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cbluth··on Exit the Cave
I've found my Disney princess from within
cbluth··on How Claude marks AI-generated content
The words themselves are the symbols that are used to calculate signature, copying word for word will still reveal provence.
cbluth··on Voice Modems
Goog411 had sms and travel directions, as tap into something like google maps. I used it to travel several interstate trips back in the day
cbluth··on 'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet
It's an offset for the amount of effort and forethought put into the fraud
cbluth··on Show HN: Pgit – A Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL
> fossil itself is an SQLite database

Can anyone explain what this means and how it works?

cbluth··on Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
You applied the razor very well here.

There will always be a market.

cbluth··on Experts warn of growing parrot crisis in Canada [video]
Im realizing that those birds are more focused and disciplined than most children Ive observed browsing youtube
cbluth··on Denmark becomes first country in world to end letter delivery
I'd say its "Walkmany"
cbluth··on Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal
No, I totally misunderstood.

I vibe coded a little tool [0] that can stream range requests from torrents.

It's a little buggy and super rough around the edges, but it's definitely possible because your torrent client can prioritize piece requests and http standards support http range requests, just requesting parts of a document. I lightly tested it with VLC and seeking the playback to the middle of a video

[0] https://github.com/cbluth/bittorrent

cbluth··on Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal
How do you stream a timestamp?
cbluth··on Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?
I can confirm this, from my experience. Many organizations have foregone ms in lieu of redhat and oracle, and redhat is slowly injecting openshift where they can fit it.
cbluth··on QUIC and the end of TCP sockets
The obvious comparisons are between udp and tcp, and then between quic and ssh, given the notion of "multiple streams"
cbluth··on Universities should be more than toll gates
You don't need universities to make lifelong friends or finding your learning independence
cbluth··on How Container Filesystem Works: Building a Docker-Like Container from Scratch
You can see why people like the docker experience, you can manage to do all that in a single interface, instead of one off scripts touching a ton of little things
cbluth··on With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people
I know someone that has "resurrected" a dead relative through an llm, and I've seen the nonsense on forums about dating an "ai boyfriend"...

Some people can't help themselves and don't use these tools appropriately.

cbluth··on FaceTime in iOS 26 will freeze your call if someone starts undressing
I'm sure grandma knows how to undress, otherwise she wouldn't be a grandma?
cbluth··on Ask HN: How Do I Escape Homelessness After Rebuilding My Mental Health?
Yeah, I found it on the map here, it's for youth, but I'm certain they will have resources

https://maps.app.goo.gl/HxLZGEtNSxyfpuoYA

cbluth··on Ask HN: How Do I Escape Homelessness After Rebuilding My Mental Health?
There's a safe house near Flood and Tabernacle St, I just drove by it, they may have some resources that can help
cbluth··on Show HN: A Database Written in Golang
You should trust that the readme is up to date
cbluth··on Freelancing: How I found clients, part 1
One advantage the extra steps bring you is the ability to negotiate a price.
cbluth··on Ways to annoy your senior engineer
This turns into nickel and diming, then bike shedding. For me, it's easier not to enter the process
cbluth··on Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
Any reference or instructions on how to do that?
cbluth··on Ask HN: How to get to interview prep and return to work after long career gap?
Don't put up the walls so fast, wait for the offer and give it a think. Godspeed, friend
cbluth··on Ask HN: How to get to interview prep and return to work after long career gap?
Find and fund a hobby, something else that drives you. You'll need that job to pay for it.

But really though, just show up to the interviews, sometimes you're a shoo-in and don't know it.

cbluth··on Pkdns: DNS server resolving via mainline DHT
Wow, this is amazing, thanks for sharing
cbluth··on The Eukaryote, the First Cell to Get Organized
Wow, good one, I loved the illustrations too. What a portentous, foreboding prediction of humanity
cbluth··on Ask HN: Hacking your brain after trauma and mental health crisis?
I know st George, and SLC. Personally, I would get the hell out dodge
cbluth··on “The Secret History of the Mongols”: A digital history approach
Wow, thank you
cbluth··on Ask HN: What book had a big impact on you as a child or teenager?
Stacks and stacks of encyclopedias and atlases, some for adults and some for kids, the way things work, books in foreign languages
cbluth··on Show HN: Offline audiobook from any format with one CLI command
Very nice, I will give it a try! I looked at piper a bit, does this support multi speaker models?
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