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sandbx··on I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities
Latent space is amazing isn’t it
sandbx··on AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons
Win for kopimi
sandbx··on I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a commit
Did you try more heading levels for the article names?
sandbx··on LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting
I used both, LibreOffice calc for heavier data analysis than Google Sheets can handle. Google can also read LibreOffice's file formats easily.
sandbx··on LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting
LibreOffice Draw is the best free PDF editor, akin to the flexibility of Illustrator but actually easier to use for documents with multiple pages.
sandbx··on Los Angeles fires expose inflated US home prices
there are 20,000 permitted multifamily units around Boston that have gotten through zoning but aren't being built because they don't pencil out. [1] I used to think zoning was the only thing in the way, but I think there are other problems, too.

[1] https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/07/05/business/housing-cons...

sandbx··on Maps.me co-founder tries to close down Organic Maps open-source fork
Organic Maps is great
sandbx··on Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?
we also use Google Suite. Google Doc's [] task button is very helpful. We use a single to-do list for the team, which helps keep everyone on the same page
sandbx··on Poetry was an official Olympic event
Architecture event: provide a site in the host city and make it a design competition, and then build the winner. The hall of submitted 3D models would be a great attraction.
sandbx··on Import and Export Markdown in Google Docs
I would like to be able to open and edit .md files in Google Docs on desktop and mobile like how Google Docs supports opening .docx files
sandbx··on Better Call GPT: Comparing large language models against lawyers [pdf]
I like that they incl the prompt in the paper
sandbx··on A practical guide to quitting your smartphone
check out How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Odell, Jenny) ... the punchline is that it is always there, you just have to find a reason to not want it.

Also, going through the feature checklist on https://www.dumbphones.org/ made me realize how many of these things are so helpful. I checked all the ones I would want, and there were no dumbphones that supported them. GPS Navigation, Group Text, Hotspot, WiFi Calling, Rideshare, Camera, Calendar Sync. And, if it can do all those things, its not that dumb.

sandbx··on Filecoin Foundation Successfully Deploys IPFS in Space
libgen uses it
sandbx··on Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers
Looks like teenage engineering pocket operators :)
sandbx··on MIT researchers propose Brazil-sized fleet of “space bubbles” to cool the Earth
if it could act like shutters and open and close it would be very useful to controlling the climate for humans
sandbx··on Inbound container volumes to the US are reverting to pre-pandemic levels
Good news, hopefully folks have decided they don't need to buy more shit
sandbx··on Ceiling Air Purifier
it could be pretty if you light it well
sandbx··on Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
RTS FPS combo, where one person gives orders to the units who are then played by players. Maybe this already exists idk
sandbx··on Cities with Nice Weather
this is most stable weather not nicest ... "We’ll ignore any other weather characteristics like humidity, rain, wind, diurnal temperature difference, etc."
sandbx··on I liked the idea of carbon offsets until I tried to explain it
"additionality" is a difficult idea to capture, and can lead to perverse incentives to not make good behavior mandatory
sandbx··on Bridge spiders build webs that double as acoustic arrays
the web allows the spider to be small, like the hot servers and powerplants allow your phone to be a cool glass object
sandbx··on The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used
We bought a fairphone 1 and it was total trash and now I feel burned by this type of product. Maybe once it matures...
sandbx··on Return to Office Hits a Snag: Young Resisters
interesting wrinkle in the story that going back is going to help younger workers via lowing the threshold for mentoring opportunities