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Interesting history. From the wiki: "A Senate bill was introduced in February 1947 to create the National Science Foundation (NSF) to replace the OSRD. This bill favored most of the features advo…

Having a "Recovery Mode"/"Safe Boot" flag to disable our configurations (or progressively enable) to see how claude code responds would be nice. Sometimes I get worried some o…

Do you have additional information about this? I'm having trouble finding reporting or discussion on it.

Ya. I could imagine a browser extension performing some form of verification loop for simpler webpages. Maybe too niche.

I found a link that said they were discussing the testing schedule with media, but haven't found a timeline for when they might go supersonic. First X-59 post on hn was 8 years ago!

"The X-59’s thin, tapered nose accounts for almost a third of its length, and will break up the shock waves that would ordinarily result in a supersonic aircraft causing a sonic boom." [1] T…

Ya, I don't understand the calculus. If it's important enough for a big website, why not promote the site for a week first. Too many applications seems more desirable than missing the right …

Why does the application window last four days? Charitably they're moving fast, but without already having people in mind for the roles or having created the hiring pipeline, how do you reach a s…

No, I don't have any good ideas. Just hoping someone else does, or that I'm missing something. I think it's in the hands of browser vendors. The agent review a la socket.dev probably do…

URL data sites are always very cool to me. The offline service worker part is great. The analytics[1] is incredible. Thank you for sharing (and explaining)! I love this implementation. I'm a litt…

Page 38 has an interesting comparison saying a session of 8 "medium length" messages uses roughly 10Wh, the equivalent of ~2 phone charges. The data dashboard[1] I think is defining medium l…

"The deal was negotiated without the input of the trial team, catching even the lead counsel by surprise." Is trial team a technical term? How would you negotiate without the people people m…

I remember it being worse a while ago. But most of the time I can drag a binary into Settings->Privacy & Security->Full Disk Access or other things (Accessibility API). Maybe other issues co…

I feel like I can mostly use containers on macOS. Is there a different sense that people are using containers on *nix? Or are you referring to all the macOS specific software footguns? I would like to…

It behaved properly. I pictured someone using it on a 2 week road trip. But even within a couple hours traveling in SF/bay area, it can be pretty hard to know what weather you'll encounter. …

A really thorough explanation of the journey of building a wireless button. So many great buttons over the years. Reddit's the button[1]. Bttn IoT button[2]. Amazon Dash button[3]. A placebo butt…

I immediately did SF to Reno through sacramento and south lake tahoe. Wildly different even in four hours. A URL that persists the entered route might be desirable (especially to demo here). Otherwise…

The comment about lobste.rs caused me to go look into them again. I really liked their about page. I hadn't realized lobsters had evolved the hn format so much. There's lots of good ideas be…

Ha. The Orchid was the first instrument I clicked on (in the Jamuary section) when I was trying to answer my own question. Thank you for the recommendations. You're half way to a logicalincrement…

This is feels like life imitates art (the plot Stardew Valley). I hope you and your farm find great success!

Demo from the post - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8B4DuDFt2w Wow. This post covers a lot! As a non-synth/midi person I kinda bounced off and thought it wasn't for me but…

You can see the vote history here[1]. It's always hard to know exactly why something gets buried. I was a little sad to see the story down-ranked when I saw that you were here in the comments. Bu…

One day I realized I needed to make sure I'm voting on quality stories/comments. I wonder if there was a call to vote substantively and often, if that might change the SNR. The guidelines en…

It took me a while to start using canvases. But now I think they should be a much more common UI pattern. They really shine on large (40"+ non-retina 4k) screens. The simplicity at launch made me…

According to the EFF fingerprinting website, Firefox + uBlock Origin didn't really make my browser particularly unique. But turning on privacy.resistfingerprinting in about:config (or was it fing…