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Well.. don't think I'll be reading because the site is AI

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

I've never seen this chart before, was taking a peek from the link in the article. Does anyone with networking knowledge know why IPv6 usage peaks on Saturdays and dips during the middle of the week? (something related to mobile ISPs?)

anonymouscalleron Spotify Killed the Thrill of the Hunt

I'd say the ways of discovering underground music have just evolved. In my (younger) circles those who are passionate about music still hunt out non-mainstream music. Their listening isn't dictated by the algorithm, they instead follow small Instagram music pages, read small blogs, keep in touch with communities, etc.

I've discovered a share of my favorite artists through friends and relationships, I don't think that will ever change.

anonymouscalleron DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms

I find DDG results to be lower quality than Kagi, have never liked Bing's index. I also frequently use the personalized site rankings feature in Kagi to strip out known junky sites

anonymouscalleron Americans Are Falling Behind on Their $1.25T Credit-Card Bill

Article highlights a looming issue in the US, but why open the article with an example of a high income earner living alone who is spending beyond her needs? Makes you wonder if the author has some kind of bias...

anonymouscalleron Show HN: GridTravel – A community based travel app for users to share routes

Neat! One frustrating bug in the app is the forced ability to search states by two letter abbreviation. For example, if you start typing "Montana", your typing will be cut off, and Missouri will be selected, as the abbreviation for Missouri is MO.

Custom points would be great too, sometimes the search feature built in couldn't find the locations I was looking for.

anonymouscalleron Overseas fakers using AI videos to push a narrative of UK decline, BBC finds

no paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20260515071859/https://www.bbc.c...

anonymouscalleron Let's Buy Spirit Air

Seems like an interesting idea. Wish I could get some more information on who is behind this website for credibility purposes

anonymouscalleron GhostBox – disposable little machines from the Global Free Tier.

Couldn't get it working on MacOS or Linux:

$ curl -fsSL https://www.ghost.charity/install.sh | bash Checking for Ghostbox updates... curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Could not fetch ghost-linux-x64.tar.gz from https://github.com/DO-SAY-GO/ghostbox-releases/releases/late...

anonymouscalleron The purist's guide to phở in Hanoi

For us Americans who can’t make it out to Vietnam, I’ve found the best Pho in the US is in Orange County, CA and Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood!

anonymouscalleron Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made

I know he watched the Social Network before he did this :)

anonymouscalleron AI Error May Have Contributed to Girl's School Bombing in Iran

Funny how Anthropic's press team has been working overtime to ensure the public they're the AI on the right side of history, yet that's anything further than the truth...

anonymouscalleron Discuss: AI Slop Bores Me

Maybe I'm using it wrong, but I was trying to answer some questions/prompts, and the same one keeps coming up over and over again.

anonymouscalleron Anthropic, please make a new Slack

Slack is in no way a great program (source: use it daily for work), but it seems to me that it works as intended, and developers can already extend it with bots/AI agents. Plus, Claude as an agent is already installable to Slack.

For compliance, my company already has a tool that scrapes all slack messages, and archives them for a required amount of years. I'm at a small company, so I assume large corporations have already refined this process.

What problem does this solve?

anonymouscalleron Easy AI job resume builder

Why should I pay for a AI wrapper to build my resume? What's the advantage of this tool versus running it through Claude/GPT/Gemini etc.?

anonymouscalleron European Rail in Numbers (2025)

I'm an American. I know people my age want rail (18-24). I know lawmakers fund big infrastructure packages. So where's the disconnect on this side of the pond?

anonymouscalleron Northeastern's redesign of the CS curriculum

Here is Felleisen's (who I should note is retiring) views on teaching programming at NEU, which is worth a read:

https://felleisen.org/matthias/Thoughts/Developing_Developer...

anonymouscalleron The paper passport's days are numbered

New technology in the airport is incredibly scary. I recently flew between the United States and Canada and it is mind boggling how trivial passports are already becoming. I began by looking into a camera on a kiosk, where as soon as my face was recognized, I walked up to the CBP officer and he verified my identify with a quick look at my passport and ticket. I don't see the passport lasting much longer, at last in the US, Canada, and Europe.

anonymouscalleron Decline in teen drug use continues, surprising experts

I’m guessing it’s linked to declining social interaction among teenagers, which also explains the decline in alcohol consumption too.

anonymouscalleron Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz

As much as some gTLDs are known for spam, it's dangerous to generalize certain domains as spam. I used to run a website with a somewhat niche gTLD and it was a headache getting blocked by spam filters who just blocked *.mygTLD

anonymouscalleron The job more parents are taking to get a discount on their kids' college tuition

What a money making scheme college has become. This article would be laughable if it wasn't reality.

anonymouscalleron You cannot simply publicly access private secure links, can you?

Yes, see "Cloudbleed"

anonymouscalleron London Overground's New Look

Neat! Glad they are differentiating between all of the Overground lines, but it's getting to the point that the colors are all mixing together and the tube map is starting to look even more headache inducing...

anonymouscalleron Coal and fossil fuel use in Germany at a record low for electricity in 2023

What is the difference between "waste renewable" and "waste non-renewable"?

anonymouscalleron Ask HN: What browser are you using?

Primarily Firefox, but once in a while a website will require Chrome, and for that I use Brave. Brave is better than standard Chrome, but like you said, the crypto garbage and useless features are frustrating.

anonymouscalleron Beeper Mini Continued Outages: 'Apple Is Penalizing Their Own Customers'

Like others have said on threads about Beeper, it is a great app, but will just be a cat and mouse game for eternity, until it gets shutdown or a lawsuit is filed by one side. I don't expect this to be the last outage.

anonymouscalleron ''How to Tell a True War Story'' (1990) by Tim O'Brien [pdf]

I loved reading “The Things They Carried” many years ago in school, definitely a great read.

anonymouscalleron Codelite

Please add a CDN of some sort to the downloads, they were incredibly slow on my connection.

anonymouscalleron Ask HN: How long will your personal website likely survive if you die today?

I have my VPS on auto-renew, so I suppose until my credit card expires, the company goes out of business, or I run out of money in the bank.

anonymouscalleron What Is Happening with ChatGPT?

That's wild. I've never had it spit out complete garbage, but the quality of ChatGPT has significantly dropped. Plenty of responses are downright false. Sad it's gone this way.