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Re:Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs on Monday October 26, 2026 @06:18PM (#50251921)
This is nice, but doesn't really have a way to easily close those tabs. I still need to manually hunt for them one-by-one and close them. I don't think this would scale to 12k tabs.
Re:Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines on Friday October 23, 2026 @04:56PM (#50215207)
Filters are included, as well as high quality fans, AC/DC converter and speed controller, and the portable/collapsible enclosure. It's really not that expensive vs trying to put together the parts yourself, and it's tested to work very well compared to other more expensive filters.
Re:Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines on Friday October 23, 2026 @03:09PM (#50213918)
One of the best air purifiers you can get (linked in the above writeup) uses PC fans and a custom controller where you can control the speed/volume: https://housefresh.com/best-air-purifiers-we-tested/#2-best-...
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:56PM (#50079450)
I have Ultra and went to try it and...

"Unavailable · Gemini 4 Argon is currently available to Ultra plan subscribers."

Re:CalVer 26.0: 10th Anniversary Edition on Sunday October 11, 2026 @02:20PM (#50046154)
I've been using semver for ages and I never realized it banned leading zeroes. Guess it makes sense, how many octal bugs were avoided?
Re:All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:19PM (#49997529)
Unfortunately camel^3 and others are easily gamed now by "on-page coupons" which keep the price the same or lower normally and can trick the price tracker into thinking it's a good deal when it's actually just the normal price.

This video has a good summary at the beginning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MsndlciGWA

Re:Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:44AM (#49878821)
Yes, openrouter providers are all over the place (in a bad way): https://mmoustafa.com/blog/so-you-want-to-use-openrouter/

I've experienced this firsthand and now I generally pin to providers that I trust on openrouter, or just pony up and pay for the real thing.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @04:24PM (#49703399)
For the avgeeks: Turning ads-b feeding into a game: https://adsb.win/
Re:The coolest use for the Vision Pro on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @07:13PM (#49104298)
The best part about Kagi is you can set it to redirect reddit links to old.reddit.com to avoid the enshittification
Looks interesting, but in order to actually compete with any e-signing platform you'll at the very least need to have templates with pre-filled information, an API to autofill docs with required information, and more field types. Right now for example, you can only add text, checkbox, and date/signature fields. Checkboxes are required to be checked (no making them optional), so if there are multiple checkbox options, they have to check them all to continue. Not very useful for actual e-signing flows.
Re:Telegram Serverless on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @04:38PM (#48926749)
Probably doesn't cost much at all to run some servers to spin up javascript functions, compared to their massive storage costs. It's at best a fraction of a percent of total costs.

Whether or not they (or discord for that matter) can sustain a profitable business in the long term is another question.

Re:My Midlife Crisis Corolla Is Fast, Furious, and Modded on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @04:18PM (#48926515)
Just had to look this up, impressive specs for a Subaru. They've had some pretty lackluster EVs in the past (along with Toyota), but this one actually seems like a good combination of range and performance (375hp equivalent and 281 miles of range). Doesn't have super fast charging, which isn't a dealbreaker at the pricepoint.

I've got a Volvo C40 currently which is 400hp and likewise impressively fast, but the range is absolute trash (230mi claimed, usually more like 200mi). Otherwise the vehicle is nearly perfect.

Re:My Midlife Crisis Corolla Is Fast, Furious, and Modded on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @04:12PM (#48926449)
I absolutely can't stand the suspension on Teslas, some of the worst ride quality of any modern vehicle.
Re:Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended on Monday July 13, 2026 @07:29PM (#48900345)
They used to, before they got bought out by private equity and started jacking up the rates. Moved all my domains to porkbun since then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243123

Re:Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended on Monday July 13, 2026 @07:00PM (#48900084)
how about .to? that's what i'm mainly using for my url shortener/redirects and haven't run into any issues... yet
Re:I Built a Telegram Client for Pi on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @04:51PM (#48837247)
This is awesome, I use telegram as my main chat app with all of my friends and coworkers. Now I need to figure out how to dockerize this and run it on my NAS so it's not reliant on my laptop being online.

Maybe can figure out a workflow to make a branch, deploy it and give me a cloudflare tunnel link to test it, and if approved merge the changes into main branch and deploy to prod. The vibes are off the charts.

Re:Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @02:46PM (#48751458)
Highly recommend setting up your own photo hosting and backup. People love Immich, but ente.io is also great! Much better than trusting your photos to a single microSD card which may die at any moment.
Re:A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer on Monday June 15, 2026 @10:02PM (#48549642)
Seems like it actually loads a PNG image now, maybe the npm script adds some additional headers to trigger the payload.
Re:Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @07:42PM (#48129188)
Now it's showing "self registration is currently disabled, please contact customer support"
Re:Southwest Headquarters Tour on Monday May 04, 2026 @05:08PM (#48015022)
This actually isn't the case anymore, plenty of non-US airlines allow beards and the new masks still provide perfect oxygen flow. It's more of a "professional image" thing in the US.
Also happy to test it out on Gnome
Re:Ghostty is leaving GitHub on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @01:20PM (#47951463)
I was a day after you, march 27th. #67730
Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model on Thursday February 26, 2026 @04:26PM (#47172202)
Yes, and my point is that the (supposedly) real human is also AI. You're chatting with a bot.
Re:Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal on Thursday February 26, 2026 @03:44PM (#47171783)
Yeah I think it's something like a 20+ year lifespan, I doubt I'll even be living in the same house in 20 years.
Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:54PM (#47171172)
Then please explain what you're talking about.
Re:Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:40PM (#47171009)
If you don't think that OF models are using AI to reply to incoming chats from users, well I've got a bridge to sell ya.
Re:Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal on Thursday February 19, 2026 @09:29PM (#47082920)
I got an electric one so I never need to remember to replace mine!
Yeah, it's only at a 6.355B market cap, complete failure!
Re:Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:24PM (#46875931)
Wow, very angry and uninformed comment. No airplane owners are lobbying for lead. As a pilot with a personal airplane that runs on avgas, we all want lead to go away too. But it's a problem with FAA regulations, and an infrastructure problem where every airport nationwide needs to have separate fuel tanks/trucks with leaded fuel and the newer lead-free alternatives simultaneously, which is a massive expense. Plus, there is no consensus on which lead-free alternative is safest for old engines, so we're still waiting on data.

California has a few airports that are stocking the lead-free alternatives, but that's about it.

But yes, blame the small aircraft owners if it makes you feel better.

> "piston engine aircraft carry virtually no vital role in anything except people flying them for fun"

I guess we just shouldn't train new pilots then.

Re:I taught my neighbor to keep the volume down on Sunday February 01, 2026 @03:16PM (#46849002)
Just got a new OnePlus 15 last month and it has an IR blaster built in. Works great

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