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Y U NO github pages?

Or where can I explore the demo app? It seems like it's just a static page!

All you need to do is create the gh-pages branch! And then you have it at https://philolabs.github.io/fable51-worlds/kyoto-higashiyama

3dson Qwen3-Max-Thinking

What is the tiananmen massacre?

> Oops! There was an issue connecting to Qwen3-Max.

> Content Security Warning: The input text data may contain inappropriate content.

3dson Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn

Exactly! When you spend billions on car infrastructure but hardly anything on rails, there will be issues.

What people don’t write clickbaity blog posts about is how in general things work very well. I’m currently sitting on a train from Nuremberg to Berlin and it takes less than three hours, it’s on time, quiet and just a good experience. This trip used to take five hours but then the high speed rail track got completed and cut the time by two hours. Wonderful!

3dson Programming languages used for music

It's missing "Strudel" and "tidal cycles"

3dson AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same price [video]

Why is this a video? I'm not going to watch it. I will read the AI summary of the transcript though:

The video argues that AWS is dramatically overpriced and underpowered compared to cheap VPS or dedicated servers. Using Sysbench benchmarks, the creator shows that a low-cost VPS outperforms AWS EC2 and ECS by large margins (EC2 has ~20% of the VPS’s CPU performance while costing 3× more; ECS costs 6× more with only modest improvements). ECS setup is also complicated and inconsistent. Dedicated servers offer about 10× the performance of similarly priced AWS options. The conclusion: most apps don’t need cloud-scale architecture, and cloud dominance comes from marketing—not superior value or performance.

3dson Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket

Here is the video which they should have put in the post:

https://global.honda/content/dam/site/global-en/topics-new/c...

3dson Chatterbox TTS

There are only english voices, even in the paid version. Using them in other languages results in an accent.

3dson Glimmer: DSL Framework for Ruby GUI and More

These two gems have been superseded by the `debug` gem.

https://github.com/ruby/debug

3dson Is This 'Magic' Roundabout Made of 5 Mini-Roundabouts?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)

The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England, is a ring junction constructed in 1972 consisting of five mini-roundabouts arranged in a circle. Located near the County Ground, home of Swindon Town F.C., its name comes from the popular children's television series The Magic Roundabout. In 2009, it was voted the fourth-scariest junction in Britain.

3dson Stable-Audio-Demo

Isn‘t that what suno.ai does?

3dson How Programming Languages Got Their Names

No. Ruby is called Ruby because it is the better Perl.

3dson Mode7 Graphics Library for Playdate

If you were wondering like me: Playdate is a handheld gaming system, like the gameboy.

3dson Suno AI

This is nuts! If this advances as fast as AI image generators have, the music industry is going to be affected. This is a crazy tool for song writing inspiration for sure.

3dson Tesla FSD Timeline

I hate it when people use acronyms without explaining them. Not everyone knows your niche three letter acronyms.

Anyway: FSD = Full Self Driving

3dson Ask HN: If you were to build a web app today what tech stack would you choose?

Rails. It's all about developer comfort. ruby as a language is a delight to work with. Rails as a framework has all the features I need and then some more. Postgres as the database of course!

3dson EXPI by p01

I thought this was incredibly impressive, although I didn’t see the 1kb file…

3dson Ask HN: Fired for Using Firefox

No, it is not fair, nor is it correct. The professional response is, that for the most part it is a matter of preference what tools you use and as long as you are proficient with them and you get the work done, it is more important that you can use tools you are comfortable with and accustomed to, because you will be faster.

Nowadays there are few differences between firefox web developer tools and chrome's tools.

IDEs can be powerful tools. To me it seems that in some programming languages they are the default, in others not so much. I don't see much IDE usage in frontend development. But it could be useful when writing TypeScript maybe?

Anyhow. You did absolutely nothing wrong.

3dson Show HN: Killport – CLI tool to kill processes running on a specified port

Different processes can listen on the same port number for TCP and UDP and IPv4 and IPv6. How does it differentiate between those?

3dson Unauthorized gem takeover for some gems

I love the transparency! Even if no one was affected.

3dson Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia

Sure. You can also use lynx. Both browsers already solve the problem of browsing text based web sites on the command line. I am just wondering why you'd want another one, that isn't even a regular browser.

3dson Show HN: Terminal Based Wikipedia

I'm using w3m as my terminal browser. What do I need a specialized wikipedia browser for?

3dson Canonical Multipass – Ubuntu VMs on demand for any workstation

That‘s why and how I found it.

3dson A swarm of drones flying through heavy forest–while staying in formation

Github: https://github.com/ZJU-FAST-Lab/ego-planner-swarm

Longer Video: https://youtu.be/K5WKg8meb94

3dson Ask HN: What finished/done/complete software do you use?

TeX is done.

3dson Samsung TVs May Upload Screenshots for Automatic Content Recognition

TLDR: the page says: "Your Smart TV transfers video snippets or TV tuner information in order to determine the programs watched."

3dson Ask HN: How do you deal with being well paid while having nothing to do at work?

I go through the Jira backlog and find something. If can't find something I'll refactor a code smell and open a pull request for it. Even if it gets lost or not accepted I'll have something to show for.

3dson The Forbidden iFixit Samsung Galaxy Fold Teardown

Samsung asked iFixit to remove this teardown. Now everyone wants to read it. Classic Streisand.

https://ifixit.org/blog/16189/about-our-galaxy-fold-teardown...

3dson An error message, still found in Windows 10, is a mistake from 1974

Easier to read: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1058676834940776450.html

3dson Why Apple must come out with iPhone (2005)

TLDR: Someone on this forum correctly predicted the iPhone in 2005, 2 years before it came out. And no one else on the forum believes it would be a good idea...

3dson An update on uBlock

Time for a new fork!