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Wayback shows #6 as "By 2010, more than 50 percent of books sold worldwide will be printed on demand at the point of sale in the form of library-quality paperbacks." It was removed…

Aphantasia doesn’t preclude having dreams or internal dialogue/thought.

Great idea for any kind of ambient display. Could use it to CI or server stats.

Why now though? Based on the sharp decline since 2022 (according to Ferris’s numbers), s/books/chatbots seems like the Occam’s Razor explanation here.

> The linked hacks blog https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardenin...

Claude's vim bindings don't support ESC mapping, unfortunately for muscle memory. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/25306

Nice work but please consider fixing the cursor styling. It doesn't change to `pointer` when hovering over the books, which is what you'd expect as they are clickable. Then, when y…

Sure, if the bot is actually committing fraud, but there's perfectly valid use cases that don't involve fraud, e.g., buying groceries, booking travel. And some banks provide APIs, …

There's also a massive selection bias when the cohort is early adopters. Another thing about early users is they are also longer-term users (assuming they are still on the platform…

Giving access to "my bank account", which I take to mean one's primary account, feels like high risk for relatively low upside. It's easy to open a new bank (or pseudo-bank) accoun…

I’ve tried many e-readers since early Kindle but I keep coming back to two fundamental problems with e-ink, both relevant to education. First, extremely cumbersome and error-prone …

The current top HN post is for moltbook.com seven hours ago, this present thread being just below it and posted two hours hence We conclude this week has been a prosperous one for …

Very cool idea since ffmpeg is one of those tools that has a few common tasks but most users would need to look up the syntax every time to implement them (or make an alias). In li…

Correct. Fortunately a number of streaming services are available in many regions nowadays, e.g., Netflix, Apple TV, Disney, HBO Max or whatever it’s called now. The content may va…

Yes and combine with a travel router so you don’t have to endure logging into a wifi portal with a soft keyboard on the TV, if the stick OS even allows it. Then having to repeat th…

> of course 1/2 of the appeal is just the accent Deflating is the moment when Arnie's autobiography audio switches from his own voice to a random American-accent narrator. (After c…

A major advantage of pure models is testability. If your conception of a "model" is perversely a user-facing widget, congratulations, you'll need to write UI tests that simulate bu…

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This is especially true for sleep since we can be pretty good at incorporating external sounds into our dreams. It's been shown in controlled experiments. Seems likely that certain…

I wish someone could solve the problem at the receiver end, i.e., invent noise-cancelling headphones/earplugs that actually cancel noise as effectively as eye-masks cancel light. I…

I think you'll still hear any relevant alarms. Earplugs are better than nothing, but really aren't fabulous at blocking noise the way eye-masks are. For hearing-impaired people, th…

This is fun! I didn't immediately notice the time slider and thought it was just GeoGuessr with historical pictures, but the time element adds a whole new dimension.

I learned more from the reaction to Nate and 538’s forecasts than 538 itself. It helped me appreciate how journalists misunderstand and distort basic probability. If a model predic…

It shows how careless the industry is that these security questions persist. Sarah Palin’s Yahoo! account was handed by someone guessing easily accessible security questions. That …

They also asked her for permission in advance, which was never going to help their case.