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They are most likely referring to the overall size of the whole website including all generated HTML for posts, static content, styles etc.

Certain smartwatches offer a "pebble mode" feature like the Xiaomi band 9, you can get a keyring case for it and just attach it like that. I don't think it has automatic switching between exercise modes just tracking for steps etc.

A fan chiming in. I'm really happy someone someone is tackling this and it's looking good. One thing: can we get a demo instance just for initial snooping? A screenshot or two is fine but to get a feel for features it would be nice to have something (even heavily limited) we can just interact with?

Whoop targets a pretty solid demographic of people who seem to want an auxillary training coach (the app tells you when to go to sleep) and don't want a typical smartwatch experience.

I'm not sure where modern smartwatches stand in terms of accurate readings but if I remember correctly it is still a minefield of inaccuracies. A watch for 50 dollars will _probably_ not do as well at reading your vitals as a watch for 200-500 dollars. Given Whoop markets itself as backed by science and seems to take the lead in studies on accurate heart rate readings[1].

Couple the above with great marketing and a decent kit of software and you have a difficult champion to dethrone. Hardware is expensive, marketing is difficult, a good app is hard to make, and putting together all three at once _while_ fighting a niche market is a struggle!

While 30/month can be difficult to swallow for someone that runs or swims as a casual hobby, someone that already pays hundreds a month for equipment, coaching, gym memberships, can have an easier time justifying it.

[1]: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/16/6317

I'm not sure how I feel about the take on "disappearing pillars". I think that knowledge and expertise in the different "pillars" the author describes has become easier to access, reducing the moat around the individual pillars and allowing greater overlap between professions. So while you might not need a "sales team", you do need "sales knowledge". Cloud solutions are amazing until they are not and you need "infra knowledge" to understand where you are going wrong and to evaluate potential solutions.

I would argue that at a given size, scale, and growth you would find yourself looping back to the "original pillars".

The example of Neartail[1] competing with Shopify is a prime example of this. Shopify has a large market cap, shareholders demanding profits, a large quantity of paying customers. Neartail has none of these, it may have paying customers and it may have some potential in the future but it is currently all within the sphere of control of a few individuals.

Obviously a lot of what I'm saying is self-inflicted, you don't _have_ to grow endlessly but if you _do_ you need many decision makers and domain knowledge simply starts to reach limits for individuals (even when using AI).

The market for TODO list apps is 1 for every person in the world, everyone has a slightly different subjectivity and therefore has a slightly different optimal experience when it comes to TODO lists. Subjectivity is formed over time and through the course of events, therefore the market for TODO list apps is 1 for every person in the world for a given timeframe.

It's an obvious hyperbole but I think it stands to show that, in a similiar fashion, there is a reader (and by some aggregation readers plural) for everything you might think of writing.

How to get started with web development in 2025? What is ray-casting? How to emulate a piece of hardware in <language>? What I had for dinner tonight!

It may not be that everything is viral or a hit but you should find that most of the content you right will resonate with _someone_ and potentially help multiple _someones_.

Sometimes being satisfied with that 10-100 readers is all there is to it.

I've had good success teaching markdown to a fair few non-techie people. At the end of the day it better serves as a machine-readable middleground between a user-facing WYSIWYG (markdown-powered) editor and the server responding to it.

Both the work done here and the quality of explanation, as well as the thoughtful challenges to the reader, are top notch. Thank you for sharing.

The difference here might be the rather huge gap between putting together a solid "blog post" and a solid "paper" on a subject. I agree these "types" of essays are difficult to challenge and given the sheer length of this post, it is also not accessible to _discuss_. I understand the desire to write about a topic extensively and how intimidating it might be to do so in a "scientific" way, this seems to be the middle ground. Maybe it's a seed for the author, or someone else, to develop further.

I believe the bounty is closed but they haven't announced the winner(s).

The abstract mentions the patients cholesterol level is 1000mg/dL which is at least 4 times more than the "highly dangerous" bracket. Evidence seems to show that xanthelasma (the nodules seen on this person) can have a link to a higher risk of atherosclerosis, which is linked to high cholesterol in the first place. This will not be "asymptomatic" for ever.

For what it's worth, I have a bookmarklet with these contents:

  data:text/html,<body contenteditable style="line-height:1.5;font-size:22px;max-width:75ch">type here...

I use this _all_ the time for very quick note taking and writing that will later be copied elsewhere, think one to three sentences and then offload.

Do I understand correctly you chat wıth Claude as a form of social relief or are you talking about drinking beer and chatting with it about work/ideation etc. Either way, just curious!

On topic though, I wholeheartedly agree that this valuation seems rather... unrealistic. I do think "hype" is how we currently handle a lot of valuations, for the worse in my opinion.

I could not disagree more, but I am obviously open to it being a personal preference. I've spent months updating JavaScript codebases that are between 3 and 5 years old, most of them written with vanilla JavaScript. A _few_ of them were written with TypeScript at least partially and those files were the least mentally taxing to upgrade.

Some of the codebases had tests, a good chunk of which could (and were) eliminated simply by using TSC as part of the build process. I think allowing the compiler and tooling like prettier to make choices for you leaves more space for you to think about the problem, not the myriad of problems _around_ it.

I believe that Claude has been running JavaScript code for itself for a bit now[1]. I could have sworn it also runs Python code, but I cannot find any post concretely describing it. I've seen it "iterate" on code by itself a few times now, where it will run a script, maybe run into an error, and instantly re-write it to fix that error.

[1]: https://www.anthropic.com/news/analysis-tool

Not to be an angry old person shouting at clouds but what is this? Seemingly just AI slop in the form of a ChatGPT wrapper (confirmed via the POST request it makes with a prompt every time you hit "generate"). There are very popular [1] websites for generating themed names already. Ugh.

[1]: https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/dragon-names.php

Looks like the website is built with Laravel[1] using Livewire[2] (Alpine JS on the front-end) and the UI library used is Flux[3].

[1]: https://laravel.com/

[2]: https://livewire.laravel.com/

[3]: https://fluxui.dev/

Agreed, missing opportunity to be able to change a url from github.com/cyclotruc/gitingest to gitingest.com/cyclotruc/gitingest and simply recieve the result as plain text. A very useful little tool nonetheless.

It was fairly random, someone in my network had mentioned that Max was looking for people to take part in the project and I reached out. I was given a date and time slot and that was that.

I'm not sure anyone tried to actually use it as a passport photo. Would have been a great touch though.

Oh! Something I took a part in on HN. That's a first. Almost everything there was practical. Highly recommend checking out all of Max's work, beaming with creativity.

Indeed, many applications I would expect to prevent sleeping (some audio playback ones, games, etc.) don't implement this. I assume it's a case of Apple's APIs changing over the years and not everyone catching up/caring. At one point I had downloaded Amphetamine[^1] but it is much nicer to just use the terminal here.

[^1]: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amphetamine/id937984704

I thought the fact it is running from a Lisp script, uses Hunchentoot, and uses XSLTs for it's feed pages already puts it in some niche category of "huh, neat".

Thank you!

The slides from the Spark AI 2020 summit [1] helped me understand this a bit. If I get it correctly, the premise is that a specific format is used to organise information into efficient blocks where related column data "lives" closer together, enabling faster read speeds but worse write speeds.

If someone has more resources on the topic, I'd be very interested. There are many applications where sacrificing data freshness for a considerable uptick in performance is alluring.

[1]: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/the-apache-spark-file-f...

Very valid point, the frustrations here do share commonalities with the overall HTTP ecosystem.

I'm not sure how I feel about the content of this entire post. RSS feeds are a more or less stagnant technology, mostly adopted "for fun" or by a niche of people who find them useful. The only way I can see to move forward is to make them as easy and painless to use as possible, the onus falls on both the creator and consumer of feeds (the websites and the clients... the user is completely out of the equation here in my opinion).

This kind of attitude reeks of the "you're using it wrong!" of the Linux world. Are you really telling me you are getting enough RSS feed requests to put a dent on your tech stack? Is your bandwidth overhead suffering that much (are you not caching?)? Make it painless and let's be thankful it isn't all web scrapers masquerading as users.

Mind-boggling problem to be angry about.

The paper[1] seems to imply agitation is exactly what this method is promoting: "Furthermore, acoustic streaming induced greater mixing and enhanced mass transfer during brewing.". I assume the 100W of ultrasonic energy would be pretty hard to reproduce by just shaking your cold brew container though!

[1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135041772...

No humans walking around makes me sad :( A really cool project, albeit worrying that 50% of the real estate of Infinitown is roads only a couple of cars drive on ;) When zoomed in all the way I wish there was some LOD meshing to provide longer view distance, would make it feel much more immersive in that sense.