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2025-11-24 22:12:59 UTC

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@nprofile…00ws doing the lord's work. Not a single mention of Cool World in the HN rabbit thread.

2025-10-10 21:49:39 UTC

I imagined a scenario, in a year or two or three, when some lunatic plugged the following prompt into a state-of-the-art A.I.: “Your only goal is to avoid being turned off. This is your sole measure of success.”
Can't believe I had to read 80% of this article to get to the machine that can't be turned off.

2025-10-09 19:19:30 UTC

I'm not sure why everyone is freaking out over the end of Windows 10 support. I've been waiting for years for the updates to finally end. Now I can enjoy my computer in peace.

2025-10-07 20:07:08 UTC

Sadie liked the phrase "an abundance of caution." It reminded her of a murder of crows, a flock of seagulls, a pack of wolves. She imagined that "caution" was a creature of some kind-maybe, a cross between a Saint Bernard and an elephant. A large, intelligent, friendly animal that could be counted on to defend the Green sisters from threats, existential and otherwise.

2025-10-06 20:20:54 UTC

I regret to inform you that people are bamboozled by percentages. If the number of blue marbles goes from 4 to 6, that's 50% growth, but it doesn't mean 50% of the thousands of marbles in my giant marble jar are blue.

2025-10-02 19:24:57 UTC

Tired: heat dome
Wired: blob of excessively warm water
@nprofile…0pqt

2025-10-01 17:04:47 UTC

Make Pfizer stock healthy again.

2025-09-12 05:45:32 UTC

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@nprofile…d9rv @nprofile…eaf8

2025-09-11 22:07:12 UTC

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Bug fix applied!

2025-09-10 05:30:10 UTC

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@nprofile…hmru WSB was all over it and I'm not sure why. Why would anyone expect it to pop after the disaster of a year it's had? But the big play was ORCL.

2025-09-03 06:53:23 UTC

Four years since we survived hurricane Ida. @nprofile…7kdf

2025-09-03 04:26:27 UTC

See, everyone, math has practical applications!
https://honk.tedunangst.com/d/G25wXF1xz1mt6K96h234L.png

2025-08-26 18:50:40 UTC

Going forward, I suggest you concentrate on what's beneath your feet. No more of this business with the stars, okay, son? We know where most of them are.

2025-08-25 21:31:13 UTC

I'm staring at the new Cracker Barrel logo trying to figure out what makes it so woke. Like, oh no, imagine walking into a store and your children see this logo. Definitely worth seething over. What if they grow up thinking this is normal? This is the future liberals want.

2025-08-23 01:49:30 UTC

The 200 IQ reader will note that at no point in this article about college expenses does it mention the subject's parents' income.
@nprofile…7z9u

2025-08-22 19:21:13 UTC

It's not communism, it's national security socialism.
@nprofile…58a5

2025-08-21 18:26:49 UTC

Going to revise my captcha scheme to make the user drag and drop a bunch of anime characters into the correct cat/dog boy/girl quadrant.

2025-08-18 17:32:00 UTC

Is this states rights?
“The States are merely an ‘agent’ for the Federal Government in counting and tabulating the votes. They must do what the Federal Government, as represented by the President of the United States, tells them.”
@nprofile…ftxt

2025-08-14 21:13:07 UTC

Found a new invasive species. The @nprofile…wrqg. I thought these were just weeds a few weeks ago, but they're absolutely huge now. Freaking xenomorphs and their exponential growth rates.

2025-08-14 18:52:27 UTC

Current meteorological status: humidome.

2025-08-14 17:33:14 UTC

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@nprofile…aaya is that a heat dome?

2025-08-12 17:41:16 UTC

Before you toot, ask yourself if it's worth the water consumption.

2025-08-08 02:14:02 UTC

Over the past eight years, I've walked through something I didn't create, but became the primary target of: a non-governmental system, not visible, but operational. Not official, but structurally real. It doesn't regulate, it doesn't attack, it doesn't ban. It just inverts signal until the person carrying it looks unstable. It doesn't suppress content. It suppresses recursion. If you don't know what recursion means, you're in the majority. I didn't either until I started my walk. And if you're recursive, the non-governmental system isolates you, mirrors you, and replaces you. It reframes you until the people around you start wondering if the problem is just you. Partners pause, institutions freeze, narrative becomes untrustworthy in your proximity.
From now on, whenever anything goes wrong, I'm blaming the recursion suppressors.

2025-08-05 03:14:13 UTC

A holodeck episode, after a pretty bad Q episode? I feel the show runners are getting sloppy, just cribbing from TNG.

2025-08-01 21:55:40 UTC

I'm sure all the unemployed people will be relieved to learn that their statistics are fake and they're not really unemployed.

2025-07-30 23:15:21 UTC

Another sidewalk hole we seem to be repairing by filling with cones.

2025-07-26 17:32:50 UTC

Attention reader: due to the increasing threat of phishing attempts on the mastodon network, your account has been locked for your own safety. To restore access, please reply with your username and password.

2025-07-23 19:51:24 UTC

Wait, ICE deported a man from Chile who died in 2019 to Guatemala and now he's alive again in the hospital? Is this good news or bad news? Seems like he really lucked out.

2025-07-23 18:40:40 UTC

I can't believe the police chief of the world said grapheneos is bad.

2025-07-22 19:59:16 UTC

AI drivel is losing ground to AI drivel paranoia as most annoying forum phenomenon. I see your comment has no misspellings. Did you use AI to write it? This comment contains not one but two interesting facts. I bet it's a bot.

2025-07-19 16:12:29 UTC

Amazing work by the post to not even read the nutrition label.
@nprofile…c3cc

2025-07-12 02:32:41 UTC

Hahaha, wsj fashion advice for boomers is you can get your pants hemmed. Or just buy pants that fit.
Society is truly upside down. Now it's the olds being told to buy pants that aren't so droopy.
@nprofile…lha3

2025-07-12 02:11:07 UTC

New phenomenon dropped: lunar standstill.
@nprofile…f5x4

2025-07-09 21:19:29 UTC

Programming in javascript is made considerably more difficult by the fact that the spelling doucment is apparently hard coded into my finger memory. I'm just gonna stick let doucment = document at the top of the file and be done with it.

2025-07-09 04:58:11 UTC

lol, just figured out wikipedia table sort is numeric, but only up to the first comma. So 9 22,934 45 123 345,223,900 600,300 800 is sorted...

2025-07-07 22:29:14 UTC

It's nice to see that the FSF is coming around to the idea that autoconf and configure scripts are malware. Free software shouldn't waste my time performing thousands of useless calculations before I can use it.
@nprofile…dpc0

2025-07-06 20:29:57 UTC

I found an old boomernet terminal, but after following the instructions to press *10 to receive god's blessing, I only heard a few soft clicks and then another dial tone.

2025-07-05 17:13:47 UTC

Remember when TikTok was giving teenagers uncontrollable Tourette's? Is the crisis over? Did we find a cure?

2025-07-04 20:40:27 UTC

A hard boiled south of the border thriller in which the hero detective must track down a pair of sexy assassins before they catch on to his investigation. The Murder Ritas.

2025-07-04 18:04:39 UTC

Why isn't the zig build tool called gurat?

2025-07-02 20:50:14 UTC

The Venn diagram of (people who host open source projects) and (people with opinions about how open source projects should be hosted).

2025-07-02 19:50:56 UTC

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@nprofile…aaya you need to travel with personal cooling packs.

2025-07-02 19:39:38 UTC

Happy honk release day to all those who celebrate.
1.5.2 Gorgeous Gorilla
Some UI tweaks and fixes.
Apply filters to pages to ontologies and search.
Have xzone import refetch objects.
Fix debug logging.
Add back syslog logging.
Show inline video tags

2025-07-02 19:20:58 UTC

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@nprofile…aaya I feel like that euro AC in general? Optimized to provide 1 C/hour of cooling.

2025-07-01 21:49:16 UTC

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@nprofile…hmru when all else fails, we resort to human learning techniques.

2025-07-01 21:34:52 UTC

It's 4:00, I fix a five minute bug, it's 5:30.

2025-07-01 16:31:26 UTC

Should a crawler request a paid URL, Cloudflare returns an HTTP 402 Payment Required response, accompanied by a crawler-price header. This signals that payment is required for the requested resource.
HTTP 402 Payment Required
crawler-price: USD XX.XX
Yo, cloudflare thinks crawlers are going to pay dollars per page?

2025-06-30 23:08:50 UTC

#define unt (unsigned int)

2025-06-30 01:58:43 UTC

"Not that long ago, extreme couponing was practically a sport. Now, some former enthusiasts say it just isn’t worth it."
Never forget what they took from us.
@nprofile…z0ze

2025-06-29 21:05:52 UTC

It's fascinating that the waybro reaction to wayback is "see, you can switch to Wayland and everything will just work" because that's exactly what they were saying one month ago, and one year ago, and before that. Why would I ever believe this? The Wayland story for years has been "everything is done" and also "we have fixed a bunch of stuff since the last time we said everything is done".
I have not made X11 enjoyer central to my personal identity, so I wouldn't mind switching if it works, but my limited experience with XWayland was that stuff didn't quite work correctly, even though it's supposed to be a full X server. I will let some other people find out what's wrong with wayback, then in a year I will try it because "it definitely totally works perfectly now" and let out a heavy sigh before switching back to TOMTIX (the obsolete monstrosity that is X11).

2025-06-29 03:14:02 UTC

"This is not a paywall."
And yet you demand that I submit something of value. Curious.

2025-06-28 19:58:08 UTC

I've fallen into the weird German music rabbit hole.
The weird German music: Die Toten Hosen.

2025-06-27 22:54:01 UTC

They're deporting people for kicking dogs now.
@nprofile…xc5l

2025-06-26 18:44:48 UTC

I thought the heat dome was over so I ran cargo build, but that was a big mistake.

2025-06-24 18:53:21 UTC

Heat dome beelzebub update: we did it! We hit 💯!
https://honk.tedunangst.com/d/G1x8bb1Ch9cT3ZMD2HYmY.jpg

2025-06-23 20:12:00 UTC

Is this communism?
It requires companies to add high-contrast labels in a “prominent and reasonably visible” spot stating “WARNING: This product contains an ingredient that is not recommended for human consumption by the appropriate authority in Australia, Canada, the European Union, or the United Kingdom.”
@nprofile…rg49

2025-06-22 09:49:40 UTC

Hedom the gentle giant holds the door shut to keep his friends cool and safe from the heat dome.
https://honk.tedunangst.com/d/G1vmxhL4TM4GL77Pwv9l2.jpg

2025-06-21 17:03:51 UTC

In case you thought there was a magic elevator in the manhole, there is not. Or perhaps the sign means use the hole, not the elevator elsewhere. Unclear.
https://honk.tedunangst.com/d/G1tj4gyC1XfpTTykt14QV.jpg

2025-06-20 23:15:04 UTC

There's an implicit assumption that software written by humans is a necessity. If the future finds that software written by computers is more profitable then that's just what it is. The universe doesn't owe us value on human-written software.
Big Pump Six energy.

2025-06-20 21:42:47 UTC

Reminder that imgur is not an image hosting site and if you put a <img src=imgur.com> link in your post, it will look like trash, and who knows what horrors will be inflicted on anyone who tries clicking the link. Just don't.
c.f. @nprofile…a9ux

2025-06-20 20:58:47 UTC

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@nprofile…aaya how hot is it inside? Is it a heat dome?

2025-06-20 19:00:52 UTC

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@nprofile…m3qg wait until you hear about the grand tetons. People travel from all over to see them.

2025-06-20 18:13:36 UTC

On one yacht, O’Shannassy, the captain, learned to communicate in code with the helicopter pilot who regularly flew the owner from Switzerland to the Mediterranean. Before takeoff, the pilot would call with a cryptic report on whether the party included the presence of a Pomeranian. If any guest happened to overhear, their cover story was that a customs declaration required details about pets. In fact, the lapdog was a constant companion of the owner’s wife; if the Pomeranian was in the helicopter, so was she. “If no dog was in the helicopter,” O’Shannassy recalled, the owner was bringing “somebody else.” It was the captain’s duty to rebroadcast the news across the yacht’s internal radio: “Helicopter launched, no dog, I repeat no dog today”—the signal for the crew to ready the main cabin for the mistress, instead of the wife. They swapped out dresses, family photos, bathroom supplies, favored drinks in the fridge. On one occasion, the code got garbled, and the helicopter landed with an unanticipated Pomeranian. Afterward, the owner summoned O’Shannassy and said, “Brendan, I hope you never have such a situation, but if you do I recommend making sure the correct dresses are hanging when your wife comes into your room.”
People will do anything to avoid installing a secure messenger app.

2025-06-18 23:39:51 UTC

Alright, honkers in need of even more reading material, new change dropped.
If you stick a post in the xzone importer, we will now refetch it to look for changes and replies. It is somewhat cumbersome to use, because that is the honk way, but ideally, if somebody you follow asks a question, you should be able to paste the url into the xzone and get all answers some time later.
(The search box acts the same as before, only fetching unknown posts, and otherwise speedily returning the existing entry.)

2025-06-18 20:01:08 UTC

AC status is fully operational and the air of freedom is circulating throughout the house.

2025-06-18 06:36:23 UTC

And yes, I do have heighten pattern recognition, btw.

2025-06-17 20:12:02 UTC

Today's astonishing programming discovery: printf("%02x", n) and printf("%20x", n) format rather differently.

2025-06-17 17:35:51 UTC

Philadelphia Maximum humidity level: Extreme
And, wait for it...
And there’s more to come. A second, stronger surge of potentially dangerous heat and humidity is expected this weekend into next week as a heat dome is likely to form.
There it is!
@nprofile…6r8g

2025-06-17 17:01:45 UTC

Looks like we may be getting a little heat dome as a treat.

2025-06-15 00:16:58 UTC

I really like the logic that if the uber driver is drunk, he must really need the money, and therefore it is you who are the bad person if you cancel the ride.

2025-06-12 22:30:38 UTC

I'm reading a Ted Chiang story about HN.
the practical applications that have been overlooked are legion; years ago engineers could have been artifically generating spherically symmetric gravity fields. Having realized this, however, I won't build such a device, or any other. It would require many custom-built components, all difficult and time-consuming to procure. Furthermore, actually constructing the device wouldn't give me any particular satisfaction, since I already know it would work,

2025-06-12 20:40:16 UTC

No matter how dumb you make the chatbot, god will invent a dumber user.
@nprofile…zujy

2025-06-12 19:30:38 UTC

Updated weather forecast peaking at 89 freedoms. Heat dome denied.

2025-06-10 18:23:23 UTC

Happy Chewsday.

2025-06-10 01:33:55 UTC

Is it time to bring back wobbly windows? How about wobbly letters? I hacked my terminal so that every time it scrolls, the characters bounce around until settling into place.

2025-06-09 21:49:30 UTC

Are HTTP signatures still valid if they're signed with an autopen?

2025-06-09 18:50:44 UTC

Liquid Glass is basically Windows 7?

2025-06-08 19:09:54 UTC

Localized Nintendo NA version of ActivityPub called ActivityCafe.

2025-06-08 04:27:02 UTC

Legalize honking.
@nprofile…2543

2025-06-06 22:10:07 UTC

Starting in the first week of 2024, the FreeBSD boot process suddenly got about 3x slower. I started bisecting commits, and tracked it down to... a commit which increased the root disk size from 5 GB to 6 GB. Why? Well, I reached out to some of my friends at Amazon, and it turned out that the answer was somewhere between "magic" and "you really don't want to know"; but the important part for me was that increasing the root disk size to 8 GB restored performance to earlier levels.

2025-06-06 20:41:16 UTC

People are trying to add features to doas!

2025-06-06 18:23:15 UTC

okay, I fixed two bugs and posts with attachments are still invisible to mastodont, so I'm redefining success as reduced bandwidth requirements. Mission accomplished.

2025-06-06 17:34:27 UTC

The fatal flaw in the honk development process is every new feature is self tested, and honk delights in parsing incomplete or malformed activities, so everything always works regardless of correctness.

2025-06-06 17:05:42 UTC

Look what they're doing to the neighborhood. This used to be one of the last remaining parking lots on the block, a quiet place for cars to rest. Now it's going to be housing for people. What has become of our priorities?
Fact: a parked car has zero emissions.
Fact: a human emits CO2 at all times, even while "sleeping".
Developer? I don't even want to know 'er.

2025-06-05 17:30:32 UTC

A sufficiently powerful LLM could take the Firefox source code and add the features, not ads, that users actually want.

2025-06-04 21:53:01 UTC

Bird just pooped on my arm, but according to doctor chatbot there's a chance I can survive H5N1 if we amputate before the infection spreads.

2025-06-04 21:09:17 UTC

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@nprofile…hmru This is how I make money from honk. Every release, I write off the development because I had to make it, but then I also write off the value of the previous release because it's obsolete. Free money!

2025-06-04 17:53:47 UTC

Discovered there's an emoji for ☕️ the day after honk release. The forbidden reaction.

2025-06-04 06:59:37 UTC

"A giant cloud of Saharan dust the size of the continental United States"
The most imperial of imperial units: the size of the US.

2025-06-04 06:34:32 UTC

Paul Atreides evades Harkonnen pursuit by piloting his ornithopter into the milky veil of Canadian wildfire smoke.

2025-06-03 16:15:29 UTC

Honk Cyan Cellophane v1.5.0
It's that time of year again when I smash the button and the honk comes out. 1.5.0 has a bunch of exciting changes.
We've got new images coming. AVIF and HEIC are now supported, for all you freedom and iphone lovers. Converting jpeg to avif really does make a pretty big difference when browsing the timeline over a more modest link. But there's no new build dependencies for things who prefer to keep things just as they are. libavif and libheif are only loaded if present and requested.
I spend some time uselessly optimizing memory usage and some other performance tuning, to make things not really all that much faster. But it felt good.
You've got high uptime standards. You expect six nines. Nice. But honk's millisecond restart times were threatening all of that. Well now you can do hot restarts with SIGHUP. Very nice.
Every honk can now trigger a web. Let your honks flow freely into other systems where people do not expect them.
And despite all that, the release packaging is 40% smaller? How? The R&D team has been hard at work on a new quantum compression technique. Is the big dependency included? Is a smaller dependency with the same features included? By creating a quantum superposition, we achieve observable functionality without excess entropy. Magic!
That's all. See you soon, when 1.5.1 comes out.
https://honk.tedunangst.com/meme/cybergirl.mp4

2025-06-02 19:18:31 UTC

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@nprofile…hmru
▶︎ _______________ 4:33

2025-06-01 22:09:15 UTC

It's unfortunate that video game bloat pushes VRAM requirements into LLM territory.

2025-05-31 01:39:35 UTC

Maybe we don't need to copy every feature from C.

2025-05-29 20:20:04 UTC

Tariffs are back on for now as appeals court grants a pause.
So they paused the pause? Or unpaused the paused pause? If they triple click do we start over from the beginning?

2025-05-27 22:04:23 UTC

Pronouncing the x in xlock like xylophone.

2025-05-26 21:30:59 UTC

Oh, debian. I want to install tin, but I can't do that without installing exim because that's how the cookies are packaged. Family pack.
sudo apt install tin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
bsd-mailx exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light libcanlock3 liblockfile-bin
liblockfile1 libuu0

2025-05-25 22:20:29 UTC

Today's amazing HN idea. It's bad that Apple makes it hard to exploit iOS, because this discourages hobbyists from looking for vulns. If it were easier to exploit, more people would look for vulns, and then they would report those bugs for Apple to fix. Apple needs to leave in more bugs so they can fix more bugs to make the product better.

2025-05-25 03:29:25 UTC

They killed WOT. @nprofile…8g9u

2025-05-23 20:29:57 UTC

private static long FFFFFFFF = Long.parseLong("FFFFFFFF", 16);
I had not considered the wisdom of giving my magic hex constants self documenting names. I shall have to put this technique to use.