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scoot··on Show HN: Free alternative to graphics design giants
No need. It's an installable PWA
scoot··on Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display
> do yourself a massive favor and let the PCB fab also assemble the LEDs

From the article:

What's next? ...using PCB assembly...

scoot··on The smart home graveyard is getting crowded
It took me a moment to parse that it's the "smart-home graveyard", not the "smart home-graveyard" that's getting crowded!

Apparently hyphens seem to have gone out of fashion. Please can we bring them back?

scoot··on The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors
Strange article to make the front page - only two paragraphs long, and no images of the tapestry that it barely talks about.

Not to mention the title - the tapestry was embroidered, not woven (if you exclude the ground fabric, which by itself is just a piece of cloth).

scoot··on Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
> Embarrassing for them that their lawyers don't understand even the basics of trademark law

Or more likely do, but hope that you don't...

scoot··on Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
Hyster (not Hister as far as I can tell) is a registered trademark in the US. Regardless:

"The HYSTER trademark is filed in the category of Education and Entertainment Services" [0], so you can safely ignore any demands to rename, as it doesn't conflict. Embarrassing for them that their lawyers don't understand even the basics of trademark law.

Edit to clarify as some folks here are as confused as sHyster's lawyers: Trademarks are not exclusive, they're restricted to a category or categories. You can be Apple in the category of computers, but not in music if there's already an Apple in that category (unless you have $500M to spare [2]).

  [0] https://www.trademarkia.com/hyster-77843354
  [1] https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/ for a more authoritative source than [0], but it doesn't allow deep linking
  [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
scoot··on Saving Jet Fuel
I find it harsh but fair. The second paragraph reads:

"Firms like Jeppesen have offerings in this space, but Scikit-decide, together with a narrow- and wide-body fuel consumption model built by a professor at the Delft University of Technology and wind data from NOAA, offer an open source solution."

So this is being positioned as an open source alternative to commercial offerings, which clearly it is not. If instead he made the limitations clear from the outset, that this is just a demonstration of what he/the tools are capable of and that this is not in any way intended for real-world use, it would put the rest of the article into better context.

I also don't see how Scikit-decide being developed by Airbus gives OP any domain authority. I use open source tools from all sorts of commercial ventures, and know nothing about how they themselves use them, or what for.

scoot··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
> you have to use the Latch app to open your apartment door

So what happens if you arrive home with a dead phone?

And possibly worse, they have a log of when you come and go?

scoot··on 9000 RPM is faster than your screen refreshes
So not literally ripping themselves apart then
scoot··on 9000 RPM is faster than your screen refreshes
> like you said, its on the verge of ripping itself apart

They didn't say that - they said "the (exclusive speciality alloy) parts are literally ripping themselves apart". That sounds like a seriously flawed design to me

scoot··on Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware
> There are some countries where the truth is not a defense against libel

Germany, for example. Utterly bizarre and baffling that a democracy protects its politicians this way. /s

scoot··on Sol loves to cheat
> they don't have "memory", they have no capacity to learn outside of the training stage

The underlying LLMs don't, but the agent frameworks around them do.

scoot··on Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
I've recently done the same for a Bluetooth LED matrix display, then took it a step further assembling my own hardware (ESP32 controller and RGBIC matrix) to have control over the firmware for features that weren't possible with the off-the-shelf device.

None of this would have been possible (or at least practical from a time-value perspective) for me to do without Claude driving the whole exercise.

scoot··on Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory
Using a sound card (read the comments)
scoot··on Stowaway – Take the window seat on any plane or satellite overhead
That is one hilariously overpriced product! Display: $15, Controller: $2, API: Free
scoot··on 9front "This Was Supposed to Be Fun" Released
It's a quote from Dante's Inferno
scoot··on How the words we teach English language learners changed
> I was surrounded by students who were religious but didn’t have much curiosity

That seems like a given. If you're curious, you'll soon see through any ideology you were spoon-fed as a child, religious or otherwise.

scoot··on When transit passes were designed by hand (2022)
> I’m _almost_ certain that the Dublin and Kingstown Railway (1834) did season tickets

Season and weekly are different things (obviously). If you narrow your claim down enough, of course you can be the first (patents or Guinness book of world records being prome examples.)

But the article isn't about that, it's about the design of the tickets. And they are a thing of beauty.

scoot··on Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI
Ifound Palmiers interface dense, cluttered, and confusing - just take the panel top left (to the right of chat) for example. So much going on in one small space.

Donkey Cut offers more functionality in less space, and everything is easy to find and understand. It isn't without bugs, but the structure is there for it to be great

scoot··on London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service
That isn't how this works. It doesn't transport your car to a more distant car park - it simply "parks" your car in an available space.
scoot··on Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI
Donkey is slick. Love the minimal UI.

Edit: Having played with both a bit, and with no disrespect to OP, yours is a significantly better product.

scoot··on Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI
> Donkey Vision — a screen-understanding API that turns any screenshot into structured, clickable UI, so you can build computer-use tools of your own.

Not faulting your (necessary given today's reality) work, but sad to think that the Amiga still remains ahead of it's time some 36 years later (since ARexx was bundle with the OS), or closer to 40 years if you count when v1 was released separately.

ARexx allowed any application that supported it (and most productivity apps worth their salt did) to communicate with each other, and to be scripted - essentially a standardised API for applications.

We're slowly getting there (at least for SaaS apps) with MCP, but screen scraping shouldn't ever have been necessary.

scoot··on Em dashes are amazing
The four dot ellipses is for use in quoted text, although how it's used (if at all) depends on the style guide. As you weren't quoting anyone but simply indicating an incomplete thought of your own, a three dot ellipses is the correct form.
scoot··on Em dashes are fucking amazing
> … while available as a special character, it is often better to construct this using suitably sized non-breaking spaces

I'm curious why? Kerning? Regardless, it sounds like a lot of work

> but really should find a copy of the actual magazine....

Uh, "..." ;)

scoot··on How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM
Not sure if there's something wrong with the player, or if it's just me, but they both sound like noise. I guess the first sounds vaguely kick drum-like (but distorted), the second is just noise.

Chrome 149.0.7827.200 (Official Build) (arm64), macOS Tahoe 26.0.1

scoot··on Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok
That seems a bit of non-argument. You can choose to keep or remove any components from your codebase, styled or unstyled, composable or monolithic.

What Shadcn gives you is a layer of abstraction that separates the underlying (imported) components from the code that consumes them, so you change your button in one place. It’s exactly how better frontend teams consume just about any component library, Base UI or otherwise.

Shadcn really is a bit of a nothing burger, or rather it’s a bit of soggy lettuce between the meat and the bun.

scoot··on Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok
> ShadCN components have you copy the component code into your codebase, you own it

That’s a common misconception/myth/lie that doesn’t seem to want to go away even though Shadcn is more honest about it these days.

You don’t own the compenents, and you don’t copy the component code into your codebase. The components are Base UI (and previously Radix) And they’re imported like any other.

What you’re copying is a thin styling wrapper, just the same as you can use to restyle “traditional” components.

The difference is that you have to provide all the styles, rather than just overrides, which can be both a blessing and a curse.

scoot··on Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network
I live next to a railway line so I'm in the (not particularly unique, and definitely not enviable) position to compare what's on the map to "IRL" trains, and I can tell you it's as good as useless.

  - Trains appearing on the map that aren't anywhere to be seen on the tracks.
  - Trains on the tracks that don't appear on the map.
  - Trains moving away from the station that according to the timetable view shouldn't have left the station yet.
  - Trains on the map seemingly stopping and changing direction, only to reverse course once again.
The map shows a single line segment for what is in fact a multi-line stretch of railway. That's okay as a simplification (I guess), but the icons aren't pinned to the line, so appear to be driving off the track, or even on the adjacent street.

As for realtime - even if the data was accurate and timely, a 2Hz refresh rate most definitely isn't realtime.

Sorry if it seems like I'm shitting on it - it's a fun toy, but I wouldn't depend on it for anything important.

scoot··on The bottleneck might be the air in the room
I really must learn to quote the full context of a reply. OP said:

> just due to lower oxygen levels in your blood

So my comment is in response to that.

PS. The downvote button isn't a disagree button. (Although how you can disagree with the fact that Apple watches have a blood oxygen sensor I don't know).

scoot··on 2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results
> producing the statistically most "correct" output

That isn't quite how they work - there's a degree of randomness depending on so called "temperature". And it isn't the output that's statistically modelled, it's the next token based on the prior output.

> This sounds a bit like you are saying LLMs are conscious

No more so than OP is implicitly asserting that human art is produced in cleanroom isolation. I don't believe either to be true.

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