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prenoob··on John Walker, founder of Autodesk, has died
Used to run his very code to do in-browser js encryption.. RIP
prenoob··on Cyberdecks (2013)
Applause for the cyberdeck that looks like a TI99/4A.. saved
prenoob··on Iridis Alpha Theory: The Making of a C64 Classic
neither did i but the speed was mesmerizing
prenoob··on WarGames was released today 40 years ago
I need to get me a TI99/4A
prenoob··on U.S. Hits Z-Library with New Domain Name Seizures
Just dropping my 2ç here. A lot of the debate i read on this article verges on the subject of piracy as in copyrights infringement. Let's not forget that these sites also carry an enormous amount of old, uncopyrighted, obscure, impossible to find texts that would otherwise be lost forever and that is a service that they pay for and ultimately benefits all of humanity.
prenoob··on The core problem with hamburger menus
Mobile changed UIs profoundly, screen real estate is at a premium and that's how we got to hamburger menus
prenoob··on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
I'm assuming you have several tanks with ph+ and ph- solutions? Are you using off the shelf ph sensors? How about EC?
prenoob··on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
Taking trainspotting to a new level, congratulations
prenoob··on OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over
I wasnt aware that it was his favorite story, thanks for posting it
prenoob··on Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
Writing from rome, italy.

These bureaucrats only pretend to work. The number of privacy violations in italy is staggering, i have to take 10 calls a day from power companies because they have access to all the phone number of anybody who has a gas or energy contract.

I had to change phone numbers. Meanwhile they are going against a service that as far as i know does not even require your name to serve you.

prenoob··on Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive?
My bash scripting game is now 1000% betterer thanks to GPT
prenoob··on Ocean Farming: Seaweed is having its moment in the sun
Indeed. There's a number of related videos on yt as well.
prenoob··on Show HN: I made a self-hosted ChatGPT UI
What I think i need is something like this, but in bookmarklet form. I click it, it prompt()s me for the prompt and displays the output in a textarea so i can quickly paste it. Thinking of it it should be possible to put the output straight into the clipboard, right? The use case of course would be email/forum communication. The problem is that you have to make a UI to embed the API key into the code, because pasting it into an urlencoded script is bound to be a pain.
prenoob··on Twitter was down
Well, the fail whale was a meme way before the musk era..
prenoob··on Show HN: OpenBB Terminal – Investment research for everyone
Most people who use terminals do it to trade fixed income products for one.
prenoob··on Raspberry Pi-to-Brain Interface
Fantastic initiative ! Deserves better coverage
prenoob··on Swarm M138 Modem
Not available everywhere yet, is it regulatory reasons or coverage? What satellites does it work with?
prenoob··on Gmail spam is out of control
been going on for a few months for me, some where obviously spottable, Tons of word.s.like.this in the subject and also random numbers a la 12895830
prenoob··on Ask HN: Are you tired of reading ChatGPT headlines?
Well, a few years ago it was 80% blockchain headlines, at least GPT has practical uses. If it bothers you, set yourself up with a custom rss reader that has kill words -- that's what i did when i was tired of cryptoheadlines.
prenoob··on Ask HN: Is Social Audio Dead?
Sorry for being pedantic but social audio is basically the telephone system and is more or less fully monetized.
prenoob··on Ask HN: SaaS Dashboard Tech Stack?
a dashboard is a front-end project that should work with any backend. There are plenty of ready made solutions, just google $yourfrontendframework + dashboard and you will see.
prenoob··on Show HN: Rest – Instant RESTful API on Any SQL Database
Nice, does it support JSON/JSONB fields for psql?

Edit after RTFM: it apparently does. https://rest-go.com/docs/guides/api#query-json-columns

prenoob··on Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only
Everything OP said plus kudos for keeping RSS alive !
prenoob··on Ask HN: Are you also using ChatGPT a lot every day for code related work?
i've used it a few times.

golang: 1 bug in 30 lines

d3.js : unusable output (tried several times)

expressjs: works like a charm

plotly.js: worked

bash scripts: awesome

prenoob··on Ask HN: What services/apps are you self-hosting?
GOGS, MQTT for IOT/tasmota devices, rwtxt, some tg bots, pgsql, an ethercalc fork, c9sdk, Codiad, redis+webdis, sqlpad
prenoob··on Outdoor Sound Propagation in the U.S. Civil War (1999)
OT but related: if the subject matter is of interest to you you may enjoy this book -> https://www.google.com/books/edition/Battlefield_Acoustics/O...
prenoob··on For sale: 8 hours/week of my time
It's invite only, though.
prenoob··on Italy, Intel close to $5B deal for chip factory
Well, if you call what is going on in italy "turmoil" I must remind you that no one has assaulted major political sites in their capitol in a decade, at least in a major way. Anyway who ever said that turmoil is mutually exclusive with engineering prowess?

To be entirely honest what italy has in terms of political situation is an excess of stability, but i digress.

Anyway the real issue in my view is that the EU chips act's investment size is anemic compared to the recent equivalent US initiative. But still it's a step in the right direction and the amount allocated to italy is so comparatively small as to be negligible.