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A doomed marriage and a bad ad for Corvus Systems' drives

buttondown.com
2 points·by rfarley04·24 giorni fa·0 comments

Gateway 2000's infuriating descent from awesome to bad ads in the 90s (Part I)

buttondown.com
1 points·by rfarley04·2 mesi fa·0 comments

Web Stalker – an artist-made browser that ignored images and formatting (1998)

anthology.rhizome.org
4 points·by rfarley04·3 mesi fa·0 comments

Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meetings

techcrunch.com
1 points·by rfarley04·3 mesi fa·3 comments

Franklin's bad ads for Apple II clones and the beloved impersonator they depict

buttondown.com
126 points·by rfarley04·3 mesi fa·93 comments

Meta up 3% in premarket as it plans mass layoff amidst increased AI spending

cnbc.com
7 points·by rfarley04·4 mesi fa·1 comments

In 1985 Maxell built a bunch of life-size robots for its bad floppy ad

buttondown.com
142 points·by rfarley04·4 mesi fa·23 comments

A handful of wholesomely bad ads for 90s SPARC clones

buttondown.com
2 points·by rfarley04·5 mesi fa·0 comments

The hottest job in tech: Writing words

businessinsider.com
4 points·by rfarley04·5 mesi fa·1 comments

Malaysia and Indonesia Block Elon Musk's Grok

cnbc.com
10 points·by rfarley04·6 mesi fa·0 comments

Some not-so-bad ads from 80s computer magazines: Christmas edition

buttondown.com
2 points·by rfarley04·7 mesi fa·1 comments

The Fantasy Life of Coder Boys (2003)

wired.com
2 points·by rfarley04·7 mesi fa·0 comments

The strangest Excel functions you'll never use

makeuseof.com
4 points·by rfarley04·7 mesi fa·1 comments

USR's campaigns for the Password Modem were historically bad ads

buttondown.com
1 points·by rfarley04·8 mesi fa·0 comments

Everyone enjoys fewer lunch options (or, why I love pairwise comparisons)

woolean.com
1 points·by rfarley04·8 mesi fa·0 comments

There aren't a lot of Pearson correlations on HN's front page

pithandpip.com
4 points·by rfarley04·8 mesi fa·0 comments

V for Vendetta Will Return to Cinemas for Its 20th Anniversary in 2026

ign.com
6 points·by rfarley04·8 mesi fa·1 comments

The Last Messiah by Peter Wessel-Zapffe [pdf]

openairphilosophy.org
2 points·by rfarley04·9 mesi fa·0 comments

A (1995) company that made nothing but bad ads

buttondown.com
4 points·by rfarley04·9 mesi fa·0 comments

3D Printed "Book" Demonstrates Mechanical Actions

hackaday.com
2 points·by rfarley04·10 mesi fa·0 comments

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rfarley04
·19 giorni fa·discuss
I'm writing this on a Pixel 8 and it's the worst phone I have ever used. The wireless chip is basically dead. And the battery can't make it to 3pm. Annoys the hell out of me that so many reviewers I thought I could trust speak so highly of this phone.
rfarley04
·21 giorni fa·discuss
That's my library system too! I go to tualatin and it has a dedicated room for their makerlab and have classes every day for all kinds of stuff. Whenever I go in its pretty well attended.
rfarley04
·29 giorni fa·discuss
Tower of Babel by Ted Chiang is another comparison worth mentioning
rfarley04
·2 mesi fa·discuss
The human.json protocol is worth checking out as a proxy for the whole "more human internet" conversation. Not perfect but interesting!

https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json
rfarley04
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Ha, I was just researching early email newsletter history and came across High Weirdness By Mail - A Directory of The Fringe: Mad Prophets, Crackpots, Kooks & True Visionaries. It's literally just subscription addresses and paragraph summaries like

> "A neo-pagan publication aimed mainly at neophytes, shamans, medicine men. And women...Drawing on numerous traditions, it provides almost a survey course in such diverse topics as astrology, runecasting, elemental (magic) the I Ching, > and Chinese medicine, 75¢ each, $8/year."

https://archive.org/details/highweirdnessbym0000stan
rfarley04
·3 mesi fa·discuss
I saw this post at the exact same time I ran across this elsewhere: https://www.phonearena.com/news/pixel-6-7-8-9-10-battery-dra...

There's no way to definitively say they're cause and effect but also....
rfarley04
·3 mesi fa·discuss
"These rules could force YouTube to give special treatment to a small group of organisations hand-picked by a government."

YouTube already skews results based on their own priorities and preferences (which is often for very good reasons[1]). Hilariously hypocritical that they're whining about a "for me but not for you" problem here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_moderation
rfarley04
·3 mesi fa·discuss
vintageapple.org also has a really great collection of scans fwiw
rfarley04
·4 mesi fa·discuss
It's just the social app being killed off, no? Wouldn't this line up with rumors that they'll soon let you create videos inside of chatgpt itself? I wish the actual video model would die but I assume this news is not that.
rfarley04
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Hilarious that anyone would think the most literally average output of a thing would be capable of selling said thing. Of course it'll take more salespeople to sell a very mid product (not a comment on AI/LLMs in general, just their editorial applications)
rfarley04
·5 mesi fa·discuss
I moved to a self-hosted Wallabag (https://wallabag.org/) after Pocket shut down. Not the sexiest but does everything I need it to. It has Chrome/Firefox extensions for saving open tabs.
rfarley04
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Never get tired of seeing this resurface every once and a while. There needs to be a /greatest for posts like these (while still allowing people to repost them every so often)
rfarley04
·6 mesi fa·discuss
I have a little bit of data on that from my post last summer. It's pretty easy to query the data: ryanfarley.co/ai-show-hn-data/
rfarley04
·6 mesi fa·discuss
If my problem with a post is its alarmism I probably shouldn't respond with hyperbole eh
rfarley04
·6 mesi fa·discuss
As long as you don't swap bodily fluids with someone who's infected you're almost certainly not at risk
rfarley04
·6 mesi fa·discuss
That's fair actually. I wrote this comment a little off the cuff and rereading the article (it's been a while since I wrote it!) it's more like a strong plurality, so overwhelming was a bit much
rfarley04
·6 mesi fa·discuss
They're also overwhelming AI related posts: https://ryanfarley.co/ai-show-hn-data/
rfarley04
·6 mesi fa·discuss
I've been here since 2015 with the pm2.5 getting noticably worse from 2017 onwards. Hard to tie it to any degradation in health. I have air purifiers at home and wear N95 whenever I go out and it's bad. I know there were a few big studies around the prevalence of cancer rates that correlated with the pollution getting worse in China. But I'm not nearly qualified enough to comment on or vet those
rfarley04
·6 mesi fa·discuss
I live in Bangkok and we also get inversions during the "cold" (for Thailand haha) season, the same time that farms slash and burn, making this the worst time of year for our air quality as well.

It's much better this year but incredibly hard to police since officials often don't have jurisdiction where the pm2.5 originated, before getting trapped in the inversion
rfarley04
·6 mesi fa·discuss
It's just an id. But the audio is stored on the yoto itself for offline play.

And second the blank/customizable cards, that's what 80% of our cards are and my daughter loves helping track down and extract content. Biggest hits for her have been Roald Dahl and random science stuff.