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"Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game."

Hi HN! I’ve been working on Alto, an AI phone agent that can make phone calls on your behalf — things like handling errands, confirming appointments, or negotiating bills so you do…

Hi HN! I’ve been working on Alto, an AI phone agent that can make phone calls on your behalf — things like handling errands, confirming appointments, or negotiating bills so you do…

Design is super clean--looks great!

Late to the party but this is my configuration that I use for my home servers: https://github.com/eh8/chenglab I was a complete Nix beginner three months ago and thought Nix was te…

Absolutely, people fixate on Korea and Vietnam while ignoring that the US has won many ”fast” wars since 1945. Operation Desert Storm is a perfect modern example. The US doesn’t lo…

This is actually a pretty good article for a non-technical audience. I’m surprised The Economist mentioned XKCD! Whoever wrote this must’ve been a developer at one point or had som…

It isn't as polished as whatever first-party solution Apple has the potential to develop, but I just use OneDrive to restore my personal data + chezmoi to reprovision my dotfiles a…

> Even linux tools like shred have given up saying they can actually delete data from disks due to how SSD's work these days. Which emphasizes the importance of enabling full disk …

> Notably, the report identified lighting, brakes, and axles as prominent sources of faults in the Tesla Model 3. I would have thought the battery or the powertrain or some EV-spec…

I'm surprised he was able to make such statements for this long. I genuinely wonder why his captors even continue to let him live, when it seems like any post-2022 civil protest in…

It's really awesome to see this recent counter-revolution of developer tools emphasizing simplicity. Nue gives me the same optimistic, feel-good vibe that htmx and Alpine.js gave m…

This is especially true in UX design. When I see a website... - using a ridiculously thin or small font, - relying on a high-end monitor to provide sufficient color contrast - load…