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Cornell Bans Fraternity Parties

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/nyregion/cornell-sexual-assault-fraternity-party-ban.html
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Show HN: UpDown – free multiplayer Markdown documents

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1•simonhamp•3m ago•0 comments

Open source Scion – Anthropic's Git alternative in open source

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3•gafoor•6m ago•0 comments

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Chained Exploitation of Ivanti Connect Secure Zero-Days

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1•wondersky•10m ago•0 comments

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2•andrewl•10m ago•0 comments

To Save on Rent, Some Dutch College Students Are Living in Nursing Homes

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Data everywhere, but are they fit for purpose?

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Improving Upon Traditional Music Notation

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2•S-E-P•16m ago•1 comments

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OpenSign – Free, self-hosted DocuSign alternative

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Model backdoors are easy to create and hard to reliably remove

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10•LookAtThatBacon•29m ago•2 comments

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5•pluc•32m ago•1 comments

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ClangIR and the Cost of MLIR

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Range – open a 100GB environment in under a second

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1•andreygrehov•39m 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.