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ilumantyon Ableton Live 13

The style of marketing page does not live up to the software's quality.

ilumantyon Flawless UI-UX Skill 1.0.0

[narrator] it was, in fact, neither flawless nor impeccable

ilumantyon Kugelblitz – Mac-Native Google Earth Alternative

Nobody hates Germans more than Germans

ilumantyon Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory

I got your point and I am still interested in the full picture of what I posted before

ilumantyon Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory

> if fathers were required to take parental leave as well, then the risk would be more similar for both

I wonder what the economic implications are when both parents take leave instead of just one (e.g. twice the overhead for finding temporary cover, short-term liquidity impact for employer and public benefit funds)

ilumantyon I dumped Apple’s word list

In the same Resources folder, a separate allowlist file contains a link to a Gordon Ramsay video recipe for gnocchi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unAOVy92a_8

I'm curious about the story behind this

ilumantyon Britain to make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory

Anecdotally, women in their 30s are disfavored for the “risk” of starting a family

ilumantyon Kugelblitz – Mac-Native Google Earth Alternative

> Kugelblitz shows the Earth and its neighbors as a globe and as an atlas you fly over smoothly like a pilot, even on an M1

As if Google Earth wasn’t smooth on a 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 in 2009

ilumantyon I dumped Apple’s word list

Wait, are you saying iOS UK Edition blocks adult websites on the OS level?

ilumantyon UK Green party drops longstanding opposition to nuclear power

It was a great peacetime technology during the cold war

ilumantyon MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch

You got me curious, which GUIs with little keyboard-control support are you using / forced to use?

ilumantyon Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5

For me, DS Flash quality is still insufficient for bigger / more complex tasks. DS has gotten better by a lot, but I prefer Opus 5.5 because it gets things right with much fewer tokens. DS also sometimes gets stuck in a thinking loop "hmm... hmmm... hmmmm hmm hmmmm..." which is hilarious when you check on it after 30 minutes

ilumantyon Pg_vectorsearch: An index that is faster than pgvector's IVFFlat and HNSW

It would be so awesome if SQLite supported anything along these lines.

ilumantyon Anthropic's proposed AI watchdog METR has deep ties to Effective Altruism

https://archive.is/cw9YL

ilumantyon Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities

I’d just use the system color palette. I would be surprised if users confuse your design with Activity.

The “Live” label looks like a Claudism. For the rest, you should be fine when you use the semantic fonts + size presets provided by Apple. They also set decent values for tracking depending on size and will react to global a11y size settings.

ilumantyon Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities

Color scheme and typography also scream Claude. But nice idea.

ilumantyon Nebula Sans

Free fonts always do free advertising for paid fonts made by actual professionals

ilumantyon Stwipe Acquires OpenWouter

Wat

ilumantyon HTML over WebSockets: real-time SPAs with barely any JavaScript

Why did you stop doing this? What was the successor?

ilumantyon "the very foundation of modern academia has been blown to bits"

Really depends on how the resource wars pan out. If inference continues to get monopolized and the monopolists do a rug pull in terms of availability of AI tools, the old ways will still matter.

ilumantyon I regret migrating to Codeberg

Exactly what you would expect from a German non-profit.

ilumantyon European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS

You will think twice before expressing your opinion in public.

Since you seem unfamiliar with the following, I will leave this here for your perusal:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

ilumantyon European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS

Yes, I said it before and I will say it again: We should invest our energy in the discussion whether to implement it and not already wonder how to implement it.

Shifting this question benefits only those who want to force this upon us.

ilumantyon Show HN: Verso – A $14.99 Mac word processor with no subscription

The vibe coded website suggests that this is a vibe coded tool. Is it though?

ilumantyon Talking to strangers at the gym

WTF, saying hi to a stranger is not harassment? What's wrong with people these days…

ilumantyon I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/deportationen-unter-trump-sie-h...

Google Translate: https://www-tagesanzeiger-ch.translate.goog/deportationen-un...

ilumantyon I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

What’s the situation for tech workers from Europe who want to go to the US solely for touristic purposes? There have been plenty of horror stories about people who were accused of plotting to work in the US from their laptop on false pretence of being on vacation.

ilumantyon EU age verification app hacked, 2 minute How to posted

Yeah I don’t like how the discussion is shifting to implementation details, instead of debating whether any of this is good or necessary

ilumantyon MacBook Neo

Absolutely ridiculous that they still offer this while macOS + Apple Intelligence already take ~30 GB

ilumantyon Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge

Claude keeps getting SQLite's weird GROUP BY with MIN/MAX behavior completely wrong. Generally, complex SQL is not its strong side.