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deafpolygon··on Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
Isn’t that a text editor?
deafpolygon··on Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
load times… much easier to deliver a small html page quickly, then allow progressive downloads on images.
deafpolygon··on Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
> In Word, you hunt through menus for the word 'cut' or 'paste' and click it.

What you just described is discoverability. Something that terminal applications and modal editors tend to do quite poorly.

deafpolygon··on Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0
Are we at the ‘extend’ stage now?
deafpolygon··on Iosevka + Berkeley = Ioskeley
If you use homebrew, you can use `brew install font-ioskeley-mono`.

Looks nice!

deafpolygon··on I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan
Reads like LLM wrote it.
deafpolygon··on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
Unrelated, but does anyone find this site incredibly hard to read?
deafpolygon··on The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme
It is theorized that they had vision like eagles or possibly exceeded that of eagles that enabled them to see prey at great distances. Then using their legs optimized for locomotion, they would chase them down.

It feels like most people mix the two things up: excellent vision and predatory response. An eagle can absolutely see a mouse hiding in the bushes, not moving. But a moving prey is what triggers their predatory response. Plausibly… they probably don’t attack a non-moving mouse because it could be a dead mouse.

Human vision evolved for different things. Our ancestors were tree-dwelling and optimized for depth perception, social cues and color acuity. So it’s just a different strategy.

deafpolygon··on LLMs are breaking 20 year old system design
Written by AI…
deafpolygon··on Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago
Maybe this is proof of time-travel.
deafpolygon··on Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
Isn’t that nearly the same thing? It depends on the presence of a particular plugin which was abused to run remote commands.
deafpolygon··on Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail, Dirty Frag
This seems like a bad idea, but.. I’m no kernel dev.
deafpolygon··on Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
What’s misleading?

"Novel Campaign Abuses Obsidian Note-Taking App to Target Finance and Crypto Professionals with PHANTOMPULSE RAT”

It’s novel (new), an abuse of Obsidian, specifically targeting a group of people.. and the RAT is embedded in the vault.

deafpolygon··on Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan
It does.

> It enables malicious versions of legitimate Obsidian plugins ('Shell Commands' and 'Hider') that are present in the shared vault.

deafpolygon··on I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook
On the other hand, I found it quite pleasant and subsequently forgot about it. It’s out of my way and I focus on the task at hand.
deafpolygon··on I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook
> Apple's software incompetence is absolutely universally hated

Weird. Maybe he spent too much time on ChatGPT and got AI psychosis.

deafpolygon··on Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time
After letting Mulder go early, I’m not surprised.
deafpolygon··on Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software
One of the reasons why these kind of software is not allowed is that it opens up a new class of social engineering attacks (install this, run this code) against users that have normally placed great trust in their software.
deafpolygon··on Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
What does SpaceX get out of this deal?
deafpolygon··on My Claude Code Setup: Pure CLI, Pure Unix, Zero IDE
What’s old is new again.
deafpolygon··on Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
They have a vat with brain hookups[0] waiting to place Gabe in, so immortality is nigh. No post-Gabe transition needed.

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/2XbM18n

edit: fixed image link

deafpolygon··on Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
This is missing the point that AI training probably costed boatloads more to achieve to get here.
deafpolygon··on Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)
They can use skulls of animals, shells of tortoises in direct heat (though not in direct flame). If they were harvesting megafauna like elephants, presumably their skulls are large. It's not implausible to assume that they were capable of controlling heat to the point where they can get the amount of heat needed to boil just water/heating up water to get marrow out.

Animal stomach, bladder can be heated to boil water indirectly (fire to heat stone, stone to heat said vessel).

deafpolygon··on Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)
It's in there.

> At this location, researchers found that Neanderthals not only broke bones to extract marrow but also crushed large mammal bones into tens of thousands of fragments to render calorie-rich bone grease through heating them in water.

deafpolygon··on Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025)
Maybe when megafauna disappeared, so too the Neanderthals because their survival strategy was too dependent on them.
deafpolygon··on Show HN: Piruetas – A self-hosted diary app I built for my girlfriend
Same. It just doesn’t work.

Also a bit confused about self-hosted vs “free”.

deafpolygon··on Show HN: Site Mogging
mog comes from “alpha male of the group” (amog) — so mogging means that as a verb (to dominate as an alpha male)..
deafpolygon··on I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers
Unrelated, but that site is unreadable to me... dark grey on black?
deafpolygon··on New copy of earliest poem in English, written 1,3k years ago, discovered in Rome
It really baffles (and amazes) me that Old English is practically unintelligible to modern day English speakers.
deafpolygon··on ChatGPT will tell you the truth after it stops mattering
Fascinating read. I was almost tempted to use AI to summarize this (ran quite long) but glad I didn’t.
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