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Re:SGI demos from long ago in the browser via WASM on Monday September 22, 2025 @12:29PM (#45335760)
And if you were teenage college students way more risque clips than Star Wars :-) One of my fondest memory is when a sophomore buddy of mine does a telnet and sets the display to local ip and starts clicking on random audio files. The operator on the other side is a freshman. Comes running to the other room sees my bud and being one year senior asks - dude that SGI is making weird noises. Realizing what has happened my buddy quips - ah it makes those noises when it is heavily loaded :-D
Do you work in GIS field and it is useful? I am trying to see how a GIS tool will help a typical audience here that may be a little interested in maps + data.
Framework for authoring Agentic Flows
Re:The suburban office park that launched Silicon Valley on Monday April 28, 2025 @11:41AM (#43822710)
I remember the absence of the 237-880 interchange. Getting onto 880 from 237 during the evening commute hours used to be a pain.
Re:M4 MacBook Pro on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @05:33PM (#42000631)
reading this for my late 2013 MBP. It is so old that I can't install the latest of Darktable on it.
Re:US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @07:28PM (#41793924)
Not directly related to antitrust but rather national industrial policy - there is a really good article on "Industrial policy without National Champions"[1] where the author also touches upon antitrust - worth a read.

"During that event, Cardiff Garcia did a fascinating interview with Paul Krugman, at the end of which Joe Wiesenthal asked a critical question. The United States, under Joe Biden, is embarking on an aggressive program of industrial policy even as it pursues increasingly vigorous antitrust enforcement. Aren't there tensions between these goals? Responding to an antitrust investigation of NVIDIA, Dylan Matthews similarly asked, "Here you have a tremendously successful national champion in a strategically critical industry. Is that exactly what you want[?]"

[1] https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/09/27/industrial-polic...

Re:AlphaChip transformed computer chip design on Friday September 27, 2024 @12:53PM (#41672846)
I must be old because first thing I thought reading AlphaChip was why is deepmind talking about chips in DEC Alpha :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha.
Re:From Gatsby gridlock to Astro bliss: my personal site redesign on Thursday September 26, 2024 @05:39PM (#41663725)
SAP used it for their CRM when they moved from desktop client to browser based clients.
Re:Apple iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max on Monday September 09, 2024 @02:51PM (#41492073)
It will be interesting to see how users will use the new dedicated camera touch control. Other phonemakers have tried it in the past (Sony Xperia comes to mind) but capacitative is probably the first. Also how developers will adopt for their apps. It is a small change but definitely differentiating for Apple at least for now.
Re:Why I'm building a Home Lab with K8s on Raspberry Pis on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @08:51AM (#40584200)
I have pretty much landed on a similar simple solution for my homelab. A minipc with dietpi + docker + dockge + bunch of homelab apps using docker compose. Important config backups on a S3 compatible bucket in cloud + photos backup on connected USB HDD.
Wow - wordstar makes a mention on HN. During the college days mid 90s some of the admins in our lab used Wordstar. For us kids it was Framemaker or Word. We couldn't convince the admins to move to a Windows 3.1 based hot modern UI :-)
Re:Running one’s own root Certificate Authority in 2023 on Saturday September 16, 2023 @04:25PM (#37538378)
I used to have my own local root CA as well but now trying the Let's Encrypt with DNS-01. What is the easiest combination of software to try it? I have failed miserably trying Opnsense + ACME client plugin + Cloudflare DNS + HAProxy / NGinx. I would get 100% ssllabs certs but somehow the reverse proxy won't forward to internal services. Next I am gonna go caddyserver for reverse proxy as it has SSL with LE inbuilt. Let's see.
Re:Patrick Collison on solar on Wednesday September 13, 2023 @07:45PM (#37503127)
It's almost as if everything on this earth is a reflection of Sun. We finally figured out how to harvest it at scale without depending on nature in the middle.
Re:Live telecast of Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @06:24PM (#37242652)
It will be cool to send a buddy drone with these landers. A minute or so before the touch down, detach from lander and shoot the landing. Then go back and attach with lander for charging and do periodic flights.
A comprehensive list comparing features

https://github.com/meichthys/foss_photo_libraries

Personally I use Photoprism installed inside TrueNAS Scale. They don't have a good mobile app that syncs with the NAS. So might try Immich in future.

"La Zona Blanca" ad [1] mentioned in the article is funny. But I do agree with the note "When did we decide on Hare Krishna cult members?" There must be better ways to spend the ad money OR may be Sega marketing was using Hare Krishna members as purple cows [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-XXTobhao4 [2] https://www.amazon.com/Purple-Cow-New-Transform-Remarkable/d...

I used to do Algo with a VM on GCP. But fly.io and tailscale has made this really simple. Try this if you are looking for an easier alternative https://github.com/patte/fly-tailscale-exit
Re:We raised a bunch of money on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @01:06PM (#36509349)
Razing money or not as a self proclaimed PaaS geek I have always enjoyed reading fly.io blogs. Two of my favorites are How they run containers as VMs [1] and How they outgrew Hashicorp Nomad and wrote their own scheduler [2]

[1] - https://fly.io/blog/docker-without-docker/ [2] - https://fly.io/blog/carving-the-scheduler-out-of-our-orchest...

At the risk of sounding old - this is called mediation part of the usage based billing in the Telecom/Utility billing, which happen to be the OG of usage based billing with millions of record. I have worked with Digital Route for this in the past. Definitely good to see newer architectures and thinking applied to this problem for newer use cases. Godspeed to OpenMeter.
Re:Ask HN: I just want to have fun programming again on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @01:52PM (#34712840)
Homeassistant is such a useful project. I use it for self hosting bitwarden, ubiquiti addon and bunch of smart home devices. For SSL I have been using local root authority but is a pain to maintain. I am able to access HA client from browser and Android phones but iPhones don't want to play. How did you do LetsEncrypt with HA?
Re:The Four Horsemen of the Tech Recession on Monday February 06, 2023 @01:24PM (#34681776)
I believed the same as well but then last year when I went back to my family doctor after more than 1.5 years, I got to hear another version. My doctor belongs to a group of doctors who have 4-5 offices around San Francisco bayarea. They have been in business for 25+ years and I have been with them for 15+ years. I asked him how did they do during the covid. His response shocked me - he said they came very close to closing their practice and PPP was what saved them. Of course no one was visiting them during pandemic but even when things started opening up they had staff shortages.

I am sure similar scenario would have happened for a lot of people and at the same time some businesses would have taken undue advantage of this as well.

Who remembers tourneys for Age of Empires at Sunnyvale Fry's.
Re:Five Mildly Anti-Buddhist Essays on Sunday January 08, 2023 @09:40PM (#34306053)
This in the article is so important in almost all domains of learning

"The point is that we should experiment with everything and pick what best fits our situation, reverence be damned"

It is the same conclusion that Hermann Hesse makes thru Siddhartha talking to his friend Govinda in one of my favorite books https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhartha_(novel)

Re:Ask HN: What sub $200 product improved your 2022 on Friday January 06, 2023 @04:40PM (#34281572)
Where is the AI that can parse thru 1000+ comments and make a summary post of all the products people love on this thread.
And where you have monopoly - true or due to cartel nature. Why does medicines cost so much in US. They are not differentiated for sure.
Re:Charging cars at home at night is not the way to go: study on Friday September 23, 2022 @01:08PM (#32954498)
Saw the Slashdot effect reference after such a long time. Not sure what % of HNers were there in the heydays of /.
Re:Ask HN: What HN post made you money? on Thursday August 04, 2022 @02:29PM (#32346552)
Came to say the same and searched for freshdesk before posting. This has to be one of the biggest ones.

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