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clusmoreon I Stored a Website in a Favicon

I'd love to see you try serving the exact same file for both but the trick is that you need to return different Content-Type headers depending on what is requested. When the browser requests /favicon from a navigation event it will use Accept: text/html etc, you return the file with Content-Type: text/html and inside the response you have a <link rel="favicon" href="/favicon" type="img/png"> literally the same resource but the browser will now likely fetch with Accept: image/... and you could return the same file with Content-Type: image/png and the same resource will get used for both. Unless the browser caches the response, I feel like this would work.

If you don't control the headers of your webserver (eg GitHub Pages) I would settle for a symlink favicon.png that just links back to favicon.html which I think would trick the server into returning different Content-Types.

clusmoreon Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers

I think your point still stands, but a correction that 1% of $6-7T is $60-70B, not $600-700B.

clusmoreon Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?

What is the value prop to the package owner? Is it just that you expect this to be cheaper than existing options because random people who are already going somewhere anyway can make a few extra bucks by taking a parcel with them?

You could always just take people's parcels and use an existing solution at first and eat the price difference, then once you have enough volume on the parcel supply side you can onboard some carriers.

clusmoreon We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git

The issue is that the investors will want a return on that $17M at some point, so they're going to need to charge money for something eventually. If the revenue model is not obvious now, that only means they'll be pressured into something non-obvious later.

clusmoreon Car Seats as Contraception

I also think that modern car seats are one of the main factors driving the adoption of unnecessarily large cars, which have far worse safety outcomes in crashes for everybody except the people inside them.

When I was growing up in the 90s with 2 siblings we had a small hatch. When I had my second child we had to upgrade from a small hatch to an SUV because we simply couldn't fit a car seat behind the driver. Even now, I'm not sure if a third would fit.

Sure, the SUV itself and the extra padding on the car seats might make my children safe in collisions with other big cars, but if we were all still driving hatches then maybe none of that would be necessary.

We are in the stupidest arms race.

clusmoreon Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media

I am an Australian Instagram user in my 30s. When setting up my profile a few years ago I set the birthday to some fake date near my real age. At no point, including when the ban went live, was I ever asked to prove my age through any means. Nobody I know has either (noting that everyone I've asked is an adult).

clusmoreon The $LANG Programming Language

There is also shownew and highlights at least, I think maybe a few others still

clusmoreon Partnership with News Corp

I suppose both companies are well known for confidently stating absolute nonsense as fact, so it's a match made in heaven.

clusmoreon Prince of Persia – how jumping animation was made

The link doesn't work for me as I don't have an X account, but you can see more in this Ars Technica interview with the X poster: https://youtu.be/sw0VfmXKq54?si=4YBBaqoOEKvs3iuN

clusmoreon Tell HN: I Don't Want to Use Email as a Password

A lot of companies have started doing this because a compromised account can be used to attack the service (logged in sessions avoid rate limits) or other users (spam). They aren't necessarily trying to protect you.

clusmoreon Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating

> The growth mindset is incredible for expanding when your product is in its early ages. But there should be a "sustain" mindset at some point. First you push to grow the market, or your market share. When returns on your efforts become diminishing, you push to improve how much you earn of each customer/each sale. At some point there should be a mindset that our company is worth X dollars, and we should sustain that.

Kent Beck calls this the Explore and Extract phases (with the middle phase being Expand). I'm not sure if you had this talk in mind as you were writing your comment, but if not I think it'll resonate with you.

[1]: https://youtu.be/YGhS8VQpS6s

clusmoreon Casio G-Shock time sync radio

Note that an integer offset is insufficient. For example, Australian Central Standard time is +9:30 and Australian Central Western Standard Time is +8:45. I have a Seiko watch with a similar feature to this and I don't think it would work well in either of these timezones.

clusmoreon Has anyone worked as an Engineer while living in a van?

Related: "A new chapter – full-time working from a van in a forest" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26284635

clusmoreon Show HN: Calculate the Cost of Your Meetings

Would be interesting to combine this with staff headcounts to estimate the cost of an all-hands.

clusmoreon Show HN: Link Bento – Make a link lunchbox that you can send to your friends

An example of what the page will look like would be great!

clusmoreon Ask HN: What (programming) skills will still be relevant in a year?

1 or even 5 years is nothing. Aside from maybe individual frameworks, nothing will completely die within such a short timespan.

clusmoreon Application Migration Services

This is a stock standard job for any one of thousands of software consulting companies.

clusmoreon Ask HN: What is the reasoning behind Stackoverflow login fragmentation?

signal:noise

clusmoreon Ask HN: Are there any free email providers in 2023?

It's not free, but you can register multiple domains to a single Fastmail account. So I pay Fastmail for my personal email hosting, and any side projects can reuse this same account at no additional cost.

clusmoreon Ask HN: What are you opinions on bad posts in your blog?

https://blog.codinghorror.com/quantity-always-trumps-quality...

The key to writing good content is just writing lots of content. Some, maybe most, will be crap. That's fine, just don't promote the bad ones.

I recently read the entire Joel on Software archive and realized that the vast majority of posts are fairly uninteresting, but from over 1,000 posts he has a handful of classics and promotes those through the reading lists.

clusmoreon Who should we blame for slow softwares?

Have you tried turning animations off? The setting should be in the Accessibility section somewhere. When you open an app from the app drawer, there is that little animation where the app icon grows, the screen fades to white/black, and then the app display fades into view, which all adds up to about 100-500ms. If you disable the animation it should open almost instantly.

clusmoreon Ask HN: How do you organize posts on personal website?

I like Joel on Software's reading lists. Basically tags but only for a very small subset of posts which are very good, hand-curated with purpose.

As for "older posts may still updated", I suggest don't do this, unless your site really is more like a wiki than a blog. It's annoying for readers to have to reread old posts and try to spot the difference, it means they can't bookmark a post they like and send it to friends without fear it might change. It's annoying for you because you will end up obsessively trying to perfect old posts. I prefer the approach of just writing a new post if you think you have a substantial amount of new/different information to add, and then you can also show what changed and why. This also means you can go back through your archives and see how your thoughts have changed over time.

clusmoreon Implementers, Solvers, and Finders

You've left the door open for a product management finder solution implementer. You figure out what problem to solve but you must use AI/Blockchain/Kubernetes to solve it.

clusmoreon A new social media platform built to unite people

To clarify my point, especially in politics there is a good chance that the post with the highest score might not even have support from a majority of people who voted (it could be 45+/15=/40-, so 45% support), might not even be voted on by a majority of the people who see it (10% of views vote, so that's 4.5% of viewers support), might not even be viewed by a majority of users (10% of all users view the post, so 0.45% of all users support), and a majority of electors are not users of your app (generously 10% market penetration is now 0.045% of electors support). I'm not sure decision makers would take these numbers seriously until you get huge market share and huge engagement/participation. I would suggest starting in much smaller markets where you can increase those percentages dramatically, and then expand from there.

clusmoreon A new social media platform built to unite people

It is _extremely_ unlikely that the highest ranked post will get even a majority of users having upvoted it, much less a majority of people - first past the post voting rarely achieves a majority even with only a handful of candidates to choose from. If you're curious about this as an experiment, my suggestion is to start much smaller and less divisive than world politics with infinitesimally small market penetration. Try your neighborhood, school or organization where you have a hope of double digit market penetration and some hope of getting buy-in from the decision makers you are trying to influence.

clusmoreon Ask HN: How do you become a better Python developer?

Watch anything by Raymond Hettinger on YouTube.

clusmoreon Show HN: I am selling my side project Secondfounder

I had a quick look but I couldn't see a listing for Second Founder on Second Founder, as it seems like a suitable platform to sell itself?

clusmoreon Australians can opt out of targeted ads, erase their data under proposed reforms

Not GP but I assume the implication is that political parties would be exempt from the regulations when advertising to voters.

clusmoreon Show HN: I made a community-based writing application

I like the idea. I actually set up something kinda similar to this at work, a sort of bookclub where once a week somebody posts a short video/blog/article for the group to consume and discuss, with the hidden goal of getting at least myself to churn out a blog post each week based on the discussion. We are currently in the third week but first post still because despite getting a dozen or so sign-ups, the follow-through has been low and feedback has been that more time is needed.

I think once a week for Tavern should be suitable - you aren't trying to compete with Twitter or other social media sites for volume of content. I haven't signed up yet, but you might need to use email nudges to remind people to post. A streak count might be a good way to gamify persistence. Could you provide some examples on the main page of the kinds of prompts you'll be using, so I know whether I'm likely to be able to go through with it before giving up my email address? And finally, my concern with content reset at the end of each week is that if I am late to post I might only get a really small window to read other posts. Similarly, everybody else will have a small window to read _my_ post, and they might not even check the website during that time. Perhaps a couple of days grace period into the next week to read but not to post?

Edit: I just signed up, and it's awkward that you can't easily navigate back to the landing page when signed in, to remind myself of the rules.

clusmoreon Show HN: I made a game, Tippy Coco

This reminds me a lot of Slime Volleyball, which I loved as a kid. Thanks for sharing.