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4ndrewl··on “We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”
So? Their business model requires building on the labor of others for free. Isn't that how it works?
4ndrewl··on Map of the world's great castles and fortresses
Missing all of the "moorish" forts in Andalusia...
4ndrewl··on I joined the IndieWeb, here's what I learned
Peak HN comment. Barely anyone knows what a "domain" is, no-one knows what DNS is. Very few people would even know what questions to ask AI.
4ndrewl··on Dupes took over the world
For the vast majority of human existence 'dupe culture' was the norm.

So far this is just a tiny 200 year abberation.

4ndrewl··on EU ban on destruction of unsold clothes and shoes enters into application
The invisible hand of the market will rectify this of course. Nothing to see here.
4ndrewl··on Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left
It's curious the number of people here who can't link these two things.
4ndrewl··on Ancient Roman Board Game
New here? This is the best place to find Dunning Kruger in the wild!
4ndrewl··on Show HN: Runloom – Go-style coroutines for Python free-threaded
Code is a liability, not an asset.
4ndrewl··on War Atlas: An interactive cartography of every named war in human history
I guess the (war?) elephant in the room is that written history as something that attempts to record a somewht balanced, comprehensive account of an event is a modern, western, anomaly.
4ndrewl··on Good Tools Are Invisible
Invisibility is in the eye of the (un?)beholder.

I've used vim for decades. Tried using Sublime about 10? years ago. It just got in the way.

4ndrewl··on Punk, or why I don't stream anymore
It's more aligned with Baudrillard's concept of Hyperreality, than that I think.
4ndrewl··on Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
Won't somebody think of the poor people's kids?!

Seriously though, it's great they're going to donate all this compute & tokens to the poor (who by definition can't afford to pay for it).

4ndrewl··on Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone
And that is the correct response to tedious contrarinism. Thank you!
4ndrewl··on Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network
I've tried building one of these and the answer is - it's difficult.

There is a message queue that you can use to identify the last reported location of a train. Depending on the line you could get a pretty accurate real-time map (but first you need to georeference all of the location identifiers to eastings/northings.)

But many lines report only the last movement at a station stop - these are mostly in rural areas so the best approach seems to be to build some sort of dead-reckoning network taking into account train type and network utilisation.

4ndrewl··on A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex
Back in the day we'd use chroot to achieve something similar

https://linux.die.net/man/1/chroot

4ndrewl··on VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'
Some context - Birmingham Mail is one of dozens of clickbait-driven publications owned by Reach plc.

They're not a high quality source of news - they've more than decimated their journalism staff and replaced them with 'content' staff who are performance monitored on the number of clicks their articles generate.

Content is syndicated in different accents across their range of papers from the national papers, The Mirror and The Daily Express down into a large number of notionally 'local' outlets.

So, take it with a pinch of salt.

4ndrewl··on The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents
Weird take. And brutally, if predictably, wrong (client ad-blockers, pihole, wireguard if you must know).
4ndrewl··on The UK's new under-16 social media ban will cause more harm than it prevents
He says clicking "accept" to tracking cookies and their 762 "partners"
4ndrewl··on Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026
It does. The article clearly says that if you have a paid support contract they will be on-call as per usual.
4ndrewl··on Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency
Never mind cooldowns for dependencies, we need cooldowns for these adhd vibe projects.
4ndrewl··on EU Commission looking at practical consequences of Anthropic decision
But let's be clear about this - 50% of the voting population of the United States have been giving him their support for a decade now.
4ndrewl··on To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks
First principles?
4ndrewl··on The dead economy theory
I suppose, if you live in a jurisdiction/insurance regime where it's usable.

But people like buying new cars, new models, new designs. Not just features - those are just options.

4ndrewl··on Rothko for your current weather conditions
I love this. Thank you for making it.
4ndrewl··on The dead economy theory
This. It doesn't really look like Tesla is doing anything rn but selling old cars. They don't appear to be the future any more.
4ndrewl··on The Eternal Sloptember
Precisely my point.
4ndrewl··on Can we have the day off?
The reality is huge swathes of the middle of large organisations are paid to take the blame for the layer above them. AI wont solve that.
4ndrewl··on Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?
Betteridge's law at play. If they genuinely had a story, there'd be no question mark at the end of the headline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

4ndrewl··on Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking
Good work everyone. We gave our labour freely and see how we all profited!
4ndrewl··on The Eternal Sloptember
I read plenty of books, but I'd struggle to write one because that's a different skill that I don't have.
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