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> It turns out we don’t have to care about any of this [...], so none of this matters in any kind of deep way, but: we’ve decided to just be a blog again, so: we had to learn this, and now you do too.

I found this closing sentence utterly delightful, particularly in an age of endlessly filtering every piece of text I read on the internet through a mental "was this written by Claude, Codex, or (just possibly) a human?" filter.

Skywise is basically a re-branded Palantir Foundry, and Palantir’s not exactly a big believer in avoiding US tech…

Did you look at them, or did you just tell Claude to look at them? /s

Seriously, though — if the history is valuable and interesting, include it. If it provides context in general, include it; if it’s just overconfident marketing fluff straight from the parrot’s mouth, drop it. I like my READMEs to open with the ‘why’ of the project: why I built it and why you might need it too.

Truly evidence that we’re living in the worst timeline — the Bulwer-Lytton has been one of the highlights of my year for as long as I can remember. My parents introduced me to it before I could read; I remember them laughing and crying as they tried to explain to four-year-old me why this one inscrutable sentence was the funniest thing on earth. I’ve looked forward to it ever since, though recently I’ve only checked in to read the dishonorable mentions and winners once every few years.

Knowing I’ll never again check and find a year’s crop of perfect sentences dims the light more than I would have expected. Sad times.

> Endpoint views break down request volume, errors, latency, and status codes. Crash and ANR detail adds the app version, device, and thread context around a failure. This is where a problematic UI transition can be connected to a backend or runtime condition.

The project README reads like a first draft straight out of Claude, and it's incredibly off-putting. The 'Show HN' post here is so much better; clearly you're capable of writing a decent explanation of what this project is, its history, and for whom you've built it. Take the time and write the damn README yourself.

If you expect human attention, put in human effort.

You're a sophomore at UT, so as a UTCS alum (:wave: from a fellow Turing Scholar) I'm not letting you off the hook. Unless things have majorly changed, I know you're taking 6 hours of writing-heavy coursework.

That's up to GoG; I've submitted every game I've released to them and it's like talking into the void, never a response. They're a delight as a customer, but kind of half-assed as a platform (at least if you're a self-published indie).

Ooh! I’d love to see that, or to have a chat and swap ideas. My email is in my profile if you’d be up for it.

You’ve got me; I was very much a Battle Chess addict once upon a time…

There must be something in the water! I’ve been working on a (very different) chess-like roguelike, and just released the demo. Check it out if you’re a fan of weird chess puzzles, bad chess puns, and Hnefatafl!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3856240/Pieces_of_the_Kin...

I know this is nitpicking, but as a Texan I have to correct you on a point of grammar. The “west” in “West Texas” (and similarly for the other regions) isn’t an adjective; it’s part of the proper noun and should be capitalized. So it’s “West Texas,” not “west Texas.”

Yes, this is weird and no, I have no idea why we do it, but it’s really weird to read “export it to east Texas” — to the extent that I had to re-parse the sentence to figure out what you meant.

EVs aren’t exactly new; there’s a deep, accessble secondhand market by now. I’ve been using a 2019 Nissan Leaf as a primary family car for two years now, that I picked up off Gumtree for around £3k. It’s been one of the best (little) cars I’ve ever owned.

Not saying new EVs aren’t pricey, but if you want into electric on a budget (i.e. because you don’t feel like you can afford to fill up on diesel) it can absolutely be done.

Oh, man; I got my hands on a (dead) one of these when I was a freshman in college (2004) and instead of trying to restore it my friends and I gutted it and used it as an original Xbox case mod. It was pretty satisfying to show up at LAN parties with what looked like a Solaris box and watch people boggle when we played Halo on it...

Garbage in, garbage out.

(If OP was trying to make the bull case then the same snark would still apply.)

I've spent the last couple days building out an automated classifier on top of the batch API, and just this morning (about a minute before the outage began!) started running my first live tests. I thought I was going mad!

Non-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/jDjGZ

I’ve noticed this tendency in my own UI work as well: dark designs tend to get darker, and light designs lighter, when updated or refreshed in isolation. Is there a term for this kind of ratcheting effect?

It's not clear from the linked page, which seems to have been last updated in 2022, aside from user comments asking for support. Thank you for the clarification!

> When someone already has a broken system...

To be fair, this tool doesn't claim to fix a broken system; as near as I can tell it doesn't actually remove the underlying Windows installation, so the core problem will remain.

This should have a (2022) in the title, which begs the question: is this still a relevant tool for de-shittifying Windows 11, or is it limited to 10?

(Asking as I don't have a Windows box of any kind around to test, as I'm not a masochist and therefore all of my machines run Linux or macOS)

> We're not bragging (okay, we're bragging a little) but it turns out that not burning through VC cash on ping-pong tables and "growth at all costs" actually works.

Have an internet fist-bump from a fellow successful bootstrapper; this is the way, and you're calling it out!

I wonder if this includes Skywise, the Palantir-built data lake and design stack that they use for many many internal operations (design, airline support, manufacturing). Not sure what difference it really makes where the data is hosted if the folks doing the hosting call home to Colorado…

Me, too! I worked at Sun from 2002-2004, and some of us got them as pointlessly fancy door badges for datacenter access. In hindsight it was such a novelty, almost a gag, but they were kind of awesome for what they were. And you felt like an absolute badass when using one to badge in!

Presumably most of Farage's personal income at this point is ultimately denominated in USD, so he's probably benefiting just fine from sterling's fall...

Reform UK is still technically defending Brexit; they've just switched to the no-true-Scotsman argument that real Brexit was never delivered and that they're the ones that can make good on the promises from the referendum.

Which is horseshit, obviously.

"Us"? Who exactly is the broad category of "us" that's getting rich off of AI, other than shareholders of NVDA? And even then, unless you're actively managing your investments and have an uncanny knack for timing the top of the bubble all those recent gains are going to evaporate when it pops...

I wouldn't even say "corporations" because honestly, it's just the one corporation that's keeping the US tax system mired in pointless, manual complexity: Intuit.

> This feature exists because: - Many iTerm2 features translate well to web browsing - It provides a unified terminal and browser experience - A former colleague suggested this idea in 2014 and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. - I am maybe having a midlife crisis and this is cheaper than a sports car.

I can't put my finger on why, but this might be the most refreshing thing I've seen in a README in years.

To be fair, both of those statements ("AI progress has plateaued" and "AI is taking jobs") can be true at once! There's almost certainly some disconnect between improving frontier models and UX vs. increasing adoption, particularly outside what you'd normally think of as pure tech companies.

Put another way: an LLM replacement for entry-level workers doesn't have to be good, just good enough.