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Re:New Apple TV 4K on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @10:58AM (#50072766)
That price rise happened a few months ago. One theory at the time was that it was partly to soften the blow of the new price for the next generation.

Personally I didn't expect a new generation to be a full $100 more though...

Re:Takeshi's Castle on Saturday October 10, 2026 @05:20PM (#50037305)
I can hear his laugh just reading this
Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:03PM (#49980481)
France is actually pretty cheap in Europe. About 15% more than average USA electric prices (but I know that varies a lot across the states so still likely much more than the cheaper areas)
Re:Ask HN: How do you manage skills files? on Monday September 07, 2026 @04:26AM (#49595542)
That's exactly what skills do.

The description in the front-matter (at the top of the skill markdown file) is the only thing in the context and used by the agent to determine when to read in the rest of the skill file.

Re:FFmpeg 9.0 on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @07:03AM (#49166886)
FFMpeg 8.0 came out August 22nd, 2025

8.1 came out 4 months ago on March 16th, 2026

Maybe you're thinking of VLC which has been stuck with a stable v3 release for almost a decade while work on v4 continue?

Re:Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 on Thursday July 30, 2026 @01:20PM (#49112915)
You essentially see the desktop version zoomed out by default with tiny text. You need to zoom in, but the line length is still desktop sized so you need to scroll left and right as well as up and down to read it.
I think the idea is that it gives a bit of time for the companies which run automated scans of new versions to run through and detect any issues with new versions before users install them en-mass.
Why does it need millions of users to be useful to the individuals which use it? It's not a social media site, so I don't care how many other users they have as long as it's a sustainable business for them to keep providing a service to me.
As someone who lives on a residential street right by a primary school in the UK, the majority of drivers are going over 20mph even at the peak time when there are children everywhere.

While in theory human drivers should be situationally aware of the higher risks of children being around, the reality is that the majority will be in their own bubble of being late to drop their kid off and searching for the first free spot they can find.

This is great and similar to what I was thinking of doing at some point. I just wasn't sure if it needed to be specific to Sweep Local or if it could be a generic llama.cpp provider.
If you lease a car the owner of the vehicle isn't the driver, but the lease company itself. Tesla was contacted to provide the drivers name (as is their legal obligation) and when they didn't they were fined.

Exactly the same is true if you own the car outright. You as the owner of the vehicle will be contacted and asked to provide the details of the person who was driving at the time.

Re:Show HN: Pipenet – A Modern Alternative to Localtunnel on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:05PM (#46681483)
Would this be able to support TCP and UDP in the future?
Re:UK secures record supply of offshore wind projects on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @07:44AM (#46615392)
Yes, negative is rare, but I wouldn't say that it's overwhelmingly expensive.

The median range is 15p-20p (60% of the time in December) and the UK "price cap" is about 26.35p.

With a tariff like that, shifting usage outside of 4pm-7pm can lead to massive savings. With our usage from the Octopus API, I can see from OctopusCompare that in the past month my effective average unit cost would be 19.24p/kWh, and we don't do any specific load shifting.

Re:Monzo Is Down on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @12:07PM (#46603962)
Related: Very interesting article about Monzo's "stand-in" system which allows the app to be run with minimal services running in a different cloud in the event of a full outage of their primary systems:

https://monzo.com/blog/tolerating-full-cloud-outages-with-mo...

Re:Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15 on Saturday January 10, 2026 @11:17AM (#46566957)
We do have bicycle ambulance which carry a defibrillator [0]

The 40 paramedics attend over 17,000 calls a year and the average response time is 6 minutes.

[0] https://www.londonambulance.nhs.uk/calling-us/who-will-treat...

Re:SQL Studio on Thursday January 08, 2026 @05:35PM (#46547474)
I prefer the pricing model of TablePlus[0].

$99 for the current version forever with 1 year of updates. Once that expires you can keep using the last version you had access to forever, or get another year of update for $59.

Fair and flexible for everyone.

[0]https://tableplus.com/pricing

Pretty much every electric car has charging stops built-in to the navigation. For some the quality of the data isn’t as high, but it will be there.

Many like Polestars and Renaults are built on Android Automotive (different from Android Auto) and the built-in navigation is full Google Maps with direct access to the cars battery state and control systems.

Works perfectly on my Renault Megane E-Tech.

Such an easily debunkable line with even the tiniest bit of critical thinking.

You’re basically saying the drug companies subsidise a loss in Europe by over charging Americans, right?

As the drug company is a private and doesn’t have to sell everywhere, why wouldn’t they just skip the loss making Europeans and just sell to Americans? They’d make more profit that way!

That must mean they make some profit from the European prices, otherwise they wouldn’t be bothering.

Thank you for the confirmation. I have updated to 4.13.0 anyway.
Your status page isn't clear, but are all versions between the compromised and "safe to install" versions compromised or just the ones listed?

For example I installed `posthog-react-native` version `4.12.4` which is between the `4.11.1` version which is compromised and the safe to install version `4.13.0`. Is that version compromised or not?

Re:iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @05:36PM (#45893841)
The iPhone hasn’t had a “real” home button since the iPhone 7 in 2016. It’s a static touch pad with haptic feedback.
It’s buried in the “new widgets” section:

> As part of the Family Hub™ software update, we are piloting a new widget for select Cover screens themes of Family Hub™ refrigerators. The widget will display useful day-to-day information such as news, calendar and weather forecasts, along with curated advertisements

For homelabs, yer you can get something much better for much less.

For use cases where consistency and future support is key (education and industry) you really can't beat a Raspberry Pi. Their hardware and software support is top class. The first Raspberry Pi is still supported by the latest version of their OS over a decade later and it's even still being manufactured.

For all their products they commit to long term availability. For example, the Pi 5 will be in active production until at least January 2036 (assuming the company itself exists of course).

For anyone with a fleet of these, that's an amazing commitment. It means that when a piece of hardware breaks you can buy a band new but identical piece of hardware to replace it.

For most other companies you'd need to buy a different piece of hardware. Yes, the specs would be better, but now you have a fleet with mixed hardware which _you_ need to support and maintain going forwards.

Re:Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @02:14PM (#45364001)
All makes sense. I presumed it was an oversight.

It’s hard for me to conceptualise what a million tokens actually looks like, but I don’t think there’s a way around that aside from making proving some concrete examples of inputs, outputs, and the number of tokens that actually is. I guess it would become clearer after using it a bit.

Re:Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @01:52PM (#45363726)
I completely get why this pricing is needed and it seems fair. There’s a major flaw in the announcement though.

I get that the pro plan has $5 of tokens and the pricing page says that a token is roughly 3-4 characters. However, it is not clear:

- Are tokens input characters, output characters, or both?

- What does a token cost? I get that the pricing page says it varies by model and is “ API list price +10%”, but nowhere does it say what these API list prices are. Am I meant to go to The OpenAI, Anthropic, and other websites to get that pricing information? Shouldn’t that be in a table on that page which each hosted model listed?

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I’m only a very casual user of AI tools so maybe this is clear to people deep in this world, but it’s not clear to me just based on Zelda pricing page exactly how far $5 per month will get me.

Re:Gutenprint Discontinues macOS Support on Saturday August 23, 2025 @07:53PM (#45000072)
Dye sublimation printers is another reason. Gutenprint has great support for those
No. It's implemented in native code (Zig) inside bun itself and just exposed to developers as a JavaScript API.

Source code: https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/tree/6ebad50543bf2c4107d4b4c2...

In the UK most are directly from the grid. A few like the InstaVolt charging hub in Winchester have batteries installed on site. These are filled at off peak times using cheap power so there’s less load on the grid and cheaper rates for customers.

That’s not typical currently though and I presume it’s similar elsewhere.

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