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Show HN: Cyclearchive.com – search vintage cycling magazines

cyclearchive.com
22 points·by alastairr·há 15 dias·7 comments

IBM hails new 'block of flats' design breakthrough for ultra tiny chips

bbc.co.uk
4 points·by alastairr·há 17 dias·0 comments

Show HN: Cyclearchive.com – searchable archive of historical cycling literature

cyclearchive.com
4 points·by alastairr·há 20 dias·0 comments

MiniDisc, the Forgotten Format (2012)

theguardian.com
2 points·by alastairr·há 3 meses·1 comments

Ask HN: Tools for searching ArXiv by relevance and quality?

3 points·by alastairr·há 4 meses·0 comments

Ask HN: What causes Claude's '[mistake] – wait, no [correction]' pattern?

2 points·by alastairr·há 5 meses·4 comments

Ask HN: AI tools for learning and spaced repetition

1 points·by alastairr·há 5 meses·3 comments

How much AI do we need, really?

newsletter.alastairrushworth.com
2 points·by alastairr·há 7 meses·0 comments

Guided Meditation Podcast Aggregator

meditation.alastairrushworth.com
2 points·by alastairr·há 8 meses·1 comments

Blogfeeds.net Aggregator

bearblog.stevedylan.dev
1 points·by alastairr·há 9 meses·0 comments

Curating and Filtering RSS Feeds

blog.balthazar-rouberol.com
2 points·by alastairr·há 9 meses·0 comments

Custom RSS Feeds

alastairrushworth.substack.com
3 points·by alastairr·há 9 meses·0 comments

Nuclear Fracking: Repeatedly Nuking Yourself for Commercial Reasons [video]

youtube.com
6 points·by alastairr·há 10 meses·0 comments

Show HN: Blognerd – search posts, blogs and export OPML

blognerd.app
4 points·by alastairr·há 10 meses·2 comments

Why social media is a Bummer (2018)

theguardian.com
1 points·by alastairr·há 10 meses·0 comments

Getting ArXiv Sanity Papers via RSS (2022)

den.dev
1 points·by alastairr·há 10 meses·0 comments

Generating RSS Feeds from Web Pages with RSS Please (2022)

wezm.net
2 points·by alastairr·há 10 meses·0 comments

Creating full-text RSS/Atom feeds for any page with FreshRSS

tzovar.as
2 points·by alastairr·há 10 meses·0 comments

Tech and Startups Digest

blaze.email
1 points·by alastairr·há 10 meses·0 comments

Why one of the most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China

theguardian.com
8 points·by alastairr·há 10 meses·2 comments

comments

alastairr
·anteontem·discuss
It's really good, love it!

My vote would be no countdown, but you could have a hidden timer and use that for ranking at the end, so that there's still and incentive to think fast.

If you can have infinite time on each turn, then I think hints may not be as required.
alastairr
·há 10 dias·discuss
I love that idea, thanks :) I will add this to the list.
alastairr
·há 16 dias·discuss
100%

I'm not sure when all this mission nonsense came in, but it's daft when you see it parroted around something as beige as SaaS. It's fine to want to make something good and make some money from it, but you don't have to pretend it's some kind of moral quest.

Related https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B8C5sjjhsso
alastairr
·há 18 dias·discuss
I remember the controversies well :) but I guess even their extra gating is starting to creak by the sounds of it.
alastairr
·há 18 dias·discuss
The surprising thing to me is that it's taken as long as it has for CRAN to have this problem. As others have said, this is happening everywhere.
alastairr
·há 3 meses·discuss
If it's real this is a terrible thing to have happen.

However the moral of this story is nothing to do with AI and everything to do with boring stuff like access management.
alastairr
·há 3 meses·discuss
"and honestly, ..." "heres the thing ..." [em dash every paragraph]

Smells like default Claude voice. I like the ideas, but if someone can't be bothered to proof read their own article, then I don't know why we should trust that any of it was human generated.
alastairr
·há 4 meses·discuss
Couldn't agree more. Worth pointing out that sites owned by Meta and Twitter in particular have become much more hostile to signed out users - often impossible to view a business' listing without a signed in account. Walled gardens are going to wall, of course. But I'm not sure how much small business owners realise that a proportion of traffic / interest has much more difficulty in finding them.
alastairr
·há 4 meses·discuss
You are right that Taiwan doesn't. But it has consequences, Taipower is forced to undercharge against market prices, but is backstopped by the government.

At the end of the day, it's a global market, and if you want it 'cheap' someone has to pick up the tab. Either it's taxpayers now, taxpayers in the future or consumers now.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2025/03/23/2...
alastairr
·há 4 meses·discuss
I'm no longer keeping it updated with new content, but I curated and made searchable about 40k feeds over the years https://blognerd.app/
alastairr
·há 5 meses·discuss
Not sure I agree with you. For lower ability models, yes. Claude Opus 4.6 is incredibly capable, so it's odd to me it has this residual 'misspeak' behaviour.
alastairr
·há 5 meses·discuss
sounds cool. I guess you built this? Is there any way to learn more about how it works before signing in? The homepage doesn't give much away :)
alastairr
·há 5 meses·discuss
While I agree with the general point

Vitamin D is toxic (and ultimately fatal) at high doses, which is why the 'suggested' dosages of between 400IU and 1000IU are so conservative. You may need more, but you should get a blood test.
alastairr
·há 6 meses·discuss
I'm running duckdb over 500gb of parquet on a largish desktop (50gb ram) and it's been smooth & fast. I guess OOM issues will matter at some point, but I think it's going to be in the top 1% of real world use cases.
alastairr
·há 7 meses·discuss
This is very cool! I built something a little similar https://blognerd.app. I'm really interested in the RSS remixing idea, though I didn't quite crack it. I'll be interested to see how you get on
alastairr
·há 8 meses·discuss
Just a list of links to some wonderful dharma podcast meditation episodes. I made it for myself, but maybe some others here will find it useful!
alastairr
·há 8 meses·discuss
yep, same for me and unable to use the API either
alastairr
·há 9 meses·discuss
I agree, though it's hard to tell what people outside the tech sphere are signalling about what they think about the tech - many seem to be pretty positive about chatgpt.

What concerns me is that I don't think it's widely understood enough that there's a frantic, cultish mindset around the tech in SV and tech circles - a mindset that wants to see society upended in search of justifying the investments being made.
alastairr
·há 9 meses·discuss
This is incredibly shallow, and feels almost bordering on a type of delusion. Even if you agree that all labour _could_ be automated, it's highly debatable whether you'd want it to be. A lot of human society is for humans and by humans, and that is a good thing. We are social animals, automation of every task is not desirable to say the least.
alastairr
·há 9 meses·discuss
Vodafone & O2 / VM are separate entities I think. In fact, 3 is being merged into Vodafone. Regardless, hard to know how to have a good backup, maybe starlink ;)