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Re:Making big downloads resumable in Firefox on Monday October 12, 2026 @07:23PM (#50064456)
It was essential and so great! How can it still exist.
Re:No Skill. No Taste on Saturday February 21, 2026 @09:02PM (#47107347)
This is so amazing! I am so stunned and deeply interested on how you set it up and your workflow. To me it sounds like you are already in the future many of us sighted people imagine with AI.

I am not sure if you are able to use it, but I saw Droidrun.ai (https://www.droidrun.ai/) the other day, and agents should be able to drive the phone.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @06:44PM (#46296333)
I feel you about SQLAlchemy, so I switched to peewee, which is beautiful to work with.
Re:Eating capitalism: How our food got hijacked by profits on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @10:54AM (#45503850)
It is very easy and sad to see how fiat affects farm to table.
Some form of horizontal pulling such as Aussie pullups. It's even better in this scenario. If you have the pullup bar at home already, get some gymnastic rings for example.
Re: on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @07:29AM (#45424216)
EU Chat Control, coming soon.
It is Apple terminology for an app that supports both iPad and iPhone.
> Started in 2017 by a programmer known as Chocobozzz, development of PeerTube is now supported by the French non-profit Framasoft. The aim is to provide an alternative to centralized platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube

Re:You might want to stop making your bed in the morning on Thursday November 07, 2024 @12:31AM (#42073706)
There are handheld vacuum cleaners for sucking up virus, bacteria, pollen, and killing mites. Stuffy nose in the morning, gone! Do it once in a while, and keep making your bed.
Re:Dumbification of Our Smartphones on Thursday July 04, 2024 @08:05PM (#40878979)
Hisense have a few e-ink Android phones.
Re:Ask HN: How do you stay organized for solo dev? on Thursday June 20, 2024 @11:41PM (#40745931)
Most answers seem to be different documentation and reminders, but I'd like to focus on something a little different. I think Scrum and daily stand up is a "forcing function". It creates tension in individuals. Even if you get side tracked at work, and you are a bullshitter, most would probably reason something like "It is better so do some useful work that I got assigned/committed to so I can report progress tomorrow. And I want to avoid conflict". That would create "force" to move you and the rest of the team forward. Tools and reminders etc. are all good, but weak forcing functions. You still have to be disciplined.

I don't think you can create that same force pure solo, but can still improve current process. One way could be to have a friend, sibling or virtual assistant that you do the same reporting to every few days. Perhaps pick someone assertive. And as you know, if you bullshit you just fool yourself. Hopefully something like that is a strong enough "forcing function" to snap you out of your tangent and back on track for a few hours/days before the next report.

Re:Ask HN: Going low-level – what to learn next? on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @03:35AM (#40571678)
I love Kip Irvine's book on x86 assembly. Very practical for building small programs, with questions and exercises. It is in the Windows environment though, but I don't think it matters significantly much, instructions are the same after all.

http://asmirvine.com/index.htm

Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26 on Saturday May 25, 2024 @04:47AM (#40473660)
This resonates a lot. When MSN become the norm was a big hit, then Windows Live and many people scattered around, left was Facebook but now only with IRL friends. Most alternatives since ICQ have been worse.
HuggingFace?
Re:Japan: The Land That Doesn't Need Ozempic on Saturday May 18, 2024 @10:41PM (#40403781)
Candy bags in Japan are small, 50g. Drink vending machines contain 50% green tea of different varieties. Domestically sweets are big, usually with sweet bean paste and so on.
That would be Norsholmen right before Stockholm, but there is a small town Norsholm between Linköping and Norrköping that the author put in the image in the article.

Here is a non-paywall version of the same event that says "4 mil" (40km): https://nyheter24.se/motor/1273809-tesla-forare-sov-pa-e4-me...

Re:Plotille: Plot in the terminal using Braille dots on Sunday May 05, 2024 @02:06AM (#40262645)
Worked with this a bit but since it is very basic and unmaintained I've changed to plotext (https://github.com/piccolomo/plotext)
Mjölby to Norsholm is about 56km, and they stopped a bit before that.
Re:Any fun ways to learn Emacs? on Saturday April 27, 2024 @09:22PM (#40185157)
You need which-key for your emacs. This way you only need to know the first keys (like C-x) in a chord, and then you will see what all the keys do. And since you come from vim, like me, you can use evil (and evil-collection). The other thing is you likely need to start liking and learning some basic Lisp.
Re:Portr: Open-Source Ngrok Alternative on Saturday April 20, 2024 @09:16PM (#40102473)
Here is a bunch of more alternatives https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
Re:Ask HN: Free alternative to Teamviewer? on Friday April 12, 2024 @02:00AM (#40009783)
Not an answer to this particular case, but Steam Link can work as a free replacement for when you need performance. I use VNC for the more robust situations.
Re:Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @10:44PM (#39997914)
For the Emacs user, maybe not exactly one-to-one, but useful:

https://github.com/s-kostyaev/ellama

US/Europe are destroying themselves and their industries with the ESG agenda.
Need to frame it correctly, monetary and safety, for example. "You have to buy a new PC when Microsoft decides to not update your Windows anymore and make the new version incompatible with your current PC. If you don't, your PC will be vulnerable to criminal hackers. With freedom and control you control the schedule, otherwise Microsoft does."
Re:Immediate Mode GUI Programming on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @01:15AM (#39010039)
This is such a good and clear take.

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