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Show HN: JavaScript-free imageboard in Lua, with CSS based widgets
by spoonsort | 2025-07-21 15:53:56+00:00
If you're a visual learner, one of the biggest instances can be seen at:

http://lambdaplusjs35padjaiz4jw2fugdoeutse262phqr72uf634s2wd...

It's usually SWF. Some features include:

- No javascript of any type is used anywhere. In fact, CSP is used to block execution of any and all javascript, which makes XSS attacks impossible. - High security due to the use of pledge() and unveil() - Highly transparent moderation logs which include a reason for all moderation actions - advanced formatting, including LaTeX support - anyone can create their own board - multiple files per post - inline image expansion - per-board index and recent pages - paginated catalog pages and threads - extensive moderation tools
by Ajedi32 | 2025-07-21 15:54:02+00:00
This article[1] has a good overview of safety procedures already in use at other facilities:

> Melonie Longacre, VP of Operations at Northwell Health, explained MRI safety protocols, emphasizing the importance of multizone procedures to ensure safety around the powerful magnet.

> "Zone I is just for awareness that there’s an MRI in the vicinity, Zone II is the patient screening zone where they get screened. Zone III is the post-screening zone, and Zone IV is the actual magnet room," she said. "It’s important to be educated and safe."

It's unclear if Nassau Open MRI (where this incident took place) had similar safety protocols. I'm guessing not.

[1]: https://www.fox5ny.com/news/long-island-mri-freak-accident
by AdmiralAsshat | 2025-07-21 15:54:21+00:00
Well there was that novel CloudReady solution, which would have allowed people to repurpose old PCs/laptops and replace them with ChromiumOS, but then Google acquired them, and it became "ChromeOS Flex". [0] Not sure where it went from there. Presumably once ChromeOS gets axed (or merged into Android), Flex would go away, too.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChromeOS_Flex
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-21 15:54:31+00:00
It's a problem in both the XML and RDF [1] worlds that the same representation gets used for everything. Part of the success of CSS is that it looks different from HTML, it could have been expressed with angle brackets and I think people would have had terrible trouble understanding where the HTML ends and the CSS begins.

[1] Oddly, SPARQL-in-Turtle isn't half bad to my eye, see https://spinrdf.org/sp.html
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-07-21 15:54:37+00:00
KDE has its own problems, though they’ve been improving in recent years. Out of the box defaults still need some work for example, and settings can still be confusing and difficult to navigate for less technical individuals. It also still has some behaviors that aren’t found on other desktops that can put off switchers.

The best DE for switchers would be one that brings as few surprises as possible and has defaults good enough that the overwhelming majority feel no need to change them. Basically, there needs to be near-perfect clones of the two big commercial desktops that don’t try to be clever or shake things up in any way so the switch is close to seamless.

Debian Testing packages may also still be too old, depending on the user. Anybody having to work cross platform or collaborate with people using other platforms is going to wind up dealing with version mismatch issues, since commercial OS users have most of their apps auto-updated to latest without Testing’a lag.
by christianqchung | 2025-07-21 15:54:37+00:00
Weird deflection. GPT 3, a 175 billion parameter model, came out in 2020, so it very much is not before LLMs. I guess you can say the story happened before ChatGPT by a few weeks. As for putting lost in quotation marks, I have no idea why you think the quantity of money is relevant to the outcome. No one was expecting them to file bankruptcy over this, only to follow the original agreement.
by DamnInteresting | 2025-07-21 15:54:43+00:00
I use Informed Delivery for my PO box since I don't get much mail there. The worst thing about it is that the USPS uses the system to announce when there are new episodes of Mailin’ It! - The Official USPS Podcast.

They send the daily digest saying "You have 1 mailpiece arriving soon." Instead of the usual picture of the 'mailpiece', it's an image illustrating the episode. There is no physical mail corresponding to this alert, it's electronic junk mail. Spam. Ugh. There is no opt out for these apart from canceling the service entirely.
by nashashmi | 2025-07-21 15:54:48+00:00
Had to look this up: https://learnpoultry.com/fertilized-vs-unfertilized-chicken-...

Apparently, many of the eggs sold in stores are infertile. But fertile eggs can still be eaten. The process of storing them away is a little bit more cumbersome because they go bad if they are not eaten fresh.
by headcanon | 2025-07-21 15:54:49+00:00
> Gemini 2.5 PRO | Claude Opus 4

Glad to see my experience is reflected elsewhere. I've found Gemini 2.5 PRO to be the best bang-for-buck model: good reasoning and really cheap to run (counts as 1 request in cursor, where opus can blow my quotas out of the water). Code style works well for me too, its "basic" but thats what I want. If I have only one model to take to my deserted island this is the one I'd use right now.

For the heady stuff, I usually use o3 (but only to debug, its coding style is a bit weird for me), saving Opus 4 for when I need the "big guns".

I don't have Claude Code (cursor user for now), but if I did I'd probably use Opus more.
by yakk0 | 2025-07-21 15:55:04+00:00
I have firstnamelastname@gmail.com and it surprises me how many other people have my same name. I get so much unintended mail, usually to firstname.lastname at gmail. I have found that in a lot of cases they have forgotten a middle initial. I usually let it go as spam unless it looks important like a credit card. What frustrates me is that these companies will not interface with me at all, sometimes not even leaving a note on the account.

I understand from the security side why they wont, but I wish there was something they could do. I could easily log in and change a password then cancel the account, but I figure there's probably some legal trouble if I did that.
by tzs | 2025-07-21 15:55:07+00:00
Ireland, Malta, and Cypress use the Euro as their currency but use dot as their decimal separator so without further context €50.000 is ambiguous.

Probably the best way to handle this is the way SI recommends dot vs comma be handled in scientific and technical writing. Their recommendation is to use a thin space for grouping, so if you see a dot or comma it is the decimal separator.

€50.000 and €50,000 would then both be exactly €50. If you meant €50000 and wanted to separate the thousands you would would write €50 000 (which looks ugly on HN because HN turns thin space into regular space).

Update: actually, SI used to recommend thin space. Now they just say space without saying what kind of space. Some people recommend choosing narrow non-breaking space (U+202F) (which HN also turns into regular space).

Also, for 4 digit numbers before the decimal they recommend not separating them, so 5k Euros would be €5000 not €5 000.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-07-21 15:55:11+00:00
I don't think the mystery goes away when you consider the other photosynthetic pigments. chlorophyll-a, chlorophyll-b, lutein, B-carotene, zeaxanthin, lycopene... they're all active between 450 nm and 550 nm. And then chlorophyll-a and chlorophyll-b have secondary activity between 650 nm and 700 nm.

The the lack of photosynthetic activity between 550 and 650 is still suspicious. I've learned from other commenters here that my assumptions about the gap corresponding with peak solar energy weren't on solid ground, but there is a gap.

Perhaps a different way to frame the question is: why do the chlorophyll pigments have two peaks, while the others appear to have only one? Perhaps they have an evolutionary past which involves absorbtion from a star besides sol?
by RebeccaTheDev | 2025-07-21 15:55:33+00:00
> Another problem is that programmers specialize at being good at programming, but things like documentation and UI testing are their own disciplines that are separate and distinct in a lot of meaningful ways.

Even having decent UIs is a problem for many Linux apps and many are often deeply unpleasant to use day-to-day. This is one thing that has started to slowly get better in the last decade or so, but I can always tell what applications were designed by programmers and which ones have had at least some UI work done on them.

Also, accepting feedback from users on UI improvements often gets either ignored or de-prioritized in favor of adding new features. It's very frustrating to see an otherwise really fantastic application with a lot of neat functionality hamstrung by a bad UI.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-07-21 15:55:41+00:00
A day later, after being taken to a separate facility and suffering multiple heart attacks (I have no idea what the connection there is).

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/new-york-mri...

> He endured “a medical episode” at that point which left him in critical condition at a hospital, and he was pronounced dead a day later, police said.

> Adrienne told News 12 that her late husband had suffered several heart attacks after the incident with the MRI machine and before his death.
by scheeseman486 | 2025-07-21 15:56:15+00:00
I specifically said fixes and guides, Arch deriviatives usually have their own active support communities to deal with user support. What your describing also counts for, say, Mint or literally any *-based distro. Nonetheless the Arch wiki is still a useful rescource for solving problems, indeed that was so even when I was using Ubuntu which incenidentlally is how I ended up trying Arch in the first place; I used Arch's resources to fix Ubuntu's problems more than Ubuntu's resources, why not give it a shot?

But I bounced off vanilla Arch's install process and painstaking setup. Tried Manjaro, got hit by successive boot breaking bugs, then found EndeavourOS and discovered they hey, Arch doesn't need to be a pain in the ass or a broken piece of shit.

Arch can be and can continue to be Arch, anything based on it can be something else but also sort of Arch and that's fine and maybe even really good.
by vixen99 | 2025-07-21 15:56:28+00:00
Very much a matter of defining 'themselves'. Our data in their hands. How do we know these people aren't the same incompetents who emailed a spreadsheet containing the personal information of nearly 19,000 Afghan asylum applicants (who had risked their lives to help the Brits) to someone outside the Ministry of Defense.

The government says the individual thought they were sending a list of about 150 names, not the whole set.

Meanwhile the Taliban have been taking revenge: https://pressway.org.uk/news/300408-hunt_for_tranclators_tal...
by lordnacho | 2025-07-21 15:56:34+00:00
I think the same. I have a house, but the mortgage is not massive. If I can just live in it with no appreciation, that's fine with me. I even want to encourage building in the area, since we have a train station that seems underutilized.

There's a more selfish reason for wanting prices to not rise. I have kids. In a few years, they will be adults. If prices keep rising, how will they launch their own lives? I'll get asked to buy another house again.
by tacticalturtle | 2025-07-21 15:57:02+00:00
As soon as I saw it was the founder of Strong Towns it all made sense.

Strong Towns, Not Just Bikes, and all those content creators are fulfilling the “hobby” of city planning (ie, watching hours of city planning YouTube videos, but never actually organizing at a local level)

This is a really great video about one man’s experience with trying to improve his community, getting involved in local government, and his criticism that the city planning YouTubers always gloss over what this actually looks like - they just point out what we’re doing wrong.

https://youtu.be/bUs0ecnbOdo?si=8dVweyWfvIF5ddg-

So I think that’s why the logic doesn’t make sense. It’s not meant to be actionable. It’s meant to be easily digestible so that people participating in the hobby can feel enlightened.
by bee_rider | 2025-07-21 15:57:08+00:00
The basic problem of this line of thinking has always been (and always will be) that FOSS, in the end, is just a loose-knit community of people who do eachother the favor or sharing out the programs they made. There’s absolutely no reason for that community to go and try to attract a bunch of non-technical people who won’t be able to contribute back.

Who wants to deal with a bunch of users who only switched because Windows 10 stopped updating? I’m going to have to switch my stupid gaming PC away from Windows because it stops updating, and I don’t even want to deal with myself in that context, because he’s a grumpy guy that just wants to relax and play videogames after working (in Linux) all day.

Valve might be able to do it, but it won’t really be a FOSS community project, it will be a proprietary layer on top of FOSS (maybe an Open Source layer on top of FOSS, but it will still be proprietary in the sense that they’ll mostly do the development in-house and in the service of their business model). Which is totally fine, but subservient to their business needs.

I mean… the Register reports on Free Software stuff a lot. Maybe they are the entity that should do it.
by fxtentacle | 2025-07-21 15:57:11+00:00
Please elaborate. I think I can talk to people pretty well. But I've yet to hear anyone accidentally mentioning a valid business opportunity.

How do you pre-filter which event to go to and who to talk to?

How do you introduce the topic of potential business ideas?

How do you confirm that they would actually pay for it if you would build it?

Also, has this ever worked for you?
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-07-21 15:57:20+00:00
As someone who appreciates Cinnamon’s approach, it does have a number of rough edges that make it feel less smooth and polished than it could be, compared to even e.g. Windows 7 or OS X 10.9. The practical impact is minimal, but for someone coming from outside of the Linux sphere I could see it leaving a less than stellar impression.
by mNovak | 2025-07-21 15:57:41+00:00
I get this all the time, I assume because I live in an apartment an they're previous residents. The interesting thing is they don't actually get delivered, so it's being caught somewhere in the system.

That said I do also get misdelivered mail, which I don't get Informed Delivery for. I've gotten tax documents, jury summons, settlement checks, you name it. People really need to file a change of address.
by rusticrover | 2025-07-21 15:57:43+00:00
I don't trust other entities to care as much about the articles I've saved and curated over the years as I do, so I self-hosted wallabag for years and recently moved to Readeck. There are wallabag hosters for those who'd rather avoid self-hosting, but I don't know of one for Readeck yet.

https://wallabag.org

https://readeck.org
by twtran | 2025-07-21 15:57:50+00:00
My experience is strictly with Daikin Stylish units bought a few months ago in the EU. They still have both the S21 port and a compartment for an external WiFi module, and for all intents and purposes it's plug and play. Their standard WiFi module is built in the internal unit motherboard AFAICT, and it only works with their Daikin Onecta platform (no local API whatsoever).
by NoThisIsMe | 2025-07-21 15:57:54+00:00
You're thinking of memoization, which is related to but distinct from DP. Memoization is "top down", DP is "bottom up". DP generally has better space complexity (memory requirements). For example, for a function that computers the Fibonacci sequence, space complexity with memoization is O(n), vs O(1) with DP.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming#Fibonacci_...
by grues-dinner | 2025-07-21 15:57:57+00:00
There's no real such thing as a "natural" chicken, but their ancestors, red junglefowl, are similar. In fact, healthier females produce more males (https://academic.oup.com/auk/article/119/3/840/5561973). Perhaps it's evolutionary turned out to be good for fitness of the species if 90% of the males are killed by other males or otherwise don't mate and that outweighs "wasting" 4.5/10 eggs. Nature doesn't "care" (yes, yes, active verb for non-conscious process) if it's pretty, just that it works.

In general, life in nature just ain't that fun as a junior member of an r-selected species, which includes chickens.
by rglullis | 2025-07-21 15:58:01+00:00
FWIW, back in 2013 I was working at Deutsche Telekom in a project that was attempting to do "ChromeOS, but for Enterprise", built on top of Ubuntu and a heavily modified Firefox. We had a list of target devices to test against, but given the Ubuntu base it was pretty easy to get it running everywhere.

All the office were based on open source systems. DT wanted to make money mostly on their data plans + device management services. The project failed for one reason: Enterprise IT is the opposite of price sensitive. I had talks with a couple of CIOs who were interested in the idea, but realized that commiting to a solution that could slash their budgets by 80% would be career suicide.
by zippergz | 2025-07-21 15:58:38+00:00
I think this is something that sucks about your particular sorting facility or you're just very unlucky. I've been using Informed Delivery since it launched, in two different states, and while it's not perfect, I find it pretty accurate, especially for normal mail (envelopes, postcards, and so forth). I'd guesstimate that it misses a real non-junk mail item less than 1% of the time, and it misstates when something will be delivered 5% of the time or less. Certainly not enough to offset the value of the service.
by rapind | 2025-07-21 15:58:59+00:00
The issue with launching a search engine company is probably mind share more than anything else. Once Google was a verb, it was pretty locked in. Even so, there are alternatives that some people use and find superior, like Kagi and DDG. Now you're seeing a lot of people who just use ChatGPT instead of google for their searches.

For AI, I think that ship has sailed already. OpenAI is the closest to dominance, but not currently the best at all tasks (claude and gemini for some tasks), and everyone else is nipping at their heels, followed by open / cheap models anywhere from 6 months to 1 year behind. Maybe I'm wrong, but as far as I can tell, all evidence points to it becoming a commodity (or utility), similar to cloud computing.

For example AWS is pretty dominant in the cloud computing space, but the differences aren't really that big of a deal for most people and there are services that will extract the cloud for you as a generic services layer. Like OpenRouter does for AI models. Is AWS really better than other cloud providers? Maybe, in some situations, with some requirements, but it's definitely not the general rule. Their focus since the beginning has been layering value on top of this base cloud offering (I'd argue to the point where there are so many services it's confusing AF), and I think it's the same with AI providers. It's even the same players for a lot of it (Google Cloud, AWS, Azure all offer AI services).
by Ridee | 2025-07-21 15:59:01+00:00
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by chriswarbo | 2025-07-21 15:59:12+00:00
> It's not very surprising that it would then act like an incompetent developer. That's how the fiction of a personality is simulated.

So LLM conversations aren't too sycophantic: it's just given in the wrong direction? "What an insightful syntax error! You've certainly triggered the key error messages we need to progress with this project!"
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-21 15:59:22+00:00
Programmers do stuff for free, all the time. People also donate to foundations so some programmers can be paid to make free stuff. It's how we got the Linux desktop as we know it.

Programmers often stop worrying about the details once they're satisfied, though, and there are a lot of details. Yes we could add thumbnails to the file picker, but we also need to support Nvidia hardware and the archive application is missing a few much more interesting compression formats, plus there are a bazillion logged bugs that actually crash software rather than being a minor inconvenience.

In theory someone could set up a collective of programmers, designers, and translators to create a usable Linux desktop for the Windows 10 refugees, but it'll require a lot of effort from a lot of volunteers and a lot of people who happen to share the same principles and preferences.

ChromeOS works because there's a single entity that can hire a small group of designers to tell an army of programmers what they want everything to look and work like.

There are actually projects and companies that fork ChromeOS, but they're pretty small and once Google stops maintaining the OS they're going to collapse pretty quickly.
by adrianwaj | 2025-07-21 15:59:30+00:00
Well if it worked so well, why is so much of it gone, and why did it become so full of crazy banner ads? What was with all the "bot" traffic, SPAM emails and Viagra comments?

Why was it so expensive to get a "website up and running?"

Why were there so many "technical co-founder wanted" ads to get to "first prototype" and seed stage?
by crote | 2025-07-21 15:59:43+00:00
That is going to depend on the details, isn't it?

See for example the practice of civil forfeiture in the US, where the police is able to seize your property until you prove that it wasn't gained through crime. The proceeds go directly to the police department. So the more passers-by they harass, the sooner the "pennies from heaven" will fund their margarita machine! [0]

[0]: https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/phelps-county-seizing-sus...
by ecshafer | 2025-07-21 16:00:15+00:00
I grew up in poverty. I worked hard to NOT have to deal with that shit as an adult and to not have my kids deal with that either. People screaming in the street at night on schizo rants, meth heads, getting your bikes stolen, people vandalizing your house, drug dealers, fights, schools being less safe and effective because of gangs/ problem children. This stuff actually sucks to live through constantly in a day by day situation. And the only way to get away from it is to not live where that shit happens, and you don't invite it into your back yard.
by mixmastamyk | 2025-07-21 16:00:20+00:00
Fedora might support your hardware better, (newer kernel) and not have snap.

Windows also sometimes has these kinds of problems. Plus I usually have to dig up many commands to turn off user-hostile defaults or free up a quarter terabyte of disk space wasted. Was an obscure diskadm cli I’ve never heard of.

The perfect OS doesn’t exist, maybe not even a good one.
by eviks | 2025-07-21 16:00:25+00:00
> the problem is posts for any hand position also appear.

This is not a problem, I've specifically described how it's not (you can read off a photo, so other posts with numbers can't confuse you), so you need to address that instead of repeating the same claim.

> If you already know how to filter these for things that make sense and don't make sense then going through the posts doesn't help.

It does, the posts supply you with information, that's a net increase in your knowledge after you've applied the filter! Someone says it's not readable, you see the screenshot, apply your own filter and come out with more knowledge about the new design. Then you see posts "i can read just fine, it's great", apply your filter and ignore this

You couldn't even come up with an analogy where it doesn't work, and it also worked in this specific case of liquid design.