I think I ran into an edge case: Directly after opening the example https://tuneithub.com/Legit-Control/get-colibri I pressed Undo and all text disappeared and I couldn't get it back via Redo

Looked into it - thanks for reporting. fixed soon

For folks using devenv: prek is the default used for devenv's git-hooks since November 2025

https://devenv.sh/blog/2025/11/26/devenv-111-module-changelo...

devenv is great!

I'm also curious to see if we will see more "no drive zones".

We see this in other domains: I recently talked to someone from an asset inspection (think flying around bridges to check for fractures) company. They can't use DJI drones because of security concerns.

What has astounded me about all this is the extent to which so much of our industry fall crisply into one of two groups: 1. Chinese stuff is cheap incompetent rubbish anyway, anyone near it is by definition a loser, so who cares? 2. Chinese stuff is perfect, amazing and we should just stop doing everything and buy what they're selling. They'll totally open factories here and give us jobs too!

The actual reality, which people like your asset inspection firm are dealing with, is the Chinese have leapfrogged the west in so many important respects, but to preserve security we have to live in an expensive technological backwater since the leaders of our society are so resistant to internal disruptive competition that may result in other people displacing them.

The security concerns are real, China restricts teslas from driving onto military installations for example. Anyhow, this is what we need data protection laws for, not trade protectionism. Canada should prevent exfiltration of data, not the sale of Chinese EVs in general

Another great write-up on datacenters in space that goes a bit deeper in cost calculations: https://angadh.com/space-data-centers-1

Careful though, you might end up like me and add more and more machines, because setting up new machine is very satisfying with nixos

Instead of drilling deep, there is also an intersting case for storing cheap solar energy as hat in piles of dirts in the summer to power turbines in the winter: https://austinvernon.site/blog/standardthermal.html

The Berlin one also had some promising news today: https://www.adlershof.de/en/news/successful-tests-on-undergr...

We have to see if and when any of them goes into production, but the technology seems very interesting

Version control and meaningful diffs for .xlsx will be in high demand in a few months

Honestly those things are well past due - if this tips the scales then I hope we can all benefit.

A diff makes these kind of errors much easier to catch.

Or maybe someone from XEROX has a better idea how to catch subtly altered numbers?

I verify all dates manually by memorizing their offset from the date of the signing of the Magna Carta

HN is no place for chicanery.

For cases I am not 100% sure I want to replace all occurrences, I prefer scooter: https://github.com/thomasschafer/scooter

specifically for working better with diffs, I can recommend tmux + lazygit with this keybinding for quickly opening a floating lazygit:

bind-key C-g display-popup -E -d "#{pane_current_path}" -xC -yC -w 80% -h 75% "lazygit"

not only does it allow you to see the diffs, but you can directly discard changes you don't want, stage, commit, etc.

Side note, if you're a lazygit fan, consider using gitui as an alternative. Feature wise they're pretty similar but gitui is much faster and I find it easier to use.

https://github.com/gitui-org/gitui

Damn, thanks, i have some floating panes on tmux but never thought about doing something like this lol

tmux! That was today's project. I'm using Claude Code Opus 4 to translate a K&R C computer algebra system (Macaulay) from the 1980's into C23. Finally getting to the "compiles but crashes" (64 bit issues) I found us living inside the lldb debugger. While I vastly prefer a true terminal to the periscope AI agent view in Cursor, it was still painful having at best a partial view of Claude's shell use, interleaved with our chat. What I wanted was a separate terminal session AI and I could share as equal partners.

tmux is the quickest way to implement such an idea.

Damn, this is brilliant. Thank you.