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Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?
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Setting aside copyright/commercial/other aspects, a thought about writing blog posts that LLMs train on. When people write posts, they (a) feel good about helping others, and (b) hope to get some credit and visibility for doing so.
When mediated through LLMs, no longer the satisfaction that your consumer is a human (who might comment, thank, share, etc.); nor the cred that comes from people remembering the author, posting on HN, etc.
That is, it totally destroys the incentive str…

Randomly saw this on HN: "LibRedirect – Redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44344246 − http…

Fast Flexible LSQR with a Hybrid Variant for Efficient Large-Scale Regularization
Eva Miku\v{s}ov\'a, Iveta Hn\v{e}tynkov\'a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19666

Fast Flexible LSQR with a Hybrid Variant for Efficient Large-Scale Regularization
A wide range of applications necessitates solving large-scale ill-posed problems contaminated by noise. Krylov subspace regularization methods are particularly advantageous in this context, as they rely solely on matrix-vector multiplication. Among the most widely used techniques are LSQR and CGLS, both of which can be extended with flexible preconditioning to enforce solution properties such as nonnegativity or sparsity. Flexible LSQR (FLSQR) can also be further combined with direct methods to…

Wow they really have no idea what to do(?) 😥
"Where’s Firefox going next? You tell us." https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/where-s-firefox-going-next-you-tell-us/m-p/100698
via HN:

Where’s Firefox going next? You tell us.
Hey Firefox friends! We’re trying something new and would love your help. Features like tab groups, vertical tabs, profiles, new tab wallpapers, PWAs, and taskbar pinning weren’t just ideas – they were direct responses to what you told us you wanted. Your input has helped shape where Firefox is tod...

Construction of Young modules and filtration multiplicities for Brauer algebras of type $C$
Sulakhana Chowdhury, Geetha Thangavelu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14078

Construction of Young modules and filtration multiplicities for Brauer algebras of type $C$
In this paper, we construct the permutation modules and Young modules for Brauer algebras of type $C$ by extending the representation theory of the group algebra of hyperoctahedral groups. Additionally, we develop a stratifying system for Brauer algebras of type $C$, thereby extending the work of Hemmer-Nakano in \cite{HN} on Hecke algebras. This framework allows us to determine when the multiplicities of cell modules in any filtration are well-defined. As a result, we prove that if the charact…