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While I'm a big fan of open source, I don't understand what the alternative is for this dilemma... Is it supposed to be illegal for me to create my own homegrown database with the …

Next thing you know, someone on hacker news will be posting about how they reverse engineered their iPhone so they could charge the battery 10x faster! Everyone will complain about…

Its worth checking out a recent interview with the Flock CEO on Cheeky Pint (Stripe's podcast with John Collison) [1] As much as I fear the Orwellian future this could turn into, I…

> But blaming them for not accepting email is kind of silly. They are not empowered to do that kind of thing. Perhaps it's irrational, but I have this viceral feeling that refuses …

I grew up in Sacramento and I remember when my parents were had a flat rate water bill. Those were the good ol' days! It frustrates me how everyone moralizes water use rather than …

I might be missing something because I don’t really understand why you mean by “health” related deaths… But it seems like you’re making Dan’s point for him. “We need to adapt our l…

Perhaps he could have been a bit more charitable with his attitude, but do you disagree with his premise? 20k people died from heat exposure last summer in Europe! That seems crazy…

This is awesome. Can I do this myself? Or does this need to be implemented in their backend?

I’ve never understood why time is the metric people are using here. If LLMs get so much better we can “run them overnight”, what makes you think that they won’t also get faster and…

I often find myself trying to solve a geometry problem where the constraints are really simple to understand, but solving it algebraic is really hard and tedious. I built this whol…

I think these numerical constraints are because range trees use numerical averages to construct themselves. This is important for OVERLAPS queries common with dates. But you could …

Seems like this logic could all be represented in Claude.md and some agents. Has anyone done this? I’d love to just import that into my project because I’m using some of these tact…

I think cars and urban design are too often used as a scapegoat. Whether living in an apartment building in a city or a house in the suburbs, I’m frequently surprised how many peop…

Very insightful. 1965 was an interesting time to write this book too with welfare being passed around then.

Sounds like you need a constitution.

This happened this morning. What are the odds that next week this will be fixed and this whole enragement and speculation was a complete waste of time? This is why I don’t read the…

Can people help to fill in some of the gaps in this article? There are some striking claims that seem to have some basis in reality. But the article leaves a lot questions. The the…

I do something very similar but I add to the bottom instead of the top. It keeps things chronological which is nice when referring back to things. It’s also much more similar to ho…

I think what he’s saying is if the police department is trying to identify a person in a photo, then anyone from the public can try to help them out. Whether those people use facia…

I’m always surprised that banks don’t have a better way of authenticating themselves to their customers (Chase and Vanguard, in particular). They call, they say I can call back and…

I want an iPhone Mini-sized iPhone! You can’t buy them anymore and now I have a big phone! A weird correlation I’ve observed is that many tech savvy designer folks have iPhone mini…

Regulation to provide a de-orbiting plan. I assume there something similar for oil wells and mining… What kind of solution you’re proposing? Why can’t we suffice with just regulati…

Side story regarding roads: I was recently in Shelter Cove, CA and was thinking that the is road probably exceeds the entire economic value of the town… Why is this road even here?…

Why isn’t the free market capable of doing this? Seems odd to spend money just to spend money. There’s plenty of incentive for other people to be doing this already…

I’m not sure it’s that clear… Take an application like Slack and consider how to scale it local-first for a team with 1000 people. And then consider how to coordinate deployment of…