cobertos

How do you configure the backups with NixOS? Didn't see that explained in the article at all

Id caution against using Cloudflare for DNS. They rewrite your CAA record so multiple other CAs can sign certs on your domains. It's non-obvious unless you query your own CAA record

Did you find any issues with performance in such a large dataset (like "all artists") with such dynamic rendering (specifically for the timeline view)?

Does this use a library for plotting everything on the timeline or is it coded from scratch?

EDIT: I see now the code is at https://github.com/justdataplease/art-history-museum

Self-hosted Koito[0] and glad I left Last.fm.

Not even a good first-party export, gotta use some hacked together third-party one to get your data out.

[0]: https://github.com/gabehf/koito

I tried getting it to run on a Pixel 3a and struggled for hours, eventually gave up (albeit I tried running it with Wayland and Niri which seems less tried-and-true).

Is all your browsing history already with chatgpt or something?

This has an MCP server specifically so a workflow like that would work for you. This is just made to gold the data, and I'm a human accessible way should your AI fail you

> ranking comfort instead of what you expected to help most

But don't we, in real times, turn to the people we're comfortable talking to? We are not machines ranking the effectiveness of our peers for best outcome, though some of us surely still weigh that! It would be nice to go the most effective route, but sometimes that brings a lot of pain, judgement, or unforseen externalities.

(and hopefully we pick our close social relationships to make us more effective too!)

> "according to your community norms ..." ... without much real reveal

It puts data to what our understanding of those norms are. I don't know if there's a bigger reveal than "yeah, people generally are pretty comfortable with their spouse"

Tbh I was surprised anyone would/could open up and have an emotional conversation with a neighbor (when looking at risk vs reward). But, there are a lot of types of neighbors too.

Was very curious on what was meant by the following:

> The study included a real-time alert system for intervening if a person indicated a high suicidal intent

Because it sounds a bit dystopian.

And found a little more about it[0]

> For example, in our monitoring studies, we install smartphone apps on participants’ phones. These participants are often recruited from hospitals after presenting with high suicide risk. We tell them explicitly that we monitor responses during certain hours—for example, between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.—and that we will do our best to respond if we believe they are at imminent risk of harming themselves.

...

> We have real-time alerts when someone crosses a predefined risk threshold, and we follow a very detailed protocol that specifies exactly what actions we take at each level of risk. But we want participants to understand that this is not a replacement for clinical care. We are not a “Minority Report” system that will swoop in and prevent harm in every case.

[0]: https://primr.org/ethical-challenges-in-suicide-research/

Their job is whatever the government tells them it is, things like this don't just spawn out of thin air, there's usually rationale for it[0].

The post office already does way more than you think it does. Like identity verification on behalf of the government and tracking which houses are considered "vacant" or not.

It would be nice to focus the USPS, but all these extra services have to be done by _some entity_, otherwise you can't have the final result. In this case, the result is a functional, auditable mail in ballot system

[0]: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/06/02/2026-10...

Gave me a laugh, but comment was also originally dead'd because I assume sounds too much like AI. (For obvious reasons)

I've liked the focused window tracker in https://activitywatch.net

Perhaps they can't or refuse to consider ethical arguments surrounding it? It's just tech as-is to them, without externalities (which is disingenuous).

Feels like a language limitation to me. It is hard to describe succinctly the complexities of AI use that preserve a human element or recognizes externalities. The wording is not immediately obvious and require subtlety that I rarely see in HN, unless it's about the tech itself and it's minutae.

Curious to see if HN could have any kind of thoughtful conversation on it but so far I haven't seen one.

Fully accessible to all? Not when there's money to be made by putting it behind a paywall. Unless it's served with ads I guess.

It's based on act[0] so it's quite like GitHub actions but not completely [1].

I found in the current version of Forgejo the most secure way to set it up was just to put the runner on a different host. There's a Docker in Docker setup [2] that was challenging to get working correctly but still didn't quite feel secure...

After setting it all up, I'm convinced GitHub actions as a concept is flawed. I wish the community would make a simpler git-defined CI/CD that didn't have the crazy surface area that actions does... Named shell scripts that can call out to other stuff in the runner Docker image and report it to the UI would be a nice start.

[0]: https://github.com/nektos/act

[1]: https://forgejo.org/docs/v15.0/user/actions/github-actions/#...

[2]: https://forgejo.org/docs/v15.0/admin/actions/docker-access/#...

In both the Autumn and Winter examples in the hero images, the algo seemed to have placed buildings on the water in the foreground

In the summer example in the hero images, the building placement + small pockets of water on the left looks odd and low attention to detail. A similar poor quality result as if an uncaring human used a scatter brush...

Curious if the examples are cherry-picked and by how much, or if this is one-shoted

The latter bankrolled and continues to bankroll the former. It is not incorrect to conflate them.

True, though the article does also mention another study not based on taxi drivers, but just living in high spatial complexity ZIP codes puts you at a lower risk.

> Research on cognitive maps points toward the same conclusion as the study on taxi drivers. In 2023, researchers ran a machine learning model on more than 22,500 people in a national dataset and were able to predict which ZIP codes had higher rates of Alzheimer’s with 84% accuracy based on how complex the environment was. Those living in spatially complex surroundings – the kind that force active map building, such as dense street networks with numerous intersections, diverse points of interest and landmarks, and multiple path options – were less likely to develop Alzheimer’s.

I'm sure some enterprising company will find a way sell you a computer subsidized by your data usage or maybe by forfeiting your first born

> The market timed you both with the same stopwatch and it did not see the difference. It cannot see the difference. Taste does not show up in the diff.

Doesn't that mean guaranteed failure in the market if you use taste as your guiding star? Therefore, there's really no way to enter the market anymore.

I don't know how you then ship software or monetise it...? The market will just clone it.

So... Don't share stuff publicly? Only share with closed groups? Where does this leave small-time software development...?

> it felt like there was not a teenage girl in a hundred miles who had read A Game of Thrones

> I feel a certain lack, an empty space where a particular kind of person should be—all those who used to read comic books

The author describes how there are so few nerds in their ideal, nostalgic time, yet there is somehow a void where there should now be a bountiful amount of nerds in the modern times?

Anecdata tells me the nerds are there. They're just in their own spaces. Out of the public eye.

With the internet the way it is now (bots, scams, AI, overrun of nerd spaces, clamping down of internet speech) I don't blame any of them. You can't be on the public internet anymore and have a good time. The platforms got too big, the rules so impersonal. The interesting people went elsewhere. Left with this hallow "majority". Or as the author says

> it’s problematic that the taste of the majority is swamping out the minority

The "intellectual nerd", the minority, is just elsewhere. If you want to find them, you have to put in the time and the effort to move your eyes or your self there. Cultivate your social surroundings.

`cd ~/path/to/your-project && curl -fsSL https://paxel.ycombinator.com/upload.sh | bash` is the command from Paxel's website. So you're literally just piping whatever the hell they want into bash. It's long, lots of comments, and honestly would be time consuming to audit properly.

Supposedly this is what it does from the opening comment

  # Paxel upload script
  # ===================
  #
  # What this does (up to 17 steps):
  #   On your machine
  #     1. Check Docker is installed and running
  #     2. Sign you in (browser-based device auth)
  #     3. Pull or build the Paxel Docker image
  #
  #   Inside the container — file bodies stay local; only aggregate metrics +
  #   metadata (paths, commit numstat, session events) are uploaded
  #     4. Discover projects and sessions (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor)
  #     5. Read your git history
  #     6. Parse transcripts
  #     7. Summarize each session (cloud Haiku via YC proxy)
  #     8. Group git commits by session
  #     9. Group sessions into multi-day work streams
  #    10. Extract steering traces
  #    11. Extract decision exchanges (cloud Haiku)
  #    12. Redact code before upload (regex pattern redaction)
  #    13. Link decisions to outcomes
  #    14. Analyze code quality (L1 deterministic)
  #    15. Score episodes across 5 axes (cloud Haiku)
  #    16. Assemble your report
  #    17. Upload redacted summaries + scores to the server
  #
  #   Then: opens your results in the browser

> VIP program for qualified researchers who consistently deliver high-quality, high-impact work.

Almost as though they want the quality and consistency of hired labor but not the cost

It really shows you're a team player when you take on more work for the same amount of money. Only a possibility of future reward, and _if_ you can spin your performance reviews correctly and _if_ management doesn't inexplicably dislike you.

Oh neat, I implemented a similar thing on https://cobertos.com. Though instead of canvas, it uses divs tiled with a `background-image` with `repeat-x` and a CSS animation over `transform` from left to right until the repeat/tiling point and jumping back.

I think that's probably the fourth iteration of it at this point

Packet capture and analysis. It's not that complicated

I have a few Traefik instances that request wildcards independently of each other. Each with the same config, per server.

Leaking is an issue but we're talking about internal services too.

Why not just map the domain to an internal IP and call it a day? Then the only way it can be accessed is through a VPN. Then use a wildcard so none of leaks into cert transparency logs

Are there any music festivals for chiptune? Something like Bonaroo but computer music, or the closest thing because I don't think something like this actually exists

Doesn't USPS also play a key role in a lot of other services?

* ID verification

* Vacant home notifications

* Registered mail

I have a hard time seeing a private company scrupulously handling these operations when the incentives to manipulate them could be very large.

I love the fit and finish on the case. Neat to just one shot little control panels like that. Have you thought about making more? Context sensitive based on the room or activity in that area?