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Show HN: Windows 95 Themed Job Board (With Minesweeper)
Hi all,

1995 was a simpler time. There was no react, SSR, component libraries, and developers only had 4MB of RAM to work with.

If you ask me, UIs have only gone downhill since then. So I created windows95jobs.com so people can experience the joy of simpler software while looking for a new SWE job.

Repo: https://github.com/KyleMoore1/Win95Jobs (Built with react lol)
Gotcha, thanks. I've never been able to find value in that platform so I must have missed it. On his podcast sometimes he TALKS about the argument he gets into on Twitter, but of course it all sounds more reasonable when he's explaining it I'm sure!
Julia in Google Collab
I have over a dozen people I regularly talk to on Matrix, though I prefer to not use browser/electron apps, so I only use Element on my phone (separate codebase from other Element), and Nheko on my PC. FluffyChat on Android also seems decent and recently added multi-account support.
Not if you're using Molly-FOSS, which strips all Google integrations down to a shared library level. UnifiedPush instead of Firebase. OSM for location sharing instead of GMaps. There are de-googled AOSP-based mobile OS's such as GrapheneOS that can be used with Molly-FOSS as well.

It's not necessarily the perfect end goal, but for those who are at an earlier phase of their privacy journey, GrapheneOS + Molly-FOSS is a massive improvement over stock Android + stock Signal, while maintaining a relatively minimal disruption to their ordinary workflows with e2ee messaging on an android-based smartphone.

https://molly.im/

https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android
> I'd go one step further and say that even if you're slacking off that's not necessarily a bad thing

While I agree, the legislation that the politicians passed says the opposite it true.
I've seen 'fluid' as well as 'liquid' intelligence, but these are the terms the scientific community seems to use.
You can understand every single terraform codebase using nothing other than the terraform documentation itself. All abstractions are provided by the language itself.

Clear isn't really the word I would call it, more that the real work being done is exposed and always visible.
Probably a much better solution would be to store those as environment variables. I can't think any sane way where adding secrets to a binary would be useful unless you want to do something malicious with it.
Yes, much better. ChatGPT/Claude/etc. are useful the times I want extra explanation to help connect the dots, but Math Academy incorporates spaced repetition, interleaving, etc. the way a dedicated tutor would, but in a better structured environment/UI.

Their marketing website leaves a lot to be desired (a perk since they are all math nerds focused on the product), but here are two references on their site that explain their approach:

- https://mathacademy.com/how-it-works

- https://mathacademy.com/pedagogy

They also did a really good interview last week that goes in depth about their process with Dr. Alex Smith (Director of Curriculum) and Justin Skycak (Director of Analytics) from Math Academy: https://chalkandtalkpodcast.podbean.com/e/math-academy-optim...
> What's the point of going around

The point is to be accurate.

> Guys don't be scared,

I didn’t say to not be scared. There is such a thing as surviving something, but wishing that you didn’t.

> Now, let me address your nitpick

You said we are about to go extinct. I think we are not. If that is a nitpick i don’t know what is material disagreement.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43265521
Not sure why I can't reply to the sibling comment...

anyway, the reason for the east/west divide in population density is that the west is dry. See maps at climate.gov (https://www.climate.gov/news-features/featured-images/new-ma...). By convention people refer to this line as being at the "100th meridian" but the 98th may be more accurate.
Yeah, it is the chat program treadmill. Spend investor money to host a completely commoditized program. Of course it is better than the version that costs money by virtue of being free. Eventually run out of investor money and do something unpopular to raise revenue, leaving the opportunity for the next iteration to come in for free and take your spot.

The only thing I don’t really understand is why investors keep falling for this? The only real business model is giving their money away. Maybe they get some good ad network profile data in the time between the heel turn and the point where everybody ditches the service.
oh no! Anything but that! Everything will fall apart!
I like that this produces notes instead of complete sound files. Makes it possible to use and manipulate in a DAW (and then employ proper instruments rather than generic MIDI).
> Riots are fundamentally ineffective; I doubt anyone serious wants to be associated with rioters. I suppose stranger things happen.

bullshit. the only reason you have an 8 hour work day and a semblance of worker protections is because a lot of people fought and died for them.

it's the only reason 8 year olds don't go down into the mines, or lose hands working in factories.

Jan 6th made a serious run at congressional officials; the VP of the US basically had to hide or get lynched. this could have been a thing, but didn't go all the way.
Build and launch full-stack web apps, tools, and software in minutes without writing any code. Accelerate your time to market and forget development bottlenecks. Deploy your project in one click.
Elon Musk says Post Office, Amtrak should be privatized
Sure, and those occasions are when you should realize that what you want is a bad idea, and then not do that.
> mostly just work

that's not good enough. If I'm in the business of writing Python code, I (ideally) don't want to _also_ be in the business of working around Python design deficiencies. Either solve the problem definitively, or do not try to solve the problem at all, because the middle road just leads to endless headaches for people WHILE ALSO disincentivizing a better solution.

Node has better dependency management than Python- And that's really saying something.
> I don’t understand why we can’t have more proof heavy math in high school.

proof based math requires critical thinking and its a lot harder to scale the teaching of critical thinking. We dont' pay enough for teachers of quality to be able to do this at the public school level. Its also much harder to test for in standardized tests.
How do you think people NOT paid by the population feel about the idea of continuous surveillance, the potential for misinterpretation and huge impact on their lives? I suspect your discomfort and that of others in positions that create these types of environments is a feature, not a bug.
Oh please chime in on how soldiers aren't subject to the same psychological influences of other humans, while charming us on your .mil street cred. I don't need to be a navy seal to understand this, veterans were among those charged in say the Whitmer plot.
The amount of people that use RSS for podcasts is incredibly tiny
Interesting. My personal feeling is that we're slowly headed to a world where we can have our cake and eat it: fast bulk ingestion, fast OLAP, fast OLTP, low latency, all together in the same datastore. I'm hoping we just get to collapse whole complex data platforms into a single consistent store with great developer experience, and never look back.
Calculator seems to allow only up to 32GB now.
As someone with young kids... I want to be a free-range parent to the extent possible, but I'm not going to let my kids wander around in the forest if there are wolf packs loose in the area.

This worked well in 1950s Britain because they had exterminated all large predators! Let's be real about that. For most of human history, nature was deadly.
Seems like I like arguing.. let us go with your definition..

US has several outlying territories. US has around 800 military bases around the world. In SK and Japan (and to a large extent in Australia), US dictates the policies. The world institutions have been mostly controlled by the US without putting itself under their jurisdiction. I see one dominant center with several subordinate peripheries - in Europe, Australia, SK, Japan and the island nations of Pacific. Unlike olden days, you do not need to send people as governers directly. You only need to control the trade, defence and foreign policies.
Good luck! I'm over 40 and just had my midterm for General Linear Models (statistics + linear algebra).

This YouTube playlist was invaluable for me: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmM_3MA2HWpYYo7QExaRvor_u...
I will say that the 486 Altos system I got a bit later was much better than the 386. Still, it was impressive how these boxes could support multiple users.
> I've been programming every day since I was in my twenties and there are definitely some concepts that seem much easier for me to get my head around now (I'm in my 50's) than earlier.

Same same.

I figured this is because I have less energy, but a little more wisdom. I have much broader understanding of related concepts. So, things click a lot faster.
The guy who bought Google.com from under Google's nose (2016)
> Wish there was also for JS/TS.

There’s Replay for browsers and Wallaby for Node.
> but now stripe supports pay-what-you-want directly (the docs say that they don't, but the docs are wrong)

Does anyone have links / suggestions on how to set this up?
Show HN: iMCP – Connect Your macOS Messages, Calendar, and More to Claude
Interact with all your Apple apps and data via Claude Desktop – or your favorite MCP client.

MCPs are super hot right now but they're definitely still developer-grade user experiences.

We built iMCP because we wanted to see what it would take to start to build a more consumer friendly experience on top of MCP. Not just connecting IDEs to databases and SaaS APIs.

iMCP is open source and built entirely in Swift with our MCP Swift implementation: https://github.com/loopwork-ai/mcp-swift-sdk

Tell us what you think!
It’s true that metaverse failed, but that doesn’t stop me from making a game engine that browses 3d scenes on the internet. A lot of games have runtime mod loading on player join, that’s my mental model of how the technical foundation of the metaverse works.

However, I would argue that my friends and I live in this meaningful, accessible, and transformative digital experience. But, as the famous quote says — the future is spread unevenly. Not every part of the futuristic vision needs to be perfect for us to find it valuable.
Ray Peat is as quacky as health quacks can get. Completely nuts.
It's really sad the 432 failed, directly, because we didn't get to really see it, and indirectly, because it made almost all of our computers today to be based on horrendously kludgy processors with an architecture that killed wonderful things like Amigas, Atari STs, SGIs and so many other lines that had their lives cut short.
This is a bit overblown.

Is Iceberg "easy" to set up? No.

Can you get set up in a week? Yes.

If you really need a datalake, spending a week setting it up is not so bad. We have a guide[0] here that will get you started in under an hour.

For smaller (e.g. under 10tb) data where you don't need real-time, DuckDB is becoming a really solid option. Here's on setup[1] we've played around with using Arrow Flight.

If you don't want to mess with any of this, we[2] spin it all up for you.

0 - https://www.definite.app/blog/cloud-iceberg-duckdb-aws

1 - https://www.definite.app/blog/duck-takes-flight

2 - https://www.definite.app/
I think it's possible too and the Iceberg spec allows it but the implementations are not suited for every use case.
[dupe] Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43274184
I made a lot of sacrifices and experienced some serious personal pain to achieve modest financial independence by age 35 (not "FAT" by any means, but well beyond the average American), and it was worth it. I'm still working, but only because my former career momentum has carried me into a position where I'm paid a small fortune. I would never do any kind of normal engineering job for a normal income these days.

My attitude and the way my brain processes things is completely different. Getting laid off or fired goes from something you might fear or see as a bad thing to a neutral or even positive event that just encourages you to go spend your time in a different way for as long as you want.
Is it OK to torture or murder a robot? (2013)
Heh; like many, I've been wondering if Trump would dismantle US democracy faster or slower than Hitler (this is Trump's day 45; Hitler took 53).

We've been asking the wrong question: How quickly will he break the economy, and will it be a record?

A quick search comes up with some runner-ups:

- Herbert Hoover mismanaged the stock marker crash of 1929, leading to Hoovervilles and the Great Depression. That was multiple months after he got into office, and ended when FDR implemented the New Deal.

- James Buchanan arguably caused the Panic of 1857, but that hit in August of his first year, and ended with the Civil War.

https://teachnthrive.com/history-passages/u-s-passages/the-w...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1857

So, in about 4 years, we can either expect a leader that ushers in new era of functional government and economic prosperity, or a debilitating war.

Does anyone know of anyone that was faster?

The searches I ran mostly came up with US leaders. I'm guessing there's at least one country with a leader that managed to stop international trade and start printing money faster than this.
> The characterization of "informants" as being literal on the payroll feds is usually incorrect. They're usually genuine group members who are being manipulated by literal on the payroll feds.

I never implied that they were.

> a federal agency [...] influences them into becoming informants. It's quite common for the FBI to frame this as "helping to keep people safe"; leaders in groups like this are frequently easy to manipulate with flattery.

> And you're missing a key feedback loop. The feds typically "create" an informant by digging up dirt on someone and blackmailing them into ratting on their buddies in exchange for non-prosecution.

I missed no such thing. Did you even read my comment?

> compromised after a federal agency threatens the leadership with jail time
100% this. I use a MacBook at work, and I bought myself a Framework laptop for personal stuff. Overall, the Framework is great, but the touchpad is a letdown.
One gamble her campaign made was that more people would vote for her specifically because she was black and/or female. I doubt there are any hard numbers, but I'd guess that number far overrode any racism/sexism vote.

Walz suggested he may run for 2028 so we may get lucky enough to witness your prediction. I'd bet against him winning more than one state before primaries.
It's an interesting thing to think about. From the way it's talked about, I would predict that AI will enable people who are more cognitively inclined to think in more complex and refined ways; while other people that over-rely on the results would be the ones that decline.

However, research[1] suggests that relying on AI tools degrades reasoning and cognitive ability regardless of your cognitive ability, and may even cause users to stop making their own choices[2].

1. https://www.404media.co/microsoft-study-finds-ai-makes-human...

2. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-023-01787-8
It is in some jobs.
Newly educated or plain new employees are fairly useless until they have 1-3 years experience in my job area. We would routinely pay graduates or masters levels less than experienced technicians or field engineers because they took so long to create any value.

I’ve taken many courses and many stop short of giving actual usable skills. You’re supposed to do that on your own time supposedly. You don’t get start to finish an internship experience until senior year for software engineering. Electrical Engineering you may not learn soldering or how to actually build a power supply from physical parts.
I've seen issues with pip + virtualenv (ssl lib issues, IIRC). I've always used those at minimum and have still run into problems. (I like to download random projects to try them out.) I've also seen issues with python projects silently becoming stale and not working, or python projects walking over other python projects because pip + virtualenv does NOT encompass all Python deps to the metal. This also doesn't mean you can have 2 commandline Python apps available in the same commandline environment, because PATH would have to prefer one or the other at some point.

Here's a question- If you don't touch a project in 1 year, do you expect it to still work, or not? If your answer is the latter, then we simply won't see eye-to-eye on this.
A lot of politicians are against surveillance too, they just get outnumbered. I think it's an unfair assumption to assume the parent comment is for surveillance legislation, especially if they're someone who frequents HN and are therefore more likely to be technically literate.
The article seems to avoid talking about it but it appears they "reduced" prices by reducing the cost of something they basically weren't selling while banning generic alternatives that were presumably cheaper.

I googled and the firm mentioned in the article seems to have been selling at it at 200 a month, so 2/5ths of the new "cheaper" price the article headlines with, or 150% increase for customers using that sevice, more than doubling what they pay.
(Leaflet cofounder here) - thanks! It's been a lot of fun trying to strike the right balance between "just docs" and things like canvas, outliner, and more interactive social blocks, as well as minimalism vs. customizability etc.

Yes, for updates we have a newsletter here…so far sending alpha updates every week or two; may have to move it to 'beta' soon! https://buttondown.com/leaflet
For what ever it is worth, I remember playing a little with Xeyes when I first started with Linux (and the giant Linux Bible bought at the bookstore) and this article describes it as I remember it.
Based on the Show HN description I was about to ask "How does it differ from Danswer", but apparently they rebranded from Danswer to Onyx.

Danswer Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36667374

Danswer Launch HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39467413
Isle Royale is amazing. Just filter your water... because beavers.
Unless you’re launching the binary with c&c infrastructure receiving remote commands to start the binary, I don’t see how you would obtain the values to inject them into environment variables.
I think it's interesting everyone that dissented mentioned power consumption.

Our business "only" sees about 1,000-25,000 req/min, our message brokers transmit MAX 25k msg/s. Easily handled by a rack of 10 servers for redundancy.

We are not Google and we don't pretend to be, so we don't care about power, as the difference is a few dollars a month.
Maybe they are confusing cause and effect there.
Like it or not, "eyes glued to phone" has become a pretty clear indicator of distraction, and I'm fine calling this out. If I'm in a meeting giving a presentation, and I notice people glued to their phones during it, I'm not going to call them out on the spot, but I'll probably do something afterwards: Either 1. tighten up my invite list next time so as to only include people who really need to be there, or 2. politely ask the person what I could have done in my presentation to make it more engaging.

I had a manager once who, if she would spot someone on their phone in a meeting, would put them on the spot and ask them a question relevant to what the team was just discussing. Some people would call that a "dick move" but I'm actually supportive of it. If you're supposed to be paying attention, get off your phone.

I really don't like how society has just normalized whipping your phone out in the middle of human interactions.
The ZAnt Project
> containers are a good enough way to handle python

I disagree. My take on that is that they are an ugly enough way to handle Python. And, among other problems, don't permit you to easily mess with the code (one of many reasons why this is ugly). Need access to something stateful from the container app? That's another PITA.
nice! anywhere we can follow your progress?
Not in my experience, either on Discord or any other platform where devs interact with users. Most users are polite enough, but many are toxic as hell; whereas most devs are maybe, at best, brusque - but you would be too if you had to constantly point users to the FAQ or answer the same obvious questions that Google can answer in 5 seconds.
I think a bigger business case is virtual machine hosting, say one of these is maxed out (8 Xeons with 56 cores ie 448 cores and 32tb of memory), say it's divided into a 1000 machines you can run each VM with 40% cpu utilization and 3gb of memory, considering many VM offerings have less RAM (and add a bit of overselling on top of it with regards to CPU) it could probably house over 2000 VM's.
> in a matter of years?

I you're thinking 4 years, then I doubt a $1T budget could do it.

If you're thinking 80 years, then sure. But still pretty expensive - so why not spend the $$$ on something else?
I'm sorry, I didn't understand, are you claiming that gamers (perhaps one of the most notoriously toxic communities) are not hostile towards game developers?
It feels like a lot of people are interpreting this as a cheap attempt to drum up populist angst for "lazy politicians". That's one obvious take-away, and it's legitimate. I see that it's generating a strong emotional response: discomfort with the idea of being monitored; fear that the data is misinterpreted. I see this as very powerful, because a lot of the "nicer" government orders, such as those in Western Europe, are also the most aggressive surveillance states. I like that the artist has come up with a way to drive home the potential impact of the decisions that may be debated and decided in this very chamber. It has a nice symmetry, and I see that as cool art.
Stagflation seems likely, due to the combination of terrible and harmful ideas being implemented at once, in which case the Fed's hands will be tied on rate cuts regardless of the unemployment rate.

If Trump successfully gets people to think this is all somehow the Fed's fault, the Musk-backed and recently (re-)introduced in the Senate bill to eliminate the institution entirely might get traction.

Then there's the "department heads, submit a report in 90 days on whether I should invoke the Insurrection Act" thing that's due in about 45 days.

Lots of balls in the air and not enough hands to catch them.
Which is just what I said.

Everyone uses computers, so computer nerds are like car nerds or sport nerds.

In the 90s very few people used computers, and even fewer used networked computers outside of an office environment. Computers were new and unique.

You still get car nerds and computer nerds, but it's not the same thing when they're nerdy about a common thing.
I haven't looked at the other posters comment history (and I rarely would look at anyones), but this is a weird reply to what they said.
> I'm not saying China is right in wanting to invade Taiwan.

I find it very surprising that a lot of otherwise intelligent people have trouble with telling endorsement from explanation. Like when I tell people about some political (or not) figure's opinions and worldviews, I'm somehow defending them. I'm not! I'm doing it exactly to

> understand your potential adversaries' motivations

Happens all the time on the internet.
Not to mention it’s a 3B model.
I don't really understand this concept.

Can someone please explain what the possible ramifications of this would be?

What does it mean for the US Govt? What does it mean for US Citizens?
These are unique and imaginative but (at least to me) they're simply ugly.