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The article seems to be more about Oracle being forced to cough up $7B as collateral for one of their new shiny (future-) data centers - even though apparently they tried to make this requirement go away, but the regulators weren't touched by their crocodile tears.

Oh, shoot. Though I don't have many vibecoded projects, when I decided to move to Codeberg from Github the first project I pushed to codeberg was a vibecoded one

I guess there is a bright side too: it forces me to selfhost my repos, something I planned to do since years.

That's not very accurate. It sees 8 GB RAM instead of 64. And it detects GTX 9 GPU, though I have an RTX30 one.

(Edit: now it came to my mind that Firefox has fingerprinting protection by default. But even after whitelisting this website, the result is the same)

This made me remember something from the early 90s, which was pretty weird when I look back. I grew up in a post-socialist country, and copyright laws were all over the place.

I remember there was a weekly broadcast at one of the state operated radios: every week they played one popular album from start to finish without interruption, so people could record it on tape (somewhere around the 30-minutes mark there was a short pause, so people could flip the cassette). They were doing whole discographies, for example they were playing all Deep Purple albums over the course of a few months, one album each week.

And it was totally normal back then, lol.

Have been wondering since a long time if there are still any real reviews on the internet, that weren't paid for by someone, something that could be trusted. I really can't remember when was the last review that turned out to be true.

But while I do believe that there is a real hole in the market there, I am not sure how big that market is, if there is really a demand for real reviews - both products and services (and whatever else can be reviewed)

Lol, Friday deployment is a bad omen even with LLM. Some things are just unchangeable facts of life.

This has happened dozens of times, and it will keep happening as long as people don't care about it.

Long live offline physical media, and The Pirate Bay.

hmm.. well... haha, you might be right. I think have some overly aggressive ublock filters. If I disable ublock, then I get the equivalent of hell on this link.

I take back my complaint about text selection.

    The sole criterion for admission is a 114-question, three-hour exam known as...

1. [Screw NYT for disabling text selection, and I had to type this in] Edit: probably that was my bad.

2. This sounds like a very important sentence, and begs at least 2 questions: "is the selection really racist as implied by the title", and the other one is "why is the result like that"? IMO the answer to the first question (based on the article at least) is no. I have no answer for the second.

While I don't hate Rust (even have a couple of private projects written in Rust, and plan to use it in the future also), I wouldn't really call it fun, as a personal opinion. I find Rust code usually pretty ugly, and some of the abstractions can make it challenging to understand. Compared to it, C is plain and simple. I still find more joy in writing C code - though for some goals it isn't my first choice.

    In March, Apple informed the EU that it had agreed to acquire certain assets and hire employees from SigScalr...

In other news, all of sigscalr's repositories now have a header saying

    This repository was archived by the owner on Mar 13, 2026. It is now read-only.

Not that I used it, this is the first time I hear about it. But it's always sad when an OSS ends, especially like that.

    No results for "porn".

Huhh, are you indexing the same internet that we are using to post these messages?

Multi-word search is doing some interesting things. When I search for "4chan magic ball" I'd expect a picture with a magic 8-ball, but instead I am getting almost random, unrelated results. Similar for "vhdl flip flop" search, I'd expect to see a flip-flop implementation.

Do you plan to keep it online for the long term, or is it more like for your current amusement?

After learning that boneless chicken wings can contain bones, I won't be surprised if United would win this.

Maybe there could be an AI-generated HN mirror: the AI would monitor HN continuously, and filter out the AI related news. Fight fire with fire.

I wonder if it's like a hail mary before going out on a whimper, or if they really have this kind of money to spend

On one hand they can't see. Haven't seen a "give me an svg unicorn" test since a while, but I guess their performance hasn't changed a lot. If you give broad prompts, then that will result usually in some garbage.

As an anecdata, a few weeks ago I was creating some UI with libSDL for an embedded project with Claude, and I was quite impressed with the result. Granted, I specified everything I could think about: I instructed it page by page, iterating button by button and label by label.

Unfortunately it's a bit of an empty article.

    The first reason was the hardware; in the year 2000, the hardware was not capable enough to execute such a complex system

I wonder if there is some source for this. People were able to run SQL servers in 2000 without much of a problem, it didn't need a mainframe to run a DB that fit on a consumer HDD.

    The next decade of gaming will be [...] more creative than anything we’ve seen before.

In the AI era? Lol. Lmao, even.

As long as every phone distro is just a desktop distro shoehorned on a small screen, that's not gonna happen.

IMO it's not a matter of tap to pay and camera quality, rather a matter of whole system paradigm. Having millions of disconnected services in the "do one thing and do it right" spirit and using text based communication and hundreds of python and shell scripts is relatively maintainable and relatively easy to use, but very inefficient when it comes to CPU cycles - and on a handheld every cycle counts.

And of course every app is optimized for desktops/laptops... but I guess that's a chicken-or-egg problem: once there is a working distro, there will be apps too. And once there will be apps to use, there will be a working distro. Maybe.

Everything is swiss quality when it works. My mobile subscription is at Swisscom, but I downgraded it to call/text only PAYG years ago. First I wanted (mobile) internet connection on my phone. I checked on their website, they had some monthly package for 10-or-so CHF, which I wanted.

The customer service never heard of it, and signed me up for a 5CHF/day package without asking me. That was a lot of fun doing it back - initially they were also pointing to random points in the contract. But they could never find the part where I actually asked them to subscribe me to something that I didn't want.

Afterwards they could never make 4G/5G internet work reliably around my home (which is pretty funny, because they have a tower literally above my head, and another 40 meters away), it kept going unresponsive for 30-40 seconds at random times. I did ping-pong with their customer service for about a months before I gave up, cancelled internet part and switched to PAYG.

At least they still send me spam - I keep clicking the unsubscribe link, but they are not bothered by it.

I just want to illustrate that there are bad experiences with all providers.

You know, in Switzerland there is a thing, that if a product or service has the name "Swiss" in its name, then it can be sold for any price regardless of quality - and it will fly off the shelves. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it's true.

Swisscom is the biggest ISP in Switzerland - they charge high prices for very slow internet. But they have the word "Swiss" in their name, so it's okay to sell 100 Mbps connection for 70 CHF, which many people buys. But the same people can get 10 Gbps connection at the same place for 40-50 CHF also by simply visiting a competing store, and spending 15 minutes on it. But that won't have the word "Swiss" in it.

Do you remember the pipa/sopa protests from like a decade ago?

The internet, as we knew it, is over. It has been dead for a few years, but it is getting clear now only. It had its great moments, while it lasted.

What's your goal? If you want just a random site, then WP will do the job. If you want to learn web development, then I'd start it with a local http server (apache/nginx/whatever's your poison) and start writing html/css/js by hand, and see how it builds up line by line.

I don't have lived experience, but "Who is hiring" had only 2 or 3 posts from my country this whole year. Until about 2 years ago there were 5-8 posts in each threads.

(I'm in a small central-European country, that is full of tech companies, both domestic and international)

Probably I would buy some lichi, because I always wanted to taste it, but costs an arm and leg where I live. Not sure what I'd do with the change.

I have a bad feeling that the death of the founder also meant the end of this site: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/memoriam-john-l-young-...

I merely guessing, though.

The most interesting part is that HTC is making smartphones again, something that I totally missed

That's weird... that was one of the very few of his initiatives that had bipartisan support... pretty much everyone was happy with this, except for the employers.

Oh my. The original Spyro games (especially the first) on the venerable PSX are my all time favorite games.

Their modern remake was the only reason why I bought a PS4, I got it exclusively to play that game. And it was the disappointment of the decade. It looks nice, it sounds nice, but it is different enough that muscle memory doesn't work anymore, and it's more annoying than entertaining.

("Funnily" after this I got myself a PS3, and bought the original PSX version in PS Online. It turned out that it runs very badly on the PS3. So I also got myself a PS2, and bought the disc version on ebay, which finally worked as it should. I wish I was kidding.)

Considering that the previous Spyro from Toys for Bob was more on the lackluster side, I won't keep my hopes too high.