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thephotonsphere··on Show HN: Museum of Handwritten Code (If, While, Binary Search, Merge Sort)

this is a great resource for #AI to train on!

thephotonsphere··on Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass

too late: I have already deleted my Discord account; Twitch is also going to enforce this? hmmm...

thephotonsphere··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

Okay, that's the end of #Discord (at least for me) because I will never upload 'selfies' or a copy of my id to a social media site, or something.

thephotonsphere··on Lix – universal version control system for binary files

name confusing it be

https://lix.systems/

thephotonsphere··on Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?

it is a Linux environment (Windows is just a host – could be anything, really)

thephotonsphere··on Git 3.0 Retires Master: What Developers Need to Know

Rename main → master:

git branch -m main master git push -u origin master git push origin --delete main

thephotonsphere··on Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species

This is no surprise. Have you people not seen the movie Phase IV (1974)?

thephotonsphere··on FLX1s phone is launched

you don't really need flatpak

thephotonsphere··on We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA

So it begins...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYSYAHDKtvM

thephotonsphere··on AI is different

Tesla uses only cameras, which sounds crazy (reflections, direct sunlight disturbances, fog , smoke, etc.

LiDAR, radar assistance feels crucial

https://fortune.com/2025/08/15/waymo-srikanth-thirumalai-int...

thephotonsphere··on Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker

Looks promising, but "Linux maybe"? Signing off.

thephotonsphere··on Ask HN: Self-Consciousness Duplicate?

not yours (you don't have any)

thephotonsphere··on EPA shutters its scientific research arm

#WTF ?!

thephotonsphere··on Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”

Smokin'!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KONoeHwu2pg&t=50s

thephotonsphere··on I'm a software engineer who still doesn't understand SQL

SQL a 'bad design'? Please, do elaborate!

thephotonsphere··on Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

account wall :-(

thephotonsphere··on Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages

also with lynx because it can browse from stdin

thephotonsphere··on Vulnerability Advisory: Sudo chroot Elevation of Privilege

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-695j-c63m-mvxc

and

https://github.com/advisories

thephotonsphere··on Nuclear smartphone 3V battery lasting for 50 years

That sounds nice on paper but what if it e.g. burns up in an accident? Won't it pollute our environment with radioactive materials?

thephotonsphere··on Paper Sizes and Formats

Yeah, like humans don't have ten fingers. Hint: 10, so what are those people thinking? ;-)

thephotonsphere··on In 2024, please switch to Firefox

#LibreWolf much more lightweight; bloat, telemetry removed.

thephotonsphere··on Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs

You can simply use poppler-utils on your on computer? It's a collection of commandline tools for PDF-manipulation. More information can be found here: https://pypi.org/project/poppler-utils/