For what it is worth, M.2 NAS devices with 4-6 slots can be had for ~$210 USD / ~$290 CAD or less: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/mini-nases-marry-nvme...
Readit Newscbhl commented on Connecting M.2 drives to various things (and not doing so) utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/kencausey
cbhl commented on We keep reinventing CSS, but styling was never the problem denodell.com/blog/we-keep... · Posted by u/speckx
I wonder how different things would be today if the web browser was originally designed for applications rather than documents.
There _was_ an outlet for this during the era of Windows hegemony: the object and embed tags. You had your choice of ActiveX, Java, or Shockwave/Flash in the 90s to write applications that you could then embed in the web browser.
We stopped using these for a variety of reasons: they were difficult to make secure or cross-platform, GMail made building apps in JavaScript fashionable, and the iPhone (which explicitly would not support ActiveX/Java/Flash).
cbhl commented on US to require up to $15K bond from visitors in new visa trial usatoday.com/story/travel... · Posted by u/geox
Page doesn't load at all with an adblocker.
FWIW, I was able to get the page to load. Here is the announcement in the Federal Register that the article links to:
cbhl commented on Google failed to warn 10M of Turkey earthquake bbc.com/news/articles/c77... · Posted by u/piotrkaminski
Can't say I like the tone of this article. Google is trying to do something good it is not in any way obligated to do. Painting this like they were responsible just encourages people not to try such things.
For context, early 2023 would put the earthquake in question just after the first big layoffs at Google (see their 2023Q2 Earnings Release). And this would have probably been considered "legacy google assistant" stuff, not "new-top-priority AI" stuff.
cbhl commented on SFStreets: History of San Francisco place names sfstreets.noahveltman.com... · Posted by u/jxmorris12
There was/is a website that's a bit like google maps, but with historical map overlays. I cannot for the life of me remember the name.
Pastmaps might be what you're thinking of? They have an archive of the maps that the United States Geological Survey used to serve as their Historical Topographic Map Collection.
It would have even much better if the link was pointing to https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx the actual source code.
Because right now without the message on HN here, I wouldn't know what "open source observability stack" meant when the webpage does not explain what HyperDX is, nor does it provide a link to it or its code. I was expecting the whole thing "Open Source Datadog" to be ClickStack Repo inside Clickhouse Github. Which is not found anywhere.
But other than that congrats!. I have long wondered why no one has built anything on top of Clickhouse for Datadog / New Relic competition.
The Clickhouse DB opened up the ocean of open source "Scalable" Web Analytics that wont previously available or possible. I am hoping we see this change again to observability platform as well.
Looks like it is pointing there now; old link was https://clickhouse.com/use-cases/observability for posterity
cbhl commented on Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs felixrieseberg.github.io/... · Posted by u/felixrieseberg
Love it.
On macOS it always launches in the middle of the screen - is there a way to move it around?
To move clippy you want to drag the piece of paper on which clippy sits -- clicking clippy himself will hide and show the chat window.
cbhl commented on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries cnbc.com/2025/04/09/trump... · Posted by u/bhouston
You also cant actually legally own most Chinese stock. IE "internet" stocks. What you can buy is an instrument intended to track them. Its called a VIE.
That Alibaba stock you have? No, its a share from a seperate company setup in the Cayman Islands which should track the Alibaba stock. They are circumventing a Chinese law that makes foreign investment in Chinese companies illegal. It's a bad idea to own these.
That doesn't stop people from trying -- according to Yahoo Finance, FXI (iShares China Large-Cap ETF) was one of the most-traded (by volume) ETFs yesterday.
https://kaisercougarconnection.com/2784/news/musical-trains-...
My impression is that all of the Yamanote line stations are above ground -- I'd have expected it to be possible to have "one button plays the right sound at each station" if you used a standard phone's GPS to figure out which station you were at.