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idiocache··on Claude Opus 4.7
dopameme?
idiocache··on Show HN: Whirligig – Tinder for Gigs
Thanks! It was something I always wanted - a last minute gig finder where you can immediately tell if you'd enjoy the vibe.
idiocache··on Show HN: Whirligig – Tinder for Gigs
Thanks! I've considered expanding this to comedy events also.
idiocache··on Show HN: Whirligig.live
Thanks! It's using Ticketmaster and, in the UK, one additional provider.

I hadn't heard of The Monospace Web but I can see the resemblance!

idiocache··on Show HN: Whirligig.live
Thank you!
idiocache··on Show HN: Whirligig.live
Thanks! I will do. My first impression of your site is that it has a really nice interface - doesn't seem to have comment threads; I wondered why?
idiocache··on Show HN: Whirligig.live
Thanks! Is it a US / UK thing? "gig" probably enjoys more common usage in UK than concert or show.
idiocache··on Show HN: Whirligig.live
Thank you!
idiocache··on Show HN: Whirligig.live
Thanks! The countries available now are the ones with presence on Ticketmaster (and in the UK, one additional provider). If it proves popular I'll certainly look at scraping more ticket sites!
idiocache··on Life as Slime
Can't we believe that life is a terrible cosmic mistake and still be pro-human?
idiocache··on Life as Slime
It's a wonderful article but I can't accept the core argument.

Life is rare = life is precious is just a version of the naturalistic fallacy. You are entitled to believe that life is beautiful; you are equally entitled to believe it is a terrible cosmic mistake - acknowledging the rarity of life doesn't obligate you to change your belief.

idiocache··on Tenstorrent and the State of AI Hardware Startups
Can you briefly describe your work flow? Are you exchanging information with Sonnet in your IDE?
idiocache··on BlenderGPT
Kid's getting way too much hate for what seems to be quite a cool project! Oh he "just" put a UI in front of Trellis? Yes. He did. You didn't.

Keep up the good work, gd3kr :)

idiocache··on CTVT – A contagious cancer that spreads from dog to dog
I didn't read the article properly, obviously. Thanks for the responses.
idiocache··on CTVT – A contagious cancer that spreads from dog to dog
“It’s very mysterious,” Murchison says. “This cancer was exposed to something that caused this very particular mutation, and has never been seen in any human cancer ever, and that seems to have stopped 2,000 years ago. We don’t know what that carcinogen is, and we’d love to. I guess it was probably something in the dogs’ environment? This is a very crazy idea and we don’t really believe it, but maybe ancient people who owned the dogs tried to treat [their tumors] with some kind of chemical?”

This feels wrong - surely particular carcinogens don't cause particular mutations. Isn't this just chance?

idiocache··on Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers
Many banks use a CDN, primarily for DDOS protection. This includes the actual online banking endpoints. E.g. Lloyds and Barclays (major UK banks) both use Akamai, as does American Express.