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Fun facts, the subsea telegraph network cables coating were made from Gutta Percha [1].

Unlike normal rubber, it is a type of thermoplastic and it's a popular organic plastic before the petroleum based modern plastic become pervasive [2].

[1] The legacy of undersea cables:

https://blog.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/the-legacy-of-underse...

[2] Gutta-percha:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutta-percha


They also got a tiny fraction of the rubber from cutting a whole tree down due to not finding a method to get all the rubber, and so cut almost all of the trees down

This whole things of AI assisted and vibe coding phenomena including the other comments remind me of this very popular post on HN that keep appearing almost every year on HN [1],[2].

[1] Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice:

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...

[2] Don't Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice (2011):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095775


>There typically are no technical solutions to rhose.

Not that they can't, but they won't.


Yes, that's what a political problem is.

What happens when a AAA developer walks away from big studios to build his own game from scratch in a language most developers have never touched? In this episode, we explore the journey behind Art of Reflection, a first-person puzzle game built in D. Lewis shares why he chose this unconventional language, how systems thinking shaped his design, and what it really takes to build something solo for over four years.

Lewis’ website: http://lewisnicolle.com

The Art of Reflection: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2290770/The_Art_of_Reflec...


Is it just me, personally I've found the font is terrible for reading.

It’s ComicShannsMono. In theory, Comic Sans is recommended for accessibility by the British Dyslexia Association. I started using it as a childish joke, but it ended up becoming my preferred font because I find it easier to read and less tiring than more traditional fonts.

In any case, your feedback is good. I’ll change it to use whatever font the user has defined. That’s the right approach.


>Big Monopolies have managed to convince people that they need one account on each platform. This was done, on purpose, for purely unethical reasons in order to keep users captive.

>That brainwash/marketing is so deeply entrenched that most people cannot see an alternative anymore. It looks like a natural law: you need an account on a platform to communicate with someone on that platform.

Easily the best post on HN so far this year 2025, thanks.

Very messy situations that we're at the moment for our communications platform but sadly it's true.


>i get the notion that "human things should not pretend to be human"

I cannot understand why LLM most of time using the words like "I understand" in their conversation with their users although we all know they don't think or understand anything [1]. The irony is that the HN crowds also did not like to highlight this issue by asking Dang to change the title of the original post consisting of "AI system don't think" to something else by claiming it's a provocative title although it's the original title [2].

[1] Secondary school maths showing that AI systems don’t think:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/secondary-school-maths-show...

[2] Using secondary school maths to demystify AI (248 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46245731


>TLDR: buy an old iPhone and test with it daily

>This is not because iPhones are good, it's because they're bad

This just confirmed my biases and suspicions that iPhone is very much overrated technologically and essentially toxic to the mobile open eco-system.

Perhaps the only saving grace is that in the early days Apple with iPhone was promoting standard HTML instead of proprietary system like Adobe Flash.


iPhones tend to have dramatically better JavaScript performance so you might wanna also test on an average Android phone.

The Practice Guide of Computer is really a gem, and the bottom lines sentences are just golden (now I understand what they meant when people mentioned bottom lines) of part D: Rid yourself of the following reasons of being a practioner of computer.

To add a cliche, according to Mark Twain, "Find a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life". Or may I add, you probably not going to retire anytime soon.


Very strange, System Programming in Linux book was mentioned many times in HN before but apparently not in the list, but maybe just not this year [1].

[1] System Programming in Linux:

https://nostarch.com/system-programming-linux


Is it because it's not on Amazon?

It is.

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