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I'm working on http://currinda.com/
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wakeless··on The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once
I'm assuming there's an optimisation in the source of this:

``` if(github) return false ```

wakeless··on AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals
I did a similar set of evals myself utilising the baseline capabilities that Phoenix (elixir) ships with and then skillified them.

Regularly the skills were not being loaded and thus not utilised. The outputs themselves were fine. This suggested that at some stage through the improvements of the models that baseline AGENTS.md had become redundant.

wakeless··on Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager
So I built a thing that looks _very_ similar to this a while back: http://pipie.io/agent-tracker (it doesn't orchestrate)

And what's really fascinating isn't that multiple people have built the same thing is just how convergent all the ideas are. This makes a heap of sense given that they are all vibe-coded and using similar libraries. It's just very real when you see it right in front of your face like this.

I think there's a heap of really interesting stuff when you start linking into hooks which can also create tmux splits and really make the agent the center of an ide which seems like this is on the way to.

wakeless··on Petrichor
Don't forget the Paul Kelly song of the same name.
wakeless··on Phelia – React for Slack Apps
A very cool approach, well done.
wakeless··on Apple acquires Dark Sky
There is a great episode of 99 percent invisible about this.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-weather-machine/

wakeless··on Migrating to React’s New Context API
Fair enough, I suppose. I still think the additional complexity of having to bring in the context for the save of passing 1 variable through the whole tree is overkill though.
wakeless··on Migrating to React’s New Context API
This is actually a really weird example of using the Context API. I have no idea why you would want to use it to manage a single switch of state.

The far better examples are providing a "theme" across multiple disparate components, and each of them being able to access the colours, or styles. (You could also just use CSS)

The other good example is being able to set the logged in user into a context and then being able to consume the context if you need access to the logged in user.

wakeless··on Stripe Billing
How does this work in the case where the majority of your customers currently pay by direct-debit/cheque? This is certainly the case for us, but we have long been looking for a affordable solution to have them managed with some sort of managed subscription engine
wakeless··on Japanese Vending Machines at Night Juxtaposed with a Wintry Hokkaido Landscape
Beer isn't in 'publicly' accessible vending machines any more as far as I can tell. It is however often available in the foyer of a place that normally sells beer (that might be currently shut.)

Ski resorts are my main source of vending-machine beer. Nothing better than cracking a can of Sapporo Classic in your first gondola ride of the day.

wakeless··on GitHub down
My favourite part of this is the "All systems operational" in green at the top. Yet, all systems are clearly not operational.
wakeless··on Y Combinator's Altman: What I Worry About in Business [video]
No [video] ?
wakeless··on The MUD Connector
Gee I spent far too much time on Astaria in the late 90s. I'm sure there's a few people around here that are in the same boat.
wakeless··on Hammer.js: Add touch gestures to your page
We've been using this for a while, documentation isn't great, but it seems it's the best library for what it does.

We had particular trouble with double tap recognition early on but I believe V2 improved this substantially.

wakeless··on Paper Now: Create, edit and display a journal article entirely in GitHub
There is significant friction from changing to anything that isn't Word (PDF/Latex to a lesser extent) in this space. I wonder what it is going to take for that monopoly to be broken
wakeless··on In conversation with Marc Andreessen
You are right in a sense. I think people are demanding more flexible, realistic and more consumer favourable laws. Rather than the rigid structures that are in currently in place.
wakeless··on Announcing UberPool
Here in Queenstown, NZ there's spa (jacuzzi) as a service.
wakeless··on Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q or a Z
But my cat's name is quizzical.
wakeless··on Stripe: Bitcoin Sign-up
Credit cards have little wire antenna in them. If you basically cut it in down near the chip, the chip still works when inserted into the machine but the NFC doesn't work.

I did this accidentally and have been using my phone with chip and pin for about a year.

Personally I'd prefer to swipe.

wakeless··on How we restarted our company in two weeks during Y Combinator
In a lot of ways it's tricky, but easy at the same time. We end up trying to build strong concepts that can be mapped onto a few different problems within the event. A lot like an online store product, but with a better grounding in events.

We then try and provide the right management/reporting/organising tools so that they can work with it better.

wakeless··on How we restarted our company in two weeks during Y Combinator
As someone who is working in this space with a reasonably unsexy product, I'm a believer that back-office is where it's all at.
wakeless··on 2048
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wakeless··on Exist
These guys live in here Melbourne, cost of living is pretty crazy high. Sure, you could get away with paying yourself less than that, but 60k (less business expenses) puts them in the realm of basic office clerk.

Maybe the startup founder's lot in life is to be poor while they are starting up, so could probably do it with less. But they are hardly overstepping the mark.

wakeless··on What’s Wrong with Git? A Conceptual Design Analysis
I personally think that the Git approach is closer to how I envisaged a (non-distributed) VCS should work. I'm the same as you, coming from SVN it was a godsend.
wakeless··on Even fine restaurants serve coffee made with capsules
Checkout the device called a Thermomix. It essentially cooks, prepares, does everything except buy and measure the ingredients.
wakeless··on Even fine restaurants serve coffee made with capsules
The article basically compared Nespresso to an unknown, un-sighted, possibly stale, possibly ground month earlier coffee and a coffee that was roasted incorrectly for the brew method and ground days earlier. You wouldn't really call this a good baseline to compare to any data that anyone provides.

One of the major reasons for this is that these chefs get crazy good deals from Nespresso as part of it's marketing, ie, it's in the best restaurants, it's good for you.

wakeless··on Even fine restaurants serve coffee made with capsules
In fact, of all the home cooked dishes that is easiest to reproduce with minimal effort/intervention, I'd say roast chook it about the best/easiest/simplest.

I'd suggest people that say they can't cook, try to cook roast chicken from recipe. Make sure to use a timer and you really can't go wrong.

wakeless··on This Google ad has moved people to tears across India and Pakistan
I'm from Australia and I can't understand from the Australian province New Zealand.
wakeless··on Beg HN: Please only report serious GitHub outages (1h+)
Today it went down, just as I needed our CI server to do a pass. Which is fine, grab a coffee, then I sat down and thought, I'll catch up on some code reviews.

Thankfully, it wasn't long till it came back up.

wakeless··on Why You Don't A/B Test, and How You Can Start This August
It's worth mentioning that that's exactly why Patrick doesn't normally submit this stuff himself. Infact, I've seen him apologies/ask people not to just re-post stuff here and just subscribe to his newsletter/blog/etc.

It's also worth noting that you don't HAVE to click through to something that's on the kalzumeus domain, if you subscribe to the newsletter or don't want to.

Personally, I think anything that generates a reasonable number of good comments is great (not necessarily this.) That's why HN is great.

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