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carl_dr··on Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
No, it’s really not, it’s none of our jobs to do that. It’s our job to make our employer (even if you are your own employer) money.

It’s incredibly rare you have the luxury of even trying to deliver bug free code, let alone achieve it.

carl_dr··on Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site
I would love keyboard shortcuts to toggle (for example) pencil mode, or line/empty mode, and other quality of life improvements so I don't have to keep my mouse in one hand!
carl_dr··on Self-Driving bus in Sweden crashes with tram on first day of passenger service
If I have to slam the brakes on to avoid hitting a pedestrian, you can be damned sure I will. If you're driving so close to me as not to be able to stop in the space between us, that's on you.
carl_dr··on ClassicPress 2.7.0 Release Notes
I wish projects had a “what is X” link visible on their sites, or HN had some context text which let posters describe why they posted. (Or the OP post the homepage which had all of this info.)

This is a fork of Wordpress 4.9, for anyone else that didn’t know. I’m not qualified to comment on the reasons why they forked.

carl_dr··on Show HN: I made an email app inspired by Arc browser
“ This demo is optimized for desktop screens (1000px+).”

Opportunity missed with me, not everyone browses HN on their desktop.

At least have some screenshots of your app so I am motivated to check later.

carl_dr··on Microsoft confirms a major Windows 11 update with faster Explorer, less Copilot
Decent models cost money, is the reality of it.

“less copilot” is because they can’t charge for it, so the model is crap, so no-one wants it, so they are removing it where it’s useless.

They won’t be the last.

carl_dr··on Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app
Am I right in thinking you’re asking me to put an API in frontend code?
carl_dr··on Bars close and hundreds lose jobs as US firm buys Brewdog in £33M deal
… they’ve built.
carl_dr··on Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering
I used a different Ghidra MCP server (LaurieWired's) to, umm, liberate some software recently. I can’t express how fun straightforward it was to analyze the binary and generate a keygen.

I learnt a ton in the progress. I highly recommend others do the same, it’s a really fun way of spending an evening.

I will certainly be giving this MCP server a go.

carl_dr··on Ask HN: Claude Code vs. Open Code
The output is “identical” if you’re using the same model. Consider them separate front ends really.

OpenCode - you can easily see the changed files on your branch, it defaults to being permissive with tools, can easily fork a session so you can fix unrelated issues or small issues without consuming context, you can add more “modes” like build and plan as a first class construct, you aren’t limited to just Anthropic models.

Claude Code - you can do all of the above in one way or another, not least if you use an IDE with it

I started using OpenCode to get away from the horrible Claude flicker, but it seems that they have fixed that recently - I don’t think I’ll be going back though, and I use Opus/Sonnet exclusively.

carl_dr··on DarkCode – 8-color barcode, 140k chars (decoder 50% broken)
Literally the most important thing you could have included in that README is a few samples of how it looks, and you might have found some people to answer the questions you have.

Even an examples directory in the repo with some samples would have helped.

carl_dr··on The <time> element should do something
Which is great UX on a phone.
carl_dr··on Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Artifical limits because they are on the free plan?
carl_dr··on Fizz Buzz in CSS
Ignoring the size of the HTML in addition to the CSS, it’s fun, but not really fair when talking about code golf. Beyond a few numbers, you need to include some JavaScript and generating a million list elements. But those bytes count …
carl_dr··on ElementaryOS – Thoughtful, capable and ethical replacement for Windows/macOS
/r/thathappened

She had an account on the wrong laptop?

carl_dr··on How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?
Genuine question: why “blame”? Does it really matter?
carl_dr··on Show HN: Tsbro – TypeScript for the browser, no build step
That is how this works.

> tsbro solves this by completely bypassing the browser's import system using synchronous XHR, transpile with swc wasm and a sophisticated ESM-to-CJS transpiler so that synchronous require is used everywhere:

carl_dr··on Arizona resident dies from the plague less than 24 hours after showing symptoms
Sadly, it could be as simple as the guy didn’t run up tens of thousands of dollars of healthcare, and left it too late to get treatment.
carl_dr··on The death of partying in the USA
Except the graph shows this was happening way before COVID. The internet and how that has changed how people relate is much more likely the reason.
carl_dr··on Commanding Your Claude Code Army
> At any given moment, I have at least three instances running: one for writing blog posts, …
carl_dr··on Moon
Yeah, naked eye, although with a 6” telescope, I’d expect it to be a bit fainter - certainly that is the case through my 9.25” scope. I can often see a band in its rings.

It also depends a lot on atmospherics, if there is a lot of turbulence in the atmosphere it makes things less crisp (well, “dancey”, like looking through a heat haze.)

Look up your local astronomy group and go along one night, and see for yourself before buying anything. Saturn isn’t great at the moment (assuming London-ish latitudes) but Jupiter is around all night and you should be able to see it through a variety of scopes and eyepieces if you went along to a sky party.

Honestly, the first time I saw Saturn through a telescope I nearly cried. Truly amazing.

carl_dr··on 18,000 Miles Later, an American Woman Has Cycled the World
They don’t take it at normal dosages.

A test showed that they couldn’t get 12 trained cyclists to have a level above 510ng/ml in their urine, when they took salbutamol at the maximum WADA level of 600ug in an 8 hour period. [1]

The WADA threshold for salbutamol is 1,000ng/ml [2] So this level is about twice the level performance tested in your first link above.

Athletes can get TUEs for levels higher than the 1,000ng/ml limit or to take it using other methods than inhaling. [2]

Cyclists have been banned for having levels at 1,900ng/ml and 1,320ng/ml, and they were banned because the sport considers it a performance enhancing drug.

I imagine (but have no evidence, since they aren't published) that cyclists with a TUE regularly race with levels similar or above that. And without spending hours researching, I imagine this translates to other sports similarly.

[1] https://respiratory-research.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1...

[2] https://ita.sport/uci-therapeutic-use-exemptions/

carl_dr··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
Sounds excellent, joined the wait list.
carl_dr··on Investigating corrupt Winamp skins
5th decade …

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40884356

carl_dr··on Do not taunt happy fun branch predictor (2023)
We know.

On a phone at normal reading distance, with the articles styling, it’s really hard to tell the difference between n and u without zooming, and the decimal points get lost - scanning the tables is hard.

carl_dr··on Why is Chile so long?
TFA also covers that - desert in the north and rainforest in the south.
carl_dr··on FAA investigates after Southwest plane drops to 'within 400ft' of Pacific Ocean
To clarify, this incident (TFA, [0], [1]) is a different incident than the Dutch roll incident [2].

This incident looks like pilot error.

carl_dr··on Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
Thanks for the Ice recommendation, just moved over from Bartender.
carl_dr··on TotalRecall: Extracts and displays data from the Windows 11 Recall feature
From your link :

> Your data is stored locally on your device, and you have the option (soon to be implemented) to encrypt it with a password for added security.

Security focused my ass.

carl_dr··on Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life
> “made by Dave in California”

Love this, well done, looks like a great product.

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