Why “root” is being discussed
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Maybe a frequent checkpoint suffices ? Let’s say I have hourly snapshots. In case of an outage I can restore the earliest checkpoint things were working well and have LLMs triag…
by whatever1 · Oct 13, 2026
Uhm, why not writing the degrees of the scale at hand? 12-TET is irrelevant for modal music. In a similar vein, I sometimes line the root of the scale with a red felt tip pen if…
by sasaf5 · Oct 13, 2026
It’s more of a fun anecdote, but people forget that there was once a plague of stolen Apple devices. Apple customers were frequently targeted by pickpockets, etc. because of the…
by computomatic · Oct 13, 2026
Yes, the reason I used to root for the US as a power was that they pretended to be ethical with stuff like the FCPA and the USAID. Of course those pretenses have been dropped, i…
by thevillagechief · Oct 13, 2026
Not all merges are equal, even if it's a monorepo, it's probably rare that you'd have to look at the whole codebase to implement a new feature or find the root cause of a bug. O…
by hiq · Oct 13, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "root" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "root" over time.
In vascular plants, the roots are the organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster. They are most often below the surface of the soil, but roots can also be aerial or aerating, that is, growing up above the ground or especially above water. Read more on Wikipedia