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imzadi··on Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?
I'm on my about 10th re-read of Dungeon Crawler Carl. I also reread the Murderbot Diaries.

Some new listens that I liked:

* Blood Over Brighthaven

* Fleabag: A Monster Evolution LitRPG

* Flybot

* The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

* Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

imzadi··on The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized
If you have a library card with Libby access, you can get digital issues for free
imzadi··on CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat
Hen of the woods has like 1 gram of protein per cup. The point of this one is that it has more protein.
imzadi··on Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain (2010)
Company antivirus blocked this page and said it contains malware
imzadi··on Electromechanical reshaping, an alternative to laser eye surgery
One thing I am curious about is if the platinum shaping lens would be the same for everyone or is it custom made?
imzadi··on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet
Probably people in rural areas that have limited access to other options. Starlink has probably absorbed most of that market, so no need to have dial up anymore.
imzadi··on Flipper Zero dark web firmware bypasses rolling code security
Sadly, it won't work as an extra key, because it causes the original key to stop working.
imzadi··on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
You can block unknown callers, but it just pushes them to voicemail. Robokiller intercepts the calls and keeps them off your phone completely.
imzadi··on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
It blocks robocalls. When someone calls you it checks the call against a database of robocallers and blocks known spam calls. It can also screen calls. It works pretty well, but it's not worth $7/week.
imzadi··on United Airlines grounds flights after system meltdown
I wouldn't trust any car to fly a plane, tbh.
imzadi··on Project Hyperion: Interstellar ship design competition
I searched for "minimum space colony size," and the numbers are all over the place. Some says as low as 50 and others are over 40k.
imzadi··on Itch.io seeks payment processors who work with with adult material
It seems like an easy way around this is to sell gift cards and only allow gift card payment for the adult content.
imzadi··on A Carnival Attraction That Saved Premature Babies (2016)
It's really amazing how back then people could just come to the US and completely reinvent themselves. William Mulholland was a poor Irish kid with almost no education who became a self-taught engineer and completely reshaped the future of Los Angeles. Stuff like that just can't happen anymore.
imzadi··on uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari
RoboKiller recently went from like $9.99/mo to $7/week.
imzadi··on More honey bees dying, even as antibiotic use halves
This seems like it would be the obvious outcome? If bee keepers have been keeping bees healthy by giving them antibiotics, then stopping the antibiotics would lead to them being less healthy? Especially since the previous antibiotic use would have killed off the healthy bacteria.
imzadi··on The half-life of tech skills
>Consider the mathematics of futility: a company investing $2m in training its technical team today can expect half that knowledge to depreciate faster than a luxury car.

It's not like companies are molting their stacks every two years or something. If you are hired today, you skill and knowledge will evolve as the company evolves

imzadi··on Irrelevant facts about cats added to math problems increase LLM errors by 300%
I think this would be true if the irrelevant information was within the question, but in this case it is tacked on to the end. Usually when irrelevant information trips up students, it is because it seems like part of the problem. When it's stuck on the end and preceded by "Random fact," as in this study, I don't think it would trip up the students. The only case where it might is if the student is reading the problem in a language other than their native language.
imzadi··on The Saltgator: A Desktop SoftGel Injection Molding Machine
The estimated shipping date is September 2025, so they must be ready to ship already, or they are scamming.
imzadi··on Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure game
I like the idea. Looks like it hit a rate limit. Was trying to try Dungeon Crawler Carl.
imzadi··on 200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green
This article is just the same three sentences written in four different ways.
imzadi··on Games: No sex, please. we're credit card companies
The difference here is that itch.io and steam's hands were forced by their payment processors. This isn't like Apple deciding what Apple will and won't sell. This is Mastercard decided what Steam and Itch.io will and won't sell.
imzadi··on Linux Distros for Gaming: CachyOS Takes Over, According to ProtonDB
> Speaking of Ubuntu, it has atrophed. It used to be that it was popular enough that you could google your problem and someone would have solved it. Try doing that now, you get ancient posts from a decade ago that are no longer relevant. It's not like it's terrible, but I don't see anyone recommend it anymore. Though Mint has it's fans.

I think this is largely because most of Ubuntu support is through StackExchange and they tend to moderate the usefulness out of it. Every new issue is closed as being a duplicate, even when the linked "duplicate" is years old and not even resolved.

imzadi··on AI.gov
Jump scare
imzadi··on My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education
It wasn't just the zelle they didn't cover. They are expecting her to pay back the $3k in airline tickets charged to her visa (not a debit card).
imzadi··on My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education
When I talked to the bank I was like "So if she had just lied and said she didn't know how they got her information she would have been covered, but since she was honest and admitted to being scammed she is getting punished?"
imzadi··on My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education
My mom was recently phished. The scammer got into her bank accounts and charged a bunch of air india tickets to her credit card and used zelle to transfer money out. When we reported it to the bank they said it wasn't covered because their fraud protection doesn't cover scams. So the banks just don't care. (It was Capital One FYI)
imzadi··on Show HN: The HTML Maze – Escape an eerie labyrinth built with HTML pages
You might want to add even the most basic input filtering
imzadi··on Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP
I'm on the other side of the country and was a Cox customer for over a decade until they decided to add a data cap to their plans. Fortunately, wyyred rolled into town right around the same time, offering fiber at higher speeds, no data caps, and half the cost. It was an easy decision. I also noticed that Cox is now advertising unlimited data for free. Too little too late.
imzadi··on Bold Mission to Hunt for Aliens on Venus Is Happening
Depends on if you are on android or iphone. If iphone, not really. All browsers on iphone are required to be built on webkit, which has limited ad blocking. If on android, you can use Firefox and install the ublock origin extension.
imzadi··on The death of partying in the USA
> Burrowing into the appendix tables of the American Time Use Survey, she unearthed the fact that just 4.1 percent of Americans said they “attended or hosted” a party or ceremony on a typical weekend or holiday in 2023. In other words, in any given weekend, just one in 25 US households had plans to attend a social event.

There's a huge difference between not hosting or attending a party and not attending a social event. "Party" has very specific connotations. If I go out bowling with my friends or have a game night, I don't call that a party, but it is certainly a social event.

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