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Using the Web Monetization API for fun and profit

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💥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: I recently spoke at JSConf Mexico, where spent a lot of time with the Interledger Foundation folks in the hallway track and at the after party events, namely with Ioana (Eningeering Manager) and Marian (DevRel) to talk about Web Monetization.Web Monetization gives publishers more revenue options and audiences more ways to sustain the content they love. Support can take many forms: from a one-time contribution to a continuous, pay-as-you-browse model. It all flows seamlessly while people engage with the content they love. Publishers earn…

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AI is Dunning-Kruger as a service

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: On January 6th, 1995 two bank robbers in Pittsburgh confused law enforcement by not making any attempts to conceal their faces but instead brazenly looking at security cameras as if they were invisible. The reason is that they actually thought they were. Clifton Earl Johnson had convinced his fellow in crime, McArthur Wheeler that covering their faces in lime juice would make them invisible to cameras. Much like lime juice can be “invisible ink” until you heat the paper. As a test, Johnson had…

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YouTube Goes Bonkers, Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims ‘Risk of Physical Harm’

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🚀 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: We are no strangers to Big Tech platforms occasionally reprimanding us for posting Linux and homelab content. YouTube and Facebook have done it. The pattern is familiar. Content gets flagged or removed. Platforms offer little explanation.And when that happens, there is rarely any recourse for creators.Now, a popular tech YouTuber, CyberCPU Tech, has faced the same treatment. This time, their entire channel was at risk.YouTube's High-Handedness on DisplaySource: CyberCPU TechTwo weeks ago, Rich had posted a video on installing Windows 11 25H2 with a…

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sayyadirfanali/Myna: monospace typeface designed for symbol-rich programming

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🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: Do you ever feel like your font treats symbols as second-class glyphs? Are you frustrated that -> looks nothing like an arrow, and $, @, % seem ever mismatched? Want to experience the beauty of ligatures without losing the simplicity of ASCII? Myna (Gracula religiosa 🐦‍⬛) is a monospace font which aims to bring harmony to your editor by treating symbols as first-class glyphs alongside alphanumeric characters. Myna was borne out of a need to scratch a persistent typographical itch. While I've tried many otherwise well-crafted…

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Ruby already solved my problem 😅

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✨ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Key idea: Yesterday I hosted November’s Hotwire Native Office Hours.Hotwire Native Office HoursEvery month I host an hour long Zoom session for developers to directly ask me questions. The topics range greatly: some folks are just getting started and others are asking very specific, advanced questions.This month we covered everything from registering bridge components to native vs. web-based tabs to authenticating Apple Watch apps! It’s really fun to see what folks are working on in the Hotwire Native space.During the session I shared some code I wrote…

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Vodafone Germany is killing the open internet — one peering connection at a time

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: The telecom giant claims its exit from public internet exchanges will give customers "lower latencies." The evidence suggests they're in for a nightmare. Editor's Note: This article is based on comprehensive research of publicly available sources including official press releases, regulatory filings, consumer complaints, technical forum discussions, academic studies, and industry publications. We may have failed in some areas to grasp the issue entirely. The reader is advised that not everything might be correct and you should follow the sources and conduct your own…

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Toxic Salton Sea dust triggers changes in lung microbiome after just one week

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💥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: Map of Salton Sea and dust collection sites. Credit: mSphere (2025). DOI:10.1128/msphere.00209-25 https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msphere.00209-25 Dust from California's drying Salton Sea doesn't just smell bad. Scientists from UC Riverside found that breathing the dust can quickly re-shape the microscopic world inside the lungs. Genetic or bacterial diseases have previously been shown to have an effect on lung microbes. However, this discovery marks the first time scientists have observed such changes from environmental exposure rather than a disease. Published in the journal mSphere, the study shows that inhalation of…

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Claude Status – Elevated errors for requests to Claude 4, 4.5 Sonnet and 4.5 Haiku

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: Subscribe to updates for Elevated errors for requests to Claude 4, 4.5 Sonnet and 4.5 Haiku via email and/or text message. You'll receive email notifications when incidents are updated, and text message notifications whenever Claude creates or resolves an incident. VIA SMS: Afghanistan (+93) Albania (+355) Algeria (+213) American Samoa (+1) Andorra (+376) Angola (+244) Anguilla (+1) Antigua and Barbuda (+1) Argentina (+54) Armenia (+374) Aruba (+297) Australia/Cocos/Christmas Island (+61) Austria (+43) Azerbaijan (+994) Bahamas (+1) Bahrain (+973) Bangladesh (+880) Barbados (+1) Belarus (+375)…

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I Work Best Under Stress (And My Family Pays For It)

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💥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: I've always worked better under pressure. High workload. Making things happen fast. Multiple projects I actually believe in. That's when I'm at my best. When there's a lot on the line and I'm building something that matters. The more projects on my plate, the more I want to take on. It's like a dopamine rush. Extra fuel to go even harder. When work is calm, I get distracted. Lose focus. If something comes up, I'm not really in the mood. Then it becomes stressful,…

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I’m Making a Small RPG and I Need Feeback Regarding Performance

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💥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: 📌 Main takeaway: This past month, I’ve been working secretly on a small RPG game.While the game is not ready at all and I didn’t plan on talking about it, I’m now kind of forced to.I’ve been using JavaScript + the KAPLAY game library to make this game but I’ve been experiencing performance issues. However, it seems that others aren’t experiencing them so now I wonder, is it just my machine?I’m using a Macbook Air M3 with 16GB of RAM. Normally, things should be smooth and they are when…

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