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Re:Get Out of Technology
on Monday September 15, 2025 @12:45PM (#45251906)
Give it all away to everyone for free
But don't forget to charge for the ᴀᴘᴘʟɪᴀɴᴄᴇ
Re:Irrlicht Engine – a cross-platform realtime 3D engine
on Sunday September 14, 2025 @08:03PM (#45244617)
Blast from the past indeed! I ve toyed around with it, Ogre3D and others, finally setting down on P3D. Over a decade ago I maintained unofficial Panda3D Facebook page, and had page analytics track followers count again Ogre3D and Irrlicht Engine pages, trying to surpass them..
Re:Trigger Crossbar
on Sunday September 14, 2025 @07:37PM (#45244444)
The "root canal" side quest was definitely something. Kudos to author
Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes
on Sunday September 14, 2025 @07:16PM (#45244274)
Very interesting! Have you by any chance shared the recepies anywhere?
Re:One of Britain's largest stocks of second-hand books ever amassed
on Monday September 01, 2025 @07:49PM (#45097656)
As someone who often sees personal collections scathered around in the dust of flea markets, I would say there is nothing you can actually do to be safe. Even if your kids preserve it, their kids will _pay_ local gypsies to take it all away so they can renovate the houses and flats. From there it's as good as trash.
Re:About Containers and VMs
on Thursday August 28, 2025 @03:33AM (#45049475)
For those unfamiliar, Incus is 'replacement' for LXD. https://linuxcontainers.org/incus
Re:California teens are ditching office jobs – and making $100K before...
on Saturday August 23, 2025 @06:14AM (#44994832)
Arc time is 10-20% of welders workday.
Re:You Can Now Disable All AI Features in Zed
on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @12:50PM (#44661293)
> It's an IDE that respects the developer
Mind elaborating?
Re:AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?
on Monday July 21, 2025 @07:15AM (#44633851)
The story part is exactly what I appreciate though. The recipe, on most modern sites, is kinda separated, usually at the bottom, and often printable, anyway.
Re:Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker
on Friday July 18, 2025 @04:36PM (#44609553)
Care to elaborate? I was under impression they built cursor-server themself
Re:A look at IBM's short-lived "butterfly" ThinkPad 701 of 1995
on Friday July 18, 2025 @06:16AM (#44603040)
Re:Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker
on Sunday July 13, 2025 @04:16PM (#44553322)
It's their reimplementation.
Re:Lost Chapter of Automate the Boring Stuff: Audio, Video, and Webcam...
on Sunday July 13, 2025 @03:44PM (#44553014)
I guess it depends on the context? For example panda3d supports openAL, FMOD and Miles.
Re:Nvidia Is Full of Shit
on Sunday July 06, 2025 @08:23PM (#44485435)
Front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44482522
Re:'Shit in, shit out', AI is coming for agriculture, but farmers aren...
on Sunday July 06, 2025 @03:27PM (#44483292)
Waiting for the title to change to "The future of farming"
Neuralink Update, Summer 2025 [video]
Re:I ported pigz from Unix to Windows
on Monday June 23, 2025 @08:35PM (#44361704)
Seems to be updated, no?
Re:Using `make` to compile C programs
on Saturday June 14, 2025 @07:11PM (#44279454)
I've been doing the same for past 10 years. Plus automatic help target using comments and perl snippet
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
on Wednesday June 11, 2025 @06:11PM (#44252394)
Info in my profile. If you don't mind I'll shoot you an email, would love your thoughts on some things.
btw - hats down for your work @ PostHog! We are all big fans and deeply inspired by it
Re:Choosing MinIO vs. Garage for a self hosted S3 in 2025
on Saturday May 31, 2025 @06:41PM (#44147444)
Garage is great.
Re:What's Working for YC Companies Since the AI Boom
on Saturday May 31, 2025 @06:14PM (#44147301)
> But hardware is super capital intensive, right?
Depends on what hardware, who is developing it, and for who. Proof of concept is almost always cheap enough to make. Beauty of HW is that you get PMF straight away - even if you have the worst completely broken product, but it it brings value to someone, they will pay for it. From there you can bootstrap, take on credit etc. Capital intense part can wait - refinement, certifications, patents, packaging, documentation, mass production etc. This is of course all under assumption that the core team knows how to build everything, if you're outsourcing in the prototype phase then you're probably toast anyway.
> So the right kind of investor could add significant value if they were aligned.
I always perceived value of investors to be everything but the money. If you need just the money then get a loan.
Re:On File Formats
on Monday May 26, 2025 @04:58PM (#44101614)
Point is that SEE exists, and so do free alternatives.
> In my understanding SQLite's support for sqlar and ZIP occurred at the same time
I believe so too.
I agree with you on SQLAR being poor general-purpose archive or compression format compared to ZIP; what I'm arguing is that its very good file format for certain applications, offering structured, modifiable, and searchable file storage. We had great success using it as db/file format for PLM solution packed both as desktop and web app. Same database can then be used to power the web ui (single tenant SaaS deployments), and for desktop app (web export is simply a working file for desktop app). This file being just a simple sqlite db lets users play with data, do their own imports, migrations etc., while having all files & docs in one place.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
on Sunday May 25, 2025 @05:27PM (#44091314)
A hybrid between forum and (headless) CMS, with customer support tools built in, so people can build websites that are kinda like posthog.com without having to patch everything together from scratch (and instead focus on their actual product AND not lose their community content in slack/discord/whatever).
Checkout how posthog did it [1], it's an interesting approach. Having something that can support both devs and content folks (non technical) is great. It is easy to get bogged down in building the website and reinventing bunch of wheeels, instead of focusing on the product & content, esp in smaller teams.
[1] How PostHog built a community forum, roadmap and changelog on Strapi https://strapi.io/user-stories/posthog
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)
on Sunday May 25, 2025 @05:18PM (#44091227)
Now my lawyer will be using vscode too, sweet!
Re:On File Formats
on Sunday May 25, 2025 @05:11PM (#44091169)
I remember seeing the comment you linked few years back, and back then comments were already locked so I couldn't reply, and this time I sadly don't have the time to get deeper into this, however - I recommend you to research more about sqlar/using sqlite db as _file format_ in general, or at minimum looking at SQLite Encryption Extension (SEE) (https://www.sqlite.org/see/doc/trunk/www/readme.wiki). You can get a lot out of the box with very little investment. IMHO sqlar is not competing with ZIP (can zip do metadata and transactions?)
Re:On File Formats
on Sunday May 25, 2025 @02:38AM (#44086031)
sqlar proved a great solution in the past for me. Where does it fall short in your experience?
Re:Tallest Wooden Wind Turbine
on Friday May 23, 2025 @04:44PM (#44076435)
Have you actually looked into the arguments?
Re:Why does Debian change software?
on Thursday May 22, 2025 @11:23AM (#44063001)
> Debian avoids including anything in the main part of its package archive it can’t legally distribute...
Related: netadata to be removed form Debian https://github.com/coreinfrastructure/best-practices-badge/i...
Re:Crypto has become the ultimate swamp asset
on Sunday May 18, 2025 @07:45AM (#44020606)
Wild argument