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mirambaon $70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money

> wokeness on the left… I am directly threatened by their program.

Could you please explain what that threat is exactly, and what kind of “concessions to white males” you would have in mind?

mirambaon Anduril banned from recruiting on NixOS forums

Yes or no, where is this going? Please elaborate.

mirambaon Declarative Web Push – WebKit

Just a workaround, but someone made a helping pop-up: https://github.com/ryxxn/pwa-install-prompt

Last time I checked, push messages did not work when the web app was not running, has that changed? Because I think that is the most interesting feature for users: To notify about important things while not using the app. It has also always been abused by app creators with useless stuff to drive engagement etc. I think I never allowed a single webpage to send me notifications - if for example I want to know about the latest news about plant pottery, I will probably just visit that website again...no need to notify me.

mirambaon Stop syncing everything

Not an expert on CouchDB, but used it recently in a project and loved the syncing with the corresponding pouchdb at the frontend. My main problem, what was missing imho was security: Interactions with couchdb where directly with the database, ie no intermediate API available. Maybe that was a good idea when couchDB was designed, but it made me feel uncomfortable in 2024. If anyone knows of an intermediate API-Layer for couchdb, please post.

mirambaon Everyone knows all the apps on your phone

Touching something on the left side, like a link, and let my finger touch the glass a tiny bit too long while pulling the finger back. Unwanted swiping happens to me all the time in all directions - may the developers use a touch screen for everything forever!

mirambaon Firefox Is Finally (Re)Adding Support for Web Apps

Thank you very much, Excalidraw is the best PWA implementation I have seen so far.

mirambaon Firefox Is Finally (Re)Adding Support for Web Apps

For the first time ever, it is possible to build an app that runs on anything that can run webkit. I use the same app on iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, Debian, even GrapheneOS. No AppStore, no account needed. I think it benefits or at least could benefit the end user a lot in the long term, but it hurts the walled/semiwalled gardens of MS, Apple and Google and their business. Which is why they seem so reluctant to support it better. How Firefox does not see this potential app freedom is beyond me.

mirambaon Firefox Is Finally (Re)Adding Support for Web Apps

Every PWA starts in a webpage, and you have to manually install it as PWA. If it's important for you to see the url, use it in the browser and don't install it? Installation only makes sense if the website/app is build for it.

mirambaon Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed

No! A cell is an incredibly complex machine and we have just begun to understand how it works! Admittedly, the wikipedia page for cells don‘t transfer that fact well (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_%28biology%29). I can‘t explain it all here, but yes, cells are essentially made of proteins and other organic compounds which have been found on that asteroid (and other asteroids before). But that is similar to the fact that a human is made of 14 chemical elements - it’s not telling you at all how the machine came to be and works. The Miller-Urey Experiment showed that those organic compounds could be created from anorganic material, which reversed the old belief that only organic matter can create organic compounds. But from there to a working, functional cell is still a long, looong way. Like, an aminoacid/ protein is a nail (and a plate, and a valve, and a million other components), a cell is a spaceship. That can harvest it’s environment and build new spaceships. Every living thing consists of cells, and we all go back to one first cell, that‘s the obvious conclusion when studying the system of life. But that first cell must have been incredibly complex, alone for the fact that it could take surrounding matter and build a new cell out of that.

mirambaon The Strategic Crypto Swindle

My credit card does that too, and I can buy things with it almost anywhere. There is also a system in place to restore access in case I forget the magic words.

mirambaon Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed

These findings show that biochemical compounds, once thought to be fragile and denaturate quickly in non-earth conditions, can apparently survive space conditions for a long time, even in universe metrics, so they could travel far. If they can, maybe cells can too. But that doesn‘t mean it‘s likely to find actual life on a random asteroid. Of course there is equal chirality in lifeless conditions. The ultimate question is: How did the first cell came to be? Everything after that seems explainable, if not predetermined. But that the first cell just randomly happened in the primordial soup - that looks extremely unlikely, yet it‘s the best explanation so far. If cells could travel on asteroids, it’s (equally? Less? Who could tell?) likely that the first cell just dropped here, intentionally or otherwise. Which would put the question of creation just to a different time and place. Somewhere in the universe, billions of years ago, life happened. Maybe it spread through the galaxy. Maybe sometimes a life carrying planet explodes, spreading asteroids with cells. Maybe some of them drop on planets with the right conditions. Given enough time, how unlikely is that as compared to random creation here?

mirambaon What Vivian Maier saw in color (2018)

…and she will never know how famous she became! Here is a true artist, one that never seeked to be appreciated as one. I’m such a fan.

mirambaon Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

How the mighty have fallen. The 20th century was the american century, the 21st doesn't look like it lately. This is an empire in decline.

mirambaon Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodynamics library

I learned about „lox“ in NYC, a native told me it comes from jiddish, which is kind of a german dialect.

mirambaon Lox – Oxidized Astrodynamics – A safe, ergonomic astrodynamics library

Can I build a solar system simulator with this? Looking for calculating the absolute positions of planets and moons with the sun at 0,0,0 given a datetime. Kepler calculations for planets, moons etc would be fine, as long as I can insert arbitrary objects and calculate their trajectory using gravity. Can this project do that?

mirambaon Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI

Rather than discussing crazy Elon, I would like to hear insights on what this means? Why does he want OpenAI? Is there a chance to ever get this money back? Who is financing this after the twitter failure?

mirambaon A bookmarklet to kill sticky headers (2013)

Same here, and I want the sticky Safari bottom tool bar back! Why is that not configurable?

mirambaon Ötzi the Lyme Mummy (2019)

Interesting! I admit that I never saw a study like that. I tried googling it unsucessfully so I asked chatgpt:

Caclculate the average life span of french kings who died on natural causes in the last 1000 years. Please return a single number.

* The average lifespan of French kings who died of natural causes over the last 1000 years is approximately 58 years.

This number reflects those kings who did not die in battle, through assassination, or from other violent causes, focusing instead on those who died due to illness, old age, or other non-violent factors. *

Assuming that chatgpt can read wikipedia pages correctly, it seems that you are right, thanks! If you happen to have links for those archeological studies, I‘d gladly read them.

mirambaon Ötzi the Lyme Mummy (2019)

_Examination…put his likely age to be around 45. This was a good age considering the short life expectancy 5300 years ago.

I think this is an urban myth.

Edit: Seems like I was thinking wrong, see below.

The average life expectancy 200 years ago (ie the time we did comprehensive and complete records of births and deaths of a population) was indeed much lower than today. But a huge part of that was a high child mortality rate of around 50% until adolescence was reached. Once a person grew beyond that age, it‘s life expectancy was just a few years below of where we are today. There is no reason to believe that this was different a few millenias ago. The reason that child mortality dropped substantially around the end of the 19th century was 1. the discovery of the importance of hygiene and 2. antibiotics.

mirambaon OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor

Upvoted not because I agree, but I think it‘s a valid question that shouldn‘t be greyed out. My kids dream job is youtube influencer, I don‘t like it but can I blame them? It‘s money for nothing and the chicks for free.

mirambaon Ask HN: Why buy domains and 301 redirect them to me?

Scams on every possible level - the internet has become so depressing.

mirambaon Show HN: NotepadJs – A cross-platform love letter to Notepad

I would recommend TextMate: https://macromates.com

It's feature-rich, but it just shows´an empty text window on startup. Can't remember if that's the default or I configured it that way.

For larger text files I use vscode.

mirambaon Show HN: NotepadJs – A cross-platform love letter to Notepad

Yes, this API is only available in Chrome and Edge on PCs it seems: https://caniuse.com/?search=filesystem%20access%20api

mirambaon Sonos CEO steps down after app update debacle

I did not know that, thanks. But still - if I have to research now how to do that it‘s still going in the wrong direction, no? Besides, it‘s rare that Apple gives a choice, usually you have to adapt at whatever they decide.

mirambaon Cannonball: An enhanced OutRun engine

If anyone has an M1 binary…

mirambaon Show HN: Scratch Earth - explore, uncover and compete in real life

Thought that was a cool idea. Downloaded, opened - mandatory login before even looking at it? No thanks, deleted.

mirambaon Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model

Not sure what you are trying to say - my point was that ie the question "is crime up or down" is not a yes/no answer. Depending on the input, you can easily create a statistic pointing in any direction. I think abtinf elaborated better on that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42628198 My personal highpoint in using statistical methods was probably implementing an analysis of variance for thousands of lab values (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_of_variance).

mirambaon Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model

What about them, and how was your debate class? Can you measure the time of day an organism died with radiocarbon dating? This rhethorical question is meant as a hint. Did you know how they calibrated radiocarbon at first? They used wine bottles from french cellars, because they have a year printed on them. That's scientific verification, because believe doesn't do it.

mirambaon Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model

I wasn‘t aware that society means surgery. Likewise that veiled means literal. By extension, ethnic cleansing probably means giving certain parts of a population a well deserved bath?

Edit: I did not want to imply that you meant it that way. But in a different context, or coming from the wrong person, it may sound like a dog whistle.