Ask HN: What dream did you give up on?

Inspired by the latest Brandon Stanton X post I'm curious what dream did the HN community give up on?

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sherdil2022 · 51s ago

Provide link to Brandon Stanton X post. I don’t see any relevant recent posts in X by him.

Show HN: Sumble – knowledge graph for GTM data – query tech stack, key projects (sumble.com)

Google can now read your WhatsApp messages (neowin.net)

Taking over 60k spyware user accounts with SQL injection (ericdaigle.ca)

Can an email go 500 miles in 2025? (flak.tedunangst.com)

AnyBlox: A Framework for Self-Decoding Datasets [pdf] (gienieczko.com)

TIL you can make "GIFs" with SVGs for GitHub README.md files (koaning.io)

Show HN: Jukebox – Free, Open Source Group Playlist with Fair Queueing (jukeboxhq.com)

Smollm3: Smol, multilingual, long-context reasoner LLM (huggingface.co)

A compact bitset implementation used in Ocarina of Time save files (github.com)

New sphere-packing record stems from an unexpected source (quantamagazine.org)

On The Meaning of Ritual (alicemaz.substack.com)

Memstop: Use LD_PRELOAD to delay process execution when low on memory (github.com)

Show HN: OffChess – Offline chess puzzles app (offchess.com)

Berry Script: lightweight embedded scripting language for microcontrollers (berry-lang.github.io)

Attimet (YC F24) – Quant Trading Research Lab – Is Hiring Founding Researcher (ycombinator.com)

Epanet-JS (macwright.com)

Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion (arxiv.org)

I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links (noperator.dev)

Show HN: I built a tool to solve window management (aboveaverageuser.com)

Reflections on 2 years of CPython's JIT Compiler (fidget-spinner.github.io)

LookingGlass: Generative Anamorphoses via Laplacian Pyramid Warping (studios.disneyresearch.com)

What Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512 (serd.es)

SIMD.info – Reference tool for C intrinsics of all major SIMD engines (simd.info)

Running a Certificate Transparency log (words.filippo.io)

The Miyawaki Method of micro-forestry (futureecologies.net)

Exploring Coroutines in PHP (doeken.org)

Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists (holovaty.com)

Why are there no good dinosaur films? (briannazigler.substack.com)

When Figma starts designing us (designsystems.international)

François Chollet: The Arc Prize and How We Get to AGI [video] (youtube.com)

Firefox is fine. The people running it are not (theregister.com)

CU Randomness Beacon (random.colorado.edu)

Lightfastness Testing of Colored Pencils (sarahrenaeclark.com)

The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long (bbc.com)

What is going on in Unix with errno's limited nature (utcc.utoronto.ca)

Show HN: NYC Subway Simulator and Route Designer (buildmytransit.nyc)

Solving Wordle with uv's dependency resolver (mildbyte.xyz)

My first verified imperative program (markushimmel.de)

Junior Roles Aren't Going Away (iamcharliegraham.substack.com)

Hymn to Babylon, missing for a millennium, has been discovered (phys.org)

A Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call high-level officials (washingtonpost.com)

# [derive(Clone)] Is Broken (rgbcu.be)

LLMs should not replace therapists (arxiv.org)

Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec

Integrated photonic source of Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill qubits (nature.com)

The era of exploration (yidingjiang.github.io)

The Two Towers MUD (t2tmud.org)

Analysing Roman itineraries using GIS tooling (link.springer.com)

Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI (github.com)

Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks (github.com)

Ask HN: What dream did you give up on?

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