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piptasticon Issue links now open in a popup

Chrome also has split tabs since Feb '26

right click a link, open in split view

piptasticon Taste in the age of AI and LLMs

Effort is still (and probably will always be) the hardest thing to replace.

Any time someone says AI can do this, and do that, and blah blah. I say ok, take the AI and go do that.. the barrier to entry is so low you should be able to do whatever you want. And they say, oh, no, I don't want to do that (or can't, or whatever). But it should be able to be done.. And I just nod, and sip my drink, and ...

.. and I'd like to point out these are seasoned professionals that I've seen put in effort into other things in their careers that have the capacity to literally do whatever is they want to do, especially now.. and they choose not to do so, at least not without someone guaranteeing them a paycheck or telling them they have to do it to survive.

piptasticon Show HN: Sophomore at UMich, built an app with my dad

probably because they're using tailwind and indigo is the default for a lot of examples.

piptasticon Ask HN: What is nowadays (opensource) way of converting HTML to PDF?

same: google-chrome --headless --disable-gpu --no-pdf-header-footer --hide-scrollbars --print-to-pdf-margins="0,0,0,0" --print-to-pdf --window-size=1280,720 https://example.com

ended up using headless chrome specifically to make sure javascript things rendered properly

piptasticon Robots move Shanghai city block [video]

not quite the same scale area wise, but interesting nonetheless https://www.archdaily.com/973183/the-building-that-moved-how...

As for your actual question, I'm pretty sure we (US, Europe, humans in general) could do quite a bit more than we do now if we had a reason to do so. (or were 100% sure about the results)

piptasticon Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla

not sure i buy this is a trend yet, the article talks about 3 cases:

1 - vehicle wasn't involved and was about to be towed for footage as the article implies (owner came by and gave them footage during tow process)

2 - tesla was towed along with 2 other vehicles from a shootout in the parking lot (probably the cars were shot or had other evidence on them)

3 - the crime happened inside the tesla (was going to be towed regardless)

piptasticon Live NASA telescope feed for today's solar eclipse [video]

Estimates suggest that total solar eclipses could cease to occur in about 600 million years from now, give or take, depending on the precise nature of lunar recession and changes in Earth's rotation. This timeframe is long enough that many other changes on Earth and in the solar system will also occur, making the cessation of total solar eclipses just one of many transformations.

piptasticon Ask HN: 40yo adult learning to drive what is different vs. learning young?

When at a 4 way stop, the order is who arrived at the stop first (until there are none remaining). If two or more vehicles arrive at the same time, the vehicle on the right should go first.

So when you get to the stop, just look at everyone there and know that when the last one there is gone it's your turn.

piptasticon Catalyst – Tailwind CSS Application UI Kit

Yes, agreed. I used them earlier and the examples on the page use alpine, but the "copy code" doesn't have it. It's actually easier to just inspect/view source and take what they did from the examples than try to write your own.

piptasticon Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’

I think the major difference there is, those people are all running one company. So while they also had/have other people to run it, they were/are much more significantly involved.

piptasticon GNU nano is my editor of choice (2021)

Probably because it was an emulation of pico, which started another 10 years before that.

I started with pico and moved to nano.

piptasticon Hetzner subsea fibre cut outage

This has pretty good information on it, and a couple videos:

https://www.onesteppower.com/post/subsea-cable-repair

piptasticon Ask HN: When did 7 interviews become “normal”?

not really, plenty of talented lazy people out there

piptasticon The End of Online Anonymity (2019)

I don't think the premise evaporates. There's a solvable difference between checking an ID against a database of IDs you control, vs identifying the fakeness of any other piece of random information.

piptasticon New Zealand's bid to become a dark sky nation

Here's why from later down: “Light-pollution activists and governments have been very focused on street lighting, and that makes sense because it’s probably the biggest single source and the government has direct control over it,” Kyba said. “But my worry is that most of the growth in light is coming from other applications. If we want to reduce the environmental impact of outdoor lighting, it’s not good enough to change to LED streetlights and then stop. We need to think critically about all the different types of light sources there are.”

piptasticon New Zealand's bid to become a dark sky nation

Kyba and colleagues found that streetlights accounted for just 13 percent of the city’s total light visible after midnight. That number would jump to 18 percent if the city did not dim the lights. This means most of the light is coming from other types of artificial lighting.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148259/experimentin...

piptasticon Ask HN: How do you accept your place in the world?

If you want to write a crazy compiler, I’m sure you can if you go take the time to bother.

The problem with life is that you only have so much time to do what you want to do. So it’s up to you where you spend your efforts.

piptasticon Does this medieval fresco show a hallucinogenic mushroom in the Garden of Eden?

From your linked source on the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil:

Alternatively, some scholars have argued that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is just another name for the tree of life.

piptasticon Starlink review, four months in

Google was one of the frontrunners, Gmail was in beta for 5 years

piptasticon Getting to the Product Manager interview stage

probably just something like this:

[total year range] Name of Company

-> indent [year range of last position] position title

   duties, interesting projects

-> indent [year range of 2nd to last] position title

   duties, interesting projects

Maybe include months for the individual roles depending on how short the year ranges are

piptasticon How does one get hired by a top cybercrime gang?

Good idea, "how to search" should also be paired with filtering noise.

There's a ton of information now and it's not always intuitive to understand what information you should value and when.

piptasticon Companies may be punished for paying ransoms to sanctioned hackers

Which is why they should invest in these things before they happen, rather than respond.

Not every business deserves to be in business, either.

piptasticon Piano teacher gets copyright claim for Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata [video]

my thoughts would be:

- while building up your following on google, market your brand to your own site(s) as much as possible

- build brand an alternate streaming site(s)

- have a way to reach your followers in the event you get shut down - email list, etc. to inform your followers to switch to the alternate site

piptasticon CEO of Waymo John Krafcik is leaving

I don't know about 2100 but I've made some bets that self driving cars won't be available in the next 5 years.. 2 years ago.

piptasticon Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?

Hmm I can maybe understand why you think you’ll be a mid level dev without putting in hours.. you didn’t mention your location so not sure.

But why in the world can’t you afford to change jobs? Plenty of places need mid level devs and it doesn’t cost anything to change jobs.. in fact they usually pay you more.

piptasticon The U.S. Divorce Rate Has Hit a 50-Year Low

Yeah, getting married at 16-20 was pretty much the norm before. Women expecting to have careers instead of their parents just trying to get them married off. Just a whole mind-shift from 50 years ago.

piptasticon Doubts over a ‘possible sign of life’ on Venus

I thought this article did a good job of explaining the potential problems with the original findings.