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foundart··on Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries
SF folks: check out https://www.milibrary.org/
foundart··on All 32 NFL stadiums ranked by total game day cost
it's the most expensive. list is sorted from least to most expensive.
foundart··on Statichost.eu – European static site hosting
Is it open source? I can't find any code links.
foundart··on Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code
I did it full-time for 3 months and it was exhausting. I found it useful for learning a new framework (Ruby on Rails at that time) but in general I did not find it compatible with how I think and work.
foundart··on Taste Is All That's Left
It's an interesting article. To me it reads like someone who is not confident in their writing, but is very interested in getting their idea across, iterated with an LLM to produce it.

It set off all my LLM writing triggers and I noped out after about 3 sentences, because I'm designing/coding with AI all day and I'm 100% sick of its writing. I don't really care if it was written by an LLM or a person who writes in LLM style.

HOWEVER, the surprising fix for me was to ask a number of LLMs to summarize it. I omitted the "is this AI slop?" parts when I pasted it in. Like I said, I don't care about who wrote it, but I hated the writing style.

The AI summaries were quite readable.

They converged at a high level on the summary, but with a good bit of variance in nuance. I had a good follow up discussion with one of the LLMs, so I'm glad I tried it.

foundart··on Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower
The way they worded that question is bad and, as you say, the outbox pattern does not transactionally update the queue itself. The outbox pattern is nevertheless very useful.
foundart··on Developers don't understand CORS (2019)
Correct. Where are some good explanations?
foundart··on “Too dangerous to release” or just too expensive?
https://research.google/pubs/why-google-stores-billions-of-l...
foundart··on Care homes and hotels in Japan shut as expansion strategy unravels
Re the spikejapan blog: The author’s About page includes this line which describes my experience of the article very accurately, having bailed after a couple of minutes:

“It's a species of anti-blog, as there is no way that you'll get through a post if you suffer from any kind of attention-deficit disorder; even then, you may need a strong cup of coffee and an hour to kill.”

foundart··on Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases
Great docs in the source repo.

https://github.com/refactoringhq/tolaria/tree/main/docs

foundart··on Moody's Prices Bitcoin at a 28% Haircut
Makes sense. If you want to use such a volatile asset as collateral, you should expect a conservative view from those providing the cash.
foundart··on Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs
A good takeaway line from the article:

> Rather than a ‘rising tide lifting all boats,’ a higher level of corporate BS in an organization acts more like a clogged toilet of inefficiency.”

and a link to the paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/400597536_The_Corpo...

foundart··on Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester
> A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.
foundart··on 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE981Z_TaVo
foundart··on San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz
article linked from video: https://coyoteyipps.com/2026/01/14/coyote-swims-to-alcatraz/
foundart··on San Francisco coyote swims to Alcatraz
Once it got up on shore, the coyote looked pretty tired and seemed to be shivering quite a bit. Not surprising!
foundart··on Automotive industry expands open source collaboration
They are working with the Eclipse Foundation on S-CORE

https://eclipse.dev/score/

foundart··on Automotive industry expands open source collaboration
It started in June 2025 with 11 companies and has now expanded to 30
foundart··on Odoo: Open-Source ERP
looks interesting

https://www.dolibarr.org/ https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr

foundart··on Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English
The github repo link from the npm page doesn't work, so I guess the author had second thoughts.

I was just fighting ffmpeg earlier today, or rather Gemini and Claude were fighting it. Task: create a video that is a pan across a photo, followed by a scale/zoom.

Probably easy for some people, but I had no clue and the LLMs weren't doing that well either. Things took a turn for the better when I asked Gemini for an alternative tool.

The answer was Vapoursynth - https://www.vapoursynth.com/doc/introduction.html#introducti...

Again, the LLM did the work, but it was able to do so. Since Vapoursynth is driven by python scripts (though with the extension .vpy), it was easy for me to make adjustments.

foundart··on Tides are weirder than you think
Methinks thou shouldst tame thine viscera lest they lead thee unto distraction
foundart··on Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
These were great and I am always on the lookout for something similar, but no luck so far.

I also liked that there was a neckband - easy to take the buds out when not needed and leave them hanging, and of course more power in a larger battery.

foundart··on Thought-Terminating Cliches in Software
It's an interesting list, but I guess the items' thought-terminating power extends to the article itself, since it provides no discussion of why the listed items are there.
foundart··on Judge denies request to exempt Flock footage from Public Records Act
This post has the better title, but there is more discussion over at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45861635
foundart··on Judge denies request to exempt Flock footage from Public Records Act
with a better headline: "Judge denies request to exempt Flock footage from Public Records Act"
foundart··on New computer model helps reveal how the brain both adapts and misfires
Indeed! Quite interesting.

title: The neural basis for uncertainty processing in hierarchical decision making

abstract: Hierarchical decisions in natural environments require processing uncertainty across multiple levels, but existing models struggle to explain how animals perform flexible, goal-directed behaviors under such conditions. Here we introduce CogLinks, biologically grounded neural architectures that combine corticostriatal circuits for reinforcement learning and frontal thalamocortical networks for executive control. Through mathematical analysis and targeted lesion, we show that these systems specialize in different forms of uncertainty, and their interaction supports hierarchical decisions by regulating efficient exploration, and strategy switching. We apply CogLinks to a computational psychiatry problem, linking neural dysfunction in schizophrenia to atypical reasoning patterns in decision making. Overall, CogLink fills an important gap in the computational landscape, providing a bridge from neural substrates to higher cognition.

foundart··on N8n raises $180M
Just participated in a hackathon where my team used n8n. We found it didn't have good connectors for getting data from Kinesis streams or Slack. Given the abbreviated timeline of the hackathon we ended up simulating the Kinesis input and dropping the interactive Slack part of our project, which was unfortunate.

I hope they spend a good bit of the $180M on building out their input connectors.

foundart··on Vibe engineering
gotta source or two? it's an ungooglable topic due to "see pigeon do funny dance" social media spam
foundart··on Circular Financing: Does Nvidia's $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble?
I had the same response.

Certainly it suggests that “this time is different” without saying it in a quotable fashion.

The metrics it provides seem useful. What are the metrics it is missing?

foundart··on Circular Financing: Does Nvidia's $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble?
Speculation by a non-accountant:

At the end Nvidia retains ownership of what are probably very low value assets.

Contrast that with car leases: there is a robust market for used cars.

Nvidia is in effect financing the GPUs by not requiring the full payment up front.

Do the lease payments add up to the total cost?

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