1. 1M Users
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The author of the article announces that SpaceHey, a social media platform they created, has reached 1 million registered users. They express gratitude for the support and discuss their mission to provide a personal and enjoyable social networking experience. They also mention improvements made to the platform’s stability and safety, as well as future plans for new features. The author thanks the users for their support and encourages them to report any harmful content they encounter. They express excitement to continue working on SpaceHey and thank the users for making it successful.
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The article discusses a high school student who creates a successful website that attracts one million registered users. Despite working on the project during nights and weekends while in college, the founder achieves significant scalability. The article asks the founder about the tech stack used and how long he had been programming before building the site.
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The author admires the effort to revive MySpace but explains that their exploration of Spacehey made them realize why they were not on MySpace. The focus of Spacehey is on presenting oneself and their identities rather than their interests and creative output. The author prefers to hide in their shell and let their work speak for itself. They compare Spacehey to other platforms like GeoCities, LiveJournal, DeviantArt, and Tumblr, stating that these platforms were less focused on personal identity. The author suggests that legibility is more important on dating sites.
2. Tbsp – treesitter-based source processing language
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The author expresses their approval of tree-sitter and its performance in building AST-based tools. However, they find it frustrating to manually write recursive descent processors without compile time guarantees on the grammar structure. The lack of a standard structure in grammars is also mentioned. The author wishes for a tool that can consume a grammar and produce a rust Abstract Data Type (ADT) that can be easily matched on, to reduce redundant error handling.
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The article discusses the benefits of using a specialized tool called “semgrep” for querying Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs) instead of traditional line-based approaches. The author expresses excitement about using semgrep to navigate and analyze complex data structures rather than just individual lines of code.
3. Japan’s Temple-Builder Kongō Gumi, Has Survived Nearly 1,500 Years
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The article discusses the history of Kongō Gumi, the oldest continuously run company in the world. It was established in Japan in the year 578 and initially specialized in building Buddhist temples. Over the centuries, the company prospered by reconstructing Osaka Castle multiple times after it was destroyed by fire and lightning. However, the decline of Buddhism and the bursting of Japan’s real estate bubble in the 1990s forced Kongō Gumi to pivot its expertise towards crafting coffins. In 2006, the company became a subsidiary of Takamatsu Construction Group. Despite these changes, Kongō Gumi’s miyadaiku, or carpenters trained in the art of building Buddhist temples, continue to use traditional tools and techniques. The company is praised for maintaining its high level of craftsmanship and has attracted international attention.
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The Kongō Construction company, which had a history of over 1,400 years, faced financial difficulties and was eventually purchased in January 2006. Following the buyout, the company only continued in its real estate division and changed its name to KJ Construction Co., Ltd. However, in July 2006, KJ Construction filed for bankruptcy due to lack of funds. Despite this, the company had an impressive track record.
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The article discusses the continuity of ancient buildings, but highlights that they are not as old as they appear. It fails to mention the fact that Japanese temples are regularly rebuilt every 20-60 years. This recurring revenue model tied to religious rebuilding is unique to the construction of these temples and is not commonly found in other construction businesses.
4. The Pentium as a Navajo Weaving
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The article discusses a Navajo weaving by Marilou Schultz that depicts an image of Intel’s Pentium chip. The weaving accurately represents the intricate patterns and structures of the chip, and the artist used traditional materials and techniques to create the artwork. The article also mentions that the weaving is a mirror image of the physical Pentium die due to an artistic decision made by Schultz. The weaving is described in detail, with each region marked to correspond to its function in the real chip. The article concludes by discussing the cache memory of the Pentium processor.
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The article discusses the concept of multithreading and pokes fun at its complexity.
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The author, who is a chip designer, is building a stained glass window for their front entrance. The design will be a half adder, which is much smaller than a Pentium chip. The challenge lies in representing all the different layers of the chip, such as silicon, implantation, poly, metal, and vias, with only one level of metal. The final result will be more like a thin layered sculpture rather than a traditional stained glass window.
5. OrbStack: The fast, light, and easy way to run Docker containers and Linux
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OrbStack is a fast, lightweight, and user-friendly alternative to Docker Desktop. It offers powerful capabilities without draining battery or using complicated VMs. With OrbStack, users can enjoy seamless containers, turbocharged networking, Rosetta x86 emulation, VirtioFS file sharing, and other optimizations for specific workloads. The platform has low CPU and disk usage, minimal memory consumption, and a native Swift app, providing a smooth experience. OrbStack is a drop-in replacement for Docker Desktop and allows users to easily manage containers, Kubernetes, and Linux distros. It offers robust integration, file sharing, remote SSH editing with Linux machines, and can be accessed from anywhere through the menu bar app. With OrbStack, users can build images quickly, access reliable networking and file sharing, debug containers with ease, run x86 containers with Rosetta, and work seamlessly with tools like Visual Studio Code and SSH agent forwarding. It also offers a command-line interface for those who prefer working in the terminal. OrbStack is known for its unmatched performance and efficiency, using less than 0.1% background CPU usage on Apple Silicon, and taking up less than 10 MB of disk space. Users can experience faster operations, improved battery life, and a simplified workflow. Many users have praised OrbStack for its game-changing performance and recommend it as a lightweight replacement for Docker Desktop, particularly for M1/M2 Mac users.
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The author of the article discusses their experience using OrbStack on macOS for virtual machines and containers. They found that using Docker Desktop to compile Envoy took 3 to 4 hours, but with OrbStack, it was reduced to under an hour. The performance benefits of OrbStack were significant and justified the cost. The author also highlights that OrbStack brings the whole WSL2 + Docker experience to macOS, which is valuable for those who understand the value of WSL2 on Windows. They explain that even though macOS is a UNIX environment, Linux technologies don’t translate well, making virtual machines necessary for certain use cases. OrbStack’s tight integration is preferred over other virtual machine products like Parallels or VMware, which the author no longer uses except for running Windows VMs. Overall, OrbStack improves the usability of macOS for development work.
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The author of the article expresses their satisfaction with using OrbStack, highlighting its polished and responsive user interface, excellent container performance and integration with the host. They acknowledge their surprise that a seemingly one-person project has quickly become more impressive than the well-funded competitor, Docker Desktop. The author commends the developer, especially considering that they appear to be a college student.
6. Telephone Line Rural Outside Plant
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The article talks about a YouTuber named Look Mum No Computer who is building his own 60’s-based electromechanical telephone exchange. He has a dedicated channel where he shares content about telephone systems. The YouTuber has put a lot of effort into building the exchange and making it work. Watching the system select lines and route calls is interesting, along with learning about how dial and engaged tones are generated, and how prerecorded messages are played back for numbers that are no longer in service.
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The author recalls growing up on a mesa in Los Alamos where there were loading coils that prevented them from getting DSL internet. They were jealous of a friend who lived on a mesa without loading coils and could download things quickly. Eventually, the author’s family got either an ISDN line or a T1 line, but soon after, Cable internet became available, making the previous problem irrelevant.
7. Upgrading a Toshiba NAS HDD Firmware on Linux
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The article discusses the process of updating the firmware on a Toshiba HDD using Linux. The author reverse engineers the firmware updater and identifies the URL from where the firmware file can be downloaded. They also explore the code and functions involved in flashing the firmware onto the drive. The article concludes with the author successfully updating the firmware on their own NAS drive using the methods described.
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The article provides a list of devices that can be easily upgraded from Linux by using firmware released on LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service). The list can be found at the following link: https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/
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The article discusses the topic of updating HDD firmware. It advises caution when updating firmware, stating that it should only be done to address a specific issue and not simply because it is available. The author notes that updates can sometimes introduce new bugs, and emphasizes the need for people to be aware of this.
8. Dublin Core, what is it good for?
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The author discusses the use of Dublin Core (DC) metadata in museums during the 90s. They mention a government-funded project called “New Opportunities Fund” that mandated DC markup for creating cross-site searchable assets. However, the envisioned portal for searching across all the funded sites was never created. The author highlights the ongoing conversation about interoperability in museum data, with one side advocating for Semantic Web approaches and the other supporting lightweight microformats. The author personally leans towards the latter camp, believing that crude descriptions are preferable to complex and unimplementable standards. They note that advancements in search technology and AI have made some of these discussions less relevant. Nevertheless, there are still numerous data interop projects in museums and cultural heritage, such as the Museums Data Service and TANC.
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The article talks about the Dublin Core, which is a sedate ontology used for organizing metadata. However, it mentions that there are issues with the labels used for nodes in different Dublin Core name spaces. It also mentions four namespaces associated with Dublin Core, including “elements,” “terms,” “dcmitype,” and “dcam.” Overall, the article expresses frustration with the way Dublin Core has been expanded and refined.
9. Show HN: Defrag the Game
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In the article, the author shares their personal experience with a defragmentation process taking an extended amount of time. They mention starting the defrag before leaving for the day and returning the next morning to find it still running. Due to concerns about the machine’s stability, they couldn’t restart it. The author explains that this issue was problematic because version control was being used on the machine. Despite seeking assistance from Microsoft, it was discovered that defragmentation on that specific version of Windows took place in real mode, leading to increased seeking time on the hard drive. The author expresses frustration with this inefficiency.
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The only confusion the author found in the article is that it is not clear that the first blinking block is a data block. The author suggests that starting with no block selected and requiring the user to press Enter/Space to begin the game, at which point the first data block starts blinking, would make it clearer. The game reminds the author of Sokoban.
10. ‘Amazing’ Viking-age treasure travelled half the world to Scotland
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A lidded silver vessel, which is part of the Galloway Hoard, has been identified as originating from West Asia. The Galloway Hoard is the largest collection of Viking-age objects ever found in Britain and Ireland and was discovered in Scotland in 2014. The vessel is decorated with designs linked to the iconography of Zoroastrianism, the state religion of the Sasanian empire. Scientific analysis has shown that the silver used to make the vessel came from a mine in modern-day Iran. The vessel will be displayed at the British Museum’s Silk Roads exhibition.
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This article emphasizes the connections that existed through trade in the past. The Romans sourced pearls from Sri Lanka, even though they may never have been there personally. They had contacts who traded along the Silk Road and obtained pearls from Sri Lanka. Trade often transcends religious barriers, as shown by the Vikings who served the Byzantine courts. It is possible that they traveled from the north or along the coast, and may have brought back items to North Europe. Valuable goods like walrus ivory or amber could have been traded in return.
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“The River Kings” by Cat Jarman is a recent book that explores the extensive trade between the Vikings and the eastern regions. The book gained popularity after its publication. You can find more information about the book on Goodreads [1].