Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

jcoglan @jcoglan@mastodon.social

3/5/2026, 9:15:45 AM

Public

is there a critique of that Knuth article? lots of people are gushing about it just b/c it's him, but I'm not familiar enough with its subject matter to tell if it's legit. however, stuff like this feels really off:

"Filip Stappers tested Claude’s Python program for all odd m between 3 and 101, finding perfect decompositions each time. Thus he concluded, quite reasonably, that the problem was indeed solved for odd values of m."

like, that's not how maths works

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