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Very cool! Did you consider Protomaps for the map tile format at all? It's a pretty clever way of storing everything in a single file and their tooling is pretty nice.

What are you talking about, this IS a nice thing!

Firefox's extension support is far superior to Safari's, cross-platform support, and I really don't want to use Edge for the same reasons I don't want to use Chrome.

That's really encouraging news, the per-commit versioning has been tricky to follow. Happy to see it!

If you're like me and also wondered "huh, what's tinygrad up to?" apparently they now let you place $100,000 USD pre-orders on a $10M shipping container full of GPUs which they say will ship (literally it seems) in 2027.

As somebody who is also terrible at remembering names, I also used to think this but ever since I saw this idea taken to its logical extreme by some students a few years ago I've become significantly more resistant to it: https://x.com/AnhPhuNguyen1/status/1840786336992682409

For anyone reading the thread, they did do this! Had a nice call with James too, which I appreciate.

It looks like the situation is actually more complex and interesting than "The registry rug-pulled me". My .sexy domain price was increased by the owners of .sexy (to $3000) since I bought it 6 years ago BUT in Hover's system it was supposed to retain the legacy price of $38 as it had for the past few years. Something went wrong between Hover and the registry where the legacy price wasn't honoured and as such, it bumped to $3000 on renewal. Apparently support really flubbed this one and we both agreed that going the "post on HN" route for customer service isn't exactly a win on their part.

The money has been refunded and I've been assured they're looking into the bug. Will probably do a follow up blog post!

Heh yeah, I've recently had another site succumb to the same thing (that domain wasn't managed by me). I've long accepted that domains are kind of a racket, but haven't actually been on the losing end of the money until now!

Yeah, I already transferred everything else to Cloudflare in advance of this so that part should be taken care of.

The domain renewal cost in their dashboard is notably right back to $38 too!

Arguably yeah! The issue I have seems to mostly be with Uniregistry (aside from the fact that Hover takes a cut of the transaction).

...But I'm also not a Uniregistry customer, I'm a Hover customer. Do I have any recourse with the TLD owner?

8 Nvidia B200s. Crazy from an individual perspective, costly for a small business!

The Library of Congress runs Webrecorder's Python Wayback for their web archive replay and has an extensive collection of over 35,000 web archives each comprising multiple pages: https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/01/beta-release-of-libr...

Pretty cool! I've also been playing around with GLM 5.2 this week and was equally impressed. At work we're running it locally on some crazy expensive hardware as a test before starting another project so it's great to see people taking this massive FOSS model release and running it on an average machine, even if it's not terribly practical at this point.

Nice work!

I prefer CoMaps' tile styling, they did a bunch of updates to it early on to differentiate it from OrganicMaps, IMO it's much nicer.

CoMaps also has a better system for distributing map data now which isn't bound to app updates. Not sure if this has made its way back to the other app, but it's quite nice.

I've been using GLM 5.2 a lot this past week, it's been replacing Opus 4.8. I mostly do front-end web development and haven't noticed much of a quality difference.

Sure, "it's just frontend", but that's actual use enough for me to take it seriously.

Yes, CoMaps lets users submit basic data that updates OSM for addresses and POIs. It's a harder problem than you may initially think too, quite often the delivery format of OSM data differs in schema from the DB format. In the case of OrganicMaps and CoMaps, they both generate offline-optimized map formats for distribution.

Navidrome is so sick! I've been a full album listener for years, but switching to it was a great excuse to make sure my music library was FLAC only and tagged with good MusicBrainz metadata. If you're a self-hosting / NAS person already and you have a music library of digital files it's a no brainer.

Brand guidelines and web design pretty much don't exist any more as far as I can tell. Gotta get it out yesteday, and the only way to do that is vibe coding, styling be damned.

tangled.org writes issues as atproto data that lives in a user's PDS which is one neat idea.

There's absolutely no precident for Blender Foundation sponsorships leading to such things... So no, they probably won't do that.

It compiles almost instantly which makes this visual design by Claude instruction viable. That alone is pretty neat.

It can't render all your math in exactly the same way. If you need it to do that, it may not be for you.

Noticed that Jellyfin had inched out Plex when sorting by popularity on the TrueNAS app catalogue the other day (45,178 installs vs Plex's 42,225). The existance of this project seems to confirm that the dev ecosystem around it is getting stronger!

"Why should I change? He's the one who sucks!"

I got Claude to make me the exact same graph a few weeks ago! I had hypothesized that we'd see a sharp drop off, instead what I found (as this project also shows) is a rather messy average trend of outages that has been going on for some time.

The graph being all nice before the Microsoft acquisition is a fun narrative, until you realize that some products (like actions, announced on October 16th, 2018) didn't exist and therefore had no outages. Easy to correct for by setting up start dates, but not done here. For the rest that did exist (API requests, Git ops, pages, etc) I figured they could just as easily be explained with GitHub improving their observability.

I own one of these, it is amazingly well manufactured. Not cheap, but (with the exception of the power button) well made.

Yes, but you can get LLMFit to recommend hardware requirements with `llmfit plan --context <TOKENS> <MODEL>`.

I'm going to guess this is because the image to depth data, while good, is not perfectly accurate and therefore cannot be a shared ground truth between multiple images. At that point what you want is a more traditional structure from motion workflow, which already exists and does a decent job.

I think SideFX was the first to do that with Houdini. It's one of my favourite micro-UX features of high-end graphics software, coming in at a close second to Nuke's use of both linear and non-linear scales for slider values.

Yes, and when working with footage shot with anamorphic lenses one will have to render the footage as non-square pixels, mapped to the square pixels of our screens, to view it at its intended aspect ratio. This process is done either at the beginning (conforming the footage before sending to editorial / VFX) or end (conforming to square pixels as a final step) of the post-production workflow depending on the show.