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by conesus 2y ago
> Most of the blacksmiths in the 19th century drank themselves to death after the industrial revolution This is hyperbolic and a dramatic oversimplification and does not accurately describe the reality of the transition from blacksmithin
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by conesus 2y ago
I run NewsBlur[0] and I’ve been battling this issue of NewsBlur fetching 403s across the web for months now. My users are revolting and asking for refunds. I’ve tried emailing dozens of site owners and publishers and only two of them have d
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by conesus 2y ago
GPT-4o uses BPE (byte pair encoding). They released `tiktoken` which allows you to count tokens in strings in python. pip install tiktoken >>> import tiktoken >>> encoding = tiktoken.encoding_for_model("
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by conesus 3y ago
The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist. — Piet Hein
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by conesus 3y ago
How did that lump of plutonium become a lump? That part wasn’t natural.
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by conesus 3y ago
Apple still sells the iPhone SE 3. Rumor has it that the next iPhone SE will lose the home screen button but retain the same size. The camera isn't as powerful as the iPhone 13/14/15 lines but I find that it does fine in low
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Marina Abramovic Thinks the Pain of Love Is Hell on Earth(nytimes.com)
2 points by conesus 3y ago|0 comments
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by conesus 3y ago
We’re in SF. Those are real testimonials. And while those are renderings the actual devices look identical. Lots of photos on X showing they look like you’d expect. As much as a photo on Apple’s website looks like the real thing.
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by conesus 3y ago
You can see around the lenses and have decent awareness of what’s going on. I can see my partner and interact with her on the edges. I can also drink tea and see where everything is. It’s nowhere near complete isolation.
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by conesus 3y ago
So far the boot loader is unlocked and you can flash on top of it, although I don’t know why you’d want to since you’d have to rebuild an entire OS but it would be possible. Our waveforms were easy to get right so it’s not as simple as driv
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by conesus 3y ago
> Is the system able to adjust to the strength of your eyesight? There is a per-eye diopter adjustment, ranging from 0 to -5.75, so you have quite a bit of focal adjustment. > What are the advantages of the Sol Reader over paper books
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by conesus 3y ago
Hey HN, I helped build the Sol Reader glasses and would love to answer any questions. It helps that I've spent months using the glasses and can attest to the increased amount of reading these glasses have unlocked. I have a 2 year old
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by conesus 3y ago
You can use hackersmacker.org, a browser extension I built, to highlight HN authors while reading on the web. And if the people you follow also use it, you’ll see friend-of-friends and foe-of-a-friends.
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by conesus 3y ago
Nice work and glad to hear that! If you ever want to chat RSS, please reach out.
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by conesus 3y ago
NewsBlur tries to handle this case by comparing stories and if they match up to a certain percentage of the content, considers them duplicates. Here's the code that does the work: https://github.com/samuelclay/News
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by conesus 4y ago
Hacker Smacker ( https://hackersmacker.org ) is a browser extension I built to help with exactly this problem. It shows a colored or next every commenters name, signifying whether you friended them or foe’d them. And so it lets yo
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by conesus 5y ago
Beep (YC S14) did this and made a gorgeous, inexpensive volume dial that lives on top of your speakers and speaks wifi. Unfortunately the company shut down but it was great while it lasted. It looks like there isn’t market demand for this w
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by conesus 5y ago
I’m interested to know which led ics are you buying. WS2813? What about the controller, are you DIY or off the shelf? I’ve been using SP105E as a controller but it doesn’t have smooth fades and it takes too long to write my own firmware on
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by conesus 5y ago
In case anybody's interested, here's what the "hack" looks like: nbset:PRIMARY> show dbs READ__ME_TO_RECOVER_YOUR_DATA 0.000GB admin 0.000GB local
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by conesus 5y ago
NewsBlur's founder here. I'll attempt to explain what's happening. This situation is more of a script kiddie than a hacker. I'm in the process of moving everything on NewsBlur over to Docker containers in prep for the bi
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by conesus 5y ago
The universe may be as great as they say, but it wouldn’t be missed if it didn’t exist.” -Piet Hein
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by conesus 6y ago
Accessible how? It should be no more or less accessible than the main website. Feel free to reach me at samuel@newsblur.com
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by conesus 6y ago
The saved story feature does a great job of that, since it also allows you to filter saved stories by feed and by tag, so saved stories are easy to find again.
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by conesus 6y ago
Storage and bandwidth are pretty negligible. I'm under Digital Ocean's quota for bandwidth and NewsBlur is pretty aggressive in keeping feeds up to date. I don't keep an archive of every story ever published, but most feeds d
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by conesus 6y ago
Marketing is hard for me because I've hired a few folks to do targeted ads and it ended up being a big cost sink. Beyond that, I try to blog regularly and use big screenshots for new features, which helps a bit with SEO and discoverabi
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by conesus 6y ago
Then you'll be excited to see the upcoming redesign that I have yet to publicly launch (but want a few users on to test the waters early): https://beta.newsblur.com
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by conesus 6y ago
It was in the summer of 2008, three years after Google launched Reader and had at least 5 million users, when I decided to write my own RSS reader. There were just so many features I wanted that I knew Google would never build and for some
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by conesus 6y ago
I built the Turn Touch remote[1] to basically bring back the old Apple Remote features. Music and video control for your laptop. [1]: turntouch.com
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by conesus 7y ago
I should have specified. I don't expect any set number of hours, since all of the work will be done remote. I care much more about a long-term relationship and big features being steadily built over time. So whatever rate that works ou
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by conesus 7y ago
NewsBlur (YC S12) | Remote Android Engineer | Remote | Part Time I'm looking for an Android developer to help build the next version of the NewsBlur Android app. NewsBlur is a popular RSS news reader with apps on the web, iOS, and Andr

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