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Re:The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores on Thursday July 30, 2026 @04:25PM (#49115291)
Obligatory video from theonion: Blockbuster Offers Glimpse Of Movie Renting Past

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TrPwOrf4sM

"What's so poignant about this time is the uncertainty"

Re:Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles on Sunday July 12, 2026 @10:44PM (#48887220)
> a) a sizeable fraction of voters are not able to recognize AI-generated text b) many who notice don't care, or are willing to overlook it if the premise is interesting enough.

agreed.

For me, the issue I have is that a vocal group seems to despise AI-edited content and they can't manage to take their disgust eleswhere.

AI-editing is another tool, just like spellcheck.

My brother in tech. If anyone wanted to prove voter fraud it's President Donald Trump. Trump's campaign filed 62 lawsuits. 61 were lost, dismissed, or dropped. The other was a technicality. IANAL.

Get the vagueposting out of here.

Re: on Saturday June 20, 2026 @10:22PM (#48615090)
I've always wondered if we could find a way to add content website's content without it turning into a shitshow. MLS listings / Zillow is an interesting use-case. A realtor might describe something as "sun-filled" but omit that the home is next to a 24/7 dump truck repair warehouse.
Go a step further and switch to Mint, T-mobile's pay-as-you-go subsidiary. I'm paying $180/year for a single line. I've been on mint for ~3 years now.

On Mint your traffic is routed with lower priority than T-Mobile's main customers. In practice, I have only experienced this at busy airports and an MLB game - where basically service dropped to near zero. This is in the Boston area. Obviously not ideal if you're in those conditions regularly. Otherwise it's been awesome.

If the service is of interest my referral code is below. It gets you a $15 renewal credit for joining. Will the winds of votes love or hate a referral code? Who knows! apologies if I'm out of bounds. (I don't understand why it's out of bounds)

[0] http://fbuy.me/vks2P

Re:We Saved $500k per Year by Rolling Our Own "S3" on Sunday October 26, 2025 @10:48PM (#45716926)
I inherited an S3 bucket where hundreds of thousands of files were written to the bucket root. Every filename was just a uuid. ls might work after waiting to page though to get every file. To grep you would need to download 5 TB.
Re:The Death of Partying in the USA on Thursday July 10, 2025 @03:12PM (#44524457)
There is a nascent movement of families bringing back landlines for exactly this reason
Re:PDF to Text, a Challenging Problem on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @10:32PM (#43980118)
We will never get back the collective man-decades of time that has been burned by this format. When will the madness stop?
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) on Monday March 31, 2025 @10:48AM (#43535676)
TIL that there is a W3C WebMonetization spec - thanks for sharing.

Taking a look, it seems quite underwhelming[0] :( Lack of monetization on the web gave us the ad-driven content model that LLMs are now hovering up.

Have there been any other proposals for monetization?

[0] https://webmonetization.org/specification/

Re:Ask HN: Can we get a HN background color (dark mode) on Sunday February 16, 2025 @10:34PM (#43074812)
For desktop folks, I use the Stylebot Chrome Extension https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbmk...

I crank up the font size and set a serif font on the index page to make it easier to scan.

I had the same issue. Was able to use it to join via the discord app ("add a server").
Re:Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook? on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @02:20PM (#42784166)
> because say the CEO of a company is friendly to the President

OP didn't give say politics had anything to do with it. Let them nerd up if they want to.

Centralization around specific platforms has plusses and minuses. Having alternatives drives innovation.

He's flooding the zone and media is once again failing us.
Re:Why I Write My Own Obituary Every Year on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @01:08PM (#41722776)
I really like this idea! Could you share more about your letters?

What sorts of things do you include? I assume different topics for different people. Do the loved ones know that these letters exist?

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)? on Sunday September 29, 2024 @10:37PM (#41692984)
I'm pretty sure that the owners of Belmont Books in Belmont, MA also opened their store out of a love of bookstores & the community surrounding it. Best of luck to you! https://www.belmontbooks.com/ (no affiliation)
Re:From Gatsby gridlock to Astro bliss: my personal site redesign on Thursday September 26, 2024 @09:12PM (#41665303)
Gatsby gets shit on a lot - which I think is a but unfair. I find it to be a solid, well-documented platform. It has some rough spots, but show me a platform that doesn't.

The author also complains that:

> I couldn’t build the site locally or upgrade dependencies, leaving it outdated since 2019

This is true of many things in the javascript ecosystem. In react/node/js-land you HAVE to invest in maintenance (and re-writes) or be left with a legacy codebase that just might not work one day if npm install fails.

Mineis called README.md or notes.txt I use a similar hierarchical format - I use tabs for the hierarchy. I use markdown for most notes, but I find it somewhat incompatible with the tab-based note-taking that I prefer.

I share this in case there are others out there who work the same way. Let's band together to establish a tab-friendly Markdown variant!

Re:Figma Slides on Thursday June 27, 2024 @12:50PM (#40812507)
Keynote has had real time collaboration[0] for years. It's great.

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/keynote/intro-to-collaborati...

Re:Codestral: Mistral's Code Model on Thursday May 30, 2024 @01:49PM (#40526607)
dumb question - why not create smaller language-specific models?
Re:Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet on Friday May 24, 2024 @09:07AM (#40465825)
> Android tablet is a tough sell for my employer due to compliance, security, and such

From a compliance POV what's an acceptable alternative? Would some unix variant be any more palatable?

> Self hosted option? I'm sure that would drive people to adopt the likely great tech behind this.

It's a pretty compelling product. At my org we have a ton of components that we'd need to "brickify" to make them available in the editor. It's hard to justify the integration and maintenance effort with a SaaS. And hard give up the core of publishing to a 3rd party.

Re:How to commit part of file in Git on Friday February 16, 2024 @07:39PM (#39404993)
As does SourceTree. Also recommended.
Re:Explore interesting places nearby listed on Wikipedia on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @10:18PM (#39297589)
There's no lens of "good" or "interesting". Its just whether something is in wikipedia. This site is showing us that existence is wikipedia isn't that high of a bar to distinguish that something is actually interesting.
Re:jQuery v4.0 Beta on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @10:32PM (#39284136)
Just in case folks aren't familiar, this site breaks down jQuery features into web standard code: https://youmightnotneedjquery.com/
Re:Exotic selfhosted solutions for personal usage on Monday February 05, 2024 @12:34PM (#39263905)
I set up a raspberry pi + SDR antenna to publish a streaming audio feed just so I could listen to Red Sox games on my Sonos.
Re:Adding type safety to object IDs in TypeScript on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @09:52PM (#39199194)
Has anyone tried using custom types for ids in java?

I considered doing it on a recent project, but it doesn't seem very common so I was reluctant to introduce it.

Re:A peculiarity of the GNU Coreutils version of 'test' and '[' on Saturday November 25, 2023 @10:20PM (#38418879)
Thanks hn for doing what you do! I'm so glad to see this here.

A few months back I noticed '[' under /bin on my mac. I tried googling to understand what it was, but my google-fu came up short. It felt like one of those ungoogleable things. This link is an excellent starting point for me.

Re:The Unix timestamp will begin with 17 this Tuesday on Friday November 10, 2023 @09:56PM (#38227231)
There's a lot of epoch love in the comments. For me, it's never "clicked". I assumed that after seeing a ton of timestamps that I'd have a Neo-seeing-the matrix moment with timestamps but it just hasn't happened. Can you all easily decode them?

Is there talk anywhere of using a human-readable timestamp instead? e.g. YYYYMMddHHmmssSSSSZ

Re:Monitoring your logs is mostly a tarpit on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @09:32AM (#37048718)
This sounds awesome - pretty disk-heavy but worth it. How long do you retain these logs? What sort of user/request volume do you deal with?

Do you have any resources/blog posts/keywords for learning more?

Re:Github.com Is Down on Thursday June 29, 2023 @10:17PM (#36529752)
I've always wished we could all agree on something like "timeout Tuesdays" where everyone everywhere paused on new features and focused on cleaning something up.

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