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irq-1··on Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good
Seems like this only helps large (heavy) websites with consistent content. The real world examples are all large, like YouTube, Amazon, etc...

Small JSON responses that compress to <1k would fit in a single packet, so I don't see the advantage of going from "65 bytes with normal Zstandard compression, vs 28 bytes when using the past response as a dictionary - 57% smaller."

irq-1··on Welcome to the Room – A lesson in leadership by Satya Nadella
It seems wrong that a "Technical Fellow" is charged with leadership, rather than sharing technical knowledge.
irq-1··on Please just try HTMX
It's because of the demo wrapper/layers. Try just the raw demo: https://unpoly.com/examples/modal/preview.html

Still not perfect -- the demos should work too. I love the idea of a progressive framework and am willing to work around a few things to get it.

irq-1··on Show HN: Haven – Banking needs a safer browser
Maybe we need a 'money mode' for browsers like we have a private mode.
irq-1··on Build desktop applications using Go and Web Technologies
Came here to say this. I just started with miqt and it seems to work really well. Go + Qt is near ideal.
irq-1··on Three kinds of AI products work
> - Find a good dentist within 2mi from my house, call them to make sure they take my insurance, and book an appointment sometime in the next two weeks no earlier than 11am

The web caused dentists to make websites, but they don't post their appointment calendar; they don't have to.

Will AI looking for appointments cause businesses to post live, structured data (like calendars)? The complexity of scheduling and multiple calendars is perfect for an AI solution. What other AI uses and interactive systems will come soon?

- Accounting: generate balance sheets, audit in real-time, and have human accountants double check it (rather than doing)

- Correspondence: create and send notifications of all sorts, and consume them

- Purchase selection: shifting the lack of knowledge about products in the customers favor

- Forms: doing taxes or applying for a visa

irq-1··on Things that aren't doing the thing
When are you rebuilding the Ship of Theseus?
irq-1··on Rotating Workforce Scheduling in MiniZinc
> For example, there isn't really IO...

Check out Picat. It has IO and you can use it for scripting.

https://picat-lang.org/

irq-1··on The publishing industry has a gambling problem
> Is there a model could we create to bolster out the middle?

Extend Copyright? (no, no..)

I have two ideas:

- Recommendations. Publishers connect with private LLM/Agents for custom recommendations. They'd need to keep reviews private, but could trade them among themselves.

- Insurance Pool. Authors could add works to a pool of books, and the profits could be split. Publishers would need to maintain the quality of books or authors won't join.

irq-1··on SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3
Hyper Secure Shell (HSS)
irq-1··on Show HN: Kekkai – a simple, fast file integrity monitoring tool in Go
How is this different from sha256sum (and variants)? Create, store and check file hashes?
irq-1··on Nostr
I tried to find out what key algorithm is used -- not listed anywhere. Everything led to pages about Blech32 (a bitcoin key encoding).

https://hellonostr.dev/en/introduction/

The encoding seems to have an unmentioned/unaddressed version number included, both in the nostr doc and the bitcoin docs.

npub1abcxyz... is npub (header) 1 (version) abcxyz... (key)

Now take a look at the doc (linked above.)

irq-1··on Optimising for maintainability – Gleam in production at Strand
> “We’re heading into a new age of AI-assisted coding, and right now, it’s difficult to predict how that will play out. But if I had to place a bet, I would say that in the long run, AIs are more likely to generate high-quality code in a language like Gleam. Gleam makes it quick and easy for AIs to check their code, get instant feedback, and iterate. That should be an advantage compared to languages that are slow to build, have cryptic error messages, and can’t catch mistakes at build-time.”

Interesting point and one I haven't seen before. Almost like arguing that AI will work best with things it can learn quickly, rather than things that have lots of examples.

irq-1··on The "high-level CPU" challenge (2008)
That's true, but isn't it an issue of price and volume? Specialized network cards are OK (in the market.)
irq-1··on Telo MT1
Pre-Order pricing:

> $41,520 | 260 mi | 300 hp

irq-1··on Show HN: Go Command-streaming lib for distributed systems (3x faster than gRPC)
Looks nice. Does it have compression? Retries and latency are whatever TCP does, right? Have you thought about a go:generate format for the commands?
irq-1··on Parsing Protobuf like never before
https://github.com/bufbuild/hyperpb-go
irq-1··on A lightweight Cloudflare Dynamic DNS shell script
There is also `cloudflared` to tunnel services. https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections...
irq-1··on Polystate: Composable Finite State Machines
shouldn't the check pin example end with 'exit' rather than 'ready'?

    .{ Atm.checkPin, Atm.session, Atm.ready } } }),
It was the diagram that made me think this.
irq-1··on P-Hacking in Startups
1−(1−0.05)^9=64 (small mistake; should be ^20)
irq-1··on Show HN: Tritium – The Legal IDE in Rust
Consider pitching it as: use the same Word you always have, and use these additional tools (diff, go to, etc..).

I'd expect most firms to have their own systems for backup, versioning, access control, approval, metadata, etc.. or at least a human process for such. It should be much easier to sell the "extra tools" than software that changes their process.

irq-1··on CoverDrop: A secure messaging system for newsreader apps
Any plans for spam? Does the app have a device id or account, so you can disable them?

If the message is encrypted for the reporter and they're the only ones who can read it, what does the organization do to manage this? Are passwords for private keys saved with the org, or are the keys saved with multiple accounts? What do you do when someone forgets their password?

Cool app; just encryption management when it comes to human users must have lots of trade-offs.

irq-1··on LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or Deathblow?
Moonbit lang is really interesting. Looks like it's been submitted but ignored by HN.
irq-1··on Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
> the agency/hollywood use cases.

It's for advertising.

irq-1··on Mycoria is an open and secure overlay network that connects all participants
Cities with significant internet POPs would be better than countries. 1. You control the list of locations (so Singapore not Brunei.) 2. People can easily choose from a list of cities. 3. Latency tests could make it a non-issue. 4. Local connections in semi-isolated areas (think antarctic or islands in the south pacific) can be identified by people with a config.
irq-1··on Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?
I wonder if you can help the user move between a 'must have' filter (like on the left) and a looser 'pefer' filter, like choosing an area of the chart (like Select in paint apps.) Maybe it could be as simple as changing the checkmark/slider options to have 3 values: null, must, prefer. For example, check a few CPUs as your required spec, but also a few others as the prefered.

Like/dislike might be a better description. Then make the chart show color or size to indicate the preferences.

irq-1··on MTerrain: Optimized terrain system and editor for Godot
Check out https://github.com/spimort/TerraBrush for smaller maps with easier options.
irq-1··on Webflow makes GSAP 100% free – plus more updates
Check out Lottie for animated SVG: https://lottie.github.io/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottie_(file_format)

irq-1··on Is outbound going to die?
> With LLMs, the messages and content have gotten to a point where the accuracy and quality of the __?????__ has improved tremendously at scale.
irq-1··on The last masters of Afro-Colombian machete fencing
They want the tradition to continue, but they should also record everything: get experts and record them from multiple angles, record demonstrations, etc... With image/video => 3d, and AI to recreate the system of fighting, it would be 'saved' for the future.
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