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caffedon Show HN: Muse 2.0 with local-first sync

Not thrilled about the trend of services over products.

I’ve been using GoodNotes 5 for a while now and am really satisfied.

One time purchase with iCloud sync with all devices.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/goodnotes-5/id1444383602

caffedon Show HN: Add a “1” to your Hacker News URL to get fancy social previews

doesn't work anymore as it just redirects. assuming author was told to take site down.

caffedon Amazon packages pile up after AWS outage spawns delivery havoc

I thought this story was about this house x-)

"Neighbors in Tennessee city worry as Amazon packages pile up outside home"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVQjEB2sxBw

caffedon Apple removes $1k featureless iPhone application (2008)

I remember when this happened. I think it was just a sprite of a jewel like a ruby or sapphire as of that was it.

I don’t know if anyone actually bought it. I think the description stated that it really didn’t do anything but was just for bragging rights.

caffedon China Built a Vast New Infrastructure to Imprison Uighurs

Definitely bad and needs international attention.

China’s soft power will ensure that most countries won’t go beyond the usual virtue signaling.

Also keep in mind that the USA still has the most imprisoned people in the world by a large margin:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarce...

https://www.prisonstudies.org/sites/default/files/resources/...

caffedon Destruction of Nuclear Bombs Using Ultra-High Energy Neutrino Beam (2003)

2020: 1. Covid 2. Polic Brutality 3. Cicadas 4. Global Thermal Nuclear war

Yep....

Hey, it's only a "3% fizzle reaction". How bad can that be?

caffedon The leading cause of death in the US on Apr 6 was Covid-19

Wow, the rapid increase is definitely alarming.

Side note: gun violence would average number 3 or 4, if not for the tireless lobbying from the NRA to block health impact research. https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

caffedon Mondragon Corporation

Shameless plug :-)

Democracy at Work Institute: https://institute.coop/

caffedon Have Aliens Found Us? (2019)

we'll use new framework press releases as a distraction.

caffedon Martini: Real-Time Terrain Mesh Generator

Super neat! I will definitely be checking this lib out.

caffedon How to get 30k Hacker News visitors to your website

Use the title “How to get 30,000 Hacker News visitors to your website”

caffedon Grocery Outlet S-1

I love this place. I live 1/2 a block away from one. Where else can you combine deal hunting, hoarding and grocery shopping???

“I don’t know when they’ll have this again, I better buy 6 of them” is something I’ve said to myself many times.

Also I have gotten seriously good Napa/Sonoma wine here for good prices (orig $120 GO 25.99).

caffedon All Chromebooks will also be Linux laptops going forward

This is why I will eventually switch to Linux as my primary work/personal OS.

Unfortunately, my Mac Pro 5,1 refuses to die!

caffedon Girl’s $143k bill for snakebite treatment reveals antivenin price gouging

Why would transportation cost 55k+ to begin with?!?!

caffedon Apple fails to block porn and gambling “enterprise” apps

Mobile Safari is the worst offender.

caffedon Slick Olive Oil Label Designed to Deceive

I buy a small bottle of unknown brands first and don't buy italian olive oil [0].

I mainly buy local Californian EVOO as it is high quality and reasonable priced.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-crime-food/italian-...

caffedon How We Designed the Librem 5 Dev Kit with Free Software

Anybody remember Openmoko? Ubuntu Edge?

It's a great and noble idea, but really hard to pull off.

Also, there's no final specs for the Librem 5 yet they have a 4/2019 ship date. Sure... Hats off to them if that actually happens.

Does anyone have a Librem dev kit? Thoughts?

I like the Linux distro + e2e encryption support and would consider this in the future when they ship.

caffedon Show HN: A realtime node-based audio synth based on LLVM

Looks really cool, and similar to Audulus http://audulus.com/

caffedon Kidney Stones Are More Beautiful Than You Might Think

I’m waiting for the first hipster hand made kidney stone jewelry.

caffedon Probiotics labelled 'quite useless'

For those wanting some reference to the Harvard Medical School coconut oil war:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-a-harvard-professor-is-call...

caffedon Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops

IMHO, ARM performance is "good enough" for consumption and light editing/creation.

The real test for this is software.

Anyone remember this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32

Exactly...

caffedon Fountain pen inks: the good, the bad, and the ugly (2011)

All I know is that my extra fine Pilot custom 823 beats all my other pens for flow and capacity.

caffedon Amazon will launch its own delivery service to compete with FedEx, UPS

Just to chime in here about how terrible and unaccountable the delivery service is -

I bought a part for my bike that on first attempt went to the wrong intermediate routing center. They marked it as undeliverable instead of just rerouting it. I had to get a refund and was promised a $25 credit to my next purchase. That didn’t happen.

I ordered the same item again. It was lost in transit. Got refund with no credit.

It took the third try to get my item. I selected same day delivery on the previous two but not the third.

I live in San Francisco and the item was in their Fremont fullfillment center. So....?

caffedon A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

It Kicks the Llamas Ass!

caffedon Node v9.4.0

Web Workers are a browser only framework. You can use child_process.fork: https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#child_process_chil...

or maybe WebWorker Threads for API compatible framework: https://www.npmjs.com/package/webworker-threads

caffedon Is software development really a dead-end job after age 35-40?

- Keep your knowledge/experience relevant - Stay focused and positive - Promote collaboration, ownership, and leadership

Think of it like being on a first date: your idealized self. You're real, but like 120% real.

caffedon Security alerts on GitHub

I am thinking that it's because the React package.json does not have `repository` listed.

https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/package.json

See Redux: https://github.com/reactjs/redux/blob/master/package.json#L3...

caffedon Using React 16 to open new window with shared state

Yeah, I use MessageChannel ports whenever communicating across domains: extensions, Workers, etc.

That was I can abstract it into convenience classes for connecting, event listening, etc.

caffedon Purism and KDE to Work Together on World's First Truly Free Smartphone

As someone who tried to fund the Ubuntu Edge, I don't see this getting fully funded.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ubuntu-edge#/

It probably wasn't 100% FOSS (blobs?, baseband?, ...), but that was a much more polished product soft+hardware, especially for touch based usage.

That is not to say that I don't want it to get funded, rather the barriers to entry are high.