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>circa 2005: Score:5, Funny on Slashdot

>circa 2025: grayed out on Hacker News

ICPC = The International Collegiate Programming Contest. These are college level programmers, not elite competitive programmers.

Apparently Gemini solved one problem (running on who knows what kind of cluster) by burning 30 min of "thinking" time on it, and at a cost that Google have declined to provide.

According to one prior competition paricipant, writing in the comments section of this ArsClasica coverage, each year they include one "time sink" problem that smart humans will avoid until they have tackled everything else.

https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/09/google-gemini-earns-g...

This would all seem to put a rather different spin on this. It's not a case of Google outwitting the worlds best programmers, but rather that by searching for solutions for 30 min on god knows what kind of cloud hardware, they were able to get something done that the college kids did not have time to complete, or deem worthwhile starting.

I'm not familiar with MAID, but AFAIK I live in the European country with the most liberal euthanasia policy, and hardly anyone here thinks it's gone too far, let alone way too far.

Note this is "coding" as in "encoding" and "decoding" (i.e. information theory) and not as in "programming"

What’s "FP" for?

What a shameful government!

clicks the link

blocked

Oh right, France government is shameful too.

Kafka isn’t a queue, it’s a distributed log. A partitioned topic can take very large volumes of message writes, persist them indefinitely, deliver them to any subscriber in-order and at-least-once (even for subscribers added after the message was published), and do all of that distributed and HA.

If you need all those things, there just are not a lot of options.

Fun.