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neveson Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams

Yt-dlp os a powerhouse of the free internet. To break free from walled gardens, I've started to use Seal, an open source F-Droid Android app. It's just a shell over yt-dlp. Unfortunately it started to fail to download some videos. Do you have any tips for better use?

neveson Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own

Whyv does a game console need a slow e-ink display?

neveson I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI

A coworker just spend a weekend with AI analysing his image data. No problem detected. The official diagnosis came later: he had a serious degenerative problem.

These models don't have curated image exams in their training data. Your can't trust them.

neveson Greece Is Richer. So Why Do So Many Greeks Still Feel Poor?

Sometimes I think economists don't know what a median is.

neveson 'Careless People' author claims Meta surveilled her for 12mos to enforce silence

I'm interested that people still work for Facebook

neveson 22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'

First step for a great features: movies hated by people you despise

neveson Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

Summarizing for you: Anthropic is a stupid company that let everybody steal their tokens

neveson Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

It makes no sense.

These China e bashing is very annoying. It is hard to argue with people drowned in American propaganda. I'd expect better arguments from the intelligent people in HN

neveson Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities

So said the guys who "extracted" knowledge from all pirated books

neveson FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

Does It work for non English languages?

neveson The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs

What a marvelous piece of visualization. Best in class

neveson The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs

They also drink a lot more fuel and contributing for co2 emissions. Thank you Americans for destroying Earth

neveson Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

Would we alive

neveson I used sound waves to make espresso

Yes, that's why.

If it was by an American, i wouldn't trust a research about coffee

neveson Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/bike-helmets/when-you...

Not necessarily:

But if you really like your old helmet—and it’s in good condition—one scientific study tested older helmets and showed that holding on to one for longer won’t necessarily put you at significant risk. Randy Swart, executive director of the nonprofit Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute and former vice chair of the helmet and headgear subcommittee for ASTM International, a nonprofit, voluntary standards-setting organization, says that his own helmet is “much older than that,” though he adds that there may be other good reasons to get a new helmet, such as more protective technology included in some newer models.

neveson Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

T Schumacher, the fórmula 1 champion, would be alone if he was using a MIPS helmet

neveson Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

For $15, everybody should buy both. It's a non issue

neveson Canyon HUD helmet for road riding

There are a lot of new safety bike tech gadgets. It's difficult to spot nice ones, like MIPS helmets, from the useless.

Do my fellow hacker news readers recommend some useful tech for bikes?

neveson I used sound waves to make espresso. It could cut coffee‑brewing energy use by ¾

The guy is from Colombia, so I can believe it is a good method

neveson US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

USA is blacklisting all Chinese companies

neveson Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

MV2 and MV3 is completely uninteresting for me. But you'll have to take my advblocker from my dead cold hands

neveson Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?

Probably podcasts killed them.

neveson Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

The current title is a lot better.

neveson Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

Will Brave, which is based in Chromium, still block ads? Since they are changing Chromium, I don't think so.

neveson Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds

Does it work just for English?

neveson Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass

I when they thought it was unethical to disguise an ad as search result.

neveson US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%

It depends on the country. Brazil, due to its hyperinflation days, has a lot of indexed prices. These are prices that automatically increase due to inflation. This makes the country to have so called inertial inflation, current inflation caused by past inflation, and also makes it more robust to a higher inflation.

neveson Vibe coding my way to a healthy family: Introducing Gamow Labs

Wait till he becomes a teenager to see what's really terrifying

Just a joke. It will be marvelous. Savoir the first years. It's a lot of work, bad sleeping nights, but you'll have fond memories for life.

neveson Why isn't the U.S. better at soccer?

Baseball appeal in a country is always a history lesson. You can measure how a country was fucked up by USA based in their love of baseball: - Cuba - Japan - Panama - Venezuela

No other country can like a sport this boring.

neveson Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?

Does anyone think of social media as free?