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Vibecoded slop with terrible performance. Use https://chiptune.app . >Preserving the digital underground's musical legacy Yeah I'm pretty sure the people who made keygens and chipt…

I warned people about 4 years ago that this would happen. Checking people's IDs online for accessing certain kinds of porn on telegram and Discord is much more popular than you wou…

Nuclear is indeed the answer. Nuclear power is incredibly safe nowadays and it also provides kinetic inertia, something that solar and wind power lack (they are all DC based and on…

Yes, it tells you that they're normal unlike people who are still arguing today how Musk didn't actually do a nazi salute.

That's fair, thanks for letting me know!

I literally said I'm fine with using LLMs for the frontend, but I think this should be disclosed clearly.

The interface looks vibecoded. I have no problem with people vibecoding things. In fact, I have zero frontend skills, so I rely on AI to be able to make easy-to-use interfaces. How…

Yeah, I don't want background sync. I mean, iOS is built upon the idea that any task in the background might be killed at any time and without warning by the OS. This is so the OS …

No, it really is not that easy. Check out China, and read up on the Spanish housing crisis. "Just build more" works only sometimes, as demonstrated in those counter-examples. Housi…

Before smartphones and TikTok it was casino TV at 3AM, TV infomercial shopping, and the like.

"right to compute" Oh cool! Look inside No mention of: - Self-repair - Self-service - Hardware and software modifications - Protecting consumers from proprietary anti-circumvention…

I think it's a gimmick that Samsung will cut out in future models for cost savings reasons. Like Samsung ditched the edge displays, or the Bluetooth in their S-Pen, or like Apple d…

I care. Online forums are for humans to share ideas around. Not for bots to farm karma.

State of the art literally just means that it is the latest and most capable, compared with peers. As such, China launched DeepSeek R1, and they kind of broke the web, because it w…

I do not consider removing redundant sensors like lidar or infrared from the comprehensive Tesla sensor network and pretending that cameras can do FSD perfectly a good example of e…

Wow, good job in doing the bare minimum? "We will cover the cost of upgrading the electricity grid so we can use more energy" yeah. Of course you will. What?

Layoffs incoming?

A month and a half ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286645

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845759

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845759

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845759

What I did is make the scripts ping uptime kuma https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma This has two advantages. First, if cron jobs are not running at all for some reason, the tim…