tech-historian

This blog post renders horribly on my Chrome browser. Then I realized it's because Ghostery is blocking a lot of it. Looks okay in Incognito mode.

If your site doesn't load basic UI elements because they're designated as ads, you're not doing it right.

This is really cool. Bravo! Fun to explore all around.

Only feedback I have is very minor. Some map dots seem to be cities, rather than events. Though, perhaps it is the founding of those cities? I'm looking at Mississauga, Quinte West, Kawartha Lakes, etc (in Canada). However, looking deeper, this does make a lot of sense for bigger cities, and as I scroll the timeline -- this is useful! I guess it's a judgement call on how big of a city to include.

Excellent work on this.

100% agree. Casual mode would be a winner.

I've noticed that Claude always defaults to really small text. They need to train readability into it.

Somewhat related: Patrick Winston's famous MIT How to Speak lecture. He's been giving this talk for 4 decades

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY

Is Apple silicon really that impressive compared to LLMs? Take a step back. CPUs have been getting faster and more efficient for decades.

Google invented the transformer architecture, the backbone of modern LLMs.

They also lied about having 100+ contributors to PearAI.

> A reassuring line that said Sonos ‘does not and will not sell personal information’ has disappeared [from their privacy policy]

The crux of the issue. How value is customer data really? I know very little about this.

How much influence did Teenage Engineering have on this product? Did TE just design the physical aspects only?

Interesting to see an entire article based on an HN comment [0] from the CEO.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38145997

Very cool. Tried it out, it works!

A diet that you can follow forever is called a lifestyle. For many diets and many people, it's really hard to convert into a lifestyle, because the of the restrictions and predictable cravings.

Side note, there's a thing called the Potato Hack [0] that proposes 3-5 day potato-only diets for short term fixes. A "potato fast" if you will.

[0] https://potatohack.com/

I just read thousands of words about a potato-based diet on that website. Didn't think my Tuesday was gonna start that way, but here we are. HN is amazing.

Keeping my eyes peeled on this. Really fascinating.

Creator of the site here. Thanks for posting! I've been meaning to update things with newer screenshots. Life gets in the way sometimes.

> I'm sure they'll get there in another year or so.

Unlikely, if you read the article.

From the article: "Modem chips are trickier to make than processing chips because they must work seamlessly with 5G wireless networks, as well as the 2G, 3G and 4G networks used in countries around the world, each with its own technological quirks. Apple microprocessors run software programs designed solely for its iPhones and laptops."

Also: "[Apple's modem] chips were essentially three years behind Qualcomm’s best modem chip. Using them threatened to make iPhone wireless speeds slower than its competitors."

Brilliant! I hadn't seen that one, thank you!

This phenomenon generally cracks me up, where you see random (to me) english phrases sprinkled throughout foreign languages. SNL leaned into this, in a skit with Pedro Pascal speaking spanish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkmlfHi9Ll4

Thank you :)

TFA mentions "UA platform" several times but doesn't mention what that means. Can someone enlighten me? Google isn't disambiguating things much either. Thx!

Fan of these interesting APIs, even if they feel experimental. Google also used to have a Flu Trends API [1], based on search query data in 25 countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Flu_Trends

Apparently that site was created by (now-famous) comedian/actress Chelsea Peretti.

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=125566&page=1

His other stuff is amazing too. For example, this water scene. You can click inside the water to splash it around!

https://oimo.io/works/water3d/

Cloth is very cool too.

https://oimo.io/works/cloth/

Jelly: click on the sphere to tear it apart.

https://oimo.io/works/jelly/

This is the only French archaeologist I've ever known [1]. It's nice to supplement the collection in my brain.

[1] https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Emile_Belloq

Sounds nostalgic and all, but the temp was near 0 in many places throughout the US. Not a fun time to be sleeping in the back of a U-Haul truck.

That's very kind of you to ask!

There is the Buy Me a Coffee page, where you can donate if you like. Thank you!

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/IR7p0Dg

Probably the thing I feel best about is the museum I made with my son that educates people about how older versions of websites, operating systems, and apps used to look:

https://www.versionmuseum.com/

I don't want people to forget our "technology heritage," if that makes sense.

Does WhatsApp have a global ad sales team? Sales is generally a large portion of the workforce in a large-ish media company.

Well, Twitter's no longer public so they won't benefit from any long term stock price appreciation. I wonder if there's any other bonus structure in place, or if Elon plans to cut everything to the bone.