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On the topic of stereographs, this 1859 Oliver Wendell Holmes essay in the Atlantic is one of my favorite all time essays:

https://www.nhag.org/uploads/2/4/9/1/24914531/holmes_-_stere...

breckon Why I no longer have an old-school cert on my HTTPS site

> This complexity must be job security for somebody. Maybe multiple somebodies.

This. The 90 day certs of LE are terrible (I hit 1-2 sites a week broken b/c of expired LE certs) and unnecessary, and all part of a bigger trend by big business to control more of the web. LE could be a voice for the user, but the "non-profit" pays their team ~$250K/year so they tread carefully about doing things in the average user's interests.

breckon Mitochondria as you've never seen them

There are shockingly few images of mitochondria available online.

I started a project to increase that number by 1,000,000x: https://powerhouse.breckyunits.com/

I'm currently mastering the same confocal fluorescence technique used in this image (but borrowing microscope time, as the scope costs >$250K), but also developing an at-home protocol using Janus Green that should cost less than $200.

breckon Show HN: GitRoasted - Automating the web to roast your GitHub profile

The loading jokes make me lol. Browser Base looks interesting.

The actual roast wasn't so great, but I had fun trying. Nice job.

Here's my user test: https://news.pub/?try=https://www.youtube.com/embed/a5A2sEB4...

breckon ChatGPT Search

This is such a good rant, and I think you should develop it into an essay and I think there is an important catchy natural equation to mine here.

breckon ChatGPT Search

Why would they ever want to sell ads?

They did not get addicted to selling ads, have billions in revenue from paying subscribers, and don't have to wean themselves off of ads (as Google and Meta would love to do).

breckon ChatGPT Search

If they are making billions from subscriptions, why on earth would they want to switch to an ads business?

breckon Microsoft Earnings Release FY25 Q1

· Revenue was $65.6 billion and increased 16%

· Operating income was $30.6 billion and increased 14%

· Net income was $24.7 billion and increased 11%

Impressive

breckon GLP-1 for Everything

And what biological test can one conduct that proves this, and is unchangeable over time?

breckon GLP-1 for Everything

> much like other "chemical imbalances" such as ADHD or depression

Interesting that the examples you bring up are also things that turned out to be misunderstood and were not actually chemical imbalances.

> you appear to assume

Where do I appear to assume this?

breckon GLP-1 for Everything

> a type 1 diabetic patient

Are you sure there is such a thing?

breckon GLP-1 for Everything

Yes. Turns out everyone should have just been eating fats all along.

breckon How do you deploy in 10 seconds?

Let's take a conservative estimate of 200MB/s write speed on a Digital Ocean Droplet.

If your site is 100MB, write the new site to disk and read it into memory, kill the old server and bind to port on new server, in 1 second.

breckon How do you deploy in 10 seconds?

10 seconds, why not 1s?

We deploy in <1s. New sites, mods, small sites, large.

breckon GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

"inks"

breckon Show HN: The Meme Co – AI-Powered Meme Search Engine

No web version?

Here's my user test: https://news.pub/?try=https://www.loom.com/embed/17d96d53a65...

breckon Show HN: Open-Source Real-Time Water Quality Monitoring with AI Features

I like how it's open source and the site looks nice!

I missed at first that it was for aquarium monitoring. Makes sense!

I'm not the target market, but here's my user test anyway in case it's at all helpful: https://news.pub/?try=https://www.loom.com/embed/3e0de3dc94a...

Nice job.

breckon We're forking Flutter

Wow, I had seen signs that Flutter was something special for years, but hadn't checked in a while.

Some relevant data:

- Over 165K GH stars

- Over 140K subredditers

- Over 500K YouTube subscribers

The 1M estimate is at least ballpark accurate.

https://pldb.io/concepts/flutter.html

breckon So long WordPress

I'd like to take this chance to plug my new startup, the Printing Press.

It's like WordPress, but instead of digital, it's physical.

It requires no servers or computers at all.

Just paper, which you can make from naturally growing trees, and ink (I'm not sure how that is made).

Your blog will last a long time, like hundreds of years.

You can read it while sitting over your poo hole.

Visit our worksite and check it out.

- Johnny Gutenberg

breckon Show HN: Discover Your Core Values

> As for ELO Style, to which are you reffering?

https://eloeverything.co/

breckon Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)

ScrollHub - https://hub.scroll.pub

In <1 second get:

[x] Live website

[x] Custom domains

[x] Static + Writeable

[x] 3D traffic vis

[x] Git repo

[x] Instant clones

[x] Instant Data science

[x] Blogs, RSS, Sitemaps, SEO, TXT versions, PDFS

[x] QR Codes, Maps, Charts

[x] Local + Live Dev

[x] Run on Your own server

No signup. Just build.

breckon Show HN: Decentralized Twitter clone built on Ethereum blockchain

I think you'll love Warpcast.com. It's basically this, but it's still very early.

Here's my user test: https://news.pub/?try=https://www.loom.com/embed/8782c97d46a...

breckon Show HN: Discover Your Core Values

I gave it a shot and actually find it pretty interesting. But in it's current form it's a bit too overwhelming. Is it possible to set it up Elo style? So I'm only comparing 2 core values at a time?

Here's my user test: https://news.pub/?try=https://www.youtube.com/embed/5MsTLTod...

breckon Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020)

I'd be worried they'd get teased for ASSEBRKR.

Luckily my second sentence was a joke ;)

breckon Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020)

Why not just write "pattern /a-z0-9/i" into law?

breckon Company named "><SCRIPT SRC=HTTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD" forced to change it (2020)

My daughters were born in Hawai'i where the birth certificates give you 240 characters for the name.

Their middle name is the periodic table.

breckon Apple may stop producing Vision Pro by the end of 2024

> People want to spend less time plugged into screens, not less.

Yes. I threw my phone away 2.5 years ago (after my 3yo daughter kept saying "no phone dadda") and it has made my life significantly better. Like living in the 1990's again.

In a land of the distracted, the phoneless man is king.

That being said, I think the AVP is very cool technology, and will have important applications in the years ahead. (Just not mass market for a long time, if ever)

breckon One Square Minesweeper

breckon The Ultimate Conditional Syntax

I love this.

Not the implementation, I think one could do better, but the fact that they identified an interesting opportunity: coming up with the Ultimate Conditional Syntax for pattern matching.

I would love to see them take one more crack at it, and this time try to think about how to reduce the syntax to the bare minimum.

Here's my read/adding of this language to PLDB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzsDaq0UdnM