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tony-allan··on Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
It would help if you posted some UI images for the web app so I could have a look without having to signup
tony-allan··on A Simple IP Geolocation API (free for non-commercial)
used by

  Outside: A multi-purpose weather client for your terminal
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44555025
  https://github.com/BaconIsAVeg/outside
  https://ip-api.status.io/
tony-allan··on A Simple IP Geolocation API (free for non-commercial)
Easy to use -- http://ip-api.com/json/ (but no TLS for this endpoint)

ToS says they do not log or use the gathered data.

tony-allan··on Monitoring My Homelab, Simply
I have AWS based services to monitor (servers/websites/etc) and use my homelab system to monitor resources that I am interested in.

I just use a simple script that is run every 60 seconds and a list of resources to check.

tony-allan··on Cloudflare Sandboxes
I am keen to understand how I would limit sandbox resource usage.
tony-allan··on Cloudflare Sandboxes
Also see https://www.npmjs.com/package/@cloudflare/sandbox
tony-allan··on AI job replacement: Is the apocalypse coming for IT work?
“A profound shift is taking place where technology can no longer be thought of as simply a tool to support the business. It has to be thought of as a tool that’s going to innovate the business. With that shift, the traditional role of an engineer will disappear and will be replaced by engineers who understand human interaction and behaviors with technology, because the creation of the technology itself will be done by AI and AI agents. The new breed of engineers will be behavioral experts who develop and deploy tools so people can achieve peak productivity as fast as technologically feasible.”
tony-allan··on AI job replacement: Is the apocalypse coming for IT work?
“... The smart move is to redesign work, not reduce headcount. Shift people to the things machines can’t touch: judgment, trust, creativity, relationships.”
tony-allan··on A literary magazine accessible only via telnet
On MacOS...

nc issue3.anewsession.com 23

tony-allan··on A Phone (That's Not a Phone) to Help You Stop Using Your Phone
https://methaphone.com/
tony-allan··on Vera C. Rubin Observatory First Look Watch Parties
The Vera C Rubin Observatory is about to show us the universe like never before

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-06-22/vera-rubin-ob...

tony-allan··on We're Still Underestimating What AI Means
I'm still in the camp of AI being a great tool, especially for software developers.

"It's an inflection point in the story of life on Earth." — seems a bit too much for me based on where the technologies is today.

tony-allan··on Ask HN: Is HN slowly starting to experience enshitification?
My subjective ratio of good to bad links is better than almost every other website I visit. Keep up the good work HN!
tony-allan··on Skim: The implementation of functional languages using custom hardware
1985
tony-allan··on As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook
All true but I find that a pen and paper and a couple of diagrams help me think and solidify an idea.
tony-allan··on As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook
There is another interesting linked post…

https://hamatti.org/posts/how-i-take-work-notes-as-a-develop...

tony-allan··on Ask HN: Why is almost every YouTuber trying to waste our time?
This would be a perfect use for AI — summarise a video in a minute or two!
tony-allan··on 'Unauthorized' change to Grok made it blather on about 'White genocide'
This is interesting... System prompts that are used for the Grok chat assistant...

https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts

tony-allan··on Dotless Domains
Website is currently rate limited.

https://archive.is/MDRWw

tony-allan··on Replit Hacked Its Growth – Everything that you can adopt
https://www.productgrowth.blog/p/how-replit-hacked-its-growt...
tony-allan··on ARMv8 instruction set overview [pdf]
Date of Issue: 11 November 2011
tony-allan··on Ask HN: Why is there no better protocol support for WiFi captive portals?
A great way to manage bandwidth by delivering a really subpar user experience.
tony-allan··on Default styles for h1 elements are changing
Oops. Perhaps I need to read the article again!
tony-allan··on Default styles for h1 elements are changing
I haven't really thought about sectioning elements (<section>, <aside>, <nav>, and <article>) and the cool behaviour of a tag like <h1> when these tags are nested.
tony-allan··on Framework Laptop 12 pre-orders open next week
Can't wait to see the detailed specs and pricing. I am looking for a small and light upgradable device to use as a laptop instead of an iPad/tablet that I can chuck into my bag.
tony-allan··on US tells European companies to comply with Donald Trump's anti-diversity order
I assume that there is the threat of targetted tariffs and cancelled government contracts to "encourage" European companies to comply.

I haven't read the executive orders but I also assume that they contain more details.

tony-allan··on Why is this site built with C
The C program converts Markdown (written by the author) to HTML and is run by the author (and therefore no attack surface). Actual hosting uses GitHub Pages so there is nothing to worry about there. Simple; job done.

"The only work I needed to do was to write a C script (which turned out to be ~250 LOC) to call md4c functions and parse my md files, and then chuck those converted files into the GitHub Pages repo."

tony-allan··on Ask HN: Code should be stored in a database. Who has tried this?
What benefits do you expect from this approach compared to the hugh number of tools that work very well with folders and text files?
tony-allan··on Some Reflections After a Month of Tracking My Own Online Activity
An interesting (unrelated) reference in the article… https://mcwhittemore.com/web-graph-browser/
tony-allan··on Infrastructure as Markdown?
An interesting idea however the documentation for the prompt [1] is so extensive and well done it seems like a very small leap just to create a tool that uses the code to create new Lambda functions.

Did I miss something?

[1] https://github.com/dshieble/method_to_lambda_prompt/blob/mai...

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