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55m! Apparently there was an emergency in another part of the building.
Currently in NYC trying to pick up a key my friend left with their doorman to feed their cat. Been waiting 20m and they are nowhere to be found :(
> I'm glad the work was contributed upstream and is useful to Pyodide and Cloudflare. But I think there is a meaningful difference between funding a contribution to an upstream project and funding the upstream maintainers who have to support it afterwards.
Any of the upstream maintainers consider blocking merge unless Cloudflare signs a support contract?
Not an easy process to navigate, but if you find an internal champion that can help make the case, maintenance can be funded. For critical deps, companies are generally down to budget some financial support if you ask and know how to work the process.
as a maintainer, seems nicer than getting a slop pr with no context.
Not on your list, but getting annoyed with streaming text. Just want to see the message when it is complete instead of getting blasted by large number of tokens rendering per second.
big opportunity to buy kan.bot
> If I understand correctly, my agent just needs to run `curl curl.md/targetsite.com` and it will receive the webpage in an optimized Markdown file format.
Yes, your agent can use it with `curl` or via the CLI, SDK, or agent plugins (currently Claude, OpenCode, Pi, Amp are supported). More info https://curl.md/docs/install
> Is there any specific depth until which curl.md will crawl?
No crawling yet. Focused on single page for now.
Posted by
meagher on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @10:36AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://curl.md/
Yet another URL -> Markdown service. curl.md's angle is it is focused on developers.One of the surprising things about converting HTML to Markdown: You often don't need to.- grab .md files from repos- append `/index.md` or `.md` to URL- use 'Accept: text/markdown' header- GitHub docs article API -> `/api/article?pathname=`- ... and lots of other shortcutsYou can try out:- the playground...
> Can you tell me more about the :: blocks thing. I didn’t know that was a Markdown element.
They are Markdown directives
Posted by
meagher on Friday March 06, 2026 @12:24PM
from the github.com dept.
This was a worry for me when leaving my full time job in 2022 to work on open source. Our OSS project was able to pay rent, but was concerned about healthcare costs for my partner and me (NY state has extended COBRA coverage, but it's extremely expensive). My co-founder lives in Australia, which has free basic health care, so he was up for leaving his job before I was.
Taking the risk was one of the best decisions I've made, but if I had a chronic health condition/higher healthcare costs, probably would not have been comfortable.
> Martin and Mike both advised strategic angels instead of friends and family to fill out the round, so that’s what we did.
How is Kevin Durant (pro basketball player) a strategic angel for a monitoring/observability company?
> Delight is overblown, in my opinion
Nerdsnipe perpetuated by other engineers/designers admiring it on Twitter. Nothing wrong with that, just shouldn’t pretend that most users care.
That would be great! Even if EV pollution is zero, cars still take up a lot of space in a city where space is very limited.
NYC doesn’t have a lot of surface parking lots.
Thanks for the correction. Updated.
> not sure why you think waymo would fight against that
If you were to pedestrianize 10% of Manhattan (or for example all of Broadway, which is being considered), then that’s less area for Waymo to operate and make money. To be clear, this is likely more of a long term issue.
It’s a step in the right direction, but they still pollute (heavy electric vehicles have a lot more tire dust) and take up a lot space (could close roads and build housing or just have more space for the millions of city residents that don’t have/use cars).
LTN still allow buses, emergency vehicles, deliveries, etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Traffic_Neighbourhood
I’d believe it, but the fact that any pedestrians/bikers are killed/injured by cars in NYC is unacceptable.
This is great long term for having cars that follow traffic laws since human drivers in NYC are awful (kill/injure pedestrians, bikers, and other street users all the time).
Not so great for getting cars out of NYC and pedestrianizing more of the city/moving towards more “low traffic neighborhoods” as I imagine Waymo and other similar companies are going to fight against these efforts.
Edit: Lots of people talking about human drivers taking advantage of self-driving cars being more cautious/timid. Good news is that once you have enough self-driving cars on the road, it probably slows down/calms other traffic (see related research on speed governors).
Seems possible that on/off-ramps are leveled up in the next few years as Stripe and other large financial institutions all try to launch and dominate stablecoins.
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There used to be something like this at the Boston Museum of Science, where you created a fish (don’t remember if you drew it freehand and/or selected from different fish parts) and released it into the tank with other fish and predators.
Does she pay for parking or benefit from the over 2M free parking spots?
The Federal Highway Administration tried to revoke its approval for the program (some federal roads in the congestion relief zone). Still being litigated last I checked.
Not sure where you are, but hopefully we try harder to move away from cars in the US and adopt more rail (light, high-speed long distance, etc.) so in that world, they get replaced with housing or literally anything else.