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www.rts.ch 2mo ago

SMS blaster rising in Switzerland (French)

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twitter.com 3y ago

Tesla steering wheel popped out while driving

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github.com 3y ago

Zig now has a built in HTTP 1.1 client

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Self hosted user friendly chat app for family?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Hackable Phone Watch for Kid without app

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: How to navigate USB-C charging hell

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: What Alternative to StackOverflow?

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www.kuon.ch 6y ago

In HTML emails, always set text and background colors in pair

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: As a programmer, how should I teach coding to my kid?

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Please, do whatever you can to keep Internet safe during this crisis

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www.kuon.ch 6y ago

HSLuv, a developer friendly perceptual color space

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www.kuon.ch 6y ago

Show HN: Base24 binary-to-text encoding for humans

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Open-source security camera solution

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: Is the “big hack” technically possible?

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: How modern chips are made?

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

World's Simplest Electric Train (YouTube Video)

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the-missing-bit.com 8y ago

How Elm saved my life

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the-missing-bit.com 8y ago

Don't leave password around in SPA (2017)

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www.brianthicks.com 8y ago

The State of Elm, 2018 survey (typeform)

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news.ycombinator.com 8y ago

Ask HN: Is there a fitness wristband that is hackable?

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Middleground between arduino and raspberry pi?

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www.theguardian.com 9y ago

Boston public schools map switch aims to amend 500 years of distortion

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Is there a document exchange service for mobile App?

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: How a DNS problem can be limited to a geographic region?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Migrating from Mac to Windows for development

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forums.adobe.com 11y ago

Adobe broke SVG export in Illustrator CC 2015

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StarFighter 16-Inch 3 months ago

I recently switched from Linux to freebsd on my work computer and things have been mostly working. With linux chroot I can use the few apps missing BSD port.

I did this because I manage a fleet of BSD based server (BSD runs zfs and bhyve with VM on it) and I wanted the same base system for me.

I wonder how BSD friendly those laptop are.

In any case I am so happy to see some open hardware solution.

Unsloth Studio 4 months ago

I hope you will support AMD. This looks Nice but I went the complicated route with AMD GPUs.

I have amd 9700 and it is not listed while it is great llm hardware because it has 32Gb for a reasonable price. I tried doing "custom" but it didn't seem to work.

The tool is very nice though.

Even if you design the perfect system, kids will just ask parents for an unlocked account, many parents will accept, myself included. My kids have full access to the internet and I never used parental control, I talk to them. Of course, I don't want to give parenting advice, that would be presumptuous. But, my point is that a motivated kid will find a way, you have to "work" on that motivation.

Many of the worst present on the internet is not age gated at all, you have millions of porn websites without even a "are you over 18" popup. There are plethora of toxic forums...

Of course it's a complex problem, but the current approach sacrifice a lot of what made the internet possible and I don't like it.

I was never able to connect to mobile client from dino. mobile->mobile works fine. I saw a new dino fork that might changes that.

Give me linux-> mobile voice call and linux-> Linux screen share and I would be happy.

Also plugin for gif selector.

But other than that, my ejabberd instance has been running for years with no effort.

I know people frown upon it but I think XMPP is the way to go. It "just" require a good discord like client with voice and screen share.

xAI joins SpaceX 6 months ago

In Switzerland infomaniak built a data center under apartments and DC heat is used for heating. There are some videos about it.

As a FOSS advocate, I am quite astonished that this space has no FOSS "product." I mean PBX has things like asterix. We have good servers like ejabberd and prosody for XMPP. There are excellent voice chats like mumble.

Basically, Discord, but based on an open protocol to enable better interoperability. With a meeting functionality where you can send links that works directly in browser with no account. Also the discord video chat UI is garbage.

I know there are things like revolt chat. But my point is, I'm surprised that this is not more "filled".

I really don't see money as an incentive. Political and economic stability of the whole country is much more important. Of course you need enough to afford food and roof, but after that, I'm not chasing it.

I'm a freelance, and I take fun jobs, not jobs that pay well.

The article is basically "we use PostgreSQL, it works, but we had to do some optimization to make it scale".

I don't really get the point here. What is novel and great? It feels they followed the first " how to scale pg" article.

Claude started to get "wonky" about a month ago. It refused to use instructions files I generated using a tool I wrote. My account was not banned but many of the things I usually asked would just not produce any real result. Claude was working but ignoring some commands. I finally canceled my subscription and I am trying other providers.

I'm a kagi user, and as many have said, I will not use Orion until it is open sourced.

I understand your position, but a web browser is so important a software that it must be open.

I also think that you can still sell it even if it is open source.

Also, you might be able to secure funding from governments that want to move away from closed source solutions.

Anyway, still congratulation for v 1.0, and I hope it will go well.

Wait what? 40Mbps for a remote desktop? Event 10Mbps is insane. I remember deploying sunrays over dialup and the image wasn't that bad, yes it was low resolution and I think it was UDP, but the desktop was usable with a surprisingly low latency.

To monitor an IA you can lower the bit depth considerably and not lose that much details on what is happening. If you control the web rendered, disable text anti aliasing, and there might be other optimization that can help. Tile & diff the image... But video encoders already does that so it might just work out of the box.

Also if your single h264 image is larger that jpeg then you are doing something wrong, jpeg is a very poor encoding compared to what we have today.

Look at how other remote desktop protocol does it, VNC, RDP...

Managing streams over corporate network is well documented, many web frameworks will include a "longpoll" fallback (or SSE) for streaming to play nice even without web sockets. "Discovering" you cannot deploy whatever you want to an enterprise network is quite alarming.

I really don't want to be the graybeard guy saying "young engineers are bad", as I am more on the side of believing on the new generations, but please, don't act like computers spawned into existence in 2020 and that nothing has been done before.

I treat apple ID and google ID like throwaway accounts. I would never trust anything valuable to either. The problem is that it is very hard for "usual people" to do that.

I will also never have an electronic ID. We (Switzerland) were dumb enough to vote yes for it but we are giving away our freedoms eventually.

We need regulations to ensure vendor cannot lock in users and cannot threaten them. Everything should work like if you have your own domain and use email. If your provider go nuts, move your hosting and change your MX and point your local copy to it.

This should not be reserved to some nerd like me, it should be an universal right.

It is already late, but it can be reversed. We need for more sotires like this one to errupt, so people understand.