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cantalopes··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
A ninteneon3ds game explorer where i can look at games and bookmark them with comfortable screenshot preview so i can check what i would like (i never knew what game i should play on it and there are hundreds)
cantalopes··on Show HN: I Derived a Pancake
I will definitely try it next weekend!
cantalopes··on Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?
The only reason the google has invested into chromium is something along the lines of web manifest v3 so they can monopolize the way internet is consumed and monetized

Of course they are going to do this

cantalopes··on Surveillance Is Not Safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]
Praise
cantalopes··on Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
No i mean i'm surprised they support putin and pay yandex. But what is that pro russian employee thing?
cantalopes··on Ten Years of Franz
It's electron, everything electron will always have these performance issues unfortunately

Btw actual solution for you might be plain old Pidgin

cantalopes··on Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?
I think i got linked here from a slashdot article. That one is flooded with russian trolls nowadays so i mostly visit hacker news, and people are nicer here too
cantalopes··on Squillions: How money laundering won
The author is truly misguided. They are willing to sacrifice everyone's privacy under the excuse of fighting crime.

But what else could you expect from a .co.uk website, they are experts on creating orwellian police state dystopias where everyone's every single move is monitored by a big brother

cantalopes··on Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites
Wait what? They employ pro russian employees and use yandex?
cantalopes··on Machine-verified proof that M3P ∈ P and P = NP via Pedigree Polytopes
Yyyeah that's almost certainly bs
cantalopes··on Ask HN: My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction
Not the only thing that matters but still important: i don't think your brand name is good. The name is so generic and hard to search, you picked marketing on a nightmare difficulty level. Besides from recognizability i think even if someone recommended your app directly by word of mouth they would not be able to find it
cantalopes··on I am retiring from tech to live offline
I feel you. I've been coding for about 20 years and the last 2 years were an absolute downer, draining all the joy of programming by offloading the actuall puzzles to an ai third party thst i just navigate and correct. I am 20 times more productive but 20 times less happy
cantalopes··on Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding
I love the random hyperlink underlines on that page
cantalopes··on Does anybody like React?
No
cantalopes··on GitHub's take on age assurance for developers
"Policymakers around the world are advancing age assurance proposals to protect children and teens online." Noone is doing this in order to "protect children"
cantalopes··on Claude for Small Business
Yeah and if you have 20-50 people aboard you are already considered medium/big sized company. 500 is HUGE
cantalopes··on Claude for Small Business
Reminds me of openai paying Kenyans $2/hr to flag violent and toxic stuff for them and a bunch of people ending up with ptsd
cantalopes··on I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
It looks quite nice on the paper, but honestly, i have browsed the website and see fal.ai in the case studies which is a very red flag for me.

We use fal heavily in our manual production pipeline and their cdn/storage speed is really bad. Like, my colleagues that generate videos in the platform sit on the platform sometimes wait for minutes before a generated 5-10 video downloads from the servers, the speeds are very slow. Sometimes it works but half of time i hear them b!tching about fal being slow, when i checked the network requests, the content that's getting fetched from the v3b.fal.media for example goes reeeeally bad

cantalopes··on Bright lights: UFO files shed light on sightings but leave interpretation
I don't think we should be giving media presence to this red herring that is used to divert the attention from war, failing leadership news, and epsten files
cantalopes··on Is Google down for anyone else?
Works here. Also, use Kagi!
cantalopes··on I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
sorry to hijack this but since we're talking the AWS egress exorbitant prices, could someone recommend a reliable production-tested s3 service that will not ruin me financially? i have been with hetzner and while their vps server are great, they are absolutely terrible at s3. random downtimes, incomplete uploads/downloads, capacity issues, terrible api key management, etc - but the failure rate is really high
cantalopes··on Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
This is crossing the line where the governments should step in and ban/fine google heavilly for this monopol behavior
cantalopes··on Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?
Why cant users disable connectivity elsewhere other thsn canada? People are supposed to call their car dealer each time after car update before turning it off again? Seems to be a cheap pr stunt to portray canadian regulation in attempt to shed good light on rivian
cantalopes··on Flipdiscs
It makes me really anxious that the 3d model in the header is not in quaternions and i keep getting gimbal locked
cantalopes··on U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back
Necer hace i tgought i can have a job in age of jobless ai by being a human verified data scraper
cantalopes··on Hungary's Viktor Orbán Concedes Defeat in Election
Hell yes
cantalopes··on EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
wait, this was not an april 1st joke?

how is anyone supposed to believe cloudflare to build a reliable cms after its reputation with the outages and mass layoffs

cantalopes··on Flighty Airports
I mean, still better than having to go to airports' official pages
cantalopes··on Our commitment to Windows quality
Yes they absolutely can. Nowadays it's as simple as clicking "install" from inside windows to try a linux distro
cantalopes··on Cloud VM benchmarks 2026
Using them for production for years, never dissapointed.

What you should be aware of is their new exploration of s3 storage. I mean, the s3 works and everything but it's still too eaely - the servers are kind of slow and sometimes fail to upload/download. They are still tuning out the storage architecture. The api key management is kind of too primitive (although much more headache free than configuring aws), and the online file browser is lacking

But for vps servers - they are battletested veterans

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