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New comment by sloped in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

sloped — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:22:58 +0000

I play the game with SiriusXM to only pay the intro price and listen to that 90% of the time I am in the car. XM has a weird collection of DJs, some are obnoxious or grating, but also after many years of listening to them they feel like people I know.

The local NPR backed station the Current is good but their audio quality is terrible, even their HD stream is muffled and wonky. They also eliminated many of the DJs I had grown to like and I never got that same connection with their replacement, which definitely impacted how I listen.

New comment by sloped in "Over 400 Linux CVEs published in the last 24 hours alone"

sloped — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:39:18 +0000

More useful context http://www.kroah.com/log/blog/2026/02/16/linux-cve-assignmen...

Nothing to panic about.

New comment by sloped in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

sloped — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:55:13 +0000

Once my visiting family departs I am going to finish building the Little Free Library I started last month. We have lived in our current home for 5 years and it is about time I share my love of reading with my neighbors. https://littlefreelibrary.org/

New comment by sloped in "Mel Brooks is 100 today"

sloped — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:40:03 +0000

We watched the Australian Episode of Everybody Feed Phil, and Mel Brooks made an appearance. He seemed a bit old but when I looked him up on Wikipedia I was shocked to learn he was 99. Still working, still funny, what a life.

New comment by sloped in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?"

sloped — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:16:00 +0000

Haven't encountered that yet, but probably something I will need to solve. I started with just a few newsletters I already subscribed to with Kill the Newsletter that never had that problem, I need to research what the various sending frameworks do to track opens these days.

New comment by sloped in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?"

sloped — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:34:05 +0000

This looks nice. Ran through a 5 question Go scenario and got 4/5 right. Which feels about right with my current depth of knowledge.

One of the very first pieces of code I wrote when I was figuring out if I liked development was a flashcard program to help me study in college. I really wish I still had that code.

New comment by sloped in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?"

sloped — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:26:41 +0000

I built my own version of Kill the Newsletter. Been testing it with various newsletters. Learning that a lot of the popular email newsletters are horrific, but if you have any, popular or ones only two people read that you like, I want to know!

I also bought some steel table legs and rebuilt our kitchen table and bench yesterday. The table came with wooden legs that always seemed unstable, I would confidently stand on my table now.

New comment by sloped in "The era of 15GB free Gmail storage is ending"

sloped — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:01:56 +0000

It seems fairly obvious that the "identity" portion of this is more important than the actual cost of providing the storage. Though maybe more folks than I imagine can hit the 5GB limit quickly. I have emails dating back to 2008 and just calculated I am only using 8.5GB. I keep everything so getting down to 5GB would be a hassle more than a challenge.

I would argue that Google really wants to earn your storage dollars. Their constant notifications on my device warning me I was low on space is what drove me to Immich.

New comment by sloped in "Kindle users in uproar over update rendering oldest devices virtually unusable"

sloped — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:58:02 +0000

The fact that this also shuts off access to many public library Ebooks on these devices should be getting more press. My wife exclusively uses her Kindle for library books and it looks like it will be impossible to get legally acquired library books onto her device from our library system, which is using libby/overrdrive.

New comment by sloped in "10 Years Ago, Trump Promised to Eliminate the National Debt. It Has Doubled"

sloped — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:10:33 +0000

My eyes.

New comment by sloped in "Ask HN: Does anyone else notice that gas runs out faster than usual"

sloped — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:56:20 +0000

Track it! Any Spreadsheet. Columns: date, where you filled up, how many gallons, dollar total, odometer reading, mpg function ((currentodo - prevodo) /gallons), ppg function (total / gallons).

You could also install something like https://lubelogger.com/ (naming decision aside), if you happen to do any self-hosting. It is a lightweight vehicle tracker. It has a fuel tracking screen. I personally only use it to track maintenance, but have been thinking about starting to track fuel consumption given the current disruption.

New comment by sloped in "Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y"

sloped — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:23:35 +0000

This is the way.

New comment by sloped in "Home Assistant waters my plants"

sloped — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:51:26 +0000

I have been using HA to water my garden for 4 summers. I setup a Tempest weather station this fall, and will have some fun experimenting with using rain and temperature data collected in my back yard to make watering decisions.

New comment by sloped in "OVH forgot they donated documentation hosting to Pandas"

sloped — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:30:46 +0000

I would be curious what a $5 hetzner or equal vps could handle. Is pandas docs that busy?

That said, free is no longer free if you have to worry this much about it.

New comment by sloped in "Ask HN: How do you find the "why" behind old code decisions?"

sloped — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:36:33 +0000

The honest answer is you probably won't find it. Historical documentation is hard, it is the first "features" cut when teams are scrambling to meet a deadline. There is no malice in this, it's just something that the end user doesn't need or see so when shit hits the fan, it get skipped.

Commit logs, slack/email/etc, documentation silos, or issue trackers are your best bet, other than actually being able to talk to the author(s) of the code.

But in general, the decision was made because in the time the developer had to implement the feature or fix, this was the best solution they could come up with. Hopefully if there were clear tradeoffs, there is some comment as to what they might have done with more time. Likely though they were rushed, told their team they wanted to go back and fix this, and then were ushered into a new project the second this one stabilized.

I think gghhjnuhbb has the best alternative to finding actual documentation and that is sitting and putting yourself in their headspace. That can sometimes lead to insights you might have missed.

New comment by sloped in "ArkhamMirror: Airgapped investigation platform with CIA-style hypothesis testing"

sloped — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:54:41 +0000

This looks interesting, and honestly makes me want to fire up The Roottrees are Dead and see if I can use this to solve the second act.

New comment by sloped in "Is 2026 next year?"

sloped — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:03:55 +0000

Funny, I am taking an American Sign Language course, and one of the components is talking about dates/days/weeks. Next Week, Next Monday, Last Tuesday, etc. I was talking to some of my classmates who were all struggling to fully understand when to use what sign(as was I), and I pointed out that talking about next Friday in English can get confusing depending on how each participant thinks about things.

Not surprised an LLM gets this wrong, lots of content consumed with various ideas on how these things should should work.

Restoring Ability Through Engineering

sloped — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 03:09:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.patreon.com/posts/143860573

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46084896

Points: 3

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University of Michigan Autograder for Programming Assignments

sloped — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 22:17:13 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/eecs-autograder/autograder.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45959004

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by sloped in "Microsoft executive closes replies after Windows 11 "Agentic OS" backlash"

sloped — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 04:40:13 +0000

We are currently porting a game to Switch and everytime I boot into Windows I die a little. So slow, so messy, and just icky.