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ustad··on Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
You need an app for that?
ustad··on Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model
Men in the middle wages
ustad··on How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)
If you use firefox+ublock its very easy to block these super annoying pop ups.
ustad··on What I love about Django
Stavros Halkias! Very funny guy. And also a maker and HN god! Never would have thought.
ustad··on Azulejo
2 player can lead to fist fights.
ustad··on More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle
Thats a 404
ustad··on An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk
But the browser is involved. Can the browser do OTA to esp32?
ustad··on An ESP32 based plane radar for my desk
“Finally, the firmware now supports authenticated OTA updates, so future builds can be installed through the browser instead of connecting the board over USB.”

What does that mean?

ustad··on Pico W firmware creates driverless USB WiFi bridge (Layer-2)
I’m glad it got reposted because I just tried it out. What a smooth experience! I managed to get an old desktop - with no wifi and far from n ethernet port - connected by this gadget! Great job in getting this to work, creating a nice user interface and releasing it!
ustad··on Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things
“ChatGPT launched in November, 2022. Opus in December last year.”

You seem to be implying that there was nothing before. Obviously not true.

“AI may be a tool and add 50 IQ points to a 100 IQ person today but what happens when its adding 10000 IQ points.”

What is even IQ? What if it adds 50 now, 25 next month, 12.5 the month after, etc. You should check out Zeno.

ustad··on Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor
As always - great article.

FYI - The link for Peter Kogge is broken and should probably link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kogge

ustad··on Why Windows 95 Was Tech's Last True Revolution
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U5T0cR1aHJ4
ustad··on Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
The cost of each request or token may have a fixed cost - you do not have to query the main billing system for such things.
ustad··on Write for One Person
Great story. Thank you.
ustad··on ARC-AGI-3
You are joking right?
ustad··on Apple-1 Computer Prototype Board #0 sold for $2.75M
Does anyone know the history of the previous owners?
ustad··on Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids
Whats the model?
ustad··on I switched from VSCode to Zed
I’d rather someone say “we architected this poorly and are working to fix the design” than “things slip through sometimes, report them when you find them.” The former is honest AND shows they understand the problem. The latter treats a design flaw as an acceptable steady state.

Being honest about shipping bugs is good. Being honest that you’ve designed a system where the same category of bug will keep happening? That deserves criticism, not praise for honesty.

ustad··on I switched from VSCode to Zed
VS Code is a flagship product from Microsoft. Relying on “we try our best to push fixes as soon as possible” for a global opt-out setting feels below the engineering standards we’d expect. This should be fail-safe by design, not best-effort.
ustad··on Show HN: MyTimers.app offline-first PWA with no build step and zero dependencies
I have a suspicion that someone holds worldwide patents on multi timers with repetitions and notifications (audio and vibration).

Thats the only explanation I have to explain the dire state of the built in timers on iphones and the free apps available on the app store. And no, I’m not going to pay $$$ per month for the premium apps.

And don’t even get me started on the PITA it is to make a web app to do the same (useful for runners) - you would think it would be a simple thing todo? Have a go and let me know if it doesn't break your balls.

ustad··on Ask HN: Is .space TLD Down?
Thanks - at least I’m not going mad.
ustad··on Ask HN: Is .space TLD Down?
Thanks for the info!
ustad··on Ask HN: Is .space TLD Down?
@dang or anyone Can someone push this up since it’s becoming quite serious and I don’t know what to do.
ustad··on Ask HN: Is .space TLD Down?
Where did you get that number?
ustad··on Ask HN: Is .space TLD Down?
Is there a “status page” for TLDs?
ustad··on Ask HN: Is .space TLD Down?
Email seems to be affected as well :(
ustad··on Ask HN: Is .space TLD Down?
Wonder why some are working. I am searching DDG with “site:.space”
ustad··on Ask HN: Is .space TLD Down?
Some domains are working but many are not. first hit on DDG: stuffin.space
ustad··on Solving a wooden puzzle using Haskell
You all might like the 3x3x3 Soma Cube: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma_cube
ustad··on Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware
Was this specific to the PDA port or the core doom code?

@ID_AA_Carmack Are you going to write a patch to fix this?

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