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• Thorium: Cross-platform patched Chromium fork "fastest browser on Earth"

  Coincidentally, jwz does/did the same thing (nonconsensual porn harassment for I don't know what reasons [0]), and he was one of the original developers of Mozilla. (This isn't supposed to be a fun fact. All of this sucks). [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=jwz%20referer&type=comment. - Source: Hacker News / about 7 hours ago

• ICC seeks arrest warrants against Sinwar and Netanyahu for war crimes

  Https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=users%20flag%20flamewar%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment. - Source: Hacker News / about 19 hours ago

• Ask HN: Is there a best date/time to submit projects to HN?

  God forbid you need a new account for your project, make sure there is a way to use/preview your app without creating an account. Check out other "Show HN" comments for why: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&type=show_hn Also "Show HN" posts get a slight advantage because they stay alive a little longer on: https://news.ycombinator.com/show (Currently ~3... - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• What Is Generative Art?

  I was going to say the same. Dwitter is also a cool place for generative art meets code-golf, which has been talked about many times before on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=dwitter. - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• Ask HN: Video streaming is expensive yet YouTube "seems" to do it for free. How?

  Pretty sure I didn't say that, but I know who did: Cloudflare's CEO (eastdakota). https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=eastdakota%20bandwidth%20free&sort=byDate&type=comment. - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• Ask HN: Is there a best date/time to submit projects to HN?

  Https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=best%20time%20to%20post&sort=byPopularity&type=story Noon most days, just after midnight on Mondays. - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• New Male Contraceptives Could Be Infuriatingly Pain-Free and Easy

  Topical hormonal cream sounds new; I don't think I've seen that on HN before. Would be curious to see studies. RISUG/Vasalgel has come up on HN before (as far back as 13 years): ( https://hn.algolia.com/?query=RISUG&type=comment , https://hn.algolia.com/?query=vasalgel&type=comment ). My recollection is that studies have mostly been in India so far, but so far have failed to demonstrate reversibility (which is... - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• Show HN: Tarsier – vision for text-only LLM web agents that beats GPT-4o

  Why was the Show HN text removed? Self promotion? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=true&query=tarsier&sort=byDate&type=story > Hey HN! I built a tool that gives LLMs the ability to understand the visual structure of a webpage even if they don't accept image input. We've found that unimodal GPT-4 + Tarsier's textual webpage representation consistently beats multimodal GPT-4V/4o + webpage... - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

• Which cognitive psychology findings are solid that I can use to help students?

  The top answer is written by Justin Skycak (https://www.justinmath.com/) who works on Math Academy (https://www.mathacademy.com/). Math Academy is awesome. I am a happy customer. Previous HN comments about it: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=mathacademy&sort=byDate&type=comment. - Source: Hacker News / 7 days ago

• Hypertext Version of a Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander

  Here's some other posts on Alexander's work: Beautiful Software: Christopher Alexander's research initiative on computing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34011469 Dec 2009 (30 comments) “A pattern language” explained (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18644150 Jun 2021 (22 comments) Christopher Alexander: An Introduction for Object-Oriented Designers -... - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

• eu/acc

  Note that my advice is more towards people who want to do an investment, is planning a startup, a company that might grow up, etc > Why is there a need to have specialists just to interface with one's local government True, in theory you shouldn't need it. And more than current officials, there's a lot of legislation that is to blame, but this is besides the point. You consult with specialists because they know... - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

• Ask HN: What distributed file system would you use in 2024?

  What distributed file system would you use for a greenfield homelab project today? Requirements / desires: * Reliable * Performant * Easy to setup and operate Some options: SeaweedFS - https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs 289 hits: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=seaweedfs&sort=byPopularity&type=all JuiceFS - https://github.com/juicedata/juicefs 2047 hits:... - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

• It's always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time

  FYI the best way to filter by author is 'author:Animats' this will only show results from the user Animats and won't match animats inside the comment text. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22delayed%20ack%22%20author%3AAnimats&sort=byDate&type=comment. - Source: Hacker News / 12 days ago

• Hymn for Walpurgisnacht

  OT but according to Algolia this posting is 5 days old: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=Walpurgisnacht&sort=byDate&type=story. - Source: Hacker News / 16 days ago

• It's always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time

  John Nagle has posted insightful comments about the historical background for this many times, for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9048947 or https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=%22tcp_nodelay%22%20%22animats%22&sort=byDate&type=comment. - Source: Hacker News / 12 days ago

• Ask HN: Would you send a photo holding your drivers license to rent a VPS?

  Hetzner has asked some HN'ers for passport scans [0], and in my case asked me to consent to a video scan of my face, with some of ersatz machine vision [1]. Their loss. [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=hetzner%20passport&type=comment [1] https://www.idenfy.com/identity-verification-service/. - Source: Hacker News / 12 days ago

• Rule of Thumb: Anything that looks fancy is not worth you time

  - Ads with Psychological tricks Truly good websites have around 2 facts per 10 word sentence, and get instantly to the chase. Also: good websites give you the names of all their competitors/alternative websites before showing their own stuff, and give you further reading. Right now the world of technology is supposedly more innovative than ever, but somehow Wikipedia (https://www.wikipedia.org/) and Search... - Source: Hacker News / 13 days ago

• Zed Decoded: Linux When? – Zed Blog

  "multiplayer notepad" goes back 15 years at least - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=multiplayer notepad&sort=byDate&type=comment it was used back with a popular website which opened a text document and anyone viewing could type, but I can't remember the name. That became a thing in Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Floobits, and lots of self-hosted and cloned sites. - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago

• What makes a translation great

  >for more detail: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... Oh, I see. We actually discussed Pound about four years ago - just a little back and forth about the ABC of Reading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24196681 >What's your explanation of why Pound went Fascist? I'm not sure I particularly have one; I haven't read... - Source: Hacker News / 16 days ago

• What makes a translation great

  For more detail: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=082349872349872%20pound&sort=byPopularity&type=comment of which the most relevant is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24208047. - Source: Hacker News / 16 days ago

• X.org on NetBSD – The State of Things

  You've been ranting about this for 9 years now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10149015 > bitwize on Jan 9, 2016 > Since X is now deprecated tech Maybe give it a rest and let others have their toys without flying off the handle with comments that say or contribute nothing every time people mention their toys. And tons more:... - Source: Hacker News / 15 days ago