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thunderbong··on Scientists mapped all the nerves of the clitoris for the first time
I was also so sure I'd seen this earlier.

Clicking on 'past' also didn't show any results. Neither did Algolia help. I guess that's because both the title and the site are different.

Have been seen this happening many times lately on HN.

thunderbong··on Why Inventing Color TV Was So Difficult [video]
Thanks for the Tintin reference! I immediately knew what you mentioned as that panel flashed in my mind.

I don't know what it is about the Tintin comics, but for many of the fans, the panels are so strongly memorable even after so many years, is quite amazing.

thunderbong··on I Built an SMS Gateway with a $20 Android Phone – Jonno.nz
There are so many interesting things that can be done with an Android phone. Tomorrow, if the Google Play store decides not to publish this app, I can still install it via the APK file. I wonder how many of these apps will be usable after Google's new rules about sideloading.
thunderbong··on Scientists crack a 20-year nuclear mystery behind the creation of gold
This isn't Reddit
thunderbong··on The Windows equivalents of the most used Linux commands
F7
thunderbong··on Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial
Did you mean revanced?
thunderbong··on Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial
Yes, it is. You just have to visit a dimly lit restaurant or bar with a nice big window facing the street. You'll see everyone mesmerised with what's happening outside during the day. The same place will might end up being a great conversation place after dusk!
thunderbong··on Opera: Rewind The Web to 1996 (Opera at 30)
Vivaldi is it's rightful heir

https://vivaldi.com/

thunderbong··on Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
1. Make it really easy to set up OAuth

2. Make it work on Ubuntu seamlessly

(eg. fix these kind of issues - https://cockpit-project.org/faq.html#error-message-about-bei...)

3. Have it work behind a web server way more easily. This should be a straightforward configuration option error installing.

(https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit/wiki/Proxying-Coc...)

thunderbong··on Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
Thank you!
thunderbong··on Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers
I've used Cockpit and quite like it. Very clean way to get the full picture of the system.

However, I was wondering if there was any way to login using an SSH key rather than a password?

I could of course pipe it via SSH. But is there any way we can authenticate using SSH on the web?

Maybe someone here can help?

thunderbong··on David Altrath Photography Diary
Really beautiful photography. The play of light and contrasts are captured so well. Favourited!
thunderbong··on Show HN: Pgit – A Git-like CLI backed by PostgreSQL
And fossil itself is an SQLite database!
thunderbong··on Jeff Bezos wants Washington Post’s newsroom budget halved, productivity doubled
https://archive.ph/jDX3O
thunderbong··on The Browser Becomes Your WordPress
This is a very interesting take.

From the article:

> Because sites on my.WordPress.net are private by default and not accessible from the public internet, they don’t behave like traditional websites. They aren’t optimized for traffic, discovery, or presentation, and they don’t need to be. Instead, WordPress becomes a personal environment where ideas can exist before they are ready to be shared, or where they may never be shared at all.

One of the main ideas of the internet, and therefore WordPress, is to be able to share stuff on the public internet.

Without that capability, I wonder who would this be targeted towards. For personal note taking there are numerous software already out there.

thunderbong··on I traced $2B in nonprofit grants, lobbying records for age verification bills
Dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362528

thunderbong··on The MacBook Neo
For existing Mac owners.
thunderbong··on How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier
This is s privately owned company
thunderbong··on LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown
I got really excited that I would be able to write in Markdown.

Unfortunately, from the article:

> Markdown import and export features.

thunderbong··on Beagle, a source code management system that stores AST trees
Care to elaborate?
thunderbong··on The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
Both the books and the song analogies are incorrect. In the case of code, the users for whom the programmes are written, are not engaging with the statements of the code, they are interacting with interfaces the programmes provide.

This is not the same when it comes to books and music.

thunderbong··on Dbslice: Extract a slice of your production database to reproduce bugs
This is extremely valuable. Every time we get a problem which we are not able to reproduce, usually an extreme edge case, we end up getting our entire production DB replicated to get to the error.

I'll surely try this. Thanks for posting it here.

thunderbong··on Iranian Students Protest as Anger Grows
https://archive.ph/P3QFa
thunderbong··on Dear Comrade Xi
Thank you. Didn't know about this. Very interesting.

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

thunderbong··on AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet
Looks to me that the issue is with the PR process, not with open-source.

From the article -

> It's gotten so bad, GitHub added a feature to disable Pull Requests entirely. Pull Requests are the fundamental thing that made GitHub popular. And now we'll see that feature closed off in more and more repos.

I don't have a solution for this, I'm pointing to the flaw in the assumption that AI is destroying open-source.

thunderbong··on Why "just prompt better" doesn't work
For me this was telling -

> Coding agents are designed to be accommodating, it doesn’t push back against prompts since it neither has the authority nor the context to do so. It may ask for clarifications upon what was specified, but it won’t say “wait, have you considered doing X instead?” A human developer would, or at least, they’d raise a flag. An LLM produces plausible output and moves on.

> This trait may be desirable as a virtual assistant, but it makes for a bad engineering teammate. The willingness to engage in productive conflict is part and parcel to good engineering: it helps broaden the search in the design space of ideas.

Whenever non-technical people ask me about LLMs, I tell them this - The goal of an LLM is not to give you correct answers. The goal of an LLM is to continue the conversation.

thunderbong··on Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly
If you select Search > Advanced from the menu, you get a window where you can enter the content to search for. This is available in the normal as well as the alpha version.
thunderbong··on India's female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
They might also be doing it for the sake of a better future for their children, not just for themselves.
thunderbong··on Ask HN: Notification Overload
There was a recent Show HN [0] on this for Android, showcasing DoNotNotify [1] -

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499646

[1]: https://donotnotify.com/

thunderbong··on A lot of population numbers are fake
The main tweet the article is referring to

https://x.com/BonesawMD/status/2010343792126128535

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