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On the subject of scifi roguelikes, I've sunk 700+ hours into Jupiter Hell. I've been playing roguelikes since the original Rogue in the 80s and I think JH is the GOAT: skill tree that rewards experimentation, learning curve that never feels unfair, and that "just one more level" itch propelling you forward. Add in a fresh take on ranged combat mechanics, a strip-it-to-essentials design (a winning run takes me ~3h on Ultraviolence), and a legitimately good custom 3D engine, and you have something that I think will be recognized as a classic for years.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/811320/Jupiter_Hell/
You can still get an 1TB Optane drive for ~$200? In theory much faster and same price as 256GB from Apple.
Our initial approach was to implement periodic full table re-syncing. We're starting to work on CDC with logical replication for incremental syncing. Here is our roadmap https://github.com/BemiHQ/BemiDB#future-roadmap
Codes and Overcodes
Why blame anyone? A general rule: If you want someone to blame, look in the mirror.
It's definitely necessary: it provides an answer for those who do have knowledge about parsing, read this and wonder why didn't the author do this other often used practice instead.
Harsh 1-bit dithering is such an interesting topic - even in 2d there are multiple ways of doing it, each with trade-offs and advantages.

It is amazing to me that something that was so integral to the 80s computing experience is now actually quite tricky on modern hardware. For my own project[0] I found that it is almost impossible to ensure a one-to-one mapping between offscreen pixels and the canvas provided by the browser.

[0] https://sheep.horse/2023/1/improved_web_component_for_pixel-...
Agree. Higher prices are a known predictable consequence and could be reversed by removing the tariff. You can't change a policy like that and immediately end inflation, that's an entirely different thing.
Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted to Same Tier as Gnome-Based Fedora Workstation
There were different kinds of kings though - before a certain point in the history of most countries kings had to actively fight and wage war to achieve and maintain their positions. Over time this became more of a position where the king would deserve their positions simply by having ancestors who were "stupendous badasses" but otherwise actually had to do very little.
Politics is tricky because non wealthy very much support the wealthy politically. Agree or disagree it’s just reality in modern politics.

As for why we shouldn’t actually care abstractly there simply aren’t that many ultra wealthy. Any subsidies given to them just cost an incredible amount relative to the number of people helped etc. They also don’t directly matter in terms of broad metrics like human health, lifespan, happiness etc.
A Scary Bond Market
Floating-point was ubiquitous in the BASIC interpreters on early home computers. It was just slow. CP/M didn't really do paging, although you could read and write 128-byte records to disk. But CP/M disks were typically only 90 kibibytes, or maybe up to a mebibyte for 8-inch floppies. And a lot of hobbyist home computers omitted disk drives because they were too expensive.
> Whether that's affordable is another matter of course,

They are the same course, imo. That it's been done in this way is typical behaviour we see from them, but expected/unsurprising behaviour does not necessarily make it a justification.
Can your grandma use SELinux? Delusional.
These categories don't exclude each other
Looks like there is a lot of empty space there. Couldn't they have made the M4 Mac Mini even smaller?
Why Is Fertility Collapsing, Globally?
Britain's birth rate has crashed. It is likely to recover
Loved this practical guide publication format. Anyone know other magazines like this Everyday Practical Electronics?
Try notepad2. It's an decent improvement from notepad while not going full notepad++. I install it on new Windows boxes and have it replace notepad.exe (there is an option to do this in setup.)
looks interesting. a network of maybe solar-powered scrapped commodity hardware or cheap raspis. maximum of 1kB/sec bandwidth. fully encrypted. no logging. all peer to peer networked. messaging / chat, text-based websites. maybe some simple images (black / white, svg) but optional.

i don't think this would be in and off itself a game changer but it could be a seed for further development of anarchistic technology culture.
There is a kickstarter trying to make 3rd party modules, its unknown if they'll work aswell.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/polysoftservices/studio...

Their install guide is interesting http://www.polysoft.fr/StudioDrive/MacStudio_SSD_test_note.p...
You are me. Will check JH. Thanks.
this is some weird conservative talking point and isn't true. here's a news article showing SPD chasing a stolen car just months ago:

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/police-chase-truck-down-i-5...

I'm sure there are more recent examples too

the event you're likely referring to is a cop that pursued without authorization and was reprimanded. this is a good thing, cops should get permission before going on a wild car chase
Minor by comparison to the hyperinflation experienced? Yeah. No I don't need a mirror, I can see myself clearly.

This whole thing is just a distraction that I didn't even bring up though, it has nothing to do with my original points. I wouldn't want to experience prolonged deflation at that rate either, markets rely on a certain level of stability and predictability to function well, everybody benefits from that and I would not argue otherwise.
Show HN: ZetaJS – client-side LibreOffice widget and automation in the browser
ZetaJS wraps ZetaOffice, a WASM version of LibreOffice - and makes accessing the entire gamut of the LibreOffice programmability interfaces from JavaScript convenient, idiomatic & extremely fast.

If you always wanted an entire client-side office suite in the browser, that you could fully automate with JS & seamlessly embed in your web apps - and on top of that, be able to self-host it & keep all data on the client, since there's literally no server involved (except for some static wasm & JS blobs) - then this might be for you.
It turns out for large cross-team initiatives, organizing the work is as hard as doing it.

I like the example of internationalization. You need involvement from all parts of the product to release it - you rarely can sell a half-internationalized product. You need to work with external teams of translators who need to be fed the work in a consistent interface. There will be pieces of the work that nobody is going to forsee (e.g. pulling text from the database) that will be surfaced and handled consistently.

So, to get it out, you need to have each team prioritize the work. You effectively need a deadline, or the work will never happen. (The work is valuable for the company, but does not drive any individual team's customers.) You will have dependencies: Team A has to address part of the work before team B can. And you need a way for teams to report that they are done so that it can be reviewed for consistency across the product.

This is a bad fit for most agile methodologies, but you're not going to take everyone out of it temporarily and then go back in. So you have to accommodate a project within your system.

But these exceptions become more and more common as your company gets bigger and bigger. The only truth that I can find is that the only way to stay agile is to stay small: small teams naturally do the things that are agile.
Show HN: Fixthisbug.de – AI Code Fixes with Local LLM for Privacy
For fun (and learning) I've let an AI built FixThisBug.de, an AI-selfpowered code fixing tool that's different from typical AI coding assistants as it uses a local Ollama instance with the qwen2.5 model.

Key Features:

- AI build: build entirely with AI, over several iterations via v0 and cursor.

- Local Processing: Uses qwen2.5 model through Ollama for code analysis and fixes

- Dual Language: Full support for English and German interfaces

- "Free Tier": Limited daily fixes for casual users

- "Pro Access": Unlimited fixes for authenticated users (just for fun, its free :) )

- Privacy Compliant: GDPR-compliant & hosted in Germany

Tech Stack:

- Frontend: Next.js 15.0, React 19

- Backend: Supabase + Next.js API Routes -

- AI: Local Ollama instance running qwen2.5

- Auth: Supabase Auth with HCaptcha

- Infrastructure: German servers for EU compliance

To add a little extra to the project: Unlike GitHub Copilot or similar tools, FixThisBug.de processes everything locally on the server. No external AI service is used.

I'm particularly interested in feedback on:

1. The local LLM integration approach

2. Performance optimizations for Ollama

3. Your User experience using the service

4. Privacy considerations

Would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions!
I always wanted to do something like this with "earth mode" radio. That is, signals sent through the ground. You can put a couple conductors in the ground spaced far apart and send signals into them and it can be picked up miles away apparently. Would be really slow, so probably text only, but also probably no one would notice. I also vaguely wonder if this would still be regulated by the FCC since it's not through the air...
You probably get the same result in the end, but yt-dlp can also do this if you point it at the m3u8 file.

(Actually I just checked and it also supports downloading Twitter videos directly.)
Is the "bounce back and forth mode" supposed to be inconsistent when bouncing off each edge? Bouncing one way appears to add an extra note, when the pattern is resetting.

Example: https://draw.audio/s/z2gcctra8
Anecdotally, managing todos usually takes a few minutes, as I’m tracking them already. After that I have the whole day mapped out so I can work without being distracted by worrying about priorities. And having actual breaks everything is noted down, not shuffling around in your brain.
The typical process, which I see active in London pretty frequently, is to jam and record everything on 433.92 Mhz.

Then, when you have received at least one lock and unlock request for a car, start retransmitting lock and unlock requests, but delayed by one request.

That way, the owner of the car thinks their key is working, and it unlocks and relocks reliably, but in fact the attacker always has one code 'spare'

Then, at 3am they come use their spare code to unlock the car and steal stuff or drive it off (the car only needs to see to fob present briefly to start the engine, but I believe that bit is done with a relay attack. I see the guys who do this waving their suitcase antenna around peoples doors regularly).

One giveaway to know on my car that such an attack is underway is that if you press the lock button 5 times in a row, it would normally flash the indicators with every press. However, when an attack is underway, it will only flash the indicators the first time, and won't do it again till after the next unlock, which makes sense because the command (lock or unlock) is not independent of the rolling code.
it's really slow on Safari, I wonder why
> otherwise actually had to do very little

The risk of being overthrown was always there. They had to maintain their power through some combination of force, propaganda, and actual good rulership.
> Look at kitchen appliances or metal/wood shop machinery from this era, still heavily analog, mostly made from sheet steel, mostly non-computerized.

Yup I miss that too. Maybe all the appliances came only in avocado green or harvest gold, but they held together and did not spy.
The logo is amazing. It's only 3 simple shapes - circle, elipse, & triangle - yet it feels like a 3D mushroom.
Glad you're enjoying Rogule, thanks for playing!

It's amazing to me how often I hear things like this even though the level gen hasn't changed. I think maybe what happens is people get really good at it and can then only be defeated by really hard levels or unlucky combat rolls.
I've commonly been recommended 3-4 g per day by Physicians. I take 1 gram as my standard dose.
I agree, it’s a new/old methodology disguised in a rant.

To your last point that we’ve come full circle.

Maybe that’s exactly how things evolve. Start small, get large and complex, cut back to become simple again.

While it might sound like a circle, I believe that it’s an evolution. Things improve over time with each iteration.
You want an ultra-low field MRI.

But that'll still be expensive to develop, slow and still potentially lethal if done sufficiently wrong
And that's comparing audiences for the ABC/CBS/NBC networks with the Fox News news channel. MSNBC has half the audience of Fox News.
Yes, a long time ago [0]. Depending on your needs, stack might still have advantages as the direct tool used by the developer (as it uses cabal underneath anyway).

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/51016806/4126514
You will probably be interested in reading my summary in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42080682 of the things the RepRap project struggled with in the first years of the project; it explains why it took so long.
While vocational training is vital, a good education is so much more than that.
Courts are happy to facilitate obviously malicious parties enriching themselves pursuant to the law at the expense of parties who have done nothing wrong, they call that Tuesday, but they really, really, really don't like when parties mislead them or withhold pertinent information.

The plaintiffs here flew too close to the su. I guess they got cocky after all those years of "legit" patent trolling, lol.
At least since August 2017: https://downloads.haskell.org/~cabal/Cabal-3.0.0.0/doc/users...

You don't need switching to Stack (as other commenters suggest) to have isolated builds and project sandboxes etc. If you want to bootstrap a specific compiler version, a-la nvm/pyenv/opam, use GHCup with Cabal project setup: https://www.haskell.org/ghcup/
Really nice work! Thanks for sharing this. Odd time signatures would be a nice addition. Thanks again!
The question I keep asking is: why? They give these patents to random people, and 5 or 10% of the proceeds if they win the suits. What do they get out of it?

If they were legit, then I don't see the need to assign the patents they own to someone else before litigating. Unless there's a gotcha, and it's a scam somehow.

Very strange, and just another reason why patents should probably be non-transferrable and "use it or lose it".
It's HTML, CSS, and vanilla JS (except for the ROT.js library which is fantastic!).
This is the way PC architecture should be. There's no sense in the flash controller in an SSD. The operating system should be in charge. The only thing that makes people mad about these is the price.
I think the usual approach is to have each microservice store its own local version of the data - but you can do that with a database, just use a different table. the value is in scaling - if one service needs a big database but another needs fast access, etc. overall, nobody other than the top 50 (let's be generous) tech companies needs this.
When we can call it Go++
We had banner ads back then too, without the JS.
Is this just specifying what has been known, that LoRAs skew towards the new training heavily and are not 'more intelligent' just 'more targeted' and become less intelligent the more they are targeted? Or is this proposing something else? I am having a difficult time understanding exactly what 'intruder dimensions' are.
> What happens here is that the secure enclave, cryptographic accelerator and flash controllers are all packaged together. This gives you sick speeds and performance while also making it more secure than your average OPAL TCG trash that often isn't even implemented at all.

Apples SSD performance is nothing special, and if they wisely don't want to trust OPAL TCG they can encrypt the data in their own trusted silicon before handing it over to the untrusted SSD controller. That's pretty much what the Playstation 5 does, it supports standard NVMe drives but the disk encryption is done in custom Sony silicon so the third party SSD controller never sees the plaintext.

I'm not convinced there's any purpose for the way Apple does their storage aside from vendor lock-in.
OSM Deep History
Elon Musk Is Already Asking Trump for Payback After Supporting His Campaign
The problem is that while on text based languages folks quickly learn to use subroutines and modules/packages, apparently the same concept seems alien to anyone that hasn't done digital circuit design.

Most visual languages, support subroutines and modules/packages as well, no need to design a gigantic piece of spaghetti.

If anything, visual languages make it clear straight away when the code is a mess.
Reminds me of a favorite quote: "What's the difference between between theory and practice (reality)? In theory, they're the same."
Sure, but we can’t say someone has a 1-in-12B intelligence when we only have 8B (or whatever) people. We can only go as high as 1-in-<current_pop>
If you care about beautiful interfaces macos and linux will always be way ahead, for sure.

The choice to go for windows as main OS kinda includes prioritizing advanced features and versatility over the UX. Even firefox is not as nice on windows than on mac.
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Every team has process. It doesn't matter if it's documented or not, or whether improvements (or impediments) are intentional or not. Every team has their process.

Source: Identifying teams' principles and practices is one of the tools I use.
My concerns with Bluesky are less technical and more about the type of community it will have. Nearly all large internet communities have become partisan echo chambers. My concern with Bluesky is that at this point it seems to be mostly a refuge for leftist Twitter/X refugees.

I wish there was a major platform with diversity of thought. Echo chambers are terrible for thoughtful discussion. If anyone knows of a community where moderates or a relatively balanced mix of liberal and conservative thinkers hang out online I'd love to hear about it.
Awesome! I much prefer KDE over GNOME and with all recent enhancements to Plasma this is a very welcome change (short of KDE being the default).
I hope they know what they're doing. New users are already confused which to pick and KDE shouldn't draw resources from Workstation.
I was in Burger King this week and was pleased to see that their drink dispenser machine was running KDE. Presumably due to some technical issue the taskbar was visible with some entry for their custom touchscreen sugar water emitting application. I wonder if they'll switch to using Silverblue now and get a more reliable setup.
Note that Bowyer doesn't mention the patents at all in this interview, so I question your assertion that the patents were a huge impediment to him. Possibly they dissuaded other people from starting a RepRap-like project years earlier, but I think the vast majority of such people didn't even imagine that an affordable 3-D printer was possible.
How does this relate to my comment? Did you intend to reply to the other comment?
Social Media Ain't News
> technical issue

> KDE

Sounds about right
>What OS nowadays is the closest to that snappiness? Haiku OS?

Probably Haiku running native Haiku apps.
It may be helpful to have future tasks written down even if will only take a few minutes, something like “remind someone about something” and recurrent stuff. Then there are checklists.
>It does seem very odd that "someone" can just claim ownership, file a lawsuit, and someone else has to defend themself in the face of a masked accuser whose motives, funding ... and even their own claimed ownership

That fact pattern is absolutely not normal. That's why this raised so many eyebrows and actually got looked into.

Edit: Lawsuits invariably establish "who" the plaintiff is and their relationship to the defendant because this is almost always a byproduct of determining that they have and the extent to which they've been (allegedly) wronged by the defendant's actions.
I genuinely prefer the original and think the final approach gives too much of "low res texture" look as opposed to a pure 1 bit dithered output.
Why is GP flagged? I was pretty confused about the title as well. This is the first time I have heard "LoRa" meaning anything else than the wireless protocol, and that meaning was further strengthened by talking about tuning. What is it with the AI crowd reusing long established terminology and then getting mad at people being confused by them usurping terms that have been used for a long time for something else? I mean I could understand that you could post this title on some forum dedicated to AI. But Hacker news is not that, and LoRa have had a another meaning that have been commonly known in Hacker circles for a decade by now.
The thing with a $500k watch is it keeps its value. It might even increase in value. So it's not a frivolous waste of money, you can get most of it back unless you break or lose it.
I didn't understand why I was learning matrices, dot notation, linear algebra & calc in high school. The sigma notation for summation is like a for loop in code.
> Acetaminophen/Paracetamol is great alternative for her since it’s processed in the liver. However if you’re a frequent drinker, have a liver deficiency, or have to take some other drug straining your liver, it’s contraindicated.

What many people don't know: Overdosing on paracetamol is the leading cause of acute liver failure. It's also contraindicated for people with Gilbert's syndrome, which is actually pretty common (~5% of people in the US) and most people don't even know they have it, as it's harmless and usually only found accidentally through high bilirubin levels in the blood.
This is great work and a really nice take on the concept. As someone else said, midi output would be really cool as this is a great just doodley scratchpad but once you have something great it'd be awesome to build on it.
LoRA radio things are a lot more common than the newly popular AI stuff.
> we’ve come full circle.

We never went anywhere. I had such high hopes for the agile manifesto when I first read it in 1999. "Whew," I though, "finally, they realize that software can't be managed like an automobile assembly line." Nope, they just rebranded the "manage software like an automobile assembly line" methodology as... AGILE! Don't get me wrong - the signatories on the agile manifesto did seem to understand how to realistically plan and manage software. Nobody else who read it and had any position of authority seemed to.
Sure floating point is possible, but if you're thinking of something like a 6502 or Z80 you'd have to implement it yourself - no maths co-processor, or dedicated instructions for it.

In terms of paging I was thinking of paging in later layers of data from disk, perhaps from a large file, perhaps from a series of files. But CP/M certainly did have support for paging RAM, in 3.x, if your hardware supported it.

(My own emulator, and the hardware I have running genuine CP/M are all running 2.x so no paged RAM there. Shame!)
That is great news! I moved to KDE about a year ago and was blown away by how refined and customizable the experience is. Won’t be moving away from Void but I’m glad to see KDE having more mainstream access and support!