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divbzeroon Gatekeepers of Law: Inside the Westlaw and LexisNexis Duopoly

PlainSite is another project worth checking out. I have come across both when exploring in the space.

[1]: https://free.law/

[2]: https://www.plainsite.org/

divbzeroon A spider web unlike any seen before

In this case, it’s more on us to not break their house rules when we visit their cave.

divbzeroon A spider web unlike any seen before

> The cave stays at about 80 degrees year-round.

That seems remarkably warm. Is that typical for cave temperatures?

divbzeroon During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website

This should be every web developer’s first webpage. No npx create-react-app ... or pip install django or any other layers in between.

divbzeroon Lessons from 14 years at Google

I think GP is referring to the fact that an author’s work is copyright protected by default, and a license is needed to permit others to use freely [1]. StackOverflow posts are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 [2].

[1]: https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing

(Disclaimer: Just commenting on GP’s statement about “no license”, not on the specific disagreement or apology mentioned above which I am unfamiliar with.)

divbzeroon Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades

I used to enjoy the salads at McDonald’s, but it’s been a few years since I’ve seen them on the menu.

divbzeroon The most famous transcendental numbers

iⁱ is a fun one.

divbzeroon Feynman's Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes

Electricity and Magnetism by Purcell is one of my favorites too, especially the chapter on “The Fields of Moving Charges”.

divbzeroon Calendar

Thanks! I see the feature documented in the README.

https://source.tube/neatnik/calendar

divbzeroon Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

> It is just a plain fact that software engineers are not the movers and shakers in large tech organizations. They do not set the direction of the company. To the extent that they have political influence, it’s in how they translate the direction of the company into specific technical changes. But that is actually quite a lot of influence!

I don’t know if you’d label this view “cynical” or “idealist” but it feels balanced and I think there is a lot of truth in it. As a software engineer, you’re not a mindless automaton “just doing your job”. Your judgment about the proper way to do things—or whether a thing should be done like that at all—makes a difference in how useful and beneficial a product is for end users and for our society more broadly.

divbzeroon Calendar

I like the highlighting of weekends, but wish the weekends aligned across months.

divbzeroon Some Epstein file redactions are being undone

Yes, this is the digital equivalent of sticking a blank Post-it over text and calling it “redacted”. Mind-boggling that the same mistake has been made over and over again.

divbzeroon A year of vibes

> My biggest unexpected finding: we’re hitting limits of traditional tools for sharing code. The pull request model on GitHub doesn’t carry enough information to review AI generated code properly — I wish I could see the prompts that led to changes. It’s not just GitHub, it’s also git that is lacking.

The limits seem to be not just in the pull request model on GitHub, but also the conventions around how often and what context gets committed to Git by AI. We already have AGENTS.md (or CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md, .github/copilot-instructions.md) for repository-level context. More frequent commits and commit-level context could aid in reviewing AI generated code properly.

divbzeroon Here is the 15 sec coding test I used to instantly filter out most applicants

This didn’t work for me because Reader Mode popped up and showed the “hidden” equals sign.

divbzeroon The Bob Dylan concert for just one person

That just seems like a different way of “pissing on Sinatra’s grave”.

divbzeroon Italy's longest-serving barista reflects on six decades behind the counter

Even for morning commute people who need caffeine, getting to chat with a human beats having a machine to do it.

divbzeroon Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

You should ask Gemini to generate HN comment threads too.

divbzeroon Netherlands – Capital Growth Tax and Capital Gains Tax for Box 3

Or, if you have a capital loss this year after paying taxes on gains last year, can you carry back the deduction to last year?

divbzeroon [dead]

The decision was made to ban him here, try to get him fired though I don't know if we succeeded, and attack him with sockpuppets on Reddit, and it seems to have worked because you don't hear his name much.

Ten years later, I'm still stuck thinking about this. Am I the kind of person who does shitty things? I was. Am I still? How would I even know?

Corporations and governments often get flak for doing shitty things, but ultimately it’s still people within those corporations and governments doing shitty things. “Just doing my job” is not really a legitimate shield to hide behind and I give OP credit for recognizing this even if a bit late.

Thanks for sharing the advice and best wishes with the surgery.

divbzeroon Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf]

The second quote is not from the posted letter. It was a quote attributed to Buffett by a New York Times column in 2006.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/business/yourmoney/26ever...

divbzeroon Warren Buffett's final shareholder letter [pdf]

I highly doubt that spin-offs will be a major part of Berkshire’s foreseeable future. Offering a permanent home for good businesses is one of Berkshire’s advantages when competing for acquisitions. Breaking up Berkshire would mean giving up on that competitive advantage.

divbzeroon The modern homes hidden inside ancient ruins

I thought I’d be horrified by this, but when done tastefully and respectfully it can revive the sites as living history instead of dead ruins.

divbzeroon Python Steering Council unanimously accepts "PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports"

How will lazy imports interact with PEP 8 which recommends grouping imports in order:

1. Standard library imports.

2. Related third party imports.

3. Local application/library specific imports.

https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/#imports

Based on the examples in PEP 810, I suppose each group of regular imports can be followed by a group of lazy imports?

  import os
  import sys
  
  lazy import json
  
  import fastapi
  
  lazy import numpy
  
  import myapi
  import mymodels
  
  lazy import myutils
  
  ...

divbzeroon Welcome to hell; please drive carefully

> The road in the photo looks very narrow, an environment where drivers probably have to pay attention, maybe even slow down in general.

I’ve seen roads in Japan where the lines marking car lanes narrow as you approach crosswalks, creating the impression of an environment where drivers should slow down.

divbzeroon example.com was updated on 2025-10-09

HTTP response headers on the latest version show:

  Last-Modified: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:42:02 GMT

Before and after captured on Internet Archive:

2025-10-09 16:05 — https://web.archive.org/web/20251009160529/http://www.exampl...

2025-10-09 17:44 — https://web.archive.org/web/20251009174438/http://www.exampl...

divbzeroon You won't believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Indeed, for this post I came straight to the comment thread instead of reading the article.

divbzeroon Talk Python in Production

Thanks for describing your experience with Granian. I have stuck with Gunicorn and Uvicorn so far but am now motivated to try the newer alternative.

divbzeroon Talk Python in Production

You noted using persistent volumes for storing data, e.g.:

  docker volume create umami-volume

How do you manage data backup and restore?

divbzeroon The RSS feed reader landscape

+1 I use NetNewsWire as well.

In addition to sync by iCloud, you can also sync with a third-party aggregator (BazQux, Feedbin, Feedly, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, or FreshRSS). This can be a good option if you sometimes need access from a non-Apple device.

divbzeroon Modern Font Stacks

I love this.

Here’s the less modern predecessor from way back:

CSS Font Stack: A complete collection of web safe CSS font stacks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4415661 - Aug 2012 (22 comments)