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by alberth 7mo ago
Flighty is very pretty, but I’m not giving up FlightAware anytime soon. I travel a lot, and frequently encounter flight delays. It’s mind boggling difficult to find out where my plane is when it’s delayed via Flighty. This and a few other t
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by alberth 7mo ago
I’m genuinely inspired by your journey. One question for clarity: why don’t you see an opportunity to sell AI or other technology into this space again? Is it just because incumbents already have it locked up and it’s cheap? The reason I as
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by alberth 7mo ago
For those, like me, who find the prompt itself of interest … > A full transcript of the original conversation with GPT-5.4 Pro can be found here [0] and GPT-5.4 Pro’s write-up from the end of that transcript can be found here [1]. [0] h
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by alberth 7mo ago
I’m fairly certain that’s a POS issue, not the payment network. I’ve heard anecdotally that it’s < 140 ms for payment networks. Anyone, please correct me if you know better.
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by alberth 7mo ago
Re: transition to micro services (from monolith). I’m surprised a network so sensitive to latency (as are payment networks), was able to achieve their latency SLAs with micro services. Maybe Amex being a closed-loop network helps with laten
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by alberth 7mo ago
Let’s restate this another way: “ In an interview with {COMPANY} I was literally told that … {COMPANY-OWNER} can call us and demand anything at anytime. “ Doesn’t sound so crazy when Elon name is removed from it. Note: I’m no Elon fan, but
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by alberth 7mo ago
Anthropic, can I please signup without the need to share my mobile number.
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by alberth 7mo ago
Tangentially related: I haven’t seen DragonflyBSD talked about on HN in a long while but wasn’t it a split from FreeBSD to be built entirely around message passing as the core construct. And with the tiny team working on it, it has remarkab
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by alberth 7mo ago
I didn't realize Moltbook and OpenClaw - were created by different people.
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by alberth 7mo ago
> This is the latest video to have emerged from the extraordinary incident earlier this week in which a Kuwaiti Air Force F/A-18 Hornet was responsible for shooting down three U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles. Why is the US usin
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by alberth 7mo ago
They have the higher cache variant (4585PX - same clock speed & core count) https://us.ovhcloud.com/bare-metal/advance/adv-4-new-gen/ https://www.datapacket.com/hardware/epyc-4585px
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by alberth 7mo ago
Both Datapacket & OVH have the 4565p. This proc is a hidden gem. For most workloads it’s not just the most performant, but also the best bang-for-buck.
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by alberth 9mo ago
Who would have guessed the Smithsonian of all organizations would have so many video popup ads. Isn’t the greatest experience on mobile when so little of the content can be seen due to popups.
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by alberth 9mo ago
Wont you need to replace the batteries around Year 10 and then this becomes a wash?
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by alberth 9mo ago
Embarrassingly dumb question: if you’re one of the few users who don’t run a dark background terminal … how well do these TUI render (in a light background)?
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by alberth 9mo ago
Am I missing the obvious, but it seems like the author is messing with the aspect ratio.
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by alberth 10mo ago
So who's the arbiter to determine if the outcome was achieved? And how do you programmatically measure it?
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by alberth 10mo ago
Would this be analogous to NVMe? Meaning ... SSDs initially reused IDE/SATA interfaces, which had inherent bottlenecks because those standards were designed for spinning disks. To fully realize SSD performance, a new transport had to b
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by alberth 10mo ago
Dumb question: who’s Firefox target user? Chrome is able to capture the mass consumer market, due to Google’s dark pattern to nag you to install Chrome anytime you’re on a Google property. Edge target enterprise Fortune 500 user, who is
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by alberth 10mo ago
If you like variable fonts, no font is better at giving fine tune control than Roboto Flex (also by Google). Has 12-axis of variables (whereas most only have 1 or 2) https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Flex/te
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by alberth 10mo ago
> Power generation turbines are designed to work at ambient sea level conditions. They don't rely on ambient air being especially cold for cooling, they can keep cool thanks to the large mass flow rate What could be contributing
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by alberth 10mo ago
Who is Amp’s competition? Because if I understand them correctly, aren’t they a wrapper around all the major LLMs (focused specially on developer use cases?
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by alberth 10mo ago
To be fair, it’s misleading to group Scala (or any JVM language), with other “high-level languages.” The JVM is extremely mature and performant, and JVM-based languages often run 5x (or more) than non-JVM high-level languages like Python or
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by alberth 10mo ago
It’s interesting that the stock market has no reaction to this news, after hours. As of writing this, Netflix is -0.6%
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by alberth 10mo ago
One proxy might be to look at the upvote counts for each of their respective latest release HN posts. Eg, this post has ~50 (though only posted an hour ago) Rails 8 had ~550 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41766515
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by alberth 10mo ago
Silly question: how are people negatively impacted by the trademark of "JavaScript"? Because in practice, isn't this a bit like "Kleenex" - where everyone knows you mean "tissue" (EMCAScript).
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by alberth 10mo ago
Doesn't -O2 still exclude any CPU features from the past ~15 years (like AVX). If you know the architecture and oldest CPU model, we're better served with added a bunch more flags, no? I wish I could compile my server code to targ
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by alberth 10mo ago
Technology alone rarely wins a market ... success usually comes from marketing, referrals, and network effects. It’s the same reason why vibe coding a better version of Airbnb (even if it’s just a simple CRUD app) wouldn’t actually threaten
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by alberth 10mo ago
After 25-years of software development, I still wonder whether I’m using the best possible compiler flags.
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by alberth 11mo ago
I’d be super interested to see solutions to each, just to learn from.

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