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albinn··on Hackers raised freezer temperature at Estonian supermarket chain to +50°C
Similar thing happened in Sweden
albinn··on Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline
Absolute banger documentary, rewatched it last week with my SO!
albinn··on Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026
I can recommend the Fairphone 6+, recently launched, they increased the RAM compared to the 6 (as opposed to many other companys decreasing it), the price is a little higher, but you get a phone that is sustainably produced, can be largely fixed by yourself, and has software update commitments until 2033.
albinn··on Show HN: Art – draw one stroke, let symmetry complete it
Cool! I got a weird feeling when playing with it, it's just something very satisfying in seeing it be completed
albinn··on Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search
I'm very interested to know why 7 letters was deemed most appropriate, I could not come up with more than 2 words and had to get a dictionary to find.

Maybe I've played wordle too much...

albinn··on Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend
Lazygit is incredibly capable for everything (including this). I don't touch the git cli anymore.
albinn··on The Eternal Sloptember
> It’s definitely a better Google for most searches

I can't agree with this. You tend to get one point of view, often without any actual resources and references so you have to go look it up yourself, on [insert search engine]. Plus, what does it say when we consider an AI the one stop for our data intakes.

albinn··on Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)
Sure, but remember your prefix 187.231.91.67.135.47.0.0/16
albinn··on Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)
One of the main (vocal) issues people seem to have with IPv6 is that the addresses are hard to remember. But having eight different three digit numbers (r.r.r.r.n.n.n.n) does not seem any easier unfortunately.
albinn··on How the AI Bubble Bursts
I would think that we are going to see RAM prices increase even more, given, among other things, pure helium disruptions and increased electricity prices.

I haven't looked closely into TurboQuant, but perhaps it will revolutionize just as much as the 1-bit llm did...

albinn··on Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access
I admire this mindset, and this is what I try and do as well with my projects.

But for larger projects, on which the giants rests, (I'm thinking cURL, ffmpeg etc.) it most likely stops becoming/feeling like charity. Especially, since a lot of people do not see it as charity, and thus tries to force the maintainer(s) to do even more unpaid work.

albinn··on Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access
> 82 percent of Maven Central demand comes from fewer than 1 percent of IPs

This is interesting, and the author goes on to say that 80% comes from the largest cloud providers. But I wonder how much of that is coming from CI pipelines and how much is actually the cloud provider's usage?

albinn··on Fyn: An uv fork with new features, bug fixes, stripped telemetry
I agree, I like some of the directions the fork would go and dislike some. The apparent, fork, publish on HN, then change (and the change showing not a lot of understanding) makes me throughly question the legitimacy and long term stability of it.
albinn··on Fyn: An uv fork with new features, bug fixes, stripped telemetry
I don't think it is too bad, the telemetry it sends is quite rudimentary. However, would have been a good move from astral-sh to be open and explicit about it, and allow turning it off.
albinn··on Fyn: An uv fork with new features, bug fixes, stripped telemetry
The shell and upgrade commands are helpful, especially when onboarding someone who has not used uv before.

Crazy that there is not way in uv to limit the cache size. I have loved using uv though, it is a breath of fresh air.

albinn··on Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper
Out of curiosity, what are you proposing instead? I'm currently working in a small company (less than 4 full time employees). And while we can never support native apps for all the platforms I have been wondering what we would use instead of a web app?

The advantage of the web app is that it just works, without installation, so there's no friction there. I'd very much prefer a native app, but the overhead is quite high, no?

albinn··on Notebooks as reusable Python programs
Recently I had to use Julia and their Pluto notebooks. While I really did not enjoy Julia, I loved Pluto notebooks, and Marimo is basically this, but for python.

The reactive component is great for exploring data in an easy way, with sliders and buttons. Also for simulations when you want to try a bunch of different parameters.

albinn··on Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative
Indeed what I've been using, since I learned that Goodreads was owned by Amazon