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numbasyson HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

> push to a VPS, secure, harden, optimize

In my opinion this is the part that's holding back _a lot_ more people from publishing. It's a barrier that's surely about to fall. Still interested what steps you took (and manually, or Claude did it all?)

numbasyson The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

Soon: The super-intelligent AI is telling us to cover parking lots and other flat roofs in solar panels.

numbasyson In Praise of Idleness (1932)

Thank you for this!

numbasyson I am rich and have no idea what to do

For the author: Getting all that money without the life experience to build some values or ambitions for your impact on the world is proof enough that your fortune is just random luck. There are millions who have put more thought into life and had no financial reward for it. Give it to them, or get a life for yourself. Then you'll know what to do.

numbasyson Loyalty at work no longer pays – and it's employers who are to blame

In Europe though 15 days would be illegal. You'd start day one with 5 weeks. Minimum. Plus bank holidays.

numbasyson Google no longer offers new domain registrations

Out of interest, how did you see that coming? The discussions I remember here on HN were full of people wondering why, and being generally blindsided by the news...

numbasyson Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled

So, you're saying you want to live in Europe.

numbasyson MRI brain images become 64M times sharper

Sure, isogenic cohorts, if the lives of living creatures is valueless, that's fine. Better to work towards in-vivo whenever possible, in my opinion.

numbasyson MRI brain images become 64M times sharper

Yes, several hours per image. This resolution is still an achievement. But in vivo images (alive) are much more useful as they enable longitudinal studies, but obviously far more challenging to get anything close to good resolution in a mouse. More like 150 micron in alive, sedated mouse brains, even from 9.4T.

numbasyson Reversing UK mobile rail tickets

That's a good point and another reason to encourage it. It would boost rail over road, which makes far more sense.

numbasyson EVs Are Essential Grid-Scale Storage

If you're a consumer in the UK, and thinking about an EV, consider Octopus Energy's Go tariff: https://octopus.energy/go/. They also offer a salary sacrifice scheme to buy EVs: https://octopusev.com/, because this grid-supplementing storage is part of their offering, I think.

Concerns such as, "will my car be charged in the morning -- or for that emergency hospital run?" are considered, I believe, and you can set things like a "minimum charge" with smart chargers.

numbasyson My bad habit of hoarding information

This is a valuable reply because it describes my own experience so well. Thank you.