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Show HN: The GPG Guide – Practical OpenPGP for 2026 (leanpub.com)
Most GPG documentation I could find was outdated -- O'Reilly 1995, No Starch 2006, countless websites from the mid 00s -- or scattered across dozens of blog posts that each covered one piece. I wanted a single reference that covered the full workflow with current tools and practices, so I had b...
Show HN: MegaHAL in Pure SQL (github.com)
I ported Jason Hutchens' 1998 Loebner Prize-winning chatbot, MegaHAL, to run entirely inside PostgreSQL, in pure SQL. The entire lifecycle -- tokenization, learning, keyword extraction, Markov chain generation, and entropy scoring -- is implemented in standard SQL using complex CTEs. There is n...