variety8675

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variety8675··on Show HN: Yaml2json.com, YAML/JSON converter that runs in the browser

What is the purpose of the account and subscription if this is all client side?

variety8675··on Claude Is Painful

I've also found Claude to be basically useless lately, I've switched entirely to Codex for now

variety8675··on University of Illinois is insuring itself against a drop in Chinese students

https://archive.is/u2uo3

variety8675··on Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

It is nice to see a site preaching this that isn't hosted by Cloudflare or GitHub Pages

variety8675··on Credit Card Points Are a Transfer from the Broke to the Comfortable

Pay in full customers can be profitable through interchange fees alone, so I don't really follow how it is a wealth transfer

variety8675··on Show HN: A live badge that proves your SaaS runs on EU infrastructure

> this one-page demand test runs on Cloudflare Pages while we validate the idea the product itself will be made & hosted in the EU

So this is just a page to collect email addresses and you'll build the product if you get any?

variety8675··on BitTorrent's disastrous, legendary, and controversial story

https://archive.is/PTWaB

variety8675··on How to migrate from Proxmox VE 8 to 9: step-by-step guide (2026)

404 on the link

variety8675··on Show HN: Updated my landing page with Fable (retro pixel style)

The information is very difficult to consume, if I found this on a google search result I’d immediately close the page without reading. It is neat that Fable can design something like this, but the better question is should you actually use a design like this.

variety8675··on AI Data Centers Use More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report

Obviously water is renewable, but the constraint here is finite public water system capacity. When that capacity is allocated to data centers less is available for other community needs. See https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02705

variety8675··on Zuckerberg says Meta's bets on reorganization 'haven't come to fruition'

They have a similar money printer to Google, it isn't surprising they're just throwing money at anything they can to see what sticks. Almost like a modern Bell Labs

variety8675··on My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable

Optical cables have gotten very good and cheap recently. I was able to move my desktop into another room and run outputs / usbs to both my office and tv for under $100.

variety8675··on Ask HN: What makes you register on a website?

I think the most important thing is letting the users know what the site is before making an account. For example even with all of the pushes from Meta to mandate accounts, they still let you browse their platforms for a few minutes before nudging you to make an account.

variety8675··on Trump administration asks OpenAI to stagger release of new model

This feels like the groundwork for blocking access to strong open weight models

variety8675··on LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach

https://blog.lastpass.com/posts/klue-supply-chain-incident-a...

> The information accessed was limited to standard business contact information and related customer relationship management (CRM) data, including customer names, phone numbers, email addresses, and physical addresses, as well as support case data and sales-related data.

variety8675··on Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required

> There's a mass delusion in the industry that you need Kubernetes to run a serious production service. You don't. At StatusDude, we serve thousands of monitoring checks per minute, run multi-region workers, and deploy multiple times a day

This is pretty small scale, Kubernetes comes in when you've got a larger workload.

variety8675··on The Slate Auto pickup truck starts at $24,950

Slate is run by former amazon executives and backed by Jeff Bezos - they might actually deliver vehicles at this price

variety8675··on Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents

posted yesterday as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598906

variety8675··on AI has granted America new power

https://archive.is/gfFsj

variety8675··on Microsoft Teams introduces office attendance tracking via Wi-Fi

This is a useful feature for finding out if your coworkers are in the office if the environment is hybrid. Companies don't need this feature to go big brother on employees, they have badge logs and network logs for that already.

variety8675··on My Homelab AI Dev Platform

How do you run inference for Open Code? What models are you running

variety8675··on Changing Careers, Cutting Expenses: Software Engineers Contend with AI

Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/changing-careers-cutti...

variety8675··on Ask HN: Is anyone building real software with AI agents?

I see value in using the models for sure, what I'm questioning is all of the examples of basically trying to one shot a Jira ticket to code

variety8675··on Ask HN: Is anyone building real software with AI agents?

I like the there is no benefit to talking about it for most companies angle, I didn't consider that

variety8675··on Not everyone is using AI for everything

Isn't this how we end up with things like: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/high-profile-meta-a...

variety8675··on Not everyone is using AI for everything

I've noticed several companies replacing deterministic systems in their support flows with a LLM version that is slower and worse. Many interfaces simply aren't better with AI added

variety8675··on Ask HN: Why is the best way to find a job as a Software Engineer in 2026?

Referrals from people you know, or responding to messages from recruiters on LinkedIn / other sites. I almost never hear back from cold applying to a job

variety8675··on Show HN: Pebble, an open-source alternative to Minecraft: Java Edition

I'm curious what your workflow was building this

variety8675··on Show HN: I built 80 mini-games using Fable before it was shut down

> The games, text, graphics, and other content provided through the Service are protected by copyright. You may play the games for private, non-commercial use in your browser. Any further reproduction, distribution, or commercial use requires the provider’s prior consent.

Can AI generated content be copyrighted?

variety8675··on New pancreatic cancer drug might open the door to much longer survival times

The study this article references is here: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06625320

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