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danhon··on Show HN: Live 3D satellite tracker and the declassified Pentagon UFO archive
Just for once it would be nice to read non-slop copy, eh?
danhon··on Gallium: Why the US Cannot Produce Precision Missiles and Fully-Functional F-35s
Just once, it would be nice to read something where the publisher has put in some effort to at least hide the slop.
danhon··on My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto
There are also really cold places in the world!
danhon··on macOS Container Machines
Allocation of a finite amount of engineering resources.
danhon··on FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs
This is essentially requiring ID for IP connectivity.
danhon··on Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server
Someone please fix the title for this.
danhon··on I scraped 1.94M Airbnb photos for opium dens, pet cameos, and messy kitchens
... so you'd only end up making a donation if you ended up "stressing the project's infra more than expected"?!
danhon··on I scraped 1.94M Airbnb photos for opium dens, pet cameos, and messy kitchens
"Looking at every public Airbnb listing in Inside Airbnb's open data dump, all at once, on Burla"

This Inside Airbnb?

Community Guidelines

Please:

Only take the data you need. Do not scrape data from the site, if you would like to subscribe to the data directly, please email data@insideairbnb.com

danhon··on At Protocol: Building the Social Internet
Those of you old enough to remember etherpeg can now see an ATproto version:

https://bsky.land

danhon··on A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it
This should be read in conjunction with a think piece[0]

[0] https://medium.com/@hondanhon/this-is-a-think-piece-78618692...

danhon··on How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer
You mean like this?

"With limited funds, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin initially deployed this system of inexpensive, interconnected PCs to process many thousands of search requests per second from Google users. This hardware system reflected the Google search algorithm itself, which is based on tolerating multiple computer failures and optimizing around them. This production server was one of about thirty such racks in the first Google data center. Even though many of the installed PCs never worked and were difficult to repair, these racks provided Google with its first large-scale computing system and allowed the company to grow quickly and at minimal cost."

https://blog.codinghorror.com/building-a-computer-the-google...

danhon··on Nvidia NemoClaw
Absolutely this. I finally got it working, but the instructions and scripts for setting it up with Docker absolutely do not work.
danhon··on Another GitHub outage in the same day
Isn't github in the middle of their (latest) attempt to migrate to Azure?[0]

[0]: https://www.theverge.com/tech/796119/microsoft-github-azure-...

danhon··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
* competitive
danhon··on The RSS feed reader landscape
It's content marketing.
danhon··on Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
Moore was just about the transistor count doubling. Not performance.
danhon··on SpaceX's Starship explodes again while still on the ground
Yes, it's dry sarcasm in the finest English print tradition.
danhon··on DOGE's AI Push at the Department of Veterans Affairs
"In a GitHub ticket viewed by WIRED, Lavingia also suggested abandoning Drupal, a content management system (CMS) that the VA uses for publishing updates and information about the agency and the services it provides on VA facility websites. “I think we should consider removing Drupal as part of our workflow, and all content should just live in the codebase,” he wrote."

https://archive.is/2025.04.05-020504/https://www.wired.com/s...

danhon··on No Longer Posting to Pinboard
FWIW I migrated ~70k Pinboard pins to Raindrop.io without a hitch.
danhon··on El Capitan: New supercomputer is the fastest
It's also to check that the ones they have will still work, now that there are test bans.
danhon··on A memory leak in Apple's Network Extension framework
Eeesh.

Process 665: 874477 leaks for 2686387600 total leaked bytes.

danhon··on How the British Airways' breach kickstarted today's web security challenge
This is an ad.
danhon··on Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
You sideload them as epubs and they're fine on my Oasis at least. Calibre does a good job of fixing metadata like covers.
danhon··on The Software Crisis
Our society / societies may well be able to afford to build this quantity of software well. We choose not to.
danhon··on Tim Cook is 'not 100 percent' sure Apple can stop AI hallucinations
Because a lot of the time, AI is _pitched_ (and hyped) as a higher standard than humans.
danhon··on Roblox players to start seeing video ads in its virtual realms
I mean, yeah. Teaching kids how to survive mass-shootings at school in this way is also reasonable.

Seriously, this place sometimes.

danhon··on Ross Anderson has died
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danhon··on Show HN: Geppetto, an open source AI companion for your Slack teams
Your company website has a lot of typos.
danhon··on X blocks Taylor Swift searches after fake AI videos go viral
It mattered before it was easy to do. This has been brought up before, but leadership barreled ahead anyway.
danhon··on The Meta glassholes have arrived
Yes, and the next best time is now.
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