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mircea··on Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
On HN does it capture both the HN post page and the target page?

E.g.: for this submission I would want both https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49743097 and https://github.com/asciimoo/hister captured.

mircea··on The last Romans are still around
Romanian sounds like Latin, not like Russian :)
mircea··on 2025 Nikon Small World in Motion Competition Winners
Your guess is correct. A 10x (typical) or 20x eyepiece would be used.
mircea··on Qwen3 – Coder
Besides the model, they've released an agentic CLI coding tool: https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code
mircea··on Qwen3 – Coder
Github link: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-Coder
mircea··on Pixel 6a gets a mandatory Android update next week with battery reduction
Same with my Pixel 6a. I wish they would provide more details about why it doesn't qualify.
mircea··on Keymapper: A cross-platform context-aware key remapper
It's a pity there isn't a software tool like this that can add random delays between key presses. It would be useful to prevent the kind of fingerprinting Deepseek does.

I researched such a tool yesterday but couldn't find one, so I created one using xte, but it's not really seamless.

mircea··on Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study
> Lower stomach acid PH means the LES doesn’t close properly

I don't think that's correct. Lower stomach acid pH makes the LES close more tightly, with a max around pH==3.

mircea··on Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study
Acid reflux is due to too low stomach acid (too high pH). The lower esophageal sphincter closing as a response to acid (pH) is documented in the literature.
mircea··on Terrible popular websites waste your CPU and energy
I have used it, but it doesn't stop JS in background tabs, it unloads them which means that I'll have a multi-second delay when I focus the tab again. ATM I unload them manually, in bulk.

> I've always been a bookmark guy, and I don't know how you hundreds-of-tabs guys do it.

I use both. I use a modified version of TabsAside, but I also use multiple windows, one for each topic + general. The way I work, as I go through the relevant material for the current topic, I open new tabs in the background (to research later) so I don't interrupt my flow. Bookmarks are too much friction for this workflow.

mircea··on Terrible popular websites waste your CPU and energy
I wish I would have a way/setting to stop JS on tabs that are not in focus (without unloading them, and waiting for the reload when I focus them), maybe with a whitelist. I have plenty of memory.
mircea··on Terrible popular websites waste your CPU and energy
For me the most CPU is used by idle Youtube tabs in Firefox. Turns my whole browser into a janky mess, gets progressively worse the more time the Youtube tabs are left open/loaded.
mircea··on Why I'm Leaving Meta
Good catch, I missed that. I also think this adds to the evidence that this is fake and his HN account was compromised.
mircea··on Why I'm Leaving Meta
I don't know what's with the Medium username `peravi8126` but the article is also available at https://medium.com/@vjeuxx/why-im-leaving-meta-c3ab43491204
mircea··on My experience donating stem cells
Romania: Registrul National al Donatorilor Voluntari de Celule Stem Hematopoietice - https://registru-celule-stem.ro/
mircea··on FDA authorizes Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid vaccine boosters for all adults
FWIW, the current article title is "CDC vaccine advisers vote to recommend Covid-19 boosters for all adults" and the submission title is "FDA authorizes Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid vaccine boosters for all adults". It looks like it was updated/corrected after the submission.
mircea··on Scientists discover a highly potent antibody against SARS-CoV-2
Glad I could contribute something :)
mircea··on Scientists discover a highly potent antibody against SARS-CoV-2
That's a valid URL, AFAICT.

https://www.paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/

mircea··on The Future of Skype
> We believe the Skype experience should be seamless, accessible, and reliable no matter what browser or device you are using, so we are adding support for all browsers. We would like to make sure that no matter which device, platform, or browser you're using, Skype will always give you a great experience.

Yet, the Firefox logo is missing from the list.

mircea··on My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown
Without more details you're just announcing your biases to HN.
mircea··on My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown
How would you describe your psychological state before going to your first 10 day meditation retreat?
mircea··on Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1
From https://sites.google.com/site/udfintro/ :

> Although an implementation may use a journal to protect metadata integrity, this does not guarantee interoperability between platforms since it is not part of the standard.

it seems it's left up to the implementation.

mircea··on Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1
I've dug out some more details re:Windows 9p support. See under "How it works": https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-for-wsl...
mircea··on Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1
There's a real gem in that thread:

> FYI: There is also another cross-platform filesystem (Linux kernel, Windows NT kernel, Mac OS X kernel) suitable for hard disks too with POSIX permissions about which people do not know too much. It is UDF.

As I was struggling to find a way to share data between Linux/Windows with my gpu-passthrough setup, I'm excited to use this.

I think I've read something about 9p support in the latest Windows versions and I think QEMU supports 9p so that might become a good solution, too.

mircea··on Accurate, low-overhead per process bandwidth monitoring in 40 lines of bpftrace
Run the app in a separate netns and then you can create iptables/netfilter rules that match on that netns.
mircea··on A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space
It treats people like responsible adults, not like children to be told what to do and disciplined if they don't.
mircea··on LineageOS with F-Droid and no Google Apps
Any pointers to get SafetyNet to pass?
mircea··on A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s Android user space
Slightly OT, but the Prototype Fund has one of the best Codes of Conduct I've seen: https://prototypefund.de/en/code-of-conduct/.
mircea··on Digital Tools I Wish Existed
I think GP was being sarcastic.
mircea··on Chronic alcohol use reshapes the brain’s immune landscape
There's an interesting discussion around alcohol and hormetic stress. I can't provide a good summary of it in a comment but the wikipedia page is a good starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis.
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