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There was an article a while back on HN about why web designers choose light grey on white background. Basically, it looks fine on their own monitor which has the contrast turned w…

Ah yes, the good old "one sided-electrode."

Could be, if you can set up a millions of dollars regulatory apparatus to keep online some really old MMOs for the 100 people worldwide who want to play them, there's really nothin…

If you think about it, those who shape mainstream opinion on operating systems were always mostly bought off, and invested in the mainstream operating systems. That investment mean…

Remember the time when the former members of the Siri team demoed a prototype for a more capable version of Siri and Apple didn't even use it

They let them speak with Gill Bates instead

I just did a captcha the other day that asked the user to select which items can fit inside the sample item (which was a handbag). You'd think that a multimodal deep learning model…

Do you cache data on the client and write buffer it on the way back to the server? I made a key value store as a hobby project, that also kind of streamed the data and it was conve…

Oh dang, so the others do walk among us?

The problem with natural keys is that nobody ever says, "My bad, I should have spelled my name the same way on this form as I did when I registered for the service, I promise not t…

that's nice, but the US digital asset stockpile is not the strategic bitcoin reserve. The sentence that controls acquisition in the strategic bitcoin reserve is the one before it: …

One would think that the difficulty of making a company profitable when it's training larger and larger LLMs, combined with the diminishing returns and model collapse phenomenon, w…

frigging ...what?

It’s a case of rugged individualism, the search for the elusive use case: cryptid currencies, beware of geeks bearing grifts.

Yes routers learn details about the destination of the packets they carry, but this is not a problem for most purposes. The author goes on to make some vague insinuation that tls i…

Actually a lot of people are saying that Linux is the best platform for developing GUIs.

The C language has rules around 'effective type' which determine what object type a block of memory can have, while the C++ language has rules around object model which does basica…

cringe and seethe

Back in 2021 I guessed that Shopify was overvalued because it didn't benefit from the same network effect that Amazon benefits from. (Also I preregistered this prediction so you kn…

Decentraland uses a peer to peer-user connection model, which needs 'number of users' connections per client and will never scale. The intent is to not have to trust catalyst serve…

Most bitcoin have never been sold. Bitcoin is a commodity that is intended to serve as a store of value, and other commodities like gold and silver do their work as a store of valu…

The fees for buying using credit or debit card are still 2.5% (5% round trip). I always assume that savvy users use coinbase pro by moving crypto in from other exchanges where trad…

If I remembered correctly Rails originated the concept of an opinionated framework, and everybody else copied it to some extent. Yet it's the only platform that the author disses. …