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Re:AI's debt binge can't last, hidden borrowing reaches $1.65T
on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:42PM (#49161843)
https://capitaloneshopping.com/research/online-vs-in-store-s...
Basically, 80% of sales are still brick-and-mortar. That doesn't seem very depressing?
Re:SPF Record Syntax: Mechanisms, Qualifiers, Modifiers, and Macros
on Monday August 03, 2026 @10:15AM (#49156108)
> SPF record syntax follows one shape:
The first six words do not scream "human written" to me.
Re:Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
on Thursday July 30, 2026 @06:00PM (#49116416)
I took one of the examples ("Leveraging sqlpipe's robust...") and just prefixed it with this:
> Rewrite this using ASD-STE100 simplified technical English:
And you get a good-enough result, it seems? Maybe add another sentence or two for guidance, but what's with needing these giant skills, when ASD-STE100 was surely in the training material?
Re:UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA com...
on Thursday July 30, 2026 @05:28PM (#49116054)
I believe a big issue was that significant amounts of parking were closed at each of the host stadiums for "security reasons", fan watch areas, etc. When they did some overhead shots of the stadiums, you could see tons of empty parking lot space.
Re:The startup's Postgres survival guide
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @01:33PM (#49010394)
`timestamptz` is probably poorly named. It doesn't actually store a timezone at all - all values are stored as UTC. The underlying storage is 8 bytes and otherwise identical for both timestamp types. However, using `timestamptz` allows you to more easily group by day, hour of day, etc. in a non-UTC timezone when that makes sense. Especially when dealing with summer time/daylight savings time, this can be quite useful.
As far as storing a datetime with an associated timezone, I agree that usually this can be problematic. However, for things like weekly repeats, you may want to store broken out components so it handles cleanly across time switch boundaries - e.g. when going in and out of DST. So you'd have `timezone`, `time` (no TZ, no date), repeat schedule (likely using interval, internally stored in months/days/microseconds), and use these to set up your next exact timestamptz value.
Re:NYC Subway Signals: A Complete Guide
on Monday July 20, 2026 @12:22PM (#48981008)
Very similar detailed site for the Chicago L. Here's the signals page, but a ton more to explore as well: https://www.chicago-l.org/operations/signals/signals.html
Re:Interrail: 6,379Km and 13 Countries over 7 weeks
on Monday July 13, 2026 @11:26AM (#48894175)
Just an FYI- your "Read more" link under "Seat Reservations" on both pages just leads back to the same page, rather than actually linking to anything offering more information.
Re:Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network
on Monday July 06, 2026 @12:45PM (#48807180)
GTFS is widely adopted, "standardized", but also quite a wild west when it comes to the actual details. I've been building http://mobility-bot.com/ as a spare time project for two years, parsing the alerts GTFS feeds from a handful of providers, and for just about every one of them, I have to do something in the pipeline to clean up the provided data - fixing unicode issues, remapping route and agency IDs, rewriting headers and descriptions to not be identical, etc. You also have to watch and capture the data over time to make sure you have a corpus to generalize parsing and cleanup rules from.
Most of these projects made the smart choice to focus on a single or just a small handful of related providers. As soon as you're trying to aggregate, the problem becomes a lot trickier.
Re:Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network
on Monday July 06, 2026 @10:24AM (#48805100)
Meanwhile, the sad state of intercity trains in the United States, outside of the Northeast Corridor.
Re:Workers Cache
on Monday July 06, 2026 @09:35AM (#48804390)
Billion dollar company can't afford one human copywriter. The future is great! (edit: copyrighter -> copywriter)
Re:Show HN: ZeroFS – A log-structured filesystem for S3
on Thursday July 02, 2026 @10:06AM (#48761852)
> The test suites run in public CI.
> Each card links to the CI pipeline.
Thanks for being explicit, AI written marketing site. Wouldn't have been able to figure that out! Every currently maintained and reasonably popular open source project either runs CI in public or makes the tests extremely easy to run.
Re:The history of butterfly swimming
on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @12:41PM (#48558031)
> unveiling it to the confusion of officials and competitors in a 150 yard medley race in 1933
The article doesn't say, but did the medley relay/IM become a 4 stroke event around the same time in 1952 when FINA recognized it as a new stroke? Funny to see a 150 yard event mentioned since it seems like such an odd distance nowadays.
Re:But yak shaving is fun
on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @12:37PM (#48557959)
This feels like what is really splitting the programming community right now- those that have typically enjoyed the journey, and those that just want to be at the destination as soon as possible.
Re:Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks
on Thursday June 04, 2026 @12:35PM (#48401087)
> After this story was published Google's spokesperson reached out and asked us to publish a slightly different version of that statement. The new statement no longer stated that "it's critical that we maintain humans in the loop."
I'll let that stand on it's own.
Re:Restartable Sequences
on Monday June 01, 2026 @02:09PM (#48360508)
I definitely misread it, thanks for the empathy comment!
Re:Restartable Sequences
on Sunday May 31, 2026 @01:17PM (#48347491)
Love how the 512 GB of RAM documented in one of his setups as costing $2,776 now sells for $18,299. https://justine.lol/rseq/threadripper.html
Re:Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given "Predictable" ...
on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @11:14AM (#48295597)
> For example, when the GPU is fully idle, nvidia-smi tells me that it’s only pulling 88W of power.
I haven't used a non-laptop GPU in some time, but that is a crazy amount of "idle" power consumption. Is this normal for cards like this?
Re:Chemistry behind the Garden Grove chemical tank
on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @05:10PM (#48286014)
I believe they tried to inject some chemicals to slow the reaction, but the pump and/or valves failed and clogged.
Re:Smartmedia Card Spec Opened, available free (2000)
on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @03:52PM (#48213183)
My first MP3 player used it as well. I remember how much this memory card style felt like a 5¼ floppy disk, as opposed to most other formats at the time which were hard shell.
Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report
on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @02:54PM (#48212331)
> As a side effect, Terms-of-service acceptance records were also reset, prompting users to re-accept on their next visit to the dashboard.
Don't get me wrong- the rest of this mess falls pretty clearly on Google Cloud, but this one feels like something Railway did to themselves.
Using HTTP/2 Cleartext for a server in Go 1.24
Re:What “Amazon Supply Chain Services” Tells Us About What Amazon Is
on Monday May 18, 2026 @12:53PM (#48182192)
I wanted to find this interesting, but it has AI/LLM signs of writing all over it.
The dig in the middle - "you can skip the next part, but if you do skip, are you even a real reader? Not judging. Just saying" - ugh. Why would I bother reading every word if you likely didn't write every word?
Re:Snowflake Postgres, Lakebase, HorizonDB: Picking the Lock-In You Want
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @04:35PM (#48114172)
This reads like LLM generated post. "actually" is in three of the headers, among other signs. https://tropes.fyi/
Re:The Rise of the Bullshittery
on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @03:55PM (#48113563)
This is an Internationalized domain name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name) - the actual domain shows up in browsers as マリウス.com but HN unfortunately doesn't decode or show it that way.
What If Ed Tech Peaked 200 Years Ago?
Using the Tiptap rich text editor with a Go back end
Re:Using the Tiptap rich text editor with a Go back end
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @08:52AM (#48048829)
I wrote up our experience of how to get Tiptap to play nice with a Go backend server, along with a lot of inline code snippets and a gist with the backend code. Happy to answer any other questions I may have missed in writing it up.
Even if you don't use the Tiptap editor, hopefully the idea of a sidecar container is helpful to someone trying to solve a similar problem of allowing Typescript/Node code to interact with Go.
Re:Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @08:51AM (#48048813)
Wow, did not know this site was still online. I apparently have a user ID in the 200s, was an early sign up to the site. https://www.ticalc.org/community/directory/
Re:Going Full Time on Open Source
on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @03:01PM (#48040201)
Good luck, and I hope it works out! Make sure you are ready to ride the roller coaster of highs and lows, as there are going to be many. Remember that your time and experience are the most valuable things you have - make sure you're in control of both.