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This pic reminds me of the Children of Time series of novels
Re:Starcraft: Ashfall on Sunday October 18, 2026 @11:08PM (#50147926)
Is this AI generated? Pretty impressive if that is the case
Re:Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @07:46PM (#49618775)
I think his point is that AI is not creating new problems. It may solve "the Riemann hypothesis" but may completely fail to posit a "Mythos hypothesis" which is vital to advance the field. In fact, achieving the former may make the latter even harder because it will disincentivize production of human mathematics which has till now been the only source of "interesting" problems.

FWIW this is my understanding of his argument and I am not a mathematician.

Re:Incident with Github.com on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:06AM (#49332267)
Check out Haxxy, it has a lot of fresh ideas related to issues/pr management

https://youtu.be/iBDUTaKWVdU

Re:UPI: Anatomy of a Payment Transaction on Sunday July 12, 2026 @12:12AM (#48878177)
Most mom and pop stores (Kirana stores) in India cannot get a PoS device easily. UPI solves this problem by being much easier for merchants to onboard and start accepting payments with just a QR code instead of a PoS device.
Re:The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies on Thursday July 02, 2026 @02:38PM (#48765638)
Reinventing Socialism from first principals
Re:NPM packages from Red Hat have been compromised on Monday June 01, 2026 @12:57PM (#48359458)
From this we can see a few patterns: https://www.npmleaderboard.org/

Node.js doesn't have good support for regex, handling files, streams, serving static html, routing, operations on lists/dicts.

Re:NPM packages from Red Hat have been compromised on Monday June 01, 2026 @11:18AM (#48357983)
The problem is that node.js doesn't have a good standard library so one must rely on external packages to build even basic apps.
I hope ronan farrow doesn't mind his article being shared like this
This looks interesting. What I don't understand is: how was it implemented without a server relay. I am no expert in WebRTC (or P2P for that matter) but I always assumed that there needs to be a central location for users to exchange their addresses and only then a P2P connection can be established. This must be the case here as well right? Or am I mistaken?
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) on Sunday March 30, 2025 @07:51PM (#43529057)
I am working on a standalone CLI tool that can do analytics find it here: https://github.com/nafey/minimalytics

Motivation for the project:

> This project was born out of the need for a lightweight analytics tool to track internal services on a resource-constrained VPS. Most SaaS analytics products either lack the scalability or exceed their free tier limits when tracking millions of events per month. Minimalytics addresses this gap by offering a minimalist, high-performance solution for resource-constrained environments.

I recently did a Show HN which you can find on my profile.

Thank you! Copying and processing the sqlite is always an option but I agree something like CSV exports are a good feature to add.
Wow. It looks like the two of us were responding to the same underlying needs. Great to see your project.
This is an interesting use case. I can definitely see how a colored cell in a grid can serve as a visual indicator to monitor health of infrastructure. Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you! I already had experience working in React so I decided to use it for the first release.

I am thinking about switching to HTMX to further reduce size, simplify and improve performance.

Thank you that's a good suggestion. I'll do that.

Show HN: Minimalytics – a standalone minimal analytics app built on SQLite

https://github.com/nafey/minimalytics

Hi everyone! I wanted to share my analytics app with you.This project came from requirements to track certain very frequent events. I found that the cost to do it on a regular analytics product was much more than i was willing to pay. Secondly, I also wanted to use as few resources as possible. So I thought it may be a good idea to create something that may be useful for myself (and hopefully...

( Read More... | 12 comments | 2 points | on HN )
Just adding a static website with screenshots of the product will be a great upgrade for users who are interested to learn more before signing in.
They want more users, not more utilization. Utilization is the effect of users not its cause. They are happy to have utilization increase as long as they keep getting more users. If the utilization increases while number of users remain constant because people (like OP) are using CPU intensive programs then that is not in their interest.
Re:JavaScript dates are about to be fixed on Saturday August 24, 2024 @07:06PM (#41342582)
Wow thanks for sharing this, this certainly is a use case not covered by the system I proposed. I imagine this will require versioning of the timezone so we can translate our America/Los_Angeles v1.0 timestamp to America/Los_Angeles v2.0.
Re:JavaScript dates are about to be fixed on Saturday August 24, 2024 @01:29PM (#41339789)
I have always wondered why breaking the timestamp (in UTC) and the timezone into two separate data points and storing both is not the accepted solution. It appears like the cleanest solution to me.
Re:Notion about their usage of WASM SQLite on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @10:58AM (#40986633)
I believe it's a missed opportunity not to bundle sqlite in major browsers. I understand that making SQLite part of the browser spec introduces all sorts of complications [1] down the line. But nevertheless, it would have proved to be quite a nifty tool.

[1] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...

Re:Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all charges on Thursday November 02, 2023 @08:54PM (#38122871)
Also he was stupid, any other billionaire would have relocated to a country that does not have extradition treaty with the US.
Re:Archaeologists discover world’s oldest wooden structure on Thursday September 21, 2023 @02:06AM (#37593783)
Well he also thinks that Egyptians used Sonic energy of their chants to build the pyramids.
Re:UPI Payments: 10B Transactions a Month Done, Next Stop 100B on Sunday September 03, 2023 @03:10AM (#37368352)
Interac is not real time. UPI is completely real time and money gets debited from your account and deposited to the merchants account instantly.

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