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taraparo··on Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure game
No, you did not build an AI. You just vibe-coded a glorified frontend around someone else's AI.
taraparo··on Show HN: I built an AI that turns any book into a text adventure game
You may have created a nice frontend for an AI. You did not create an AI as claimed.
taraparo··on Polycompiler: Merge Python and JavaScript code into one file that runs in both
You could also write your app in Haxe instead and cross compile to Javascript, Python, C++, Java, Lua,...
taraparo··on Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI
Compilers, linters, test frameworks, Benchmarks, CIs do the fact checking.
taraparo··on Avoiding skill atrophy in the age of AI
Before AI, I was googling and stackoverflowing the sh_t out of the internet because of subpar/absent/outdated documentation or obscure APIs of a lot of OSS libraries/frameworks. Now I am priming the sh_t out of AI prompts for the same stuff. I don't see much difference, except now I get results faster and more to the point.
taraparo··on [dead]
The Eclipse Foundation has been experiencing a significant infrastructure outage since April 21, 2025, affecting several core services. While the main website (eclipse.org) remains operational, key components such as the account management system (accounts.eclipse.org), and download servers have been impacted. The root cause has been identified as a storage-related issue, leading to disruptions in authentication and access to Eclipse-hosted tools and services.

As of April 24, 2025, there has been no detailed public explanation or estimated time for full recovery.

taraparo··on Decreased CO2 during breathwork: emergence of altered states of consciousness
I encourage you and everyone else interested to attend a Holotropic Breathwork session to truly grasp the profound impact your breath can have on your mind. This is nothing like your regular five-minute yoga breathing exercise, boxed breathing, or even the Wim Hof breathing. It's a completely different level. These sessions typically last 3 to 5 hours and take place in a safe, supportive setting with a dedicated sitter and experienced facilitators.

And please don’t try this stuff alone at home.

taraparo··on How the 2025 US Financial Crisis is Different than 2008
In a hundred years Netherlands is probably underwater.
taraparo··on 670nm red light exposure improved aged mitochondrial function, colour vision
I have one of those https://www.eye-power.co.uk/

While I like the sensation using it I don't feel any noticeable effect.

taraparo··on Compiling Java into native binaries with Graal and Mill
You can e. g. create ARM builds on x86 using qemu but the compilation takes ages.
taraparo··on Bluesky now has 30 million users
Doesn't mean anything. Facebook used to support XMPP.
taraparo··on Lenovo has removed the TrackPoint nub from new ThinkPad laptops
TrackPoint is the only reason that keeps me buying ThinkPads.
taraparo··on Free Software Needs Free Tools (2010)
GitLab is open core not open source. Forgejo is true OSS.
taraparo··on Surrealism, cafes and lots of cats: why Japanese fiction is booming
Reminds me a bit of the latest video of Chris Niebauer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_Dq5512MIE where he talks about the mind wandering upgrade through smart phones and social media. with the help if these tools the brain can offload the task of simulating/imagening things into the real world.
taraparo··on Prince Nico Mbarga’s biggest hit outsold any of The Beatles’ (2017)
Very different rent but this reminds me of the story of the US musician Sixto Rodríguez. Who became very popular in South African without him knowing. I recommend watching the documentary "Searching for Sugar Man" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searching_for_Sugar_Man
taraparo··on Study reveals blood sugar control is a key factor in slowing brain aging
So low sugar to slow down brain aging and low protein to slow down body aging https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-39...

what to eat?

taraparo··on The new CSS property that boosts your rendering performance (2020)
why is a manual property needed. why is the browser engine not able to figure out what is off-screen?
taraparo··on Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture (2022)
Motivate the authors of your favorite vscode extensions to publish them at https://open-vsx.org/
taraparo··on A Real Life Off-by-One Error
The number on your yearly "birthday" is not the number of birthdays you had (you only have one birthday) but the number of years you survived since your birth.

So the day of your fifth birthday is the first day of your sixth year alive.

taraparo··on Jelly Star – The Smallest Android 13 Smartphone
esp. for such a small device a better screen to body ratio would be desirable.
taraparo··on Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)
It is the opposite. Market timing does not work reliably. Active management produces worse results on the long run. no individual trader or active manager can consistently beat the market. however active fonds may have periods (even several years) where they out perform.

for private investors buy-and-hold of highly distributed ETFs is the best way to do it. The easiest way to get started is a one ETF portfolio like e. g. Vanguard FTSE All World or SPDR MSCI ACWI IMI. They perform internal rebalancing automatically and you virtually have nothing to do. buy them and don't look at them for the next 20 years.

taraparo··on Tau: Open-source PaaS – A self-hosted Vercel / Netlify / Cloudflare alternative
https://www.talos.dev/
taraparo··on Tau: Open-source PaaS – A self-hosted Vercel / Netlify / Cloudflare alternative
Wouldn't using talos be better than having to run this on custom managed ubuntu servers?
taraparo··on Open-Source No-Code Tools with the Most GitHub Stars
The list is missing the most important information: The OSS license.

Also important are number of active committers and if they actually accept outside PRs.

taraparo··on Voice Isolator: Strip background noise for film, podcast, interview production
I prefer https://product.supertone.ai/clear which is one time payment and not subscription based.
taraparo··on Can you inherit memories from your ancestors?
When memory is made by modifying DNA according to https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00930-y and we inherit DNA, then we probably also somehow inherit some form of memories.
taraparo··on Ilya Sutskever: “If you learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters”
Would be nice if someone put those into an llm and generate a single coherent document with all the essential knowledge.
taraparo··on Sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces
Try Mack's silicon earplugs. they are not to be placed inside the ear canal but only to cover the entrance from the outside. so no unpleasant pressure, no heart beating etc. using them for years.
taraparo··on Tiny Undervalued Hardware Companions
Still looking for a high quality usb-c to audio jack adapter for my Galaxy S24, So far I only encountered garbage at Amazon et al.
taraparo··on Boring Python: dependency management (2022)
Coming from Java/Maven I was amazed to see the obscure mess in Python world regarding dependency management. After trying all available tools I finally settled on pdm. I also found it to be more intuitive than poetry.
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