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__initbrian__··on Where Wealth Is Moving in America (2023)
Would love to see this split by age groups. This feels like it’s showing where retirees are moving
__initbrian__··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
they’ll see an uptick in codex user count trying the new models and can build a narrative around that too
__initbrian__··on GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
All of the outages make sense to me as scaling issues. Each month, GitHub is getting the amount of commits they’d normally get in a year. And it’s growing

> Yup, platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.) GitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week. So we're pushing incredibly hard on more CPUs, scaling services, and strengthening GitHub’s core features. And as a fine purveyor of hand-crafted shit code for many years, I'm not gonna weigh in on that.

x.com/kdaigle/status/2040164759836778878

__initbrian__··on Struggling to sell EVs, Tesla pivots to slinging burgers
It looks more like an event space than a diner optimized for patrons
__initbrian__··on Hertz accelerates sales of Tesla vehicles as value crumbles
Let’s say your goal was to improve the electric vehicle charging network. Is there a reasonable way to create a government incentive for gas stations to add charging spots in their parking areas?
__initbrian__··on Stanford Alpaca web demo suspended “until further notice”
Are there estimates for how much it cost to run?
__initbrian__··on I'll redesign any 3 websites in less than 3 hours: (Challenge?) HN
clicking the hamburger menu for the first time on the mobile version of your site in private/incognito mode results in a spam redirect

edit: reproduced on chrome by setting: Network Conditions > User Agent to Safari - iPhone iOS 13.2 and Dimensions iPhone X Looks like it sets the cookie `_p` to 1

edit: I believe this is the offending file (line 4349 at the time of writing this) https://www.vestmap.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?...

__initbrian__··on AMD vs. Intel CPU Market Share
What happened in ‘06?
__initbrian__··on For 2M years, humans ate meat and little else: study
Is it common to refer to all hominids (here: homo habilis and homo erectus) as humans? For some reason I thought the term human was limited to homo sapiens (195k years old)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human

__initbrian__··on Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (2015)
What actively used financial instrument today has the longest time horizon? 100 years?

* sports stadium construction loans UC Berkeley $443 million by 2112

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-01-04/college-f...

__initbrian__··on Apple Officially Obsoletes Last iPod Nano Model
Looks like ifixit gives the 3rd Gen Nano Battery Replacement a “very difficult”. Anecdotally, as a person not versed in repair, I performed a laptop battery replacement ifixit deemed difficult and it was my upper limit

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPod+Nano+3rd+Generation+Batter...

__initbrian__··on Zoom towns and the new housing market for the two Americas
thank you for such a detailed reply!
__initbrian__··on Zoom towns and the new housing market for the two Americas
I’m doing this exact search! What’s been your best resource for finding fiber? Are you plugging in addresses to the providers webpage?
__initbrian__··on Why do U.S. coins seem to be in short supply?
Venmo. See “the cannabis retailer” for an example.

[0] https://publicbydefault.fyi/

__initbrian__··on Dolphin Progress April 2020
For anyone wondering if they can make changes based on the leak:

> We cannot use anything of any sort from a leak. In fact, we can't even look at it. Dolphin is only legal because we are clean room reverse engineering the GameCube and Wii. If we use anything from a leak, Dolphin is no longer legal and Nintendo will shut us down.

https://mobile.twitter.com/dolphin_emu/status/12570519680458...

__initbrian__··on Linux touchpad like a MacBook: April 2020 update
which? My guess is: 1. mbp, macOS 2. xps, macOS 3. xps, linux 4. mbp, linux
__initbrian__··on Show HN: Summarize your time availability in seconds
Cool project! Great work. I think this perfectly fits the send me your availability niche. When working with groups, I've used when2meet[0]

[0] https://www.when2meet.com/

__initbrian__··on First Robotics Competition: An International High-School Robotics Competition
Probably not what you're looking for, but pretty interesting. TwoSigma has the Halite AI challenge where people submit competitive bots[0]. I've wondered if you can spin up your own server and just compete with friends

[0] https://halite.io/

__initbrian__··on Prettier 2.0 – Opinionated JavaScript formatter
At work, we use clang-format for java and c++.

prettier for js, ts

__initbrian__··on Show HN: A directory of restaurants with links to buy gift cards to support them
“Operation timed out -- app too busy”

Hug of death?

__initbrian__··on Show HN: A directory of restaurants with links to buy gift cards to support them
cool project. Good extension of the pledge show hn the other day

I’d love for a feature “within 25 miles of {zipcode} so I can find some around me. (I’m in the suburbs where local doesn’t mean the same city)

Clicked “view all cities” Not down to type in the name of every city around me

__initbrian__··on A chemical reaction in ancient Roman concrete makes it stronger over time (2017)
All concrete gets stronger over time! https://www.concrete.org/tools/frequentlyaskedquestions.aspx... edit: [adding more detail, removing all caps] Contracts will often specify a 7day or 28day strength because the concrete will keep getting stronger over time. Separate cylinders are poured for independent testing of the strength

Here’s a good textbook on concrete: Concrete: Microstructure, Properties, and Materials Textbook by Paulo J. M. Monteiro and Povindar Kumar Mehta

__initbrian__··on Ask HN: What industries are underserved by software?
Sounds like market research would be a blast
__initbrian__··on GitLab Handbook
https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/global-compen...
__initbrian__··on NYC Active Major Construction
While you’re right that there is not an oversupply(needs citation), it is interesting to note some Burroughs have seen a decrease in rent in the past few years.

[0] (2018) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-12/pick-a-ne...

__initbrian__··on Tools you’d miss if you left a company
TIL antbear is another name for an aardvark

https://nshipster.com/bug-reporting/

__initbrian__··on The Environmental Impact of Making Snow (2012)
Interesting. So the dammed water grows more algae than a moving river which leads to methane release (from the decaying algae?)

" “We were surprised to find that the biological productivity of the reservoir (i.e. how many 'nutrients' like nitrogen and phosphorus the reservoir receives and the associated degree of algae growth) is a better predictor of emissions than is latitude. So, the most biologically productive reservoirs are producing the most methane,” writes Bridget Deemer, the study’s first author "

__initbrian__··on Ask HN: What has your work taught you that other people don't realize?
Skoda Electric Bus https://www.skoda.cz/en/references/elektrobus-s-rychlodobije...
__initbrian__··on Monica: Open-source personal CRM
what about PRM: personal relationship manager
__initbrian__··on Must have VSCode extensions for Front end developers
> running it on the entire codebase

The autoformatter config file is checked in with the PR that’s runs it on the entire codebase. Everybody’s machine autoformats the same way.

Only things that are changed in the PR will be formatted along with the PR.

The separate problem I’ve found is any outstanding PRs at the time of running it on the whole codebase should merge in the commit before the format all, then the format all change, then current master. It’s made resolving the PR merge conflicts easier

idk what the ignore rev file does

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