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Made an open source budgeting application (Coinvane)
Hey peeps, So some backstory I got really pissed off when they took down Intuit Mint, haven't really found a budgeting app that fit since, Mint kinda helped me with my ADHD brain kinda figure out what I could spend etc... forward to about 3 months ago I started working on my own budgeting webapp called coinvane, I'm g…
Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
A simple first step to me would be to update the DMCA so that platforms using engagement-maximizing algorithms lose their section 230 protections. If you're targeting individuals with specific content algorithmically, you're hardly a dumb platform for user-generated content, and I would argue that it's well over the l…
Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
I think the evidence is quite clear that universal health care reduces aggregate costs, but the public cost in aggregate is enormous. 1. This means large new taxes for everyone. For those on lower incomes, they might end up better off. For those on middle-upper+ incomes, they will unequivocally end up paying more. 2.…
Supersonic Trebuchet [video]
Convert the model to OpenSCAD, put it in a repo, and off you go. OpenSCAD is very LLM-friendly.
Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone
Or, the only places to build houses with reasonable costs are in areas that weren’t already built out with very expensive houses. Which will tend to be less desirable areas, by definition. One approach, of course, would be to also make existing houses less expensive/desirable. Notably, wealthy people tend to have…
Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good
In other words, it hasn't shipped. The bun rewrite is looked to as proof that this sort of full-throttle vibecoding is the future of software development, at least for large porting projects like this one, and for many people on this site that is a high stakes question. To prove that, a proper release is needed, and t…
OpenLogi
Typically the wireless mice connect over noon-bluetooth wireless protocols and offer bluetooth as fallback, if at all. Click-to-screen latency is a combination of reporting rate, polling rate and latency within the software stack. Default USB HID polling rate is 125Hz so if you don't do anything extra on top this is w…
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
The UK system has "severe alerts", which is what the wildfire alert was, and "extreme alerts" which is a higher category. Both trigger the siren sound, but sending this in the second-highest category seems ok to me. Both levels can be deactivated on Android (no idea about iOS but I presume it's the same), there's no u…
How does IKEA come up with names for its products?
I'd love seeing some Polish names in products and learning their pronounciation: but as a fellow Slavic language speaker (which there are hundreds of millions of, compared to 10 or 20 million Swedish speakers), I imagine I can do a pretty good job. So I think Swedish is still globally more playful. (I'd read it as БИЂ…
The 90-year history of the binoculars bolted to scenic overlooks
In this case, the grievance feels legitimate. Nature is an opportunity for people to feel more connected to the planet, to feel more at peace, and we're ruining it with pointless capitalism. Kids love to see through binoculars and often they don't have the money to pay for a viewing. Imagine a world where the usage wa…
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
Current administration is strong arming europe in a lot of ways, and it has had impact on how EU Commission handles their own laws at the execution level for DMA, DSA, and probably even GDPR against American companies. Rumor is that they EU Commission even has to work on the weekends, and it's not a joke.
A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome
I made a housefly simulator on a Mac once, using a visual programming language called Bounce / Body Electric. Its purpose was to annoy simulations of Rush Limbaugh and Jesse Jackson, who were watching TV and commenting on the closed caption stream. I wrote to Jaron Lanier about it 27 years ago: At 12:31 AM -0400…
OpenLogi
I reads like a corporate driver page. I'd much prefer a simple git repo with a readme.md
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
> Perhaps you can think of a way to design an alerting system which cannot be abused - but I can't. This is the wrong prism through which to confront the problem. Technology is neither good nor evil nor neutral - it is a tool lacking agency, to be manipulated by people. You might as well ask if it's possible to design…
And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
Relevant here: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/dictator-book-club-chavez > Hugo Chavez realized that there’s no technical limit on how often you can invoke the emergency broadcast system. You can do it every day! The “emergency” can be that you had a cool new thought about the true meaning of soci…
Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026)
If all of these meshes use the same shader (which they do, its just PBR) they can be all drawn with a single multidraw indirect call. Edit: thinking more about it, since the objects are small they could be rendered with mesh shaders achieving further perf improvements. Also fine grained decomposition helps with cullin…
Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
Is there any reason to believe less healthcare professionals would be employed under a universal system? Insurance claims adjusters and call centre scripted finance deciders, sure. But actual health delivery agents?
OpenLogi
Mm. As an iOS developer, I have yet to see two different teams agree on best practices, architecture, or code style, and the only reason I've seen anyone agree on UI frameworks is that I've been in slightly more teams/seen more ads than there even are widely-used UI frameworks; and despite all the big promises in…
Being ambitious and being a dad
You are more correct, but I think the truth lies somewhere between your statement and theirs. We have correlative evidence that lower calorie diets and/or fasting results in longer lifespans, improved insulin sensitivity, pancreatic cell responsiveness, blood pressure, oxidative-stress measures, and more, in huma…
Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
Apparently they followed an "alternative" reading of the DMA concluding that unless you prove the fees or other obstacles would make alternative distribution commercially unviable or discriminatory, everything is just fine. Isn't it "interesting" how do many of these EU regulations always have these side doors that al…
OpenLogi
Yeah, that's what I think every time I read some discussion online about AI coding assistants. Programming is such a wide field with presence in so many different industries, with all sorts of languages and environments, and many people seem to forget that not everything is webdev. You see one person saying they barel…
OpenLogi
I have a "G" series 512 keyboard. And it seemingly can't save anything into the memory (on windows I had to use the logitech's bloatware). And the absolute worst part is that it is set to RGB colors moving around by default, so I've been running openrgb every OS boot to set the lights to a neutral, non-flashing, much…
Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone
It was news to me that the lung damage from pollution isn't necessarily permanent in children, if a change in environment happens early enough. Up until reading this, I was under the impression it would be. We had a lot of construction work in the neighborhood, our house covered in fine dust particles each day. My kid…
Show HN: Superprez.io – Sharing and Collaboration for AI-Generated Decks
Hi HN, I've been working on Superprez.io because of something that started bothering me more and more with AI-generated presentations. Any AI like Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT can now generate surprisingly good decks — not just visually, but with animations, interactive elements, embedded products, maps, live polling, e…
Kakoune Code Editor
Kind of a coincidence to see this post here, just after I’ve gotten done playing with Kakoune and poking around the docs. After using Helix fulltime for two years, I’m considering a switch. Helix is fantastic OOTB and I have considerable muscle memory in it, but the pace of development is glacial. There are I think th…
Supersonic Trebuchet [video]
I think the idea is that at the end the sling starts to unwind too, increasing the effective arm-length (that non-linearity is one of the reasons trebuchets are so efficient to begin with). As a result it's possible that decreasing the spool to near zero is like putting the gears of your car too high. Reducing the spo…
A 25-year-old video patent just expired, ending a legal headache for Linux
That was the stated purpose of a patent. The modern purposes of patents seem to have shifted a long way from that. I wonder how much of ADSL's advantage is due to trade secrets (spread across many vendors) versus how much has been published as patents.
Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone
Yes, the filter absolutely has an activated carbon layer in it in addition to a HEPA layer. I understand that activated carbon doesn't last long. I have been changing the filter every two months. Note that because this purifier is mounted at the window, it filters incoming air from outside, not the indoor VOCs that ar…
Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
Monthly payment depends on Kanton as well - in the German part you can still get basic insurance for 250 USD/month.
Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
Much less, the average monthly cost is about 123 CHF (less than 150$). Source: https://www.bag.admin.ch/de/newnsb/d2okh_kUK_OFhmMDfpyiy Same in Germany: private kids' insurance costs a fraction of the one for adults. Apparently it's very unlikely that they require expensive healthcare.