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Just yesterday it occurred to me that it had been a while since I last saw an SQLite post at the top of HN.

I really like the simplicity and speed of SQLite, I've used in both personal and professional projects. For day-to-day work I still end up in Excel, not because I like it more (I don't), but because its ubiquity makes it the lowest friction way to share & explore datasets with less technical stakeholders and execs.

Re:Email obfuscation: What works in 2026? on Thursday April 02, 2026 @12:20PM (#47616502)
I noticed that, too. Technically I think this is a version of JS conversion. Interesting that he doesn't specifically mention XOR in the article. He does suggest combining methods though. I suspect this is effective.
> So allowing housing prices to surge is literally taxing the poor for the benefit of the rich.

How do we limit home prices increasing? I see your point but solving this isn't trivial.

Re:Show HN: Remotely use my guitar tuner on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @11:15AM (#47324411)
Agree that most leave something to be desired. TC Electronic polytune is great and I also use the pedal to mute my signal. I'm surprised to say this, but my favorite tuner is the one in the L6 Helix.
I agree with the majority of your comment. I haven't yet found a use case to justify running this myself. I did find one use case that impressed me though. There's an OpenClaw agent that's actively answering questions on the #help channel of their Discord server[1]. So I asked it a question as I was getting started. It answered in < 2 mins with a detailed explanation of my issue, how to fix it, and asked relevant questions to guide me. The answer was better than I received from Claude or Gemini. I'm still not sure if I personally need OpenClaw, but the Krill bot offers pretty great support. I would be curious to know what it costs them to provide this.

[1] https://discord.com/invite/clawd

Awesome to see a project deal with prompt injection. Using a WASM is clever. How does this ensure that tools adhere to capability-based permissions without breaking the sandbox?
I know very little about cybersecurity, but my understand of TOR is that a node host wouldn't be able to offer much about the traffic coming across their server(s). The packages are encrypted and there is no entry or destination info, so he may be able to say how much traffic was coming across, but what else could he possibly know? Info on other nodes?
I like the NotebookLM podcasting feature, have used it a few times to come up to speed. There's one quirk of the dialogue that I find annoying though, the two speakers finish one another's sentences. At first I thought that was a nice touch, but it happens often enough that it became distracting. I should experiment with the prompt to limit how often it happens.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024) on Friday November 01, 2024 @02:10PM (#42019848)
I think this comment belongs in the sister thread, Who wants to be hired? [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42017578

Re:The Shining actress Shelley Duvall dies at 75 on Thursday July 11, 2024 @05:39PM (#40940845)
Thanks, I'm one of the lucky 10k today. This is great and I'd never seen it before.
Re:Take Ownership of Your Future Self on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @09:59AM (#39755796)
I'm sorry for your loss.
Re:Take Ownership of Your Future Self on Monday March 18, 2024 @10:56AM (#39745443)
I'm usually skeptical of this type of content, but this seems useful.

I accidentally did something similar, which has been very instructive. I play guitar as a hobby, and aspire to able to play improvisationally. I've struggled with this and at one point had all but given up. I realized the silliness of giving up because I can't do it now, and wondered is it possible for me to do this in 10 years? And if so, what can I practice today to be a better player next month?

This has worked. I'm less than a year into this and I'm already a better player. I'm more disciplined in my practice, I'm enjoying it more-and therefore more motivated to stick with it. When I sit in with a band I feel more prepared and am slowly getting comfortable experimenting.

I still have a lot of work to do, and I'm more eager than ever to do it. I've been wondering what other areas of my life would benefit from this attention.

Re:International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) on Thursday May 18, 2023 @10:18AM (#35988295)
I wondered the same, but apparently not. Excerpt from their About page[1].

> IMSLP, also known as the International Music Score Library Project or Petrucci Music Library, was started in 2006. The logo on the main page is a capital letter A. It was taken from the beginning of the very first printed book of music, the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton. It was published in Venice in 1501 by Ottaviano Petrucci, the library's namesake.

[1] https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:About

Re:Koenigsegg TFG Engine on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @08:09AM (#33420101)
I just learned about this engine. It's different because instead of a camshaft its valves are operated by pneumatic actuators. This detail makes it possible to switch between 2 and 4 stroke cycles depending on engine RPMs and load. The engine's controller can adjust valve timing to maximize performance, minimize fuel consumption or regulate emissions. The model that Koenigsegg is working on will be a 2L inline-3 capable of producing 300 HP (220kW) naturally aspirated. Pretty impressive.
Re:DALL·E Now Available Without Waitlist on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @06:32PM (#33014088)
Why do they require a phone number to begin with?
> Shouldn't their support care about the customer's personal info being shared with you?

I agree. The company is pretty large and has a support team. I'm guessing here but I think I'm a challenge for them because I'm not a client. They don't have a defined process for how to field my question.

> show up there looking for MyName and tell him/her about all the info you have on them...

The events are in another state (I'm in US), I'm not going to travel to chat up the individual. I have looked through the info to see if there's a way to contact them directly, its not a straightforward path. Thanks for your suggestion.

I like the certified letter approach, I'll check into this. I've considered getting an attorney involved but that could get expensive quick. Thanks for your suggestions.
I've known about Gmail rules but I didn't know that I could set it to delete. I'll check into this. Thanks you.

Ask HN: How to get a company to remove my email from an account

Hi HN, I have a sticky issue that I haven't been able to solve and am looking for ideas. My primary email is [email protected]. I've occasionally gotten email intended for others with my name, until now it has never been an issue.Then someone that shares my name created an account and used my email address as the primary email. At the time I didn't think anything of it, they wouldn't be able to...

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Agree. I've completed data pipelines for several projects and have found that the cleanest, and often fastest solution is to use SQL to structure the data as needed. This is anecdotal and I'm not an expert with SQL, but I haven't come across a situation where R or Pandas dataframes worked better than a well written query for data manipulation. This has the benefit of simplifying collaboration across teams because within my company not everyone uses the same toolset for analysis, but we all have access to the same database. Other tools are better suited to analysis or expansion of the data with input from other sources, but within our own data SQL wins.
Re:Best Raspberry Pi Projects on Wednesday May 04, 2022 @04:30PM (#31265436)
Have a look at Lobe [0]. I haven't found a use case for it personally but it looks promising. The caveat is that this would only handle cat identification, you would need to build & implement the opening mechanism.

[0] https://www.lobe.ai/

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