A List of Hacker News’s Undocumented Features and Behaviors.

Most developers are primarily engaged in making systems that acquire, extract, transform, maintain, analyze, transmit and render information—facts about the world. Most often, this information documents some human activity, be that of customers, suppliers, advertisers, travelers, voters, members, students, patients etc and must deal with all the irregularity thereof. This is in stark contrast to artificial systems, e.g., programming language compilers, which make up their own rules, in fully enumerated spaces, can eliminate irregularity and can reject anything which does not conform. — A history of Clojure

Two quick links for Shiny users: Outstanding User Interfaces with Shiny, Effectively Deploying and Scaling Shiny Apps with ShinyProxy, Traefik and Docker Swarm. #rstats

Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor’s fast bit shifter.

Battlestar Galactica S4 finished. We just started watching Westworld 3.

ggnuplot is a ggplot2 theme that makes your ggplots look like gnuplots. #rstats

What the hell is a Deno?

TIL that you can customize your R prompt much like you do with your preferred shell. See also Customising your Rprofile. #rstats

I saved a personal, private backup of everything I’ve posted – 3,794 posts, not including this one – and then deleted it all except the first post.
First, the why: the internet never forgets, but that’s not how people work. “I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.” The person who posted entries here ten years ago is a different person than me, and I see no reason for that older person to stay around*. — the end of livejournal, by Evan Martin

Running Awk in parallel to process 256M records.