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Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Sep 5

Interesting articles on expectations surrounding open source software.

filiph.net/text/two-typ...

The two types of open source

Let's stop pretending that "without warranty" means "without expectation".

filiph.net

Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Aug 9

Some fun YAML learnings.

www.ohyaml.wtf

ohyaml.wtf | YAML Quiz

YAML is known to be nobody's friend and almost everyone's enemy. Try this to see if it's your friend or foe!

www.ohyaml.wtf

Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Jun 26

New paper about #PeopleAnalytics out now. 🆕

💬 We discuss how ontological ambiguities and too much conceptual work hinder the practical impact of the field.

▶️ Read for free here: schmalenbach-impulse.de/people-analy...

#OpenAccess

People Analytics am Scheideweg: Vier Thesen für eine nachhaltige Kurskorrektur | Schmalenbach IMPULSE

schmalenbach-impulse.de

Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Jun 15

Self-driving cars as Orwellian surveillance infrastructure.

time.com/7292652/waym...

Why Waymos Have Been Vandalized by Protesters

Several self-driving cars were set on fire amid anti-ICE demonstrations in Los Angeles this weekend.

time.com

Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Jun 14

🔥 new paper about designing #blockchain document management systems.

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dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Paperless Everything: A Systematic Literature Review for the Design of Blockchain-based Document Management Systems | Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice

Digitalization pushes organizations to increasingly rely on digital documents over physical documents. They offer unprecedented scalability and provide the foundation for fully digital processes. Desp...

dl.acm.org

Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Jun 8

It now takes 9 (nine !) studies to get a single paper published in Journal of Consumer Research. 😅

academic.oup.com/jcr/advance-...

Most Read Versus Most Shared: How Less (vs. More) Social Popularity Labels Influence News Media Consumption

Abstract. News outlets commonly highlight the most popular content using different labels (e.g., “most read” and “most shared”). As prior research has foun

academic.oup.com

Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · May 22

Wow! #Embeddings are similar across models and text can be recovered with only the embedding.

This is huge!

arxiv.org/abs/2505.12540

Harnessing the Universal Geometry of Embeddings

We introduce the first method for translating text embeddings from one vector space to another without any paired data, encoders, or predefined sets of matches. Our unsupervised approach translates an...

arxiv.org

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Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · May 20

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source 😍

blogs.windows.com/windowsdevel...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source

Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever iss...

blogs.windows.com

Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · May 8

After months of nothing:

Two journal acceptances in one week.

#Academia really is a rollercoaster.

Stay tuned for the posts. 😁 #esports #blockchain

Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Apr 29

#ICIS2025 Submission #1*** made.

Two days before the deadline. 😎

Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Apr 23

These authors got worked: 21 robustness checks across four pages.

pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/...

Follow Your Heart or Listen to Users? The Case of Mobile App Design | Information Systems Research

pubsonline.informs.org

Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Apr 23

Nice intro to Graph Transformers for large and complex graph neural networks #GNN.

kumo.ai/research/int...

An Introduction to Graph Transformers - Kumo

While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have opened up new possibilities by capturing local neighborhood patterns, they face limitations in handling complex, long-range relationships across the graph. Ente...

kumo.ai

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Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Apr 21

A nice feature about #arxiv and its founder, Paul Ginsparg.

www.wired.com/story/inside...

Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science

Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.

www.wired.com

Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Apr 15

Good use of decorator pattern:

github.com/hxu296/tariff

GitHub - hxu296/tariff: The official repository for tariff

The official repository for tariff. Contribute to hxu296/tariff development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Apr 14

Die OEMs von Solarzellen etc. waren gemeint.

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Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Apr 14

Für all den Solar Hype geht es der Branche ganz schön schlecht.

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Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Apr 7

Good basics for writing safe code:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04...

Writing C for curl

It is a somewhat common question to me: how do we write C in curl to make it safe and secure for billions of installations? Some precautions we take and decisions we make. There is no silver bullet, j...

daniel.haxx.se

Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Apr 4

It would also be interesting to check how the availability of MTurk, Prolific, et al. affected sample sizes. I think MTurk started around 2006 and Prolific after 2010.

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Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Mar 28

Deutschland hat die einmalige Chance was cooles zu machen mit KI + Daten + Produktion.

www.faz.net/pro/digitalw...

Deutschland droht beim KI-Einsatz in der Industrie den Anschluss zu verlieren

Während die USA und China mit datengetriebener Produktion und KI-Integration Vorsprünge erzielen, kämpft die DACH-Region mit veralteten Infrastrukturen. Nur 19 Prozent der Unternehmen setzen KI effekt...

www.faz.net

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Erik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn.bsky.social · Mar 21

Here's a fun article by Meghan McCarty Carino about a bet I made with Bob Gordon about productivity growth in the 2020s.

Can you guess who was the optimist and who was the pessimist?

www.marketplace.org/2025/03/20/e...

Will there be an AI productivity boom? - Marketplace

With each tech advancement comes a productivity boom. Two economists are betting on whether artificial intelligence will usher in another.

www.marketplace.org

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Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Mar 20

With all the EU defense talk:

Did you know the F-16 fighter jets (and probably F-35) run #Kubernetes? ✈️

thenewstack.io/how-the-u-s-...

#DevSecOps #DevOps

How the U.S. Air Force Deployed Kubernetes and Istio on an F-16 in 45 days

Kubernetes, Istio, knative and an internally developed specification for “hardening” containers are now the default software development platform across the military.

thenewstack.io

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Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Mar 17

Is this true about the past?

"Different from today, well-designed research testing important issues could be published even if it was not especially novel or presented counterintuitive hypotheses. Even well-designed #replication studies were published."

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Mar 12

I feel there is a marketing research paper in this talk's data. Kudos to Stefan Magerstedt -- now someone only has to write it up for submission.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Jj...

38C3 - RadioMining - Playlist-Scraping und Analyse

YouTube video by media.ccc.de

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Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Mar 12

Nice insights on the future of the #WorldWideWeb and HTTP/3.

http3-explained.haxx.se/en/why-quic

Why QUIC | HTTP/3 explained

http3-explained.haxx.se

Joschka Hüllmann @johuellm.bsky.social · Mar 12

I love Google's extended etymological information box!