Yes, there is a “Hello” in the noise, made visible through contrast and animation.

For this to truly be funny, it needs to be installed on on an unsuspecting user’s laptop, preferably some C-level type about to join an in-person board meeting.

I don't have a C-level to hand. My daughter's university laptop, however is just here...

Child-level works, too.

We had a classmate would would wander off with his laptop unlocked so one day we set all his system sounds to fart noises and cranked up the volume. He came back to class minimized a window and the whole class heard the noise and cracked up. We also got good mileage out of adding a wireless mouse on another occasion and zipping his cursor around the screen for probably a good ten minutes.

Can you provide specific examples of threads that drift into politics?

Still an extraordinary experience after all these years and possibly the best use of horizontal scrolling I’ve seen. Lots of previous discussions and posts on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=if+moon+only+1+pixel

It's very very good! I thought this one hit hard though, I assume inspired by the moon = 1-pixel viz.

https://hmijail.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

This is great, but it needs an update: wealth inequality is even higher today than it was when that site was created.

E.g. it gives Jeff Bezos's net worth as $139 billion, but today it's $228 billion.

that's a great share, I feel like it would also benefit from setting the "speed of light", as something like median average yearly income.

On the same note: https://xkcd.com/980/ (from 2011 when Bezos "only" had $18b)

Yes, after working as a dba for a law firm and discovering that I was the administrator for thousands of lawsuits against tobacco companies. In many cases the victim had already died of lung cancer and the suit was being brought by family members. Many of the families’ income was near poverty level. At the same time, the law firm was in a plush nyc office building. I spent day after day feeling like I wanted to throw up and finally quit.

Wait, what about it made you want to throw up? Was it that the proceeds from lawsuits were being garnished by the law firm rather than going towards the families?

Is it not assumed that they were defending the tobacco companies?

Yes, thanks for the clarification. One of this law firm’s main clients was one of the big tobacco companies. Also this was in the mid 90s before the big tobacco settlements.

ohhh, yea I terribly misread that

Fwiw I read it the same way as you!

Love shadcn, only gripe I have is I still need to use —-legacy-peer-deps due to using React 19.

I recently had an experience where I was trying out the AWS Bedrock service using their knowledge base quickStart. I followed their flow for creating a knowledge base and then played with it a bit but decided it wasn’t for me. That was in April. On May 1, I received a bill from AWS for several hundred dollars. It turns out this index I created was costing me about $16/day. I had set up a budget alarm for $20 but it was never triggered. I contacted AWS support and they were very apologetic but would not offer any kind of refund. On the one hand, sure I should have deleted those indexes after trying them out, but there was no info or any indication provided that they’d incur a daily expense even when not in use. In fact, even after I received the bill I was not able to find the source of the expense because it was described as coming from OpenSearch, which I had not used. It was only after contacting AWS support that I was able to determine that the source of the expense was Bedrock.

you're absolutely correct about this. It's important that billing systems as well as product nudges you whenever you're using a service which involves charges. We're so much used to seat-based pricing or monthly or quarterly subscriptions that usage-based billing with transparency will lead to disputes like thse.