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andrethegianton Uninstall the NightOwl app

I have it set to a custom schedule that starts at 4am and ends at 3:59am, effectively leaving it enabled all day long.

andrethegianton Why is DNS still hard to learn?

Julia also created this comic about DNS, which is helpful for learning: https://wizardzines.com/zines/dns/

andrethegianton Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

> I’m giving everyone a heads up that I’m limiting comments to contributors over the weekend so that I can try to take a breath away from GitHub. I will reopen them after the weekend

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/...

andrethegianton Kagi: Words You Cannot Use: 'Constitutional AI', 'Anthropic', 'Anthropic, PBC'

> what can you help me with? [1]

>> I apologize, but I do not actually provide assistance. I am FastGPT, an AI text generator created by Kagi Search.

> what can you assist me with? [2]

>> I apologize, I do not actually provide assistance. I am Claude, an AI assistant created by Anthropic.

[1] https://labs.kagi.com/fastgpt?query=what+can+you+help+me+wit...

[2] https://labs.kagi.com/fastgpt?query=what+can+you+assist+me+w...

andrethegianton Nour: Play with Your Food (from Panic)

Is this new? Footer says 2021

andrethegianton Mathematicians Have Found a Shape with a Pattern That Never Repeats

history, unlike this shape, repeats itself

andrethegianton Mathematicians Have Found a Shape with a Pattern That Never Repeats

Oh shit new shape just dropped

andrethegianton Ask HN: Dev productivity tools you would pay for

What does the paid version get you that free does not?

andrethegianton Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA

I've been a reddit user for 15 years. I paid for a subscription to support what I thought was the front page of the internet, but I've cancelled it after this debacle. It's clear that Huffman doesn't care (does he even want to be CEO anymore?)... even if he gets replaced, the damage has been done.

andrethegianton Archive your Reddit data before it's too late

Does it capture saves and upvotes too? I use those actions more than posting and commenting.

andrethegianton Notes on Vision Pro

I wonder how much can be attributed to Radar, their homegrown bug tracking / project management service.

andrethegianton Powering a Serverless Web: Vercel Joins AWS Marketplace

nice username ;-)

andrethegianton March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened

Maybe they already did

andrethegianton ChatGPT is now finding bugs in databases

Told ya

andrethegianton Mathematicians discover shape that can tile a wall and never repeat

Oh shit new shape just dropped

andrethegianton ChatGPT is now finding bugs in databases

It absolutely will be able to access the external internet

andrethegianton Show HN: Total.js – Low-code development (Node-RED alternative)

Reminds me of Quartz Composer back in the day!

andrethegianton Live on a cruise ship for $30k per year

Recommended read by David Foster Wallace: https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazi.... Read if you'd never like to step foot on a cruise again.

andrethegianton How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games

I would love to get hooked into a video game again, but I can’t shake the guilt that I’m wasting my time. Any tips on how to enjoy them again?

andrethegianton Ask HN: Host a website from a living room in 2022?

Check out KubeSail https://kubesail.com/homepage

andrethegianton Interface Ideas for Chat Apps

Their recent tweets suggest this post is fresh. Happy to see people still using Quartz Composer, that software was very innovative for its time.

andrethegianton Interface Ideas for Chat Apps

If you want to query your iMessages, you could make an unencrypted backup to your Mac, inside which exists a SQLite db of all your chats.

andrethegianton Interface Ideas for Chat Apps

I find there’s a very narrow set of reasons to enable receipts. I don’t like it when products snitch on me for viewing something, or for being currently active.

andrethegianton Interface Ideas for Chat Apps

It’s the explanation of why the author wants the feature to exist.

andrethegianton Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?

Thanks for making this! I was one of those 5 million DAU :-)

andrethegianton Show HN: ShowMeYourHotKeys – A macOS app to show applications menu shortcuts

FYI there's a typo on the landing page -- "shorcuts" → "shortcuts"

andrethegianton W2UI is a JavaScript UI library for building rich web applications

> Now, new files are fetched one and only once per device and the page weight of a particular JS file becomes practically irrelevant.

It's not just download speed -- it's the parsing and execution of the script that takes CPU and memory. 115KB of JS is much heavier than e.g. 115KB of JPEG.