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muti··on Show HN: Phyics-Based Dice Roller
Have you analysed the fairness of the rolls? Just after a quick play around it doesn't look like there is enough energy in the throws that I would be confident it is.

10,000 throws with small perturbations in the starting conditions should be distributed evenly across all sides of the die.

Alternatively you could use RNG to generate a fair result, simulate the throw, and then set the sides of the die to produce the result from RNG. This is all academic though and I imagine anyone using the site won't be bothered.

muti··on Dyson Won't Say What's Wrong with Its CameraJet Toothbrush
https://archive.is/s4HLe
muti··on Giving up on smart rings
Not necessarily common, but I imagine most form factors would have issues with _some_ activities. I have a fitness watch that I don't like wearing when rock climbing. A ring also isn't suitable, but an armband worn further up would be.
muti··on Darktable
Darktable editing workflow is centered around modules. Exposure, denoise, various color adjustments, etc are all separate modules. Dynamic range compression (and other common operations) has several implementations: base curve, filmic, sigmoid, and AgX. They all essentially do the same thing but have effectively superseded each other as they were added to newer releases.

Darktable keeps the old modules around but hides them, opening a file processed years ago will still go through the pipeline with the base curve module and come out the same. As a bonus, it is possible to use "obsolete" modules that may handle certain images better, achieving a particular look, or you are comfortable with the older module and prefer not to use the new replacement.

muti··on A 2048-spin bulk acoustic wave Ising machine for number partitioning and Sudoku
The abstract reads like copy for the Turbo encabulator
muti··on A global workspace in language models
Thank you for prompting me to try with my own obscure question, Fable was able to find something from a poor description. I've been looking manually and over many sessions with different models as they improve, none have been able to find what I was after. Fable 5 just one-shot the answer.
muti··on Podman v6.0.0
Cool, been running my home server on podman + quadlets for about two years now and picked up a couple of things in the release notes

  podman quadlet list
Added in v5.6.0, lists quadlets and their containers

  podman system migrate --migrate-db
Flag added in v5.8.0. I remember seeing the bolt db deprecation warnings in the past but there was no tool to do the migration to sqlite, now there is (or just upgrade to podman 6.0.0 and it will do it automatically)
muti··on The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
If the thing you are towing is so heavy you need a truck to tow it, maybe there should be stricter licensing requirements.
muti··on Taxonomy of the Occlupanida (parasitoids on bread bag tags)
And for a cheeky example, here's a jandal you can buy with the plugger + bread tag combo from the factory

https://heresgolden.com/products/golden-g2-mens?variant=4362...

muti··on Researchers print structural colour with an inkjet printer
See the image and caption at the top of the article

  Images printed with structural colour ink can be made both highly transparent to transmitted light (top) and at the same time reflect light from above in vivid colours (bottom) – two properties that are typically considered mutually exclusive
The printing on the phone is not visible when the phone display is on as the structural printing is highly transparent. When the display is off, the printing is visible because of the reflected light.
muti··on Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge
Doesn't seem like a very insightful result. Kimi won with the naive strategy. Other models didn't slide tiles at all or didn't demonstrate understanding of the rules, claiming words that lost points. A strategy that did nothing would beat them.

We know these models can solve much more difficult problems, something isn't right.

muti··on GitHub Stacked PRs
+1 on this, I also switched to jj when working with any git repo.

What's funny is how much better I understand git now, and despite using jj full time, I have been explaining concepts like rebasing, squashing, and stacked PRs to colleagues who exclusively use git tooling

muti··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
Building a selfhosted activity tracker inspired by wandrer.earth
muti··on PGLite Evangelism
Unfortunate name furthers the SQLite is "lite" association i.e. underpowered or incapable somehow.

IIRC it is intended to be read as SQL-ite, as having some relationship to SQL.

PG Lite probably makes sense here though, and PGite is not appealing

muti··on Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file
Fun. Not sure if this applies on desktop, but on mobile the quick/fast/blazing/skip text often blocks vision of the ball making it harder than it should be to make combos
muti··on A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
Suboptimal - likely. There is some utility: a green letter is more useful than a yellow. Checking for a in two locations when a is a very commonly used letter is __useful__. Still likely much more useful to check for the presence of a fifth letter than a chance at knowing more precisely the location of an a.
muti··on Kitchen optimizations
Pay someone to sharpen them for petes sake. I can't fathom why you would suggest that seemingly off hand, secondary to throwing away and buying new knives.
muti··on Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable
Active bookshelf speakers with HDMI Arc input are getting more common. Kanto Ren, Kef LSX II, Klipsch The Fives, Elac Debut ConneX

There's also the compact, simple alternatives to bulky receivers that are becoming available: Wiim amp, Sonos amp, Eversolo play, and the cheaper chinese makers like SMSL and Fosi. Each of those brands has a small device the size of an apple tv that will take an HDMI Arc input, and output an amplified signal to power some passive bookshelf speakers.

muti··on The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need
Are you looking for solutions within git or jj?

In my experience with jj when resolving a conflict, as long as I do it in the earliest change, I will only have to do it once.

Git has the rerere setting [0] which reduces the need to resolve the same conflict over and over

0: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Rerere

muti··on What's New in C# 14: Null-Conditional Assignments

  if (!same) {
    return;
  }

  if (!number) {
    return;
  }

  if (!of_braces) {
    return;
  }

  println("but easier to read")
muti··on CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing)
Require the intent to include ticket holder names/id and check it on entry to the venue, multiple intents for the same group can be deduplicated
muti··on Hong Kong's Famous Bamboo Scaffolding Hangs on (For Now)
Knots and construction with poles and rope lashing was always my favourite part of scouts. The sketches of the knot looks cool on the surface but don't tell me much about how they are tied or what other lashings they are similar to. Not much detail and the second image has three running ends?
muti··on 23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself
The specifics of how the keys are backed against different failure modes/attacks is orthogonal to the splitting of data/key.

Yes you would need to carefully design the system that allows deletion of keys while minimizing chances of data loss, but it can be done, and it's going to be cheaper and less complex to do so on a tiny subset of the data.

Latency considerations are also down to design, it's not a given that there will be significant overhead imposed.

muti··on 23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself
Much less data to back up so it can be stored in a way that is replicated for redundancy but still mutable. Separating the key and data is what allows for sending data to tape backup etc
muti··on Quadlet: Running Podman containers under systemd
I wanted to try something different when I reset my self host set up several years ago, and went with openSUSE MicroOS. Ultimately it has led to podman containers running under systemd/quadlet and I'm quite happy with the current set up.

Containers auto update with built in podman tooling, getting at logs and monitoring is through the usual systemd tools. When I need to change something, it's easy to work out where the config files are if I have forgotten and they are easy to read and change. Rootless and daemonless is nice too.

I tried a few things along the way, podman compose felt clunky so I'm glad it is deprecated and it's clear quadlets are the way to go.

There was a learning curve and there's less information out there than with docker, so keep that in mind. I would still lean towards docker and docker compose for local dev to bring a stack of services up and down.

muti··on Show HN: Feels Like Paper
Too bad it makes the whole thing laggy enough that I didn't get past the first few paragraphs on my phone, and there's no obvious way to disable it
muti··on A cycling desk / Zwifting with a split keyboard
A split kb with integrated trackball would help alleviate the awkward mousing situations, e.g. the charybdis [1]. I'm in a similar position having gone down the ergo split keyboard rabbit hole and vim everywhere, now building a charybdis myself

1. https://github.com/Bastardkb/Charybdis

muti··on M4 Mac mini's efficiency
> Apple VPs Greg Jozwiak and John Ternus explained in an interview to a Chinese content creator on Billibilli (spotted and machine-translated by ITHome) that the main reason the power button is on the bottom of the 2024 Mac Mini is because of the computer’s size. Since it was nearly half the size of the previous generation, the underside was “kind of the optimal stop” for a power button. They also say most users “never use the power button” on a Mac, anyway.

> Apple isn’t wrong here. The Mac mini measures 5 x 5 x 2 inches, compared to 7.75 x 7.75 x 1.4 inches from the last generation; it takes up much less space on your desk, which is great. The trade-off is that you run out of space for some important things, like a power button.

muti··on Show HN: Jelly – A simpler shared inbox for small teams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_jelly
muti··on GnuCash 5.9
There are many levels in between tracking at the "Amazon" level vs the "Meat:Pork" level. For example I currently track all unprepared food shopping as "Groceries", and would break down "Amazon" shopping into categories such as "Electronics" or "Books".

Ultimately it comes down to how much effort you want to spend categorising spending, but there are many levels of granularity and orthogonal dimensions to slice against

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