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doubleorseven··on Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day
i also looked it up. it feels like up until ~200 those are all just chatty apps on our computers talking with the mother ship
doubleorseven··on DeskHog, an open-source developer toy
i still wish i had a small keyboard with like 9 configurable keys that can execute what ever i want like "start debug" or "open tty at a specific folder" or "git status a specific repository" and so on...
doubleorseven··on My website is ugly because I made it
I remember when 'Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers' by Kendrik Lamar was out on 05/22 and I was thinking to my self, OMG it's only May and the best album of the year is out.

The words I just read takes me back to that same feeling. Thank you for that.

doubleorseven··on Postgres IDE in VS Code
There is a parallel world, called enterprise. The enterprise people in this world, like enterprise software. They were born to be enterprise oriented. This is fine. Not everyone is like you and it's ok to use a robust product like MSSQL.
doubleorseven··on I won't be vibe coding anymore: a noob's perspective
I was programming 14 years without LLM so I'm not sure I can relate, but -

Agents got really good lately in explaining what they did, which makes it easier to skim over the "boilerplate" and focus on the main event it produced.

Also I got really good with agents since I spend half of my day talking in my head to an agent and focusing on how to build my prompt and what questions and areas I want it to ask me about before I set it free.

It's not really vibe coding but actuall vibe coding never worked for me, it usually get stuck in a loop of "let me fix a linter issue" and "i didn't implemented this interface correctly".

doubleorseven··on Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch
Dear @Lenovo

Please hire this guy to help you make the thinkpad's keyboard to do wireless magic with the trackpoint and the mouse buttons include. Thanks

doubleorseven··on Doom ported to Microsoft Word document
gonna need a better demo video to convince me to run this thing.

All and all looks like the guy is an expert on porting doom so good for him

doubleorseven··on Nobody cares
Zooming out of your own world is a gift that can be taught. You have a gift that 100% makes your life easier, with the side effect of the occasional frustration.

I feel compassion for those people who live in their own body and keep hitting walls.

You can help people care, it's your path.

doubleorseven··on Tell HN: Impassable Cloudflare challenges are ruining my browsing experience
I use Whonix quite a lot, Most of the internet is unusable since i get into the "check the box" loop.
doubleorseven··on Bill requiring US agencies to share source code with each other becomes law
This is great.

In my country agencies use code as trade like "i will give you the code to generate holograms to by pass video KYC and you will give me men power to spread fake news".

Because there is no sharing, agencies spend a lot of money developing multiple versions of the same need, not all with great success. This bill should take you further in terms of quality and advantage.

doubleorseven··on I Don't Have Spotify
This is great. I don't have spotify but everyone i know has spotify.

I wish I could just share the spotify link to a WPA app using the Web Share API and have it share back the url for my preffered music streaming app.

I guess I can ask claude to do it for me and use the code here for the UI, but I can't find the license file

doubleorseven··on Looking into the Nintendo Alarmo
It seems like it was designed to play Doom!
doubleorseven··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Thank you. I live in Israel. My kids are in the process of becoming US citizens.
doubleorseven··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
Hello Peter, I married an american woman and me and my wife are not leaving in the states. We are in the process ofp registering the kids since we are preparing a plan B. We didn't got married in my country, but in Thailand. I was told that in order to get a spouse Visa, I need to start the process in Thailand. Is this true? Do i need to apply for everything in Thailand just because this is where we got married? Thank you
doubleorseven··on Show HN: FTWA – Turn any website into an app
Kinda off topic but this is a "Linux First" UI application(?) and I love it.
doubleorseven··on DeskPad – A virtual monitor for screen sharing
I used to have an Intel MB, mid 2010. I had to disconnect the hdmi cable so it can boot, otherwise it would just blast the fan displaying the apple loading animation. It died on 2022 when i installed an update that asked for a restart and i forgot to disconnect and went on vacation. RIP Intel MPs. Amazing beasts.
doubleorseven··on Show HN: Winamp and other media players, rebuilt for the web with Web Components
This one made my day.

One thing that I feel should be mandatory when building applications is setting: `user-select: none;` and only allowing it where it's needed. For example, the reelplay theme bar is selectable

Again, thank you for this wonderful work

doubleorseven··on Amusing Ourselves to Death (2014)
He passed away before the first iPhone and now my only 2 wishes are: 1) a new book about how smartphones revolutionize the modern world and 2) a new Lauryn hill album
doubleorseven··on Rearchitecting: Redis to SQLite
> Benchmarking is a dark art of deceiving yourself with highly precise numbers

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doubleorseven··on Show HN: Velvet – Store OpenAI requests in your own DB
Yes! It's amazing how many things you can do with lua in nginx. I had a server that served static websites where the files and the certificates for each website were stored in a bucket. Over 20k websites with 220ms overhead if the certificate wasn't cached.
doubleorseven··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
Exactly. But this buyer is not a regular buyer, he is not getting a tracking number and refreshing some random website to see where it's shipment is. The buyer must have been with the goods from a point before it reached its destinated country. There are so many plays that had to play here in order to orcestrate this. Should make a really good heist movie, just with a different prize at the end.
doubleorseven··on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon
> If we try to do what we are best at here at HN, let’s focus the discussion on the technical aspects of it.

Technical? Yes it's interesting but you are missing the biggest part here: how do you convince such a huge organization to switch so many devices? This human engineering is the really interesting part here.

doubleorseven··on Breaking my hand forced me to write all my code with AI for 2 months
Why were you forced to work with a broken arm? Was squid game a reality show?

Anyway I liked what you wrote. I just used "AI" for the past 2 months to write glsl code for me, since i had zero knowledge in webgl2 and GPUs in general. learned alot from reading the explanations it generates.

One thing I learned regarding LLM failing to do a task after two tries, is to tell it: "wow, this seems super complicated. Isn't it a simpler solution?" Also telling it some half baked solutions like "can't you like loop over it in reverse" can put it back on track.

doubleorseven··on SAM 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos
Thank you for this amazing work you are sharing.

I do have a 2 questions: 1. isn't addressing the video frame by frame expensive? 2. In the web demo when the leg moves fast it loses it's track from the shoe. Does the memory part not throwing some uristics to over come this edge case?

doubleorseven··on Due to blade damage, Mars Helicopter Ingenuity will not fly again
I would first check the software license and if i have the "right to repair" on this beauty.
doubleorseven··on Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match
Border-solid can indeed be inlined but black is a color i think not all agreed on. I like #252325 but some will go for #030303.

Also, it's like building your new and shiny app with i18n in mind. Do you really need translations when you are the only user? Probably not, but development is also about trying to predict what will happen next. classes helps you to grow.

doubleorseven··on Htmx and Web Components: A Perfect Match
At first glance, yes. But if you'll look closely, You will see the difference between hardcoding a style(inlining) and defining by reference(classes).
doubleorseven··on Everyone's getting ghosted, the new normal in tech recruiting
Maybe only now it reached America? In Israel, for the last 13 years atleast, I don't think there was ever an alternative.
doubleorseven··on Demystifying Web Push Notifications
"While you can technically generate your VAPID keys by yourself, it is much easier to use a generator, like vapidkeys.com, which will generate a set of keys for you."

Please don't use online tools to generate private keys. Not CSRs, not WG configs or bitcoin wallets, Nothing. Just don't.

doubleorseven··on Htmx, Rust and Shuttle: A New Rapid Prototyping Stack
I've switched to htmx entirely but sometimes i do get this long strings that feels like parsing a json object using split(',').
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