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I started out "self-hosting" by paying for self-hosted app instances on PikaPods, but then I learned could get a $5 VPS and run most of the same apps there for less cost overall per month while knowing very little about how it all works (using CapRover on a DigitalOcean VPS).

The main apps I run are Actual Budget (YNAB alternative), Wallabag (read-it-later service), and FreshRSS (RSS aggregator).

I've also been using the VPS to run some scripts daily for my planet site(s): they ingest RSS feeds, regenerate the static site files, and push the files to my static site host (https://pgs.sh) instead of worrying about hosting them myself (threatening the VPS's apps).

As some others have mentioned, the /new page is a better source for the quirkier stuff. I'd recommend checking out the HN blogs newsletter, which rounds up a lot of those types of things since they're items that were posted to personal blogs: https://hnblogs.substack.com

I don't code much in my position (State of California), but I'm pretty sure the public sector/government is a solid bet. Government has a major reluctance to use (and depend) on techniques and tools that haven't been proven out for like 5+ years. I suspect that most government coders' practices aren't at a 2021 best practices level yet.

Watching it in the theater was a fun experience. It seemed like most of the audience were containing their laughter, but me and one other guy were just belting out laughing. It'd be fun to go see again simply to get a sense for how many people will be less reserved with their laughter.

No, none that I'm recalling. I think there was one that had a table of the prior few days' key metrics, but it was way down the page and just in a table format, way less intuitive than how your tool shows this info.

Relatedly, I would love it if a site offered some info about how irregular a place's recent weather has been lately. This would be really nice for a place you're vacationing in or visiting with an interest in moving there.

I love the graphs, it's a very neat approach!

I also greatly appreciate getting to see the past few days' history for my location - too many weather sites are only really forward-looking, and I sometimes want to compare to a prior day when the current day feels different somehow.

Have you posted anywhere online about your experiences with color e-ink displays? I think they're super neat, and I love the idea of using dithering for them. :D

Neat! I really liked the look of the Floyd-Steinberg algorithm in the article, so when I googled for a web tool that'll do it for me, I found the tool mentioned here: https://www.ascii-magic.com/styles/dither

It has some fun animation options and settings to play with, and there's other dithering algorithms to play with.

I haven't read Kant, but I like this description so much that I how it's indeed a good summary of some of his works. o7 Is this the main idea of Critique of Pure Reason?

Yay for dictation! It's so nice to just think aloud and then have an easily editable record of your thoughts, even when you aren't feeding the outputs to LLMs.

Post the link as a non-Show HN post?

Heh. Sometimes when I'm stuck at work and feeling unmotivated/catch myself procrastinating, I'll write out my thoughts in my OneNote notebook that I take all work notes in. I do kinda cringe about the idea of IT reading those notes sometimes, but oh well, and it's helped a lot.

This is connecting to another commenter's idea that AI can be sort of a stand-in for journaling.

Any idea if there's a place where we can request games for decompilation?

I see that one for Burnout Paradise is in the works, but I would love one for Burnout Revenge.

> I almost feel like she writes to share things with people she loves, even though she doesn't know them directly.

Thank you for articulating this!

I'm not Julia, but I'd just like to put down here that this is pretty much my philosophy for public speaking/giving presentations, and I have been trying to instill it in some coworkers who struggle with presentations. It's a great privilege to be able to convey to one's peers and loved ones things that you're (likely) a bit more familiar with than they are and which may help them with some matter.

Is this the talk? https://youtu.be/YBZ6JFrfuiM?si=6ZdZph8GxOy-OLHZ I'm curious to see it!

Any idea if there's a way to get the Shorts-only feed?

I was curious to see them, too, so I uploaded the HTML examples here: https://tacticaltypos-tools.pgs.sh/mdv/examples/out/

From what I've heard through self-publishing media, nowadays, traditional publishing isn't even particularly disposed towards pushing back on things like these. They might even be all for publishing works based on outright lies if there's an existing customer base with open wallets.

Supposedly traditional publishing has become more and more conservative (not necessarily politically) with the risks they take on things they publish, so they'd be less likely to push back against widely-held ideas that are outright wrong. They'll really only publish authors with an established following or works that have a large base of interested consumers.

Edit: I just wanted to add that since I've heard these things so much, going to a bookstore like Barnes & Noble feels super weird. The books look nice, but they're all expensive and I have no sense that the selection has been curated for genuine quality or informational content. It's just what happens to being published now.

I greatly prefer the experience of going to thrift stores like Goodwill where the selection is chaotic, there's no real expectation of curation aside from maybe broad categories, and the books are gloriously cheap. You can find great stuff there!

Yeah, Iran (at least) is having its own 9/11 moment, and it's all thanks to Trump.

> The containers are, however, heavy, unwieldy, and prone to absorbing moisture.

Sounds like they'd only really make sense for surviving in dry environments. But still quite neat!

> I've been living in Finland for 10+ years, and this whole story was super surprising for me to learn because the prevailing notion among people here is that Finland is the land of law, and everything is done correctly and legally, always, and we can and should trust the authorities.

I'd pretty much grown up believing that that's how the US worked post-slavery (aside from occasional deviances from the rule). Since the start of the pandemic, I've had quite the awakening.

I wasn't aware that there are people who want it to crash. I've just been getting the feeling that no one understands why it isn't crashing or hasn't crashed yet amidst a bunch of really destabilizing policies.

This tool called Quartz, it's pretty neat: https://quartz.jzhao.xyz

I like that it allows us to set different depth levels for the full graph view and the individual note's view.

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