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Re:25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @10:31AM (#49727650)
I’d venture it was enough the first day.
Congrats to the Taalas gang.
Re:India and EU announce landmark trade deal on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @12:27PM (#46783181)
"Should know" and expecting a logical outcome is wishful.
Re:Claude Code On-the-Go on Monday January 05, 2026 @03:02AM (#46496365)
Why not use Claude App in GitHub (if your code is in GitHub)?

I kick off a prompt as a GitHub issue, Claude fires away on this issue, provides updates as comments and a PR is created for me at the end for review.

It also notifies me throughout, and I can look at the pipelines to see the thinking behind the action.

Re:What the heck is going on at Apple? on Monday December 08, 2025 @09:00AM (#46192299)
I recently purchased an iPad Air and am blown away at how bad the UX is. Notes is incredibly buggy, the iOS is not optimized for the pencil pro (seems like it delivers very little value outside of visual arts programs), the Siri +gpt experience is laughable, and I can go on…

I’m a long time Apple user and I’m concerned with the state of things.

Im considering returning this piece of junk.

Re:Claude Code 2.0 on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @02:36PM (#45429369)
How is this any different from just using claude-cli? The example on the npm page is something you could easily do from within claude-cli...? Sorry, I must be missing the point on this??
Re:Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8 on Thursday May 22, 2025 @02:58PM (#44065465)
I'm with you. I think it's great that Mozilla is trying/tried to extend their value beyond just the browser.

I found pocket immensely useful. Having the ability to have my kobo e-reader sync pocket articles to read off-line was such a useful feature.

I don't understand the Mozilla hate on this board. I think it's wildly overblown.

Also check out The Rebel sell by Joseph Health and Andrew Potter. Another great read in the same vein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Sell.
Re:Doom-htop: The classic DOOM game over htop on Sunday April 21, 2024 @09:03AM (#40105439)
I’m genuinely curious how people have time to do this. I feel less and less sure of my abilities the more I see wonderful stuff like.

I can’t imagine the effort involved in this. Someone did mention this takes advantage of prior work just rerendering in ascii and mapping to procs but that’s not a negligible amount of work. How long did this take? I feel like I know nothing and I’ve been in this industry for more than I’d like to say.

This is awesome but I feel incredibly stupid.

Re:My deployment platform is a shell script on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @08:55AM (#39990169)
I’m with you on the usecase. Simple server deployment on a VM, bash script is fine, in fact I recommend it. It’s when you start dealing with 5+ VMs that I would start looking into using a tool like Ansible.
Re:My deployment platform is a shell script on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @07:54AM (#39989672)
Why not use Ansible for something like this?

Don’t get me wrong, I love bash scripts like any other old hat, but Ansible scratches this exact itch.

You’ve got playbooks that can execute shell, provide logging, better management, history of execution, fleet management, and it’s light weight. And there’s a robust community of shared modules, etc.

Is langchain still relevant with the release of AssistantAI? It seems managing the context window, state, etc is now all taken care of by Assistant AI.

I guess langchain is still relevant for non-OpenAI options?

Re:Show HN: Natural Language Git (Gitgpt) on Monday February 27, 2023 @04:31PM (#34962140)
OP here. I love this feedback. I agree this is definitely something I should work towards.

Keeping the commands as succinct as possible as well as "natural language" as possible. Even the word commit might be too git-y?

Thanks for the feedback.

Show HN: Natural Language Git (Gitgpt)

https://github.com/Hesse/gitgpt

Hey folks,Here's a quick and dirty tool to use natural language to get git to do what you want.Example: $gitgpt create a new branch called feature/test add all the files and commit with msg creating feature test then push to originI haven't put it through the wringer yet, however it's worked well with some pretty straight forward day to day git usage.

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Re:IBM acquires Red Hat on Sunday October 28, 2018 @02:23PM (#18321998)
This is terrible news. I hope its not true.
Re:The web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @02:38PM (#15444228)
Great write up.
Re:Show HN: Gorillaz – Andromeda Music Video in WebGL on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @11:22PM (#14965282)
My 2011 MacBook Air 4Gb ram, i5 could not run it :(
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017) on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @02:30PM (#13870157)
Government of Ontario | Senior Ops and Architect | Toronto, ON | Full-time, onsite

Stack: MEAN/LNMP/Drupal/AWS

Senior Ops: https://www.ontario.ca/page/senior-devops

Application Architect: https://www.ontario.ca/page/application-architect

More info: https://www.ontario.ca/page/do-you-want-make-government-bett...

Re:Why I hate frameworks (2005) on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @01:44PM (#12637534)
The whole killing girlfriend thing is not so cool. I would remove those pieces, they don't add much to the story.
Re:William Gibson has written a comic on Tuesday May 31, 2016 @10:33AM (#11806720)
Why is this on here?
Re:Questions to Ask a Potential Tech Employer on Thursday April 14, 2016 @03:42PM (#11499748)
This is everything thats wrong with (web)developers today.

Why is this available in more than one format? Why on earth is there a filter.sh and render.py?!? This is just awful. If you can't read through a simple text list and select the appropriate questions then you're already doomed.