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ar0bon Claude now creates interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations

"Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs " - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.14982

What instance of ChatGPT are you doing that with? (Reasoning?)

ar0bon State regulators vote to keep utility profits high angering customers across CA

https://legalclarity.org/what-is-a-rate-case-and-how-does-it...

This comes down to having quality regulators on your public utility commission which is heavily state dependent.

https://www.multistate.us/insider/2025/10/27/nine-states-fac...

ar0bon Can holographic optical storage displace hard disk drives?

I'm no expert, but this is a basic explanation of the technology they're studying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfME3e7aSNk

The paper describes some experiments that are attempting to profile the technology against magnetic storage drives.

ar0bon IT employment grew by just 700 jobs in 2023

Can anyone explain how the 700 number makes any sense?

The analysis referenced by the article: https://e-janco.com/career/employmentdata.html#p7TP3c2_3

The table "Change In IT Job Market Size - December 2023" seems to indicate that 5.5k jobs were added to the 'job market' in 2023, contradicting what's being said. (Which isn't even representative of total employment in the sector, only the open job postings for the sector).

ar0bon Screw motivation, what you need is discipline

Procrastivity

ar0bon How We Read Now

I've seen this advertised as a similar option for books and podcasts. https://www.blinkist.com/en I haven't used it though, so can't vouch for it's effectiveness.

ar0bon I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ZxgI59_Ak

Employee showing how the machine shuts down

ar0bon Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how electricity works?

I had an electronics learning lab from radio shack and loved the hands on aspects. https://www.amazon.com/RadioShack-28-280-Electronics-Learnin...

You can still find them on ebay, or similar kits if you look around.

ar0bon Launch HN: Fly.io (YC W20) – Deploy app servers close to your users

I don't think I like the failure mode of your app getting slower (losing your ApplicationDN) right at the time it's really popular. I don't have a better solution though.

ar0bon Red Hat Introduces Open Source Project Quay Container Registry

https://www.adamfowlerit.com/2017/04/premise-vs-premises-car...

ar0bon Jeff Bezos' Day One fund gives $97.5M to first 24 recipients

That isn't a very in depth analysis of the situation. Those tax dollars pay for things like infrastructure and services, that all those new employees will be consuming. I would be interested in seeing a more detailed analysis than what's provided in that post.

ar0bon iPhones are allergic to helium

One of my favorite conference talks is semi related to problems like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE Brian Cantrill - Zebras all the way down

ar0bon Java libraries you can't miss in 2017

The Jooq blog is pretty great as well. https://blog.jooq.org/

ar0bon Magnet Ban Cleared

I wonder how an MRI would turn out in this scenario.

ar0bon What If Evolution Bred Reality Out of Us?

You forgot

3)Believe in the wrong God and go to Hell anyway

ar0bon Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

Thank you very much!

ar0bon Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

I've been looking to set up a cloud IDE and was wondering if anyone could compare / offer insight into Cloud9 vs. Eclipse Che?

ar0bon Second Gravitational Wave Detected at LIGO

So you could theoretically build a black whole generator by building a sphere that could emit gravitational waves with precision?

ar0bon How a 4-Pound Engine Can Replace a 40-Pound Engine

Pretty informative video about rotary engine dis-advantages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3uGJGzUYCI

ar0bon Michael Dell Bought His Company Too Cheaply

Probably so they no longer have to go through all the reporting and auditing required of a publicly traded company.

ar0bon Data USA: Comprehensive Visualization of U.S. Public Data

Hi Dave, I was looking at this page http://datausa.io/profile/geo/pennsylvania/#housing I noticed that a lot of the ranges on the x-axis are not consistent. Is there a reason for that?

ar0bon The Search for the Perfect To-do List

I realized I was heading down that path, and just went full into. I use https://kanboard.net/ to manage a couple todo lists (projects) like upcoming purchases, bills, chores. It's worked out amazing so far.

ar0bon Badlock Bug

Can anyone explain to me the need to release the exploit information the same day as the patches?

ar0bon Ask HN: What are the best practices for web authorization at the moment?

Thanks for the explanation!

ar0bon Ask HN: What are the best practices for web authorization at the moment?

Just poking around, could you explain why https://jsperf.com/indexof-vs-object-lookup/32 indexOf is the fastest in this revision?

ar0bon Myrddin: a systems language that is powerful and fun

Have you used the D programming language at all? http://dlang.org/

If so, does myrddin have any benefits (current or planned)?

ar0bon Teaching Operating Systems with Tracing

You should start writing that book! https://leanpub.com/

ar0bon UberHop: More people in fewer cars

If I had any money, I'd probably take you up on that. I think the technology might be ready in that time frame, but bureaucracy and safety concerns will push it back. We don't know how well the vision/detection methods of driver-less cars will handle certain scenarios, like a solar flare, or direct subversion from other humans. Would someone be able to disable my car from moving and rob me with a few small devices?

ar0bon New technique can weld “un-weldable” metals

If you haven't already, check out this youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel

ar0bon Uber Is Taking Millions of Manhattan Rides Away from Taxis

I don't really know much about how Uber works, but is there something in place to stop taxi drivers from using it while driving their cab?