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daflip··on OpenAI DayBreak – GPT-5.5-Cyber
I guess eventually the whole process can be completely autonomous, what could possibly go wrong :-)
daflip··on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?
When you flush the toilet in an airplane the contents is normally vacuumed in to a holding tank which gets emptied after the plane lands.
daflip··on PHP isn't dead. Laravel is just bloated. Here's what I made instead
Was a hardcode PHP dev for many years. A quick look at the code makes me glad I left this ecosystem behind - it looks like a brittle maintenance nightmare! It's no wonder there's trace log lines scattered all over the place. There doesn't seem to even a sniff of anything related to testing here. It's insane to me to try promote this over Laravel.
daflip··on FCC opens entire 6 GHz band to low power device operations
Actually they don't consume a very large portion of the overall spectrum at all. Nearly all the bands you mention are in the Mhz range or less rather than Ghz and as a result they're not really even suited for WiFi use. The lower frequencies are less optimal for high speed data transfer and also broadcast to a longer range, as well as penetrate buildings more easily than their higher frequency counterparts.

As well as that those bands are already heavily used already - it would make no sense to open these bands up to WiFi.

daflip··on OpenWrt One router officially launched
Nothing like a 3.1 MB PNG showcased as a 400-pixel-wide image :->
daflip··on Forest Service orders Arrowhead bottled water to shut down California pipeline
Of course it will have at least some environmental impact if the water stops being directed in to plastic bottles and instead is left flow along on the land. 3 gallons a second is still a pretty significant flow of water - at least enough to power a small stream or creek. Nothing in the broader scheme of things of course, but you can't say there's zero environmental impact "whatsoever".
daflip··on Why your brain is 3 milion more times efficient than GPT-4
If taken to the extreme I can't help but quote Carl Sagan :-)

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe"

daflip··on Show HN: I made tool that let's you see everything about any website
If the scheme is not lowercase it seems to erroneously detect malware and provides a zip file url for some malware which does not exist on the page. Seems like a bug !

example URL "with" malware: Https://cnn.com example URL without malware: https://cnn.com

daflip··on JavaScript Bloat in 2024
All the js asset sizes quoted in the article seem inflated compared to the figures I see when I try to verify the authors figures.
daflip··on Steve Wozniak hospitalized after fainting at an event in Mexico City
already posted ? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38201073
daflip··on StackPath CDN and Highwinds CDN are shutting down
This is a real pity. With this latest move it seems they just ate the new kid on the block. Akamai in my experience is not cheap, certainly not to the level Stackpath was. I saw big cost savings by switching from an Akamai CDN setup to stackpath.

As a Stackpath customer, I also received an email from Akamai welcoming me aboard. They provided a helpful where I could start a 90 day trial of several competing services ... none of which seemed like a like-for-like match, leaving me a bit confused. There's also no indication of pricing (typical Akamai). Seems like it's time to look for an alternative.

daflip··on Chinese Businesses Fueling the Fentanyl Epidemic Receive Millions in Crypto
This article claims Fentanyl is the "leading cause of death for those aged 18-45 in the USA". I can't find any legit source for this claim on the internet which proves this to be the case, only the opposite in fact.
daflip··on Tell HN: Do Not Use Docusign
Of course it sucks to have a company who makes it difficult to cancel your account but if you never even wanted the subscription the why did you upload your payment details ?
daflip··on I'm shadow banned by DuckDuckGo and Bing
i assume you have >0 backlinks to the site?
daflip··on Ask HN: Anyone else suffering from tinnitus?
Can confirm, got covid in Dec 2020 and have it 24x7 every day since (-:
daflip··on Long Covid, Cognitive Impairment, and the Stalled Decline in Disability Rates
this is exactly me also
daflip··on Stackpath us-west objectstorage was down
Does anyone here use stackpath for their CDN? I was evaluating it and had their us-west object-storage go down (throwing 503 errors for for all requests) yesterday. 24 hours later, it's back up but with degraded performance. I've heard nothing from support other than that they're aware of it and what the status page says.
daflip··on Ask HN: Digital Nomads: How do you manage taxes?
Are you saying if you had the opportunity to do this you'd opt not to and instead pay taxes?
daflip··on To Slow Global Warming, We Need Nuclear Power (Op-Ed)
There's many ways to slow global warming. Is replacing power production with nuclear really humanity's best first to-go in slowing global warming? I would have thought not.
daflip··on DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding
When was the last time you added a node? New nodes default to 'automatic' networking now which configures /etc/network/interfaces automatically
daflip··on Ask HN: How do you keep track of billable hours?
I use Project Hamster from the gnome project (I'm a linux user). It's free, integrates nicely with my desktop and is always available (unlike web based time trackers). It uses a sqlite database which is a nice plus (I also synchronize the database file over dropbox so I can share the time tracking on my other machines).

At the start of a new month I export the time reports for the previous month from hamster as XML which I then import to my custom billing engine (I tag each task in Hamster by client name). This then gets converted to a time breakdown on each client invoice. Clients can then view a detailed breakdown of the billed work at per minute granularity along with descriptions of each subtask.

daflip··on Best Linux Laptops (2013)
I second the Carbon X1 .. Great laptop. It's small, light has an awesome keyboard and touchpad. I run Debian Jessie on mine.. Everything works 100% except for the fingerprint reader (I don't use it.. Maybe it does work thou!). Currently travelling on the road and using the built in UTMS/3g modem- works like a charm!
daflip··on How much money are you earning from your software products?
Sorry, I'd prefer not to disclose the app name - it's a simple website builder targeting a niche.
daflip··on How much money are you earning from your software products?
Launched my first SaaS app a little over 2 years ago. Monthly recurring revenue is currently a little over $4000. 506 paying customers to date, growing around 1.5 paying customers per day and working off ~2.7% conversion rate (freemium business model). Single person "team".
daflip··on f.lux has been updated to a new version
There's a september 2013 update to the CLI version if that helps: http://justgetflux.com/linux.html
daflip··on Add Syntax Highlighting To Your Blog With VIM
VIM too can be told use span tags and css rather than lots of messy font tags, relevant .vimrc goodness:

let html_use_css=1

let use_xhtml = 1

daflip··on Watch Me Make Mistakes
Crashes on my iPad 2 too
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how did this get upvoted?
daflip··on Poll: How do you manage passwords?
I use small set of passwords (in my head) combined with the pwdhash browser extension - https://www.pwdhash.com/

E2A: There's a chrome extension available too - https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/dnfmcfhnhnpoehjo...

daflip··on Do you read HackerNews all day and never actually do anything?
I find the Stayfocusd (sic) Google Chrome extension quite useful for a friendly "you should be working" kick in the pants: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/laankejkbhbdhmip...

Sure you can overcome it using various ways, but for me the fact that it gets in the way is enough to prompt me to go back to what I should be doing (i.e. something productive)

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