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brtknr··on Rsbuild – A Better Vite?
Copyright ByteDance? Ouch
brtknr··on Apple hit with over 1.8B euro EU antitrust fine in Spotify case
Surely Spotify wouldn't be able to publish if it wasn't paying $100/year fee to Apple. I guess $100 is nothing to Apple.
brtknr··on Ask HN: Those who've joined a friend's startup as an employee, how did that go?
I had a similar offer but I had a gut feeling it wasn't a good idea at the time and I feel somewhat vindicated by the comments in this thread.
brtknr··on Localization Failure: Temperature Is Hard
Looks like the Guardian have already amended the temperature differences in the article in question according to the footnote: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/17/malawi-swelter...
brtknr··on Git-appraise – Distributed Code Review for Git
Looks great! What this now needs is a nice Web UI and also convince major players to adopt it. It would be in their interest to assure users that they can take their data with them (even though most people probably wouldn't).
brtknr··on Show HN: WinGPT – AI assistant for Windows 3.1
Bob looks an awful lot like Bill Gates.
brtknr··on Fine-grained personal access tokens for GitHub
So happy this is finally here! Been waiting months for this!!
brtknr··on Apple Airpod Pro (2nd gen) lanyard on sale for $12.95
Available for $12.95
brtknr··on Objective-S: architecture-oriented language based on Smalltalk and Objective-C
My two pence: It’s not a very sexy name for a language compared to the competition.
brtknr··on Ultra-flat timepiece, the RM UP-01 Ferrari, is 1.75 millimetres thick watch
It should be priced at the maximum value someone is willing to pay for it… and naturally in market economy it often will. The Artist needs to also make a living and not all of their artwork will sell at earth shattering prices. It seems just as arbitrary to limit the price of the item to a fraction of the value of a single item. I do wish more art was auctioned rather than come with a fixed price tag to make the market more fluid and less egotistical.
brtknr··on Show HN: Typewaiter, the typewriter that doesn't wait
Hmm would be great if it was mobile friendly, the keyboard did not show up at all.
brtknr··on Easily handle CLI operation via Python instead of regular Bash programs
Probably easier to stick to bash rather than learn a new set of commands from scratch. Also bash commands are universally available whereas this needs to be installed first which is not always that straightforward. Also python is slower at some of the examples than compiled executables.
brtknr··on Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone
Contactless but you have to tap and most will make slight contact :) exciting nevertheless!
brtknr··on Bitcoin to $1M, Ethereum to $180k by 2030: ARK Report
Who gives a fuck about people who read articles like this and consider it a good use of their time
brtknr··on Left Alive And Unchanged: The Heaven’s Gate Website
Amazing that they have a page on their position against suicide https://www.heavensgate.com/misc/letter.htm. Non-spoiler alert: it’s exactly what you might expect.
brtknr··on Show HN: Looptap – A minimal game to waste your time
What the hell is happening past the point of 2k where the ball remains in the centre? Is it all happening too fast for my tiny brain to comprehend?
brtknr··on Safest mushrooms to forage and eat
I have never learnt more about mushrooms than I did after reading this article followed by discussion on HN. Any visual mushroom foraging books anyone would recommend for the UK?
brtknr··on Poll: Did you know that HN allows you to make polls?
You need 200 karma sadly
brtknr··on New AI Brings the Power Natural Language Processing to African Languages
Power of*
brtknr··on Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro
Lol the timing of this complaint couldn’t be more timely with the arrival of new 14-inch MBP…
brtknr··on Pyheatmagic: Profile and view your Python code as a heat map
I think it warrants an explaination of what py-heat is rather than assuming that the reader knows.
brtknr··on Pyheatmagic: Profile and view your Python code as a heat map
It is not explained anywhere what the heat map is of… is it the age of the line or the number of commits? Is this configurable or what?
brtknr··on Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux
Appreciate the old reddit url, so much more readable imo.
brtknr··on Bitcoin is a Ponzi
By that logic, buying a piece of land or real estate or gold is a ponzu scheme.
brtknr··on Hmsklt – App to help friends form deeper relationships
I wonder if this app is trying to capitalise on exclusivity of a new social network that Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat once provided?
brtknr··on iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max
I wonder how much the fear of 13 is going to impact sales https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triskaidekaphobia
brtknr··on Migrating from Docker to Podman
You can mount hostfs which I guess is the same thing
brtknr··on Duck DNS – free dynamic DNS hosted on AWS
Nice idea! Although if you’re going to it, use POST instead of GET as GET requests are not for updates but for idempotent requests.
brtknr··on Launch HN: Hotswap (YC S21) – Easily migrate customers away from competitors
Is every migration bespoke or are there elements that can be reused and therefore allow the company to achieve scale?
brtknr··on Gmail is opening and caching URLs within emails without user intervention (2019)
If this helps reduce spam by caching unsubscribe urls, I’m all in.
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