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I really like the website and respect for supporting IPv6 ;) Are you going to keep scanning the v4 address space to see if meta-data changes? If not the data might go out of date rapidly. I see the site plans to add a paid API. Fair... I'm not too sure if people will buy it when you can probably download text files with much the same data as what's on this site. Though I might be wrong here.

If you wanted to do something genuinely cool you could try to build an algorithmic model of latency between network points on the Internet. Such that it would be possible to estimate latency between any two network paths without sending packets first to measure it. I think I read research somewhere that this is possible and it could have applications in routing, distributed systems, and high performance networking.

yeah thats mind blowing, ngl

Nerds and their tendency to over-complicate everything. What is wrong with just an IDE with a simple claude integration?

Does this post mark the top of the hype train or is there still more to come?

we should give refugees golden ipods

What are the take aways from this? Should we avoid extensions now? Only install extensions from who you trust? What about if they get owned and you have auto-update extensions on as most people do?

Somehow the format makes me feel like its easier to learn here than the intimidating encyclopedia theme of wikipedia. It's interesting to consider the effect that presentation of information might have on learning. We know that physical books are said to be better for learning (I have heard people go up by an entire grade if they use them), but maybe there is something to be said for themes, too.

After posting this about 10 different hustle bros have emailed me trying to shill their bullshit services. Is this what HN has come to nao. Get lost.

Well subjectively I've been extremely happy with what it built for me. This was all made with claude design: www.warpgate.io. It's the website for my NAT traversal library. Even has different theme for it, kek.

Aside from OP's post there's another issue with claude design worth mentioning. Yes, it makes absolutely beautiful designs, stunningly so, but the actual code is not something a human could ever maintain. So its like ending up with an opaque blob. Write-once, read-never, or almost disposal code. This is kind of bad because code people aren't going to bother to read might contain vulnerabilities.

It's an extreme example of slop code since while normally LLMs can produce code that ranges from some-what-okay to utter garbage, the web code claude makes is awful. On the other hand: you get a single file (even if it is full of 20+ embedded SVGs, javascripts, and other such things.)

"open apps from your phone on your laptop" only thing there that I thought: "that would be pretty awesome ngl." It would be a way to easily test android apps in a real environment with an actual large screen. Yes, I know android studio has a good emulator but emulators are still a horrible platform compared to the real thing. Particularly the networking there is nothing like how it works in the real world.

I'd be interested in knowing the specs, more about the OS, software details, platform... A laptop integration like this based on android is cool to me. I couldn't care less about the AI crap though. This is a fascinating concept because phones themselves can provide a full desktop experience when you plug them into a screen. So could help encourage mobile computing more.

NDIS is extremely elegant and runs on just about every windows version. It also has plugin support for almost anything you can imagine. I used it for my concept project of building a re-usable installer for python modules: it takes the installers own file name as the input for what python module to install. So you can basically have a new installer for any python module just by renaming a file

https://github.com/robertsdotpm/win-auto-py3 (example exe points to resources on an old server i no longer have. so won't run but all the files and code are there and work.)

I wrote this when vibe coding wasn't a thing, could be a cool idea though to add mirror support for some resources the installer downloads and fallback to archive.org if hosts are down. That's one of the very cool things about NSIS -- everything you need for it already exists. Downloader, authentication, compression, all kinds of neat stuff. There's some many plugins for NSIS you could build working software just out of NSIS alone.

Wow op, slick spam page, there will be many here who want to give you their email. Best show HN eva.

lulz futures paying off as usual

What people really want on their dash are giant screens. So they can watch movies and automate having to manually have car crashes. I think the manufactures understand human drivers just fine.

the autistic instinct to re-write every wheel in the latest shiny thing

crowd sourced perception research. Love it, OP.

I think this monthly withdrawal syndrome with the anhedonia reflects a true gap in scientific understanding of caffeine. There are communities where people routinely quit caffeine (e.g. /r/decaf) who all notice the same thing. Yet if you look at how long caffeine withdrawal lasts: the reference answer is 1 - 2 weeks (then everything is "normal.")

I think caffeine is legitimately more disruptive and addictive than is commonly acknowledged. It creates quite a life-style loop where you need it for [drive, energy, mood, alertness] as a fix to many of the issues it causes, lol. Caffeine is such a widely used drug yet doesn't seem to have been studied that much. It's fascinating to me how the drugs that are socially acceptable seem completely arbitrary. Like alcohol (which in terms of addictiveness isn't far behind the most addictive drugs.)

In tables that compare the most addictive drugs, you know what drug is always missing yet seems to be consumed more widely than any other recreational drug on the planet: caffeine. This is funny though. It may be difficult to actually do high quality, comparative research on caffeine because to do so you would need to find people who don't already consume caffeine and I suspect that is a harder problem than it sounds.

By the way: the set of people who have never been effected by caffeine shrinks even further if you consider whether the mother consumed it during pregnancy.

Time to leave tech forever and farm onions, I think.

ClankerNews...

I'm building v2 of the coffin API. It's an API that returns the word "coffin." I plan to eventually charge people to use this product and hope YC investors will be interested.

I get the idea but honestly asking: if you filter out stuff like this will you end up with a completely blank feed on x? To me it kind of just seems like we're all going to need to curate our own RSS feeds in the future. eg: real people who are insightful, rather than rely on any kind of algorithm.

I used to turn the back of my laptop into a whiteboard. Then you could write todos on it or custom messages. Was kind of neat. You know I've always thought the back of the case was wasted potential. Can you imagine if it had an eink display? You could flash whatever you wanted to it as a clean customized print and it would stay there without power. would be cool but prob expensive.

It seems like the main "evidence" is linguistic oddities. If this were a police investigation they would use this to get a warrant and then find the real smoking gun. They wouldn't put someone in jail for spelling errors. It's not quite the same here: but they went and published an article in the New York Times. I think its naïve to have done that.

Apparently using SSH is some leet hacker thing according to this OP. Lmao...

Damn, just wanted to say reporters are scary... The amount of detail here is huge. You think of hackers as the ones good at doxing... Nah, its reporters.

That all sounds good and all but I feel like this would be a major engineering effort for a centralised system that seems particularly vulnerable to regulation right now. A good example of that is Discord "servers" with NSWF channels now require you to submit your ID to Discord for verification to join the channel. As almost all servers have main channels marked NSFW (they need to because servers can be closed if NSFW content gets posted in regular channels) it effectively makes Discord require an ID.

Now, I don't know about you but I already gave more than enough info when I signed up for an Internet account. Discord and similar chat apps like this are going to end up having to do this stuff because they're essentially businesses. On the other hand, I feel if you were to build a Discord-like layer on top of IRC it would be genuinely quite interesting. But maybe not original (people I think have done this already.) You could see if their solution were as usable as Discords. Make it so no /commands were needed and host a system to spin up rooms and discover them with the same mechanics as Discord.

That picture of the "dark" Earth is most fascinating because everyone has seen a million images of Earth before, but how many have seen it in this view. The image by itself says a little about the Earths place in the planetary system.

We kind of had the same idea for ECDSA public keys (an imagined solution to zokos triangle -- human readable and decentralized) as well as private keys (BIP39 brain wallets). Honestly it still falls short of truly name-based though.

That idea list is super cute. I like the tamagochi idea. Somehow the candidness of that file makes it seem like anthropic would be an easy place to work at.