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ccakeson Show HN: FFlags – Feature flags as code, served from the edge

I think most would say that’s configuration, not feature flags. The differences can be subtle but I at least don’t think they’re the same thing

ccakeson Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year

The Nordics aren’t struggling at all in this area, they also have incredibly generous parental leave and subsidised child care systems.

ccakeson Apple warns Australia against joining EU in mandating iPhone app sideloading

Not really. A random app I download from Github Releases can easily ship my ~/.ssh/id_rsa off to some server and I'd never be wiser. That's very hard to do on a phone.

They're not the same thing and treating them as if they are is somewhat naive.

ccakeson Real ID now required in US after nearly 20 years of delays

I guess this is the result of the free market at work. A link to multiple articles was posted but the consumers (HN users) voted with their wallets (upvotes) and here we are

Is it not the system working as designed?

ccakeson An end to all this prostate trouble?

If you’ve never stumbled across the older OkCupid blog posts or Christian Rudder’s book (Dataclysm[1]) then I can’t recommend them enough. Super interesting content delivered by a smart and engaging writer

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21480734-dataclysm

ccakeson Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast expands to hundreds of homes (2022)

Roughly single-digit cents per megabit

ccakeson Show HN: Cascii – A portable ASCII diagram builder written in vanilla JavaScript

Looks super cool, congrats!

Monodraw[1] is a similar product delivered as a standalone macOS app. It’s a classic pay once-type license and very polished software. Cannot recommend enough! I’ve always wanted something as good on Linux though, will definitely give this a go!

[1] https://monodraw.helftone.com/

ccakeson xlskubectl – a spreadsheet to control your Kubernetes cluster

https://github.com/storax/kubedoom

Obligatory Doom mention

ccakeson UnitedHealth laying off 30-35k employees by May 1

This is a fun one I picked up while living in Sweden. I didn’t realise we differentiated like this in English until I was taught that many is många if you can count it or mycket if you can’t, then a Swedish friend pointing out to me that they learn English the same way

I’ve eaten too many apples. I’ve got too much time to kill.

Less & fewer work the same. Language is fun!

ccakeson Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

I haven't! I just did a quick search, is this[1] what you're talking about.. or something else?

[1] https://discogs-data-dumps.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/index....

ccakeson Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

I did try Navidrome and used it for a while.. I honestly don't remember why I switched but I suspect the reason was probably more related to the client I was using at the same (Submariner on macOS) than the server-side.

ccakeson Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

I tried this (among a bunch of others) about a year ago and landed on Gonic[1] for the server and Supersonic[2] on PC and Amperfy[3] on mobile. Yes it's a few different tools to maintain (plus beets etc), but it's the ideal set of features etc for me.

Self-hosting has been fun and I've started experimenting with local LLMs to build playlists which is helping discoverability.. or more /rediscovering/ artists that I haven't listened to in a while

[1] https://github.com/sentriz/gonic/ [2] https://github.com/dweymouth/supersonic [3] https://github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy

ccakeson Bury me on the moon, preferably on the far side

This is a really interesting perspective.. it makes the moon look much closer than it is!

https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/moon-distance/en/

ccakeson In Jordan, a ‘stunning’ discovery under Petra’s ancient stone

Peter is apparently underneath the Vatican. I’m not religious but I love history - they run a tour under the current city and it’s really quite cool if you’re into that sort of thing

http://www.scavi.va/content/scavi/en/ufficio-scavi.html

ccakeson Sanding UI

imo GitHub has to be up there. I think some of the recent changes to search and making the code view more IDE-like are steps backward from a “polish” perspective, but still useful features

ccakeson Papersway – a scrollable window management for Sway/i3wm

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39803702

This got pretty close to perfect for me

ccakeson Scenefx: a drop-in replacement for the wlroots scene API

https://github.com/WillPower3309/swayfx https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/y5ne34/sway_spook...

Haven’t used it but looks like it’s main (only?) use right now is in SwayFX and there’ll be loads of screenshots of that

ccakeson Signs of two gases in clouds of Venus could indicate life, scientists say

Venus definitely needs more attention but regarding outer solar system, my money is on Enceladus being the most interesting one

ccakeson 8 days downtime: Cloudflare r2 subscription bug ruins my business

It's a hard lesson to learn like this, but it's a learning moment nonetheless. You don't rely on your provider to make backups for business-critical stuff like this, you need to manage it (and test!) it yourself.

rclone[1] supports tons of storage providers. If you get access back and recover your business, start making backups onto other providers.

[1] https://rclone.org/

ccakeson What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane

> however with software nobody dies

Software that runs systems which can directly kill people does tend to get a lot of scrutiny, but there is also a lot of software which can indirectly kill someone that doesn’t get the same level of attention

https://www.technologydecisions.com.au/content/convergence/a...

ccakeson Hyprland Crash Course

I just changed and this is a LOT nicer! Also on a 49" ultrawide

Thanks for the protip!

ccakeson SQLite Schema Diagram Generator

tbls[1] is a similar tool in this space that does a great job and is a simple single binary

Covers a lot of different platforms incl Postgres

[1] https://github.com/k1LoW/tbls

ccakeson Redict is an independent, copyleft fork of Redis

https://github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB

KeyDB is an existing fork that’s well supported and has a solid community for those interested. It takes a different philosophy to Redis but can be a drop in replacement in many cases

ccakeson Palworld fans concerned after Nintendo issues surprise takedown

Nintendo has said before that there'll never be a Pokemon MMO, not out of laziness rather by design. They want people to meet up irl to play and trade. The lack of options to "finish" Pokemon games without trading with someone is a feature, not a bug

ccakeson Ask HN: How to deal with constant interruptions at work (with ADHD)

Except it’s absolutely not if managed appropriately.

If they’re behaving that way unannounced then yeah, it’s not good but if the manager is aware then all that’s needed is “hey team, Andy is on the spectrum and prefers to work this way. Please try to accommodate, any issues let me know”

Those requirements aren’t challenging to meet for a coworker.

ccakeson Are we making the best notion open source alternative?

Also has a self-hosted version however it’s a bit out of date with their SaaS product

https://github.com/toeverything/AFFiNE#self-host

ccakeson 'Suicide pod' is completely legal and approved for use in Switzerland

Most methods of legal suicide today involve a doctor prescribing a cocktail known to kill a person and in many cases, they’re also administering it. It’s uncomfortable for them to effectively murder someone, even knowing that the recipient wishes for this to happen.

The pod here doesn’t need to mean that any psychiatric assessments are foregone, it just takes the doctors finger off the trigger (which is a good thing)

ccakeson DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching

> KVM users are underserved for sure.

100%

I want to share keyboard, mouse and monitor between a PC and a MacBook. A KVM with DP+USB on one side and Thunderbolt on the other doesn’t seem to exist.. I feel like this has to be a common use case :(

I know I could break out on a dock first, but I have a particularly high-res monitor which most of the docks baulk at, or only support at 30Hz

ccakeson Open-source drawing tool – Excalidraw

I didn't think so but maybe! I'll be more careful and see if I can figure out what I'm doing wrong

ccakeson Open-source drawing tool – Excalidraw

I love Excalidraw but I feel like at some point recently the text inside a box aligns to the grid separately to the box it’s in. The effect being that drawing a box, writing in it then dragging it around breaks the alignment

It’s still functional but my brain hates it