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voidUpdateon Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off

I mean, at least that pain isn't being forced upon them by some higher being for the purpose of scientific fraud or similar, or be deliberately bred to be immunocompromised

voidUpdateon Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off

I do feel bad for medical mice, especially things like SCID Mice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_combined_immunodeficien..., which are basically only born to be infected with something, and then die. Even more so in a recent case of academic fraud I've seen involving cancer testing, where the data was obviously faked, but mice still died for the data.

But yes, it's hard to test immune responses without hurting a living animal, since you'd have to somehow have a non-alive immune system to test on otherwise

voidUpdateon Laptop Based on 6502 CPU

https://youtu.be/sJFnWZH5FXc

tl;dw - The background is defined with 20 bits, which are repeated or mirrored to make the background (eg 00000000111111110000 would either make the background 0000000011111111000000000000111111110000 or 0000000011111111000000001111111100000000). If you write to WSYNC ($D40A), the processor pauses until the start of the next scanline. Then you have to count machine cycles to make sure you modify the background at the right time to make the two halves different. Repeat on each scanline to fully define the background. There is no "framebuffer" per se

voidUpdateon Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

It's agents all the way down!

voidUpdateon What's on That Access Port?

How many times does this need to be submitted? This is the 12th time so far

voidUpdateon What if AI could control robots?

I wonder where they got the idea for the name from... https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/omniverse/

voidUpdateon Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font

> However, as a very rough guideline, an "average" font might have [...] an x-height of 48% of the em

voidUpdateon Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font

I wish editors had the option to disable certain ligatures. I use jetbrains mono, and the >> ligature breaks bracket highlighting in visual studio, making them both the same colour

voidUpdateon Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif monospace font

> "glyphs are exactly 1/2em wide"

The M is 1/2 of an M wide?

voidUpdateon Ask HN: Why do people say "I built it" when we should say "Claude built it"?

I mean my manager will often come by and say "hey, this is wrong because...", and I'll fix it. It's part of our QA Process

voidUpdateon Ask HN: Why do people say "I built it" when we should say "Claude built it"?

Even if you're steering it, you have the same amount of control over the application as a manager does over a programmer. Did the manager make the software?

voidUpdateon Show HN: XY Music Notation

Well given it's LLM-generated, I'm not surprised

voidUpdateon GLM-Legal

I'm sure there will be no issues with this. LLMs don't have a history of making up case law or anything, right? /s

voidUpdateon GLM-Legal

And where do human lawyers score on it?

voidUpdateon "Just Ask Claude" Is a Rare and Valuable Skill

How do I install ublock origin and sponsorblock on the youtube app?

voidUpdateon Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones

Well I did it with actual research, and the goal was "make something that works"

voidUpdateon Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones

> "The performance of their brushes collapses once the canvas size is over 8K x 8K pixels. Photoshop’s brushes work smoothly even when you’re working with 100 megapixel images out of a Hasselblad or Phase One camera"

I knocked up some quick code for drawing on an image a while back as part of a work project, but I've never actually checked how well it works on gigantic images. It calculates the bounding box of your stroke every frame, and uses an SDF-based system to calculate the pixels of the stroke (so if you draw quickly, it will correctly join up the points). I didn't focus too heavily on performance, other than making sure it was good enough to not slow down the app, but since its speed only depends on how much you're actually drawing per frame, rather than the size of the canvas, I'd imagine it would hold up reasonably on gigantic images?

voidUpdateon Cartographers of North Korea (2019)

> "* Names have been anonymized for privacy"

I mean it's not exactly hard to go to openstreetmap, search up the place name and get a list of accounts that have edited/created the feature...

voidUpdateon Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen

> ""I need you, and you're making coffee." --say reads the sign aloud. Your Mac will literally call you back to your desk."

It's already got the power to be obnoxious at you

voidUpdateon Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen

It's so your agent can make a big arrow on the screen saying "click this, human" so that it can keep doing things

voidUpdateon I'm in a Meeting

I have reasonably good headphones and nice music

voidUpdateon Sorry, I'm in a meeting

Do people in offices typically just blast meetings out of their computer speakers? Everyone I work with uses headphones so we're not disturbing other people in the office...

voidUpdateon Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days

Data makes money. No data makes less money. People who want more money from selling data will sponsor the people who don't support this

voidUpdateon Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?

On my local network:

- An old desktop running alpine that hosts two minecraft servers

- Another old desktop acting as a NAS. Currently planning on migrating that to a mini lenovo pc to reduce size and unify everything. I have a single HDD that I've split into partitions for projects and Linux ISOs, currently serving over samba. It also has a transmission client on it to download the Linux ISOs. Probably the most useful box on my network

- A mini lenovo PC that runs homeassistant, and in future will probably turn into my NAS, once I can find a good storage solution for it (Not much expandability inside the box itself, but it has some usb 3 ports. Id put my existing 3.5" HDD on a usb sata adapter, but they also need 12v. Currently looking into an NVME dock or multi-terabyte laptop SSDs)

- A raspberry pi that will, in future, run my website (currently still working on the software for it)

voidUpdateon Keyboard differences between Windows and Macs

From someone working there at the time: https://www.folklore.org/Swedish_Campground.html

voidUpdateon I Won't Hire Juniors Anymore

If nobody hires juniors anymore, there won't be any juniors to become seniors, and your workforce will disappear

voidUpdateon Unity Spark

This is not going to help unity's reputation of being responsible for low-effort asset flips... Also how much of the game in that video is actually agent-generated? There's some simple stuff at the start (including hilariously bad alien foot IK), then a montage of just using the normal unity editor, then magically a finished game appears

voidUpdateon Reasons to Dislike AI Coding

If we did the same work but didn't have those things, we would need more people employed to make up for it. But if we didn't have those things these days, we probably would have less companies doing this sort of thing.

If we didnt have word processors or templated document generation, we would have people who write things properly, typeset documents etc. If we didnt have compilers etc, we would have people who translated higher level languages into machine code

voidUpdateon Fog-Bank: Archiving the oldest webcam feed

I'm not surprised that Justin Earl of Falcon Technix hasn't really advertised themselves on the page, I'm not sure I'd really want to put my full name on it either

voidUpdateon Fog-Bank: Archiving the oldest webcam feed

Holy LLM, batman! The press kit, RSS feed, privacy policy and TOS links at the bottom of the page just redirect to the archive page, maybe get the LLM to remove them for you or actually generate a page?