not_your_vase

6 ore fadiscuss

Offtopic, but when did the verge go behind a subscription wall completely? I stopped reading it some time ago due to reasons, and now that I clicked on this link, I see that all articles I click on are asking me to subscribe...

not_your_vase

6 ore fadiscuss

    In March, Apple informed the EU that it had agreed to acquire certain assets and hire employees from SigScalr...

In other news, all of sigscalr's repositories now have a header saying

    This repository was archived by the owner on Mar 13, 2026. It is now read-only.

Not that I used it, this is the first time I hear about it. But it's always sad when an OSS ends, especially like that.

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l’altro ieridiscuss

    No results for "porn".

Huhh, are you indexing the same internet that we are using to post these messages?

Multi-word search is doing some interesting things. When I search for "4chan magic ball" I'd expect a picture with a magic 8-ball, but instead I am getting almost random, unrelated results. Similar for "vhdl flip flop" search, I'd expect to see a flip-flop implementation.

Do you plan to keep it online for the long term, or is it more like for your current amusement?

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l’altro ieridiscuss

After learning that boneless chicken wings can contain bones, I won't be surprised if United would win this.

not_your_vase

5 giorni fadiscuss

Maybe there could be an AI-generated HN mirror: the AI would monitor HN continuously, and filter out the AI related news. Fight fire with fire.

not_your_vase

5 giorni fadiscuss

I wonder if it's like a hail mary before going out on a whimper, or if they really have this kind of money to spend

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6 giorni fadiscuss

On one hand they can't see. Haven't seen a "give me an svg unicorn" test since a while, but I guess their performance hasn't changed a lot. If you give broad prompts, then that will result usually in some garbage.

As an anecdata, a few weeks ago I was creating some UI with libSDL for an embedded project with Claude, and I was quite impressed with the result. Granted, I specified everything I could think about: I instructed it page by page, iterating button by button and label by label.

not_your_vase

7 giorni fadiscuss

Unfortunately it's a bit of an empty article.

    The first reason was the hardware; in the year 2000, the hardware was not capable enough to execute such a complex system

I wonder if there is some source for this. People were able to run SQL servers in 2000 without much of a problem, it didn't need a mainframe to run a DB that fit on a consumer HDD.

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7 giorni fadiscuss

    The next decade of gaming will be [...] more creative than anything we’ve seen before.

In the AI era? Lol. Lmao, even.

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8 giorni fadiscuss

As long as every phone distro is just a desktop distro shoehorned on a small screen, that's not gonna happen.

IMO it's not a matter of tap to pay and camera quality, rather a matter of whole system paradigm. Having millions of disconnected services in the "do one thing and do it right" spirit and using text based communication and hundreds of python and shell scripts is relatively maintainable and relatively easy to use, but very inefficient when it comes to CPU cycles - and on a handheld every cycle counts.

And of course every app is optimized for desktops/laptops... but I guess that's a chicken-or-egg problem: once there is a working distro, there will be apps too. And once there will be apps to use, there will be a working distro. Maybe.

not_your_vase

10 giorni fadiscuss

Everything is swiss quality when it works. My mobile subscription is at Swisscom, but I downgraded it to call/text only PAYG years ago. First I wanted (mobile) internet connection on my phone. I checked on their website, they had some monthly package for 10-or-so CHF, which I wanted.

The customer service never heard of it, and signed me up for a 5CHF/day package without asking me. That was a lot of fun doing it back - initially they were also pointing to random points in the contract. But they could never find the part where I actually asked them to subscribe me to something that I didn't want.

Afterwards they could never make 4G/5G internet work reliably around my home (which is pretty funny, because they have a tower literally above my head, and another 40 meters away), it kept going unresponsive for 30-40 seconds at random times. I did ping-pong with their customer service for about a months before I gave up, cancelled internet part and switched to PAYG.

At least they still send me spam - I keep clicking the unsubscribe link, but they are not bothered by it.

I just want to illustrate that there are bad experiences with all providers.

not_your_vase

11 giorni fadiscuss

You know, in Switzerland there is a thing, that if a product or service has the name "Swiss" in its name, then it can be sold for any price regardless of quality - and it will fly off the shelves. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it's true.

Swisscom is the biggest ISP in Switzerland - they charge high prices for very slow internet. But they have the word "Swiss" in their name, so it's okay to sell 100 Mbps connection for 70 CHF, which many people buys. But the same people can get 10 Gbps connection at the same place for 40-50 CHF also by simply visiting a competing store, and spending 15 minutes on it. But that won't have the word "Swiss" in it.

not_your_vase

14 giorni fadiscuss

Do you remember the pipa/sopa protests from like a decade ago?

The internet, as we knew it, is over. It has been dead for a few years, but it is getting clear now only. It had its great moments, while it lasted.

not_your_vase

15 giorni fadiscuss

What's your goal? If you want just a random site, then WP will do the job. If you want to learn web development, then I'd start it with a local http server (apache/nginx/whatever's your poison) and start writing html/css/js by hand, and see how it builds up line by line.

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25 giorni fadiscuss

I don't have lived experience, but "Who is hiring" had only 2 or 3 posts from my country this whole year. Until about 2 years ago there were 5-8 posts in each threads.

(I'm in a small central-European country, that is full of tech companies, both domestic and international)

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mese scorsodiscuss

Probably I would buy some lichi, because I always wanted to taste it, but costs an arm and leg where I live. Not sure what I'd do with the change.

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mese scorsodiscuss

I have a bad feeling that the death of the founder also meant the end of this site: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/memoriam-john-l-young-...

I merely guessing, though.

not_your_vase

mese scorsodiscuss

The most interesting part is that HTC is making smartphones again, something that I totally missed

not_your_vase

mese scorsodiscuss

That's weird... that was one of the very few of his initiatives that had bipartisan support... pretty much everyone was happy with this, except for the employers.

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mese scorsodiscuss

Oh my. The original Spyro games (especially the first) on the venerable PSX are my all time favorite games.

Their modern remake was the only reason why I bought a PS4, I got it exclusively to play that game. And it was the disappointment of the decade. It looks nice, it sounds nice, but it is different enough that muscle memory doesn't work anymore, and it's more annoying than entertaining.

("Funnily" after this I got myself a PS3, and bought the original PSX version in PS Online. It turned out that it runs very badly on the PS3. So I also got myself a PS2, and bought the disc version on ebay, which finally worked as it should. I wish I was kidding.)

Considering that the previous Spyro from Toys for Bob was more on the lackluster side, I won't keep my hopes too high.

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