But before that and after I tried to link to another by the same author, which I thought is even more interesting, but for some reason didn't get any attention :(
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41637592
It's about the "first"/"smallest" program (in terms of the number of turing machine states needed to describe it - 6), that humanity doesn't know how to solve.
A codegolfed Python program with its behavior (by mxdys):
a,b=8,3
while b:a+=a>>1;b+=2-a%2*3
Knowing this will be necessary to prove the value of the 6th busy beaver number (the 5th has been recently proven).
According to Hacker News, my top 2 submissions are :
- The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol (ietf.org) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36863915
- Attacker with access to XML config can trigger keepass.exe to obtain passwords (mitre.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34545010
According to myself :
- Fast food makes the immune system more aggressive in the long term (uni-bonn.de) no comments, 2 points.
- Attacks on genetic privacy via uploads to genealogical databases (elifesciences.org) no comments, 2 points.
The top according to HN is when I asked about how to program without a build system [2]
I’d say pretty accurate, especially if we take a long term view approach vs what I may think is the most important right now.
I got 16 points for this political drivel:
- The White House and Twitter Censorship https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32451727
and mere 5 points for a Show HN of my side-project that I'd thought would have been of interest to many people here:
- Show HN: Find book authors with a specific background, e.g. sci-fi by physicists https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41680056