianN•1y ago
BigO for lower bounds is plain wrong
numpad0•1y ago
Those aren't in the ASCII table.
compressedgas•1y ago
I've found some people on a well known QA site to be so strict with big-O notation that I don't use it anymore and instead only refer to constant, linear, quadratic time and so on. Even when O(1), O(n), O(n^2) would be actually easier to write even if they are technically wrong.