Why “Source” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
It is strange that everyone is so enthusiastic about the gratitude. If the crow were a Silicon Valley company and the woman an open source developer, we'd get: "Society owes you…
by 12948671 · Oct 16, 2026
> Would doctors weep if cancer is cured by AI? The pharama and medical PE companies will definitely weep as a source of their income is lost
by vinyl7 · Oct 16, 2026
Another instance of 'Super Ice' or as named in the article 'Pykrete' in science fiction is in Neal Stephenson's Novel from 2015: Seveneves. The substance is used in space for th…
by hermitShell · Oct 16, 2026
The nice thing about it being open source is you can point claude at it and fix them and run your own custom version. The bad part is you need to reinstall it every few days to…
by alin23 · Oct 16, 2026
The prototype thing is quite unique among mainstream languages. It is kind of simple in principle and works well for what it intends to do, but god it causes so much confusion a…
by fg137 · Oct 16, 2026
Source code is meant to be read, and, occasionally, compiled. If nobody with domain knowledge can understand the program because it's written in a language unfamiliar to them (s…
by rbanffy · Oct 16, 2026
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