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lysace · 2026-04-02T19:24:43 1775157883

Seems very likely, even if Google has behaved ethically.

Simon and YC/HN has published/boosted these gradual improvements and evaluations for quite some time now.

There is a https://simonwillison.net/robots.txt but it allows pretty much everything, AI-wise.

lysace · 2026-04-02T16:45:37 1775148337

(Maybe use some of those skills to figure out a way to read more than the headline.)

I recommend reading at least the closing line:

This means introducing digital technology at later ages after basic reading and other skills have been achieved.

dathinab · 2026-04-02T17:07:29 1775149649

Which shifts things from "before high school" to "in primary school and then gradual introduce aspects on it".

lysace · 2026-04-02T16:12:28 1775146348

I remember NASA broadcasts being top notch up until the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011. That stabilized footage from when the shuttle was landing is iconic.

However: That quality was lost earlier than last year. Not sure exactly when, but it been like this for years now.

lysace · 2026-03-30T22:37:52 1774910272

The ergonomic aspects are horrible. I believe there's actual research on this from the 70s/80s/90s.

lysace · 2026-03-28T22:15:04 1774736104

Would be neat if POSIX was reasonably kept up to date. Just saying.

lysace · 2026-03-28T21:24:40 1774733080

The game logic runs in JavaScript

Also: a modern CPU is around 10000x faster than the 486 CPU Doom was designed for. Per core.

lysace · 2026-03-26T19:34:07 1774553647

xv was very neatly and cleverly designed. I liked it a lot in the 90s. Still somehow remember his name.

jnpnj · 2026-03-26T19:59:31 1774555171

saw a screenshot as I was reading this article, made me eager to try it, and it's indeed simple, slick and featured... elegant look and feel for a different age.

lysace · 2026-03-26T20:10:22 1774555822

Here's two screenshots:

https://snapcraft.io/xv

jnpnj · 2026-03-26T21:15:36 1774559736

Reminds me of the 90s cgi scene, softimage, lightwave3d

lysace · 2026-03-26T21:31:14 1774560674

It uses raw Xlib to implement a custom widget toolkit. Yeah, it does feel Amiga-ish.

A button (thanks for the github link, em-bee):

https://github.com/jasper-software/xv/blob/main/src/xvbutt.c

em-bee · 2026-03-26T21:12:56 1774559576

you can try it. a few years ago some people picked up maintenance: https://github.com/jasper-software/xv

i just built it on my machine. works!

jnpnj · 2026-03-28T17:30:50 1774719050

it's available on arch aur too, a quick build away and ready to serve

lysace · 2026-03-26T15:02:23 1774537343

I built something very broadly similar approximately 20 years ago.

Then I forgot about it. It’s not like the data is lost, but availability is. Bringing it back up is a pain. I could probably do it in a full day of work.

What I learned: Static HTML export on every change by default is a must. I don’t think HTML will cease to be easily readable in our lifetimes.

lysace · 2026-03-24T23:29:04 1774394944

I have to force-close it about once every 10 mail views or so. I’m using a latest-gen iPhone.

lysace · 2026-03-22T03:09:32 1774148972

And now an authoritarian one-party country (I think it's decidedly sliding into a dictatorship) is winning car manufacturing - and possibly almost all of manufacturing except high-end semiconductors and optics.

The future is going to be interesting. :/

tehjoker · 2026-03-22T05:14:46 1774156486

I don't buy this but even if it were true, you could say the same if America was winning.

lysace · 2026-03-22T21:59:04 1774216744

Not quite, but more importantly: American isn’t.