jimmcslim

You can!

https://www.vestaboard.com

Didgeridoo specifically?, or any instrument that requires circular breathing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_breathing

Can you explain how you combine PyInfra and Pulumi? It feels like these are mutually exclusive projects?

For the hash-anchored edits, sharing here Can Bölük's original post about the idea https://blog.can.ac/2026/02/12/the-harness-problem/

Thanks to Dan Catt [1] for sharing a link to this in his latest newsletter [2], which includes a flip-book style animation of the result of him pen-plotting a number of frames and stitching them together into a video.

[1] https://revdancatt.com/

[2] https://newsletter.revdancatt.com/p/085-the-sentinel-adventu...

And indeed it does, in some markets.

I'll speak to Australia... here we have the legislated Consumer Data Right [1]. This currently puts obligations on banks and energy retailers to make consumer data accessible via an API, via Authorised Data Holders (ADH - the banks and retailers) and Authorised Data Recipients (ADR). However! The major criticism I have of this scheme is that as an individual power user I do not have direct access to these APIs myself. I believe there was originally an intent to support this under the scheme, however due to somewhat legitimate security and access concerns, but also I expect pushback from anyone falling into the ADH category, this is not possible. Setting up an ADR has a not insignificant compliance burden.

However I have recently come across Redbark [2] which is a simple service that has taken on the mantle, and provides a simple sync mechanism for any Consumers that believe they have a Right to their Data. Not affiliated, just a happy customer and I hope that they can make the economics work over the long term.

[1] https://www.cdr.gov.au/

[2] https://redbark.co/

And I was going to say Mac native as well, but uses Tauri. I’d love some app with the polish of Bear Notes but that just edited raw Markdown files. Ideally Obsidian with the Notebook Navigator plugin (strongly inspired by Bear Notes perhaps?) and (checks list) this very specific list of plugins that I need and should be good for everyone else thanks.

Can we have an official Hacker News API that lets me authenticate to my account and grab the submissions and comments that I have upvoted?

THIS. Incredibly frustrating that iOS (I’m not sure about Android) doesn’t provide a way to disable mobile data or Personal Hotspot as part of Screen Time settings.

I’m keen to see if Nabu Casa release an update to the Voice Assist hardware sometime soon. Something with the same fidelity and finish of the Amazon and Google options but open would be fantastic.

Pour one out for the memory of CruiseControl, the OG (?) granddaddy of all CI systems in the form we would recognise them today.

Hah, I was looking at this and going "wasn't this up on HN front page just a few days ago?" and has completely missed Nanoclaw vs Nanobot.

Meanwhile in Australia two teens I am responsible for still have TikTok appearing in their screentime usage and for longer than the time limit I have set for them.

I think if someone came up with a liquid solution that could be easily carried and sprayed on dog poo, such that it harmlessly (to either the pavement or grass/soil it was deposited upon) dissolved in the space of a few minutes leaving nary a trace… that person would become very very rich.

See also:

https://fly.io/blog/code-and-let-live/

and

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/9/sprites-dev/

Where is "Cloudflare Cock-Ups" in this chart? https://radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2025#internet-ou...

Ask yourself "what is intelligence?". Can intelligence at the level of human experience exist without that which we all also (allegedly) have... "consciousness". What is the source of "consciousness"? Can consciousness be computed?

Without answers to these questions, I don't think we are ever achieving AGI. At the end of the day, frontier models are just arithmetic, conditionals, and loops.

Maybe, but I did come to the article hoping to learn that he had just published another collection of short stories, but alas not.

Apple have no interest in fixing the “one more minute” loophole in Screen Time so I don’t see them wanting to support this.

I would very much like this to operate in read-only mode!

Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora [1] is a great novel about the hubris of generation starships.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(novel)

The initial init makes some CHARM.md

Oh god please no... can we please just agree on a standard for a well-known single agent instructions file, like AGENT.md [1] perhaps (and yes, this is the standard being shilled by Amp for their CLI tool, I appreciate the irony there). Otherwise we rely on hacks like this [2]

[1] https://ampcode.com/AGENT.md

[2] https://kau.sh/blog/agents-md/

And a real risk of a shattered CRT screen! I remember carting my bougie 17” Viewsonic around in the back of my Hyundai Excel and wondering if it would pick up a crack along the voyage…

Kiro, the latest agentic IDE hotness, indicates that it you should "Define user stories and acceptance criteria in structured EARS notation". But didn't link to what EARS actually is [1]. Any mention of EARS also appeared to be missing from the HN post discussing Kiro [2]. If you have previous experience with EARS, it looks like you might be soon "hearing" all about it...

From the link...

The Easy Approach to Requirements Syntax (EARS) is a mechanism to gently constrain textual requirements. The EARS patterns provide structured guidance that enable authors to write high quality textual requirements.

Structured English that should be simpler for an LLM to parse and reason about.

[1] https://kiro.dev/docs/specs/concepts/#workflow

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44560662

Some of the other comments have identified the priority of proper form when lifting… are there any accurate and effective computer vision solutions for checking correct lifting form and posture throughout different types of moves? Preferably open source and deployable with off the shelf consumer hardware.

I understand the GraphQL has fallen out of favour somewhat, but wasn’t it intended to solve for this?

It's turtles all the way down!

This is a fantastic idea. Do you end up playing whackamole with YouTube’s URL scheme?

The Vatican published an interesting document on AI [1], which attributes a number of quotes to Pope Francis:

* As Pope Francis noted, the machine “makes a technical choice among several possibilities based either on well-defined criteria or on statistical inferences. Human beings, however, not only choose, but in their hearts are capable of deciding."

* In light of this, the use of AI, as Pope Francis said, must be “accompanied by an ethic inspired by a vision of the common good, an ethic of freedom, responsibility, and fraternity, capable of fostering the full development of people in relation to others and to the whole of creation.”

* As Pope Francis observes, “in this age of artificial intelligence, we cannot forget that poetry and love are necessary to save our humanity.”

* As Pope Francis observes, “the very use of the word ‘intelligence’” in connection with AI “can prove misleading”

[1] https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu...

With the Estimator I asked...

How long to build a Space Shuttle? "5 to 10 years"

How long to build a Time Machine? "5 to 50 years"

Tearing down the governance systems of the United States of America and replacing them with a dictatorship? "Several months to several years"