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> you basically need the same amount of data to represent the address of your data as the data itself

Almost like the other Borges work where “the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire”.

divbzeroon Show HN: Web Speed – A shared web-map registry for AI agents (MCP, open source)

Could we have this for humans too? Fast load, just the content please.

divbzeroon Google changes its search box

It’s diverged quite a bit from the original:

    <form method="GET" action="/search">
      ...
      
      <center>
        Search the web using Google!
        <br>
        
        <input type="text" name="query" value="" size="40">
        <br>
        
        <select name="num">
          <option value="10" selected>10 results
          <option value="30">30 results
          <option value="100">100 results
        </select>
        <input type="submit" value="Google Search">
        <input type="submit" name="sa" value="I'm feeling lucky">
        <br>
        
        <i>Index contains ~25 million pages (soon to be much bigger)</i>
      </center>
      
      ...
    </form>

https://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/http://google.sta...

divbzeroon Disney erased FiveThirtyEight

Some of Disney’s most valuable properties—ESPN, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars—were acquired. FiveThirtyEight may be smaller, but it should be in Disney’s self-interest to set things right and earn a reputation for being a good home for acquisitions.

divbzeroon Apple unveils new accessibility features

It’d be amazing if speech-to-text could take into account context as well: Greek if I’m speaking Greek, Korean if I’m speaking Korean, or for (int i = 0; i < count; ++i) if I’m dictating code.

divbzeroon RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?

This is pretty impressive. My impression was that eGPUs simply do not work with Apple Silicon.

(EDIT: Apple agrees with my impression. “To use an eGPU, a Mac with an Intel processor is required.” And, on top of that, the officially supported eGPUs were all AMD not NVIDIA. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102363)

divbzeroon A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline

Not that I’m aware of? Most PhD grads not staying academia seems to be a long-running phenomenon. The number of permanent academic positions simply does not match up against the number of PhD grads.

divbzeroon Claude for Small Business

All of those tasks—planning payroll, settling books, forecasting, ranking, reminding—involve read access to financial operations, not write access.

divbzeroon Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML

Yes, and you can always embed HTML in Markdown for <script>, <style>, <svg>, and other tags that cannot be coded in Markdown.

divbzeroon Knitting bullshit

> All of the images in this post were generated by an ai in response to the simple two-word prompt “lovely knitting”

Touché.

divbzeroon iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet

This is wonderful, I’ve been waiting for this to add a library card to Apple Wallet. I hope it will support linear barcodes too.

divbzeroon Let's Buy Spirit Air

> The only thing missing is ownership that answers to the people — not to shareholders.

To be clear, the proposed Spirit Air 2.0 would also be answerable to shareholders. A structural difference is that each shareholder would have one vote regardless of capital contribution. But the real substantive difference is the spirit of what they’re fighting for: worker ownership, affordable fares, transparent operations, no golden parachutes, etc.

divbzeroon U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP

GDP provides a rough measure for how fast a country could drain its debt—similar to looking at debt-to-income ratio when issuing mortgages to individuals.

divbzeroon We need a federation of forges

It appears that git format-patch + git send-email is a mature and widely used approach. Wouldn’t it make more sense for the open source community to work on streamlining that process instead of trying to build momentum with new approaches?

divbzeroon Before GitHub

I really like the idea of distributed forges, but am not familiar with viable solutions for federation. Are there good options available right now? Or at least a not-terrible option?

(Edit: Turns out there’s a very obvious and widely used option. git format-patch + git send-email is used to develop major open source software such as Linux, GCC, and Git itself.)

divbzeroon Flipdiscs

The Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle has an installation too:

https://www.pippakelmenson.com/work/climate-pledge-arena

https://www.coleorloff.com/specifically/pitchbook

https://www.behance.net/gallery/136172923/Climate-Pledge-Are...

divbzeroon A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory

… and a Student’s quest for quality beer led to the t-test.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sealy_Gosset

divbzeroon A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory

Perhaps future generations will reference certain threads here on HN.

divbzeroon Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing

I know what you mean by stronger product focus, but phrasing it as “more like Jobs” makes it sound daunting.

divbzeroon Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing

1. Flat UI is the other side of Johnny Ive’s legacy—arguably an error as well, never corrected.

…

3. Agreed that Siri stagnated, was already surpassed by Alexa a decade ago, and even moreso by LLMs today. However, some advantages of Apple Silicon have panned out for AI—e.g., using unified memory to run ML models, instead of requiring dedicated VRAM for a separate GPU.

divbzeroon Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing

Siri was the first of its kind on Day 1. Alexa wasn’t announced for another three years.

divbzeroon The Beauty of Bonsai Styles

The oldest bonsai in this collection is over a 100 years old. Imagine training a bonsai continually for so long, the steady care and attention required across multiple generations…

divbzeroon Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games

Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45451577 - Oct 2025 (146 comments)

Playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37591070 - Sept 2023 (1 comment)

Playball: Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21653981 - Nov 2019 (42 comments)

divbzeroon New Rule on Web and Mobile Accessibility for State and Local Governments (2024)

State and local governments are required to follow WCAG 2.1 Level AA starting:

– April 24, 2026 for populations of 50,000 or greater

– April 26, 2027 for populations of 49,999 or less

divbzeroon Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth

The photograph appears to show nightime on Earth with just a sliver of daytime. Beyond cities in Iberia and along the coast of Africa, most of what we can see would be reflected light from the Moon? We are just past full moon on April 1.

divbzeroon Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)

“Who wants a stylus? You have to get ’em and put ’em away, and you lose ’em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus. So let’s not use a stylus. We’re going to use the best pointing device in the world. We’re going to use a pointing device that we’re all born with—born with ten of them. We’re going to use our fingers.”

— Steve Jobs, 2007

(8 years before the introduction of the Apple Pencil)

divbzeroon Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder

Any website that uses more memory than Voyager 1 should be considered bloated.

divbzeroon Data centers are transitioning from AC to DC

Interesting, so this is why the phone line still worked when power was out across the whole town.

divbzeroon Rob Pike's Rules of Programming (1989)

Yes, I noticed this too. Timeless wisdom in 2128 bytes of handcrafted HTML.

divbzeroon US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement

Twice a year is the current requirement in the UK and still provides a regular cadence.