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Re:Question – Have you created something original accidentally? on Saturday September 26, 2026 @04:44PM (#49860365)
I mean, I have three kids
Re:Why Balaclava? on Saturday September 12, 2026 @12:16PM (#49673940)
"To begin with, it is essential to emphasize that we say a Balaclava and not a Balaclava."

Right. Thanks for clearing that up, AI.

Re:Are You a Human? on Monday August 24, 2026 @09:09PM (#49427938)
Negative. I am a meat popsicle.
Re:The Mirage of the Gifted Child on Friday June 12, 2026 @01:48PM (#48507231)
Look, I feel for junior admins, I was one 35 years ago and the only reason I'm where I am today was because I had to learn the hard way, repeatedly and often.

I use the shit out of opencode to do things as a force multiplier, not as a way to keep me from knowing what its doing.

The point at which we're optimizing for "we don't need to know that anymore" is the point at which everything blows up, because agentic work is not fully deterministic, models hallucinate even simple things.

Blindly relying on your agent weapon of choice to just do the right thing because you didn't take the time to understand how the lego fits together is an actual problem.

Like six months ago we got a presentation from an AWS guy on the AI tooling available and how it fit with our particular use cases.

At one point seemingly out of nowhere he pointed out on his screen share "Look at how many tokens I've used this month. I run so much Opus." It was a number that was offensively large.

I remember thinking "That's a really odd flex, this crap is so expensive the fact that you use so much should be a red flag"

He demonstrated a number of Claude Code use cases he had to manage and tweak AWS infrastructure that made me, the old greybeard sysadmin older than the internet think "You've used AI to do something that was a single command."

So this story makes sense. They were being encouraged to just blast away at it six plus months ago.

You can Adblock a mobile browser (sort of). That would not be at play in the app.

It’s always about the cash.

Right this second, four.

Mail, Hermes Agent Dashboard, ESPN draft tracker, HN

I harvest tabs mercilessly, I either read and close or if its something I want to keep I have the bot clip into my obsidian vault

Do people just name things now without googling to see if a project already uses the name?
Re:The Braille Institute's family of hyperlegible fonts on Saturday March 28, 2026 @11:13PM (#47560079)
I use Atkynson Mono Nerd Font in my terminal. (Name is different in the forked font, it’s spelled Atkinson Hyperlegible officially)
Re:When Do We Become Adults, Really? on Saturday February 28, 2026 @09:15AM (#47195633)
I am in my late 50s. I expect it to happen in the next few years.
Because ntfy doesn’t, at least not in a way that detaches you from a central authority.

On its own notification to your device will happen eventually when the ntfy app on your phone wakes up and polls. Pull, not push.

My ntfy server has a config line for an upstream, which is a service that then uses push. Basically it’s self hosted and handing off push.

I tried six times to click this on my phone and all six redirect to scam ads.

Never saw the actual blog post.

Absolute mobile cancer.

Re:China and Russia can detect F-35 (and B-2) using VHF radar on Friday November 21, 2025 @06:27PM (#46010317)
That website is absolute cancer on mobile. Ads on top of ads, can’t hit the cookie pop without clicking an ad.
You have GOT to lose that font, on a small screen with old eyes it's effectively unreadable.
Re:Ask HN: Do you still use Google? on Sunday February 16, 2025 @11:26AM (#43069232)
Self hosted SearxNG instance aggregates and ranks multiple engines, works fantastic for me even though for some reason it sometimes thinks I’m in Germany.

I left mail/calendar/docs behind years ago. Fastmail is excellent.

But even though Searx is really good at it, I find myself using Google image search more often than not.

And then there’s YouTube. Even with all its bullshit I don’t know how to replace it.

Re:Coding Font Selection 'Tournament' on Friday December 27, 2024 @10:33AM (#42522927)
My preferred font, Hack, made it to the final four before losing on a toss up. IBM Plex Mono won and is pretty damn close.
Re:Making Friends with Your Past and Future Selves on Friday December 27, 2024 @10:13AM (#42522701)
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2024/self-...

Original article not on site that complains you’ve run out of free reads.

Re:Base M3 MacBook Pro Only Supports 1 External Display on Monday March 04, 2024 @12:55PM (#39593563)
This is because it uses an M3 and not a Max/Ultra/Whatever.

It’s been this way since the M1, the base level chip only has enough GPU for its panel and one external.

I did not know the Beatles had armies.
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My Bitwarden Vault has 728 entries it could be cleaned up by a lot.

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