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Re:Monitors for Work on Saturday August 08, 2026 @05:25PM (#49226058)
Larger monitors are inversely correlated with productivity

Especially a second monitor. Often just used for watching youtube videos during work

Re:Codex-maxxing on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @01:56AM (#48189745)
Slop
Re:Radiant Computer on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @04:08PM (#45828048)
Urbit by BlueSky, with LLMs
Just get 5 Mac minis.
Re:OpenAI can stop pretending on Sunday June 01, 2025 @07:48PM (#44154668)
No they can't. They need to keep up the charade so their models follow the leader.
Re:Plain Vanilla Web on Sunday May 11, 2025 @08:23PM (#43958470)
aNd jaVaSCripT
Re:Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor on Friday May 09, 2025 @10:35PM (#43942795)
Can you open source it
Understandable
Maybe YC is the problem
Re:Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky on Saturday August 31, 2024 @08:21PM (#41413084)
Clearly given he is excited to receive the traffic
Re:HypChain, the first completely hypothetical blockchain on Monday January 02, 2023 @06:51PM (#34225446)
Bobchain already did this
Re:Zooko's Triangle on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @09:48PM (#32504239)
21e8 fixes this
Re:Ask HN: What do you do and what's your consulting rate? on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:06PM (#30188530)
$2180/hour mining magic numbers
Re:The Web3 Fraud on Saturday January 29, 2022 @07:37PM (#30132283)
web3 is just a javascript file
Re:Adobe: The Psychology of User Offboarding on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @04:00AM (#28299074)
This whole presentation is ironic. Get to the point
8gbit symmetrical available residential here in NZ
Re:Mighty Makes Google Chrome Faster on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @08:50PM (#26964052)
21e8
Re:Clubhouse Payments on Monday April 05, 2021 @08:36PM (#26706588)
I think because then they have to give 30% to Apple
I would say that gravitational waves break the idea that empty space is symmetrical
Re:Startup Goes Mrrrrr on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:56PM (#26042709)
cringe
Re:Proof of X on Sunday January 24, 2021 @05:15PM (#25896722)
#21e8
https://twetch.app is similar but more popular. Uncensorable isn't the word I would use - the data is stored on the blockchain but the website is just like any other. The difference is instead of needing to 'export' your data - it can be instantly accessed through the bitcoin network
These are namespaces with their own browsers, not browsers with their own namespaces
Because any attempt to do that gets quickly flooded by responses about how it's just totally impractical.

Apple can do it because all of their legacy architecture and organisational structure was put in place before the internet

Re:Forecast, don't guesstimate your software projects on Saturday June 13, 2020 @03:31AM (#23507592)
Came here to say this. If we can't forecast the economy at the scale of millions of people and trillions of data points you're not going to be able to forecast a company. We should focus on building organisations that are robust enough to withstand challenges that are thrown at them
Most of the cost of a supercomputer is from energy consumption
They are going to catch them

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