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kevinastone··on OpenMaxIO: Forked UI for MinIO Object Storage
This was in response to MinIO/AIStor removing the browser-console UI from the community offering (locking it behind enterprise licensing) a few months back.

Unfortunately, this fork has not developed any traction. It's last commit was 4 months ago basically after the initial fork and instantly became dormant.

You can see the list of 'Still alive?' issues: https://github.com/OpenMaxIO/openmaxio-object-browser/issues...

kevinastone··on Our modular, high-performance Merkle Tree library for Rust
Git and other vcs are generally built on merkle-trees for consistent hashing.

There's a list of other common hashing cases on the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree#Uses

kevinastone··on Vijaye Raji to become CTO of Applications with acquisition of Statsig
Looks like Fidji is reconstituting her Org from Meta
kevinastone··on I still like Sublime Text
It doesn’t save unnamed files which is mostly how I use this feature in sublime-text (as a scratch pad): https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4985
kevinastone··on Physicists may now have a way to make element 120
The Chandrasekhar limit is the maximum size of a white-dwarf, not a neutron star. It's usually defined as the minimum size of a neutron star (since it has to overcome electron-degeneracy pressure). The TOV limit[0] is the maximum size of a neutron star.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolman%E2%80%93Oppenheimer%E2%...

kevinastone··on Diskless infrastructure in beta (System Transparency: stboot) (2022)
It probably then deserves a `(2022)` since that announcement was just over a year ago.
kevinastone··on “Fast Kernel Headers” Tree -v1: Eliminate the Linux Kernel's “Dependency Hell”
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29775298
kevinastone··on Suture: A Ruby gem that helps you refactor your legacy code
Laboratory[0] comes to mind.

[0]: https://github.com/joealcorn/laboratory

kevinastone··on Tesla to produce $25K car as early as 2022
It's a satirical comment on Tesla's meteoric stock price growth. The traditional quote is "Buy the rumor, sell the news"[0]. But with $TSLA, there's been nearly unbounded investor optimism.

[0]: https://www.thebalance.com/what-does-buy-the-rumor-sell-the-...

kevinastone··on Rust 1.46
Glad to see `Option::zip` stabilized. I tend to write such a helper in many of my projects to collect optional variables together when they're coupled. Really improves the ergonomics doing more railroad-style programming.
kevinastone··on Nerves – Elixir Platform for IoT
Can you share your supplier? Everywhere I looked online limited you to quantity 1 at $5.
kevinastone··on Nerves – Elixir Platform for IoT
Pi-Zeros are subsidized at $5 for education. It's difficult to get any quantity. They are ~$20 in general quantities.
kevinastone··on When your coworker does great work, tell their manager
I was an eng manager at Facebook for a number of years and I think you accurately summarized the coding metrics in performance reviews perpetual great debate.
kevinastone··on Make educated wireless router/AP upgrade decisions
The USG is woefully under-powered. I'd wait for the UXG if you can...

https://community.ui.com/questions/Introducing-the-UniFi-Nex...

kevinastone··on GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all
The previously mentioned prettier[0] along with swift-format[1] and rustfmt[2].

[0]: https://prettier.io [1]: https://github.com/apple/swift-format [2]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt

kevinastone··on Apollo – Funding for Moonshots
Having worked in aerospace on SBIRs contracts for a period, I can testify that we delivered PowerPoint vaporware for that level of funding.
kevinastone··on Static Sites with Elasticsearch
Yes, it's encoded json for lunr.js. Here's the index for my static-site blog: https://blog.kevinastone.com/search_index.json. It's 305kb un-compressed at the moment (38kb gzipped).
kevinastone··on Who is Facebook's mysterious “Lan Tim 2”?
On the web, it's Settings -> Your Facebook Information -> Off-Facebook Activity.
kevinastone··on 64 bit OS Raspberry Pi4 Benchmarks
Have you explored the Nvidia Jetson Nano[0]? It runs Ubuntu Aarch64 as its default OS.

[0]: https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-nano-developer-...

kevinastone··on A Sad Day for Rust
Gotham will be async-ready once this PR lands and the next release is published: https://github.com/gotham-rs/gotham/pull/370
kevinastone··on Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees
https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/broot
kevinastone··on Show HN: An Image Licensing Platform just for Instagram (example profile)
Twenty 20[0] started as InstaCanvas providing licensing for instagram photos. It shifted towards a general stock photo catalog to increase inventory.

[0]: https://www.twenty20.com

kevinastone··on Brave expands Basic Attention Token platform to YouTube
The screenshot shows their staging site: https://publishers-staging.basicattentiontoken.org/publisher...

https://basicattentiontoken.org/brave-expands-basic-attentio...

kevinastone··on Snap Inc. Third Quarter 2017 Results
they did, they're at the Santa Monica airport now.
kevinastone··on Show HN: /usr/bin/htop
I just typed a `q` out of impulse.
kevinastone··on Paw – macOS HTTP client for testing and describing APIs
paw has both these features (export to curl or httpie and import from curl)
kevinastone··on Gravitational Wave Kicks Monster Black Hole Out of Galactic Core
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13958655
kevinastone··on Square Buys OrderAhead
> Square won’t take on any of the San Francisco startup’s employees, according to a person familiar with the matter.

So they just bought their customer list?

kevinastone··on Mermaid: Generate Diagrams and Flowcharts with Markdown Like Syntax
Seems very similar to blockdiag[0] which works well with Sphinx documentation.

[0]: http://blockdiag.com/en/index.html

kevinastone··on Show HN: Anycomplete
You don't need sed, you can do it all in jq:

    curl -sS 'https://www.google.com/complete/search?client=hp&hl=en&xhr=t&q=aurora' | jq -r '.[1] | .[][0] | sub("</?b>"; ""; "gi")'
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