News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

Magniquick

Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved on Sunday November 01, 2026 @11:43PM (#50333213)
Systemd timers do this natively btw, no need to hardcode And imho are also friendlier.
Re:I refuse to let SPICE die on Saturday September 12, 2026 @01:32PM (#49674807)
404 for me
Re:FrontierCode on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @01:47AM (#48457001)
Opus 4.8 low at 8.2% while medium at 5.9% is definitely an interesting result, to say the least.
Re:Azure Linux Desktop on Saturday June 06, 2026 @01:31PM (#48427093)
> > The fundamental issue is that a GUI is a static abstraction over a CLI that allows for millions of potential combinations. You can only expose so many options in a menu before the interface becomes completely unusable. > > But is that an issue? Macs have had this solved for almost half a century: You expose things in the GUI that normal people need, not everything. For hackers, they can still go to the command line to hack.

Good point. I'd say, Linux has inherent complexity across multiple dimensions (less hardware integration, multiple stacks (is it running systemd-networkd ? Or maybe dns

Re:Azure Linux Desktop on Saturday June 06, 2026 @11:13AM (#48425854)
That's what KDE (and gnome, to a lesser extent) have been trying to do for a long while.

The fundamental issue is that a GUI is a static abstraction over a CLI that allows for millions of potential combinations. You can only expose so many options in a menu before the interface becomes completely unusable.

To expand on your analogy, it’s like running a restaurant that only uses automated vending machines to serve food. It works perfectly fine if someone just wants toasted bread. But the moment a customer asks for more than toasted bread, you're toasted.

Imho, the best bet for the future is a bunch of pre loaded llm skills and clis an agent can work with: getting the chef to use pre-approved hardware, sorta, that can cook up anything that is needed.

Re:GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @10:37PM (#46984631)
Do electric pelicans dream of touching electric grass?

That would be shocking news to me.