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The bar for creating software has been lowered dramatically while the bar for understanding software has been raised. Standing out is less about what you can make, which is perhaps…

These are the hardest cuts to make in design, being so incremental, but they add up!

Air quality, too. Leaf blowers re-suspend carcinogens like brake dust and other fine particulate matter. Honestly just an awful practice all around.

How do you orchestrate this? I’m on max and would love to be hitting my caps when I’m not actively working a project

Very cool concept. I’d love to see the controls reach spacemouse style movements. The right hand gestures could pair really well with more natural 3D navigation

Care to elaborate?

The DEM provider they integrated, Mapterhorn, looks great at a cursory glance. They’ve managed to source and package a ton of the free high res elevation data into one dataset for …

Approximately one per minute in the 15 minute span proceeding this crash, including one that had an emergency takeoff rejection and was being maneuvered along with the emergency su…

I’ve been an M1 Air fan since I got mine in 2020 but recently things have become unusable. Playing 4K videos often drops frames, even at 30fps. And I can’t reliably run Notion’s tr…

Congrats on this! As a born and raised valley kid, I wish this was around when I was living there as a teen.

Do you plan on writing about the other lessons you learned, which you mentioned in the README? As a big fan of your software and writing for many years, I would deeply appreciate y…

I’m all for bringing buttons back, but do we really need that many buttons on a steering wheel?

Day laborers are an independent labor force who do construction, landscaping, and other manual work for a negotiated cash rate. In Los Angeles they hang out in public spaces in gro…

This is precisely what the author is attempting to do. > I know my goal: shift the default in open source from “it’s free for anyone to use” to “please don’t use this if you’re evi…

You’re not wrong, but arguments like this ignore the point. For many authors and maintainers, ‘free software’ and ‘open source’ as traditionally defined result in unsustainable out…

Wild experience building a PC today and discovering the prices are less competitive with Macs than they’ve always been. Building a well-appointed gaming/production/CAD rig is sudde…

Gamers Nexus is reporting increasing DDR4 prices, but it’s unclear to what extent it’s driven by the DDR5 market. DDR4 production is expected to be slowing anyway given the move to…

Wild! Does that count their own Starlink payloads? Curious what this number looks like when you only look at the launch customer market.

Great point, I had never thought of that!

I spent a couple years in Europe and found that most local news websites in the US blocked access entirely. My guess was that they all share IT resources / policies of the conglome…

Sincere question: have you done the math? If so, this conversation would be a lot more interesting if you shared it.

That’s a decision we, as a civilization, need to make. I personally hope we manage to enact transnational policies that effectively price environmental and social externalities in …

Are you pricing in the externalities of GHGs?

Definitely wrt the dopamine. The shorts are the main issue there for me, and I’m eager to tune my unlock to get rid of those. The content I’m on there for is long-form educational …

My question for you all is: do you consider HN to be social media? I got off traditional social media (twitter, fb, insta, etc) years ago and feel all the better for it. But I stil…