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StayTrueon Show HN: Embed an SQLite database in your PostgreSQL table

Yo dawg I heard you liked databases so we put a database in your database.

StayTrueon Ham radio enthusiasts who help keep the NYC Marathon running smoothly

Yeah I took an in-person class at a ham club here in Canada and the pass rate wasn’t 90%.

StayTrueon Ford to Halt F-150 Lightning Production as EV Demand Wanes

Logic Henry Ford would recognize.

StayTrueon Please do not write below the line

I learned about it when they knocked on my door (UK). Said I didn’t have a TV to which they replied they’d like to look around inside to confirm. LOL no.

StayTrueon Agitating homemade PCBs with ease

I don’t think this is the best way to clean PCBs but it would make a great machine for marinating food, moving the marinade around continuously for max/even absorption.

StayTrueon Nardwuar on his best and worst interviews

I had never heard of Pharrell before this interview but he seemed instantly likeable.

Nardwuar confuses people and I think a bit of their true selves comes through (whether that’s passion, narcissism, etc).

StayTrueon HP injects AI into its printers

Or just block ads in the first place rather than filtering them at the print driver level.

StayTrueon Gandi's .com renewal price is up 60%

Porkbun is my alternative to Gandi lol. The last email they sent me contained a dark pattern and PII leakage.

StayTrueon Gandi's .com renewal price is up 60%

Has been discussed a few times on HN already. I moved everything off Gandi after the buyout but can’t say I’m thrilled with my alternative. Domain registration is the business of bottom feeders.

StayTrueon Julia Child's Kitchens

StayTrueon iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

Looks like 8GB.

StayTrueon Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's suicide

Seems like an extreme take. I think Buckley’s version is sublime but love Cohen’s too (which I’ve been privileged to enjoy live on a couple occasions).

StayTrueon Ask HN: What are your favourite websites that display a lot of data / tables?

I find the behavior varies depending on whether your browser sends a Referer header. (Which is still a fail on their part.)

StayTrueon Nvidia announces financial results for first quarter fiscal 2025

> A fiscal year is a 12-month period chosen by a company or government to coincide with planning, budgeting, or revenue cycles.

> Financial reports, external audits, and federal tax filings are based on a company's fiscal year.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fiscalyear.asp

StayTrueon NPM package is-even has over 140k weekly downloads

Click ‘Dependents’.

StayTrueon Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced

Perhaps the nomenclature should be updated from GNU/Linux to GNU/systemd/Linux.

StayTrueon Pdf.tocgen

Garibaldi, $300 for up to 10k page views per month.

StayTrueon Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P

I was thinking the same but in terms of firmware updates.

StayTrueon Show HN: Neco – Coroutine Library for C

Yes according to the caveats section in the llco subproject:

> Webassembly: Must be compiled with Emscripten using the -sASYNCIFY flag.

StayTrueon Microsoft warns that Gmail blocks some Outlook emails as 'spam'

I sympathize in theory but MS is the worst offender in this category.

StayTrueon Reflections on Distrusting xz

> Most of the time they don't need infiltrators. Governments can just pressure companies with export controls or warrantless surveillance to get backdoors into commercial systems.

Or they simply pay companies with a “support contract” in return for embedding spyware that sells out customers. Seen that first hand (private key exfiltration), resigned the same day.

Lots of comments saying we need to do something about the OSS supply chain but in my estimation the problem is much worse with closed source commercial software.

StayTrueon A deep dive into email deliverability in 2024

“Prove you’re not a spammer by sending a larger volume of emails.” True and diabolical.

StayTrueon Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions

I have similar-looking ones that have a chip in the connector, capable of negotiating USB PD. There is no UI on the cable — buy the cable “hardcoded” to the voltage you desire. (My personal use case is powering 12v barrel jack electronics from a USB powerbank.)

StayTrueon I'm So Old: Web Edition

In the same (old) boat. I ran email and USENET over UUCP before I had IP access for Gopher. Such a long time ago. In my area Gopher was free for everyone with a modem because the local university did not authenticate dial-in connections.

StayTrueon Detect Caps Lock with JavaScript

I have been online since 1992 and have never seen this pattern.

StayTrueon No deployments on Fridays: A good practice for software development teams

This article doesn’t come right out and say it but repeatedly suggests working on the weekend is the core problem.

I like Friday releases because I don’t care about working weekends. In my mind slower uptake from weekend users can help identify problems before major uptake Monday morning. Although that’s theoretical because it hasn’t mattered in practice.

StayTrueon CSS for printing to paper

There is onbeforeprint.

StayTrueon Nvidia and AMD Are Overhyped and Overvalued

Yet the NVDA market cap has risen substantially since this article was published.

StayTrueon I accidentally made my link shortener into a malware honeypot

This was my thought as well. I wonder if the author couldn’t achieve similar friction without charging. Require a card for signup but only authorize it in the case of “free tier” users. PayPal will let me do that for free, not sure about Stripe.