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peer2pay··on Claude: System Prompts
What are these other places?
peer2pay··on Power companies are using eminent domain to seize land for data centers
I’m not too deep into the matter but don’t they all have to wait in the interconnection queue first anyway? My understanding is that that alone will take some years
peer2pay··on Pac-Man, but you're the ghost
Back in the glory days of hackathons my now-wife and I wrote a multiplayer version of pac-man where one player controlled pac-man and the other was a ghost.

We didn’t quite manage to make it fun to play but it sure was a huge amount of fun hacking it together!

peer2pay··on Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
Yeah great idea! Let’s also just legalise recreational fentanyl while we’re at it
peer2pay··on California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy
How do canned peaches cause Alzheimer’s?
peer2pay··on Winners of the 2026 Kokuyo Design Awards
Nothing more ironic than an article about conscious writing that’s entirely written by AI.
peer2pay··on The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law
Social policies and a clean environment is what I want
peer2pay··on Addiction Markets
Meanwhile Mr POTUS himself wants to introduce prop betting in his social media platform.

Don’t expect anything to change anytime soon

peer2pay··on Trump pardons convicted Binance founder
Because it sets a precedent
peer2pay··on Oxford loses top 3 university ranking in the UK
iirc the Times ranking has always been garbage as it weighs some "student experience" metric way too high. Do I really care about the result of some online survey equally or more than the academic achievement of the staff?

Back when I chose a UK university to attend, I valued the QS ranking much higher.

peer2pay··on Hire People Who Care (2020)
I’ve never agreed with a title and then disagreed with the content more than this article.

Jokes on you, I care a lot about my work and can still get it done in 5 hours a day.

peer2pay··on A new, faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant appears from German lab
Calling TNG a lab is a bit funny to me. It’s a consulting company that lets people hack on stuff between placements.
peer2pay··on Show HN: We moved from AWS to Hetzner, saved 90%, kept ISO 27001 with Ansible
My memory might be off here but wasn’t the initial AWS "cheaper" promise only made vs buying & maintaining your own hardware?
peer2pay··on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
It has to be a cost thing. HLS is so insanely optimised down to the hardware level that adding any kind of compute for targeting would increase costs exponentially.

I’m not too deep into it anymore but there’s some great articles from Netflix out there talking about the crazy optimisations done to their edge servers for streaming.

peer2pay··on Ask HN: What do you spend your money on?
I mean true, fair point but OP asked what I spent my money on and it’s travel, as described.

Could I also buy a new laptop? Yeah sure, but I don’t because I don’t value it as much.

peer2pay··on Ask HN: What do you spend your money on?
Food and (international) travel almost exclusively.

Currently on the third $10k+ trip with my wife in 18 months but don’t have a car and am still using my laptop from 2014. Main reason is that I feel like I have my whole life to buy X or Y but only have the time and energy to travel long distances while young.

peer2pay··on Europe launches program to lure scientists away from the US
Out of everything wrong in this comment the funniest one is "Even Amazon orders […] suck"

Care to elaborate? Last time I was in the US my prime order took over a week to be delivered because it had to get shipped from a warehouse in rural Ohio to San Diego. Here in Germany you get absolutely everything next day because the country is about the size of an average US state.

peer2pay··on Can Earth's rotation generate power? Physicists divided over controversial claim
Calling Chernobyl a minor accident is insane. We are lucky it wasn’t worse but even then most of Europes forests are still polluted from the fallout. People directly killed during the incident is not a great indicator of incident severity when we're talking about environmental pollutants.

Nobody died from installing asbestos insulation yet here we are.

peer2pay··on Aluminum batteries outlive lithium-ion with a pinch of salt
80% SoH is the de-facto industry standard for EoL/replacement. Mostly because after that you will eventually get a "knee-point" in your degradation curve at which operation is risky and largely inefficient.

Without knowing specifics, your MBP might have had issues with an individual cell such that initial capacity dropped significantly until the cell was disconnected.

peer2pay··on Show HN: How to leverage Claude's capabilities with interactive visualization
I think the idea here is to build a thin layer but BYOD.

I currently work for a company where most our value add lies in the data collection, cleaning and running of proprietary algorithms. A UI like this would be a game changer for us and something that Anthropic couldn’t easily replicate due to all the IP in our data pipeline.

peer2pay··on Using AI to fight insurance claim denials
Kudos to her for making this open source and free to users!
peer2pay··on Ask HN: Why are people paying so much for Vercel?
> (AWS) is just a layer on top of (bare metal servers), and they charge 100-200% more than what (random bare metal server provider) charges

The answer is the same: Convenience, SLAs, layers of abstraction…

peer2pay··on Ant Design – the second most popular React UI framework
I find it hard to recommend the Angular port going forward, or at least until the Ant Design 5 sync has been made.

For those who don’t know, last year Ant Design (the design system behind both component libraries) underwent a major redesign from version 4.x to 5. This redesign didn’t just change the look & interactions but also fundamentally reworked the theming options through simplified and more comprehensive style tokens.

ng zorro still hasn’t adopted this new redesign or given a timeline/reasoning despite the GitHub issue currently being the most upvoted active one.

Not blaming the maintainers here, I understand this isn’t a simple endeavour and I’m in no position to complain since I don’t contribute but I would be very hesitant to chose ng zorro right now given the uncertainty of the situation.

peer2pay··on I Rented Out a Movie Theatre (Again) and Used My Steam Deck to Play Co-Op Games
Smash ultimate has notoriously bad netcode so playing on this setup locally was probably a step up in terms of latency
peer2pay··on Gems of Tailwind CSS
Sorry for being pedantic but that’s not components that’s just global classes. Bootstrap anyone?
peer2pay··on Google: Angular and Wiz Are Merging
The announcement post for Angular 17 included a few sentences about this [1]

We deprecated legacy components in v15 to be removed in v17. Even though they’ll not be part of the Angular Material v17 package, you can still update your apps to Angular v17 and use the v16 Angular Material package. This will be an option until v18, after which Angular Material v16 will no longer be compatible with newer versions of Angular.

[1] https://blog.angular.io/introducing-angular-v17-4d7033312e4b

peer2pay··on Google: Angular and Wiz Are Merging
No but Angular 17 is backwards compatible with @angular/material@16 so you can upgrade Angular without having to upgrade Material [1]. We currently run @angular/core@17.0.8 and @angular/material@16.2.12 in production without problems.

In the end this only buys you another 6 months but helped us get ready for Angular 18 in May.

[1] https://blog.angular.io/introducing-angular-v17-4d7033312e4b

peer2pay··on Google: Angular and Wiz Are Merging
You can upgrade all the way to Angular 17 without having to adopt the new MDC components. Only this May with Angular 18 support for the legacy components will be dropped completely.

That’s the reason we’re currently migrating all our remaining usages of Material components to ng-zorro.

peer2pay··on Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>
I have nostalgia for a lot of things in webdev, hacking together floating layouts is not one of them. /s

But congrats on the work! I can definitely see this being useful for text formatting and layouting PDFs. Neat!

peer2pay··on Airbus electric air taxi makes its debut
When is a helicopter an "air taxi" now?

Don’t get me wrong, electric helicopter/glider hybrids are cool tech but this just seems like an existing product repackaged to sound futuristic.

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