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vanjajaja1··on Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News
i'm open to the idea that its the NYTimes that needs a HN inspired version
vanjajaja1··on AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
"..even if something happens only once in a billion requests, that means it happens multiple times per day within S3."

but one in a trillion...

vanjajaja1··on The Nature of Dance
if you avoid the ideological capture of "getting good at [dance style]" then what you dance means is "playing with the physical energy stored in the body"

muscles store physical energy in the form of tension, if you can create a bit of tension [here] then smoothly transfer it [there] you are "dancing".

how it looks to an observer is irrelevant. stretch this game enough on every dimension and it will eventually start to look [positive valence] to observers

vanjajaja1··on Fuck it, make it anyway
the old ways are dying, theres so much room for new creativity. exciting
vanjajaja1··on Creativity is the new moat
the followers acurred willing to jump into your new thing would be the moat then, as would be your "software factory" that enables the fast fashion fast software creativity
vanjajaja1··on Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS
a nice md editor feels good. when all the UI is out of the way it gives a minimalism feel and i start to notice tiny details like 'this font is really soothing' and thats where i imagine i want to put my markdown thoughts in. a pure interface

explorations in minimalism

vanjajaja1··on Message your other Claude Code sessions
codex has been able to send messages across threads for a long time
vanjajaja1··on Karpathy’s Pelican
he said the prompt was the first paragraph of LoTR, but he didn't mention a preamble

this guy seems to have taken that idea and got something similar/better, so likely the prompt isn't too special

https://x.com/Izkimar/status/2083819741643178208?s=20

vanjajaja1··on Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
we're measuring if people are listening to AI music, not what percentage of AI music is slop
vanjajaja1··on Facebook is cooked
a common complaint about instagram is that you can no longer see your friends, just creators. i assume creators don't have this problem though, since they're having fun seeing all their creator friends
vanjajaja1··on The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything
> I like to say programming is about knowing which rabbit holes to plunge down and which to step over.

I like this a lot. I told someone once I avoid documentation like the plague and it just didn't have the same poetic ring as this line.

Sometimes you need to dive in, other times you need to hobble together something to step over

vanjajaja1··on Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
its very likely to cause reciprocal tariffs though, and exports of Hollywood way out weigh the imports of foreign films
vanjajaja1··on Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten
I was thinking something similar, i know i'm going to build skyscraper high arguments that hinge on just this headline
vanjajaja1··on El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender
because they started the experiment 20b in debt and have also managed to do a massive crime clean up + survive covid in that time. bitcoin is an overall benefit, but they are burdened but what has been
vanjajaja1··on Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'
it makes sense that if average tenure at a company is 3-5 years then some percentage yearly firing will cull people who have 'quiet quit' and havent fully quit yet
vanjajaja1··on Railroad Tycoon II
iirc those overclocks needed thermal paste to be reapplied, plus dust in case probably crushed airflow
vanjajaja1··on Grayjay Desktop App
will grayjay do the push/creation side as well, or is that a different product?
vanjajaja1··on 12 Days of OpenAI: Day 5 [video]
my understand is that apple intelligence aims to be a tiny model that runs locally, and when it identifies that a request is complex it sends it off to chatgpt

though it looks like this is just the first of many 'extensions' that can be added to apple intelligence

vanjajaja1··on 12 Days of OpenAI: Day 5 [video]
ChatGPT integration in iOS without an account. 3 integrations:

1. siri can hand off when it decides via 'extension'

2. writing tools

3. camera control / visual intelligence

pretty cool at the end they demo'd using Preview, asking a question of the PDF via Siri/ChatGPT

vanjajaja1··on Slouch: Posture panic in modern America
yep this is exactly what is saving me, and its taking a while. how long did it take you to “complete” the AT/myofascial work?
vanjajaja1··on Slouch: Posture panic in modern America
i lifted weights to attempt to fix postural issues that i noticed in my 20s. it made things worse

the issue was that i lifted weights to make big number go up, instead of using weights as a support tool to explore muscles in the body

vanjajaja1··on Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter
threads federates with mastodon, what stops threads getting on the AT protocol? is it just their assumed desire to not share data? they could be a mastodon / AT bridge
vanjajaja1··on We built a self-healing system to survive a concurrency bug at Netflix
from the headline alone I got linkedin ceo vibe. "Built a Self-Healing System to Survive a Concurrency Bug" is how I could describe wrapping a failing method in a retry loop
vanjajaja1··on Andrej Karpathy on learning (should never be fun)
i made a similar reply, linking to the ideas of flow state etc [1]. i dont know why you'd chase the feeling of effort, surely you'd avoid the feeling of effort where possible without reducing learning

[1] https://x.com/vanjajaja1/status/1756426000613994952

vanjajaja1··on You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web
'dont' was implied, though apparently not inferred
vanjajaja1··on You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web
> Search on Google Videos and download > $ you-get "Richard Stallman eats"

I don't often read instruction manuals, but this time I did and I found this gross easter egg

vanjajaja1··on How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me
"not in any way similar to coding" is a very strong statement

many people feel it feels similar to coding, in the way you have to slowly refactor designs + work involves a recursive breakdown of tasks + tracing/debugging of issues

vanjajaja1··on How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me
i also hated the graphics, but once you play it for a bit the graphics melt away and you can see the beauty in the details they have
vanjajaja1··on Grandmaster-level chess without search
what i like about this is that it implies you can build heuristics good enough to make it to GM level. this is great because i find calculating moves a headache
vanjajaja1··on Who died and left the US $7B?
yep, iirc on the huberman podcast on testosterone it even said that the competition that's decided by society has an impact on t-levels. societies that make prosocial / win-win games for men obv end up better off
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