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danielfalbo··on Internet Archive Down
Update: https://web.archive.org/ gives 503 Service Unavailable to me right now.
danielfalbo··on Ask HN: Comments in Code. Yay or Nay?
https://www.antirez.com/news/124
danielfalbo··on Internet Archive Down
For me, even the very home https://web.archive.org/ redirects to /sry right now.
danielfalbo··on Internet Archive Down
Yes, and if you look at the page title in the browser tab it should say "Scheduled Maintainance"
danielfalbo··on Internet Archive Down
Update: page title says

> Scheduled Maintenance

danielfalbo··on One Handed Keyboard
From their youtube channel description:

> Our goal is to create fun and engaging videos.

I wonder whether they are more into video-making or tech.

danielfalbo··on Scaling HNSWs
why not vim?
danielfalbo··on Scaling HNSWs
> long, sad story about MacOS and bad habits – I hadn’t lost something like that since the 90s, during blackouts

would love to hear this story as well now!

danielfalbo··on Toy Forth-Like Interpreter
inspired by antirez
danielfalbo··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
I'm implementing a btree for educational purposes =) https://github.com/danielfalbo/btree/pull/1
danielfalbo··on I've learned that people need people to live
Harvard Life Study TED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KkKuTCFvzI&t=1s
danielfalbo··on Use ctrl+return to open terminal on macOS via karabiner
On macOS that’s usually cmd-enter, not ctrl-enter

Anyways, Karabiner allows you to use whatever shortcut you prefer

danielfalbo··on ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
I don't think the CLI one is a good analogy.

> We left command-line interfaces behind 40 years ago for a reason

Man I still love command-line so much

> And it would go on like this for hours while you tried in vain to guess what the hell it wanted you to type, or you discovered the outdoors, whichever came first. [...] guess what secret spell they had to type into their computer to get actual work done

Well... docs and the "-h" do a pretty good job.

danielfalbo··on 1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order
I like the idea of "robotics slop" still being useful, compared to the rest of AI slop (https://youtu.be/f3c4mQty_so?si=6Zq0eFq80C0_RGGo&t=345 timestamp intended)
danielfalbo··on 1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order
Self-charge (https://youtu.be/LTYMWadOW7c?si=Rml7QsJTzDPva1tr&t=366 timestamp intended): the first form of eternal life
danielfalbo··on The Swift SDK for Android
Why can’t everything just be a progressive web app
danielfalbo··on TextEdit and the relief of simple software
What about vim
danielfalbo··on What problems deserve the best researchers and engineers alive? (2025)
Author here, I'm just young student. Correct me if I'm wrong.
danielfalbo··on React Flow, open source libraries for node-based UIs with React or Svelte
Supabase uses this for the Visual Schema Designer https://supabase.com/features/visual-schema-designer
danielfalbo··on 80/20 actionable things for a good life
I also keep a similar blueprint for myself: danielfalbo.com/essentials
danielfalbo··on Claude Memory
> eliminating the need to re-explain context

I am happy to re-explain only the subset of relevant context when needed and not have it in the prompt when not needed.

danielfalbo··on Your data model is your destiny
Why/how are likes/comments/reposts disabled on this substack post? https://substack.com/@matttbrown/note/p-176089442
danielfalbo··on Anduril EagleEye: warfighters AR glasses, partnership with Meta
https://www.anduril.com/hardware/eagleeye/
danielfalbo··on Live Stream from the Namib Desert
Do you know when you look for a restaurant on google maps and you see a "Popular times" map of people density throughout the day + live updates like "Less busy than usual"? Would be fun to build such a thing for this
danielfalbo··on My experience trying high-resolution music
Exactly! I also figured out the audio quality doesn't make as much difference as the DAC to me. For example, I definitely don't pass the blind lossless audio test https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45395538
danielfalbo··on My experience trying high-resolution music
Definitely the DAC. I tried headphones without DAC directly plugged into my MacBook and didn't sound as good. I also tried $19 wired Apple EarPods plugged into the DAC and I felt a difference.
danielfalbo··on The great software quality collapse or, how we normalized catastrophe
Reminds me of "We are destroying software" by antirez https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42983275
danielfalbo··on I added a paulgraham.com-like navbar to my plain HTML personal website
PG uses a static image, I recreated it using simple CSS. Read the source code, there's no clutter.
danielfalbo··on How To Start Bug Bounties (2021)
Another example: https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-importer/issues/421#i...
danielfalbo··on Structured Procrastination (1995)
update: the HTML doctype string is

> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

that's HTML 1.0

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