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alhadrad··on Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like?
I second this sentiment.
alhadrad··on P2P local file transfer based on WebRTC
I don't agree with this.
alhadrad··on The Australian Government to Require SMS/MMS Sender ID Registraion
To exemplify the magnitude of ignorance exhibited in this statement, let me ask you: Was the NSDAP a socialist party?
alhadrad··on Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles
Excellent bit of oral history, thanks!
alhadrad··on Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles
I would like to understand the pedigree of those images. Someone had to go through an awful LOT of trouble to save them to a floppy... This leaves a lot of open questions. Scanners at the time were technological torture apparatus.
alhadrad··on Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles
My first experience with porn was the Dreamcast browser.
alhadrad··on Macaroni – a single HTML file messenger
And its why we cannot have nice things. This is likely a TOS violation of github.
alhadrad··on Show HN: I Derived a Pancake
Skip the AI slop calculator and go straight to this recipe. This recipe is war-hardened.

Yields: Approximately 5 6 in/6cm pancakes (Serves 2–3)

Ingredient | Measurement

All-purpose flour (type 00 flower works well) | 210 g (1 ½ cups)

Sugar | 50 g (¼ cup)

Baking soda/backnatron | 5–10 g (2 tsp)

Butter | 55 g (¼ cup), plus extra for the pan

Vanilla sugar (preferably) or extract | 5–10 g (2 tsp)

Large eggs | 2

Whole milk | 245 g / 240 ml (1 cup)

Fresh berries | As desired (blueberries, raspberries, blackberries)

Instructions

Prep: Preheat your frying pan over medium heat. Grease the surface lightly with butter or oil.

Combine: In a bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, and baking soda. In a separate container, whisk the eggs, milk, melted butter, and vanilla. Gently stir the wet ingredients into the dry until just combined.

Cook: Ladle one soup ladle of batter into the hot pan.

Add Berries: Drop a few fresh berries onto the top of the cooking pancake.

Flip: Cook until bubbles have popped and stopped forming, then flip.

Adjust heat if necessary: If the pancake is slightly burnt, reduce the heat. Cook until golden brown.

alhadrad··on Show HN: I Derived a Pancake
The picture provided doesn't inspire much confidence in their ability to make pancakes, especially after "25" years. They are burnt, sad-looking pancakes.
alhadrad··on Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
It cannot be trusted.
alhadrad··on Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
It failed to find a reference: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA001747...

Question: Does Blues Traveler appear in the Epstein files? Blues Traveler

Answer: Yes, "Blues Traveler" appears in the files, but not in a way that directly connects the band to Jeffrey Epstein or his activities.

Key Findings:

XM Radio Mention: An email from "XM Signal" dated July 8, 2008, mentions a "Starbucks XM Café Live with Blues Traveler" event. [1] This appears to be a reference to a broadcast or performance by the band on XM Satellite Radio. Analysis:

The searches did not reveal any direct involvement of the band "Blues Traveler" with Jeffrey Epstein or his associates. The mention found is in the context of a radio event.

It's important to distinguish this from the multiple mentions of "Blue Water Café," which is a restaurant and appears in several travel itineraries. [2][3][4]

Further Investigation:

If you have a specific reason to believe "Blues Traveler" might be connected, please provide more details. For instance, was there a particular event, person, or date you had in mind? This could help refine the search.

alhadrad··on Show HN: Ported the 1999 game Bugdom to the browser and added a bunch of mods
Good work! I first played this game in my elementary school computer lab which was stocked first with apple IIe. They then transitioned to apple LC with 1 or two Power Macintosh G3 All-In-One models. On these machines they had this game and Nanosaur.
alhadrad··on A graph explorer of the Epstein emails
Its because the layout system has also a physics system.
alhadrad··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
Arm it with salt or sand munitions.
alhadrad··on What the Internet Was Like in 1998
https://wiby.me/surprise/
alhadrad··on They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed
This is the start of modern illiteracy.
alhadrad··on Shunpo: Minimalist bash tool to make directory navigation a little bit faster
cdbuff: Your Grandpa's cd Command https://github.com/akoerner/cdbuff
alhadrad··on I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again
Act has limitations because GitHub Actions run via virtualization, while Act runs via containerization. This means that actions behave differently across the two platforms.
alhadrad··on Generating an infinite world with the Wave Function Collapse algorithm
The interesting part comes with building a simulation on top of this. For example with simulated citizens that go about their day fulfilling needs, going to work etc.
alhadrad··on Time Dilation Formula / Calculator
I was wondering about this too—it's super interesting! Did you create this? Could you add graphs showing acceleration and deceleration? Also, this might be a dumb question, but how does mass factor into the energy calculations? I would love to see graphs that include the multiple stages of travel (acceleration and deceleration) as well as the mass of various kinds of fuel required for different propulsion systems such as chemical rocket, nucular etc.
alhadrad··on Bird flu kills more than half the big cats at a Washington sanctuary
If you prefer: https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/25/twenty-big-cat...
alhadrad··on Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail
The DB app is absolute hot garbage. God forbid you don't have internet or it randomally updates logging you out. All of his previous arguments are valid.
alhadrad··on Dehydration associated with poorer performance on attention tasks among adults
Actually, this is completely false. It is extremely easy to over hydrate to a life threatening degree if you do physical activity. It is quite trivial in fact to become hyponitremic.
alhadrad··on How Pig Butchering scams work (2022)
It's an autistic conception...
alhadrad··on Sandboxing all the things with Flatpak and BubbleBox
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29316024
alhadrad··on Share a long password by sharing 4 digits instead
A password and a hash are fundamentally different concepts... Your comment makes absolutely no sense in this context.
alhadrad··on Why Does the World Exist?
Put down the joint and go outside.
alhadrad··on Post Office Horizon scandal explained: Everything you need to know
One of the "greatest" miscarriage of justice in British history... Thats rich. The sun never sets on the British Empire... Without a doubt this is a miscarriage of justice but this does not even move the needle on the list of atrocities that the British empire is responsible for.
alhadrad··on Show HN: I made an iOS app to analyze and interpret kid's drawings with GPT-4
This is some dangerous Sigmoid Freud shit. "The presence of various fruit plots signifies an understanding of farm-to-table sustainability...". A tarot card reading would have more meaning, significance, and value. Taking a heroic dosage of edibles and then doing a dramatic interpretation would have more meaning. If you feel like your kid's drawings need AI interpretation then what they really need is probably a credentialed professional or you could simply ask them how they are feeling...
alhadrad··on Breezy Version Control System
Hackable also... Yikes! Version control is inherently an archival system. Having a hackable VCS system seems like a good way to lose data.
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