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RestartKernel··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
Just my two cents, but:

- In terms of data, this is nothing compared to any site serving a bunch of images. The compute would differ, but loading speed shouldn't be an issue if you can render the HTML first, and hydrate it after page load. This static HTML would then also serve as fallback when Javascript is disabled.

- For a quick demo, I doubt you will lose people by embedding an older version. Serving a version of a few months ago seems like 80% of the work, with 20% of the effort, in terms of deployment.

Anyhow, nice to see government funds put to a good cause!

RestartKernel··on UK Lawmakers Propose Mandatory On-Device Surveillance and VPN Age Verification
This isn't a gotcha. The same Europeans who gloat about privacy laws are horrified with these recent developments.
RestartKernel··on VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
While I pay for Mullvad directly through my bank, their account number approach built a lot of trust for me. "Here's your number, use whatever to fund it. 5 euro a month, no sales."
RestartKernel··on Is P=NP?
Am I naive to think we've reached the point where anyone would be able to get a revolutionary thought out there quite easily? If I were such a brilliant nutjob, I'd post it on some math or computer science forum if I just wanted to be recognised. Even if just a few people see it, such an audience would likely be entrenched with the right communities to signal boost it.
RestartKernel··on macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt
Funny, considering Macbooks finally started shipping at 16 GB due to Apple Intelligence.
RestartKernel··on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
Doesn't seem like much of a hallucination then. Maybe messing with its system context would better fit the claim?
RestartKernel··on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image
All these tool integrations are making it increasingly difficult to explain to non-tech people what these chatbots are capable of. Even more so as multi-modality improves (at some point image generation went from a distinct tool to arguably an inherent part the the models).
RestartKernel··on Nook Browser
> Minimal UI clearly inspired by Safari

More like Arc † nowadays.

RestartKernel··on Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI
Right you are. It can do 26 hours just fine, but appears completely incapable when the layout would be too close to a normal clock.

https://gemini.google.com/share/b3b68deaa6e6

I thought giving it a setting would help, but just skip that first response to see what I mean.

RestartKernel··on Replacing My Window Manager with Google Chrome
> When I was younger I thought of replacing most of the OS with a browser since that is how I used it.

Isn't that basically Chrome OS?

RestartKernel··on Hacking on the ReMarkable 2
I really hated how they marketed that tablet. Some weird statements about how it will transform your life, all while making meaningless comparisons about framerate by just not acknowledging the difference between e-ink and transflective LCDs (to the point I found it intentionally misleading).

Might still be a good product though, of course.

RestartKernel··on Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton
That's the seperation of concerns that drives me to a Switch alongside my computer. Though I'm by no means a "serious" gamer by most people's standards.
RestartKernel··on Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground
That's mostly just odd. Either a young teen way in over their head or a weirdly non-functional adult.
RestartKernel··on Claude Opus 4.5
> [...] that's legitimately significant for anyone deploying agents with tool access.

I disagree, even if only because your model shouldn't have more access than any other front-end.

RestartKernel··on Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator
>> My cat

> The incentives here aren't aligned for long-term viability. Who pays for food, vet bills, and inevitable property damage? It's all owner-funded with zero revenue generation.

https://news.ysimulator.run/item/1814

RestartKernel··on The Qtile Window Manager: A Python-Powered Tiling Experience
> Heck, even replacing spotlight is a pain.

Is it? I've found Raycast to be one of the greatest boosts to my productivity of any app on any platform. Then again, I was doing fine with Rofi + i3 before.

RestartKernel··on Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC
I was incredibly excited when they announced the chip alongside all kinds of promises regarding Linux support, so I pre-ordered a laptop with the intention of installing Linux later on. When reports came out that single core performance could not even match an old iPhone, alongside WSL troubles and disappointing battery life, I sent it back on arrival.

Instead I paid the premium for a nicely specced Macbook Pro, which is honestly everything I wanted, safe for Linux support. At least it's proper Unix, so I don't notice much difference in my terminal.

RestartKernel··on The Qtile Window Manager: A Python-Powered Tiling Experience
On that note, is there any good window management paradigm on MacOS? Tiling just doesn't seem to work well tacked on compared to full-fledged i3, and MacOS' seperation of applications from their windows makes multi-tasking a giant pain. Windows is miles ahead in this regard, and Linux of course offers options for every paradigm imaginable, so it leaves MacOS feeling particularly mediocre.
RestartKernel··on Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use
> I don't know if the Chinese government intended to use it as some sort of covert weapon, but if they did then they're geniuses. It literally makes you stupid.

I don't think you need any government conspiracy for this. Tiktok is an inevitable product of the attention economy — moreso a capitalist wart than deliberate sabotage.

RestartKernel··on A $1k AWS mistake
RunPod has its issues, but the way it handles payment is basically my ideal. Nothing brings peace of mind like knowing you won't be billed for more than you've already paid into your wallet. As long as you aren't obliged to fulfil some SLA, I've found that this on-demand scaling compute is really all I need in conjunction with a traditional VPS.

It's great for ML research too, as you can just SSH into a pod with VScode and drag in your notebooks and whatnot as if it were your own computer, but with a 5090 available to speed up training.

RestartKernel··on Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders
I remember it being pretty nice to explicitly choose encoding too.
RestartKernel··on Show HN: PrinceJS – 19,200 req/s Bun framework in 2.8 kB (built by a 13yo)
Here's the obligatory comment complimenting you on the project given your age too. It's certainly more advanced than anything I tried at that age.
RestartKernel··on Show HN: PrinceJS – 19,200 req/s Bun framework in 2.8 kB (built by a 13yo)
The readme and stats remind me of VanillaJS, which should be a sign that you're not making a fair comparison here. Anyhow, I think this can be a very educational experience if you keep adding features and benchmarking — it'll get slower, but you'll know exactly why.
RestartKernel··on Ion: Modern System Shell in Rust
I feel like there's a pretty big difference between recommending Zsh and a shell without compatible syntax. The latter assumes you'll spend so much time running ad hoc complex commands in your shell, without opting for a proper scripting language instead, that you'll offset the pains of translating any existing commands to the new shell syntax.

Fish is great. NuShell is amazing. But once I start doing such data pipelining, I'd much rather open a Jupyter notebook.

RestartKernel··on Building a Simple Search Engine That Works
Prompting Inferred Intelligence: from ChatGPT to Claude
RestartKernel··on Laptops with Stickers
> I once had a loaner thinkpad for two days whilst my MacBook was bricked by Jamf - best believe they got that thing back covered.

I just have to believe that you know better than I do what was appropriate at your workplace.

RestartKernel··on We ran over 600 image generations to compare AI image models
OpenAI's new image generation model is autoregressive, while DALL-E was diffusion. The yellowish tone is an artefact of their autoregressive pipeline, if I recall correctly.
RestartKernel··on Synesthesia helps me find four-leaf clovers (2023)
> He had synesthesia that made him unable to forget things for most of the life.

Some counterpoints from the Wikipedia article as well:

> According to autobiographical diary of Shereshevsky, found by Reed Johnson, he "did not, in fact, have perfect recall". Details of Shereshevsky's biography are different in his own writing from Luria's account. [...] Reynberg recalls that Shereshevsky "could be forgetful", and that he "trained hours a day for his evening performances", because he needed "consciously try to commit something to memory".

RestartKernel··on US air traffic controllers start resigning as shutdown bites
Give him some credit. The Hyper Loop perfectly achieved its goal of sidelining any discussion of high speed rail.
RestartKernel··on Text case changes the size of QR codes
A European gym chain hosts a very simple end-point for their entry QR codes — just a GET with the data in a query param — so I tend to use that one just because it somewhat amuses me every time.
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