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macqm··on Stripe went full 90s for April Fool's
It is not believable because the website transfers ~3MB of data and that's with uBlock Lite on.
macqm··on Anthropic releases custom AI chatbot for classified spy work
I don't like how the headline reads almost as "Claude will now spy for the US".

I think it's a good thing that the government employees will be able to use LLMs (e.g. to improve language understanding) and feed it to software that is compliant with FedRamp/DoD IL. I can only imagine that there is more work to do than there is manpower and LLMs open up more opportunities to improve efficiency.

Press release from Anthropic on the matter: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-gov-models-for-u-s-nat...

macqm··on Internet Scrabble Club (2002-)
Poland has kurnik.pl (meaning “chicken coop”) with a version of scrabble called “Literaki”. It’s been around for years.
macqm··on Apache Iceberg
Trino is pretty good (open source presto).

https://trino.io/

macqm··on Costco’s butter recall, explained
Do you know if "I can't believe it's not butter" contains butter?
macqm··on Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back
And their remote key.
macqm··on Your brain changes based on what you did two weeks ago
Now another group of researchers have the opportunity to apply for a grant and propose new research on N=10
macqm··on Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions
What about: b7k
macqm··on Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor
>Because of this huge codebase size, I wasn't able to get VS Code's C++ extension to work very well with the project. Features like go-to definition (which I usually rely on heavily when navigating codebases) and find references didn't work well or at all, and one of my CPU cores would stay stuck at 100% permanently while the project was open.

Chromium Code Search [1] tool is very helpful with that and I believe there are some extensions that integrate with it.

1: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src

macqm··on Launch HN: Manaflow (YC S24) – Automate repetitive office work in tables
I tried to launch the demo, it's stuck in "Loading Manaflow demo...".

Console has errors:

> failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 422 () clerk.browser.js:2 Uncaught (in promise) Error > at s._fetch (clerk.browser.js:2:48584) > at async X._baseMutate (clerk.browser.js:2:49256) ingest/static/recorder.jsv=1.139.3:1

> Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404

macqm··on Show HN: Blocks by Cosmic – React components for headless CMS
What is your pitch to existing Prismic.io customers? I didn't see Prismic in "Compare to..." section.
macqm··on 32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machine
It actually does a lot more than you think.

For example it does pretty interesting diffing - Chrome downloads a patch and uses the previously left-behind copy of the installer to re-build new binaries from the small diff it pulled. See more:

- https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/compon...

- https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/softwar...

macqm··on Show HN: ChatGPT Powered Live React Editor
It doesn't seem to be super smart.

I tried a prompt along "candle stick chart for stock data"

and got some boilerplate div with

  /\* Your candle-stick chart component implementation goes here \*/}
macqm··on Accidental complexity, essential complexity, and Kubernetes
I don't think AWS/Azure/GCP offer mainframes.
macqm··on Man sues American Airlines over identification, jail time
Is this a sequel to Franz Kafka's "The Trial"?
macqm··on Azure Global Infrastructure Map
Visualization of Azure's global network.
macqm··on Why Decentralised Applications Don’t Work
I think Windows 10 Delivery Optimization tech is a great example of (nearly) decentralized tech:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/w...

macqm··on Show HN: Stamp turns a folder into a plain text file and a file into a folder
I have a couple questions:

Why should I use your tool vs. a one line bash script for creating a directory tree?

Why would I keep any file content in the stamp file, in the version control history, if I can keep, say a bootstrap repository with some "templates" and check them out without history (git archive, git checkout-index).

macqm··on What are the mysterious light sources on light pollution maps?
Bingo you got it. https://infolupki.pgi.gov.pl/en/whats-drilled/news/3legs-res...
macqm··on What are the mysterious light sources on light pollution maps?
I can't figure out one light pollution source in Poland in Sluchowo (54.77550N, 17.94972E). The map from 2015 shows some factory of sorts, but it disappears on the map from 2020, all you can see is an outline what it was. I really wonder what kind of place this was and why it emitted relatively a lot of light.
macqm··on Visualizing Fitts's Law (2007)
Windows 8 Start UI was designed to take advantage of this. Theoretically it was great: when you open start menu the mouse pointer is in the bottom left corner, tiles close to you are wide and tall, tiles far from the pointer are smaller, wider at the bottom, narrower at the top. Hot corners were supposed to be easily accessible (infinite distance). Yet is was a failure, because uses were not familiar with it, it broke their habits.
macqm··on Show HN: Improved My News App, Would Love Feedback
Where to report bugs? E.g. some articles miss headlines.
macqm··on Show HN: How I built an image proxy in Go to anonymise images in 20 mins
Cool, but if you are truly concerned about privacy, I don't think that sending the pictures for facial recognition to a third party service is a great idea.
macqm··on 0.30000000000000004
C# is missing an example using decimal type:

Decimal uses 128 bits to hold it's data and seems to handle rounding differently to System.Double, e.g. 0.1 and 0.2 using decimals evaulates to 0.3:

> 0.1M + 0.2M 0.3

You can read more about decimal here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/364x0z75.aspx