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> But where is the new cool software ?

No matter what you think about it, it's impressive what the folk at Omarchy[1] have been doing with LLMs.

1: https://omarchy.org/

Re:Stop telling people to delete their social media on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:07AM (#50003101)
> Many other people specially kids had a lot worse experiences : such body image issues, addiction, sexual advances, self harm, cyber bullying.. etc. Meta had to pay fines because it knew there was issues.

I wrote this in the article

> So to the people telling everybody to delete all their social media: stop. You can give much better and non-destructive advice.

It's unclear to me how just deleting it would solve all the aforementioned issues.

This post does highlight the biggest difference between the Internet before and now (or reality for that matter). Given enough effort there is virtually no difference between a human and a non-human. Before you would join a community to feel a sense of belonging or learn or whatever. Now how do you even know you are not a minority (humans that is) in a given subreddit?
Re:Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI on Monday September 07, 2026 @02:34AM (#49594670)
> By mid-August, the median researcher was integrating agents daily into their work, using more than $600 per day of inference at API prices.

There is a lot of talk about AI replacing humans, but how is this sustainable?

Re:A Note from LWN on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @11:03AM (#49537419)
> The LWN site has been improved in a number of ways, with features like articles in EPUB format,

This is the single biggest feature that makes me keep my subscription going. The convenience to read longer form offline on my ebook reader makes me wish all other long form content websites would have the same.

Re:Hy4 Preview on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:40AM (#49475130)
At first I thought it was this Hy[1], oh well one can dream.

> Hy4 preview came out slightly ahead of both GLM 5.3 (2.99 vs. 2.92 average, 46.8% wins / 12.8% ties / 40.4% losses) and Kimi K3 (2.99 vs. 2.94, 51.2% wins / 7.9% ties / 40.9% losses).

This is extremely impressive if true that they are able to beat both K3 and HLM 5.3 however an someone who doesn't know anything about this space. How much better is 2.99 compared to 2.94 or 2.92? This difference to me seems very marginal. Or is only meant to say that they are in the same "category"?

1: https://hylang.org/

Re:My Business Is Dying on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:23AM (#49475008)
> My friends tell me the job is basically managing AI agents and reading Pull Requests. That sounds like hell, and I’ll try to avoid it for as long as possible.

It really is not that bad when you are in a company with a good culture. Leadership is gonna be AI piled everywhere, but imho that's how you learn where to use (and not to use) the technology.

Re:A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy. on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @02:52AM (#49268693)
If you really want to be lazy, use a terminal file manager (I prefer lf[0]) it helps avoiding the cd && ls dance. That way, your history only contains commands you actually would want to rerun.

0: https://github.com/gokcehan/lf

Re:Editing changes in patch format with Jujutsu on Saturday March 07, 2026 @01:44AM (#47285109)
jj looks very interesting and the hipster in me wants to adopt it, but my muscle memory is wired to Magit, I am not even an Emacs user, but I reach to it just for doing git stuff. So far none of the frontends for jj comes close.
Re:Undo in Vi and Its Successors on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @12:08PM (#47049851)
If you are using vim in the terminal pressing alt send an escape sequence when followed by another key press. So to go out of insert mode I usually press alt+ one of h/j/k/l
Re:The Dank Case for Scrolling Window Managers on Friday January 30, 2026 @03:20AM (#46821853)
I wish the author had spent more time explaining what's better about SWM compared to TWM.

The only thing he said:

> It was the best of both worlds—easy to navigate, while remaining mousable.

Is not really convincing as Cosmic desktop for example is tiling while remaining mousable.

I have been vaguely aware of PaperWM and Niri but never saw the appeal productivity-wise.

Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Thursday January 15, 2026 @05:43AM (#46630716)
https://rmpr.xyz

My personal website sporadically maintained these days but I hope I can get back to it soon enough.

Re:You probably don't need Oh My Zsh on Saturday January 10, 2026 @04:48AM (#46564284)
> For Vim users, I also suggest enabling Vim mode in Zsh. It makes editing commands much faster.

I am also an avid Vim user but I disagree. The default readline is perfectly fine for single line commands (you do have to know your way around some basic commands though C-a/u/k/l/w...). To edit long commands in $EDITOR you can always do C-x C-e in bash/zsh (M-v in Fish). As a matter of fact everytime I pair program with my colleague I always think he is editing those short commands slower than I would have because he has to change modes all the time.

Re:How I Use Every Claude Code Feature on Sunday November 02, 2025 @03:06AM (#45788648)
Jiratui[0] has some support for basic automation. That's probably what OP is using as it is the most poppular Jira cli tool out there.

0: https://github.com/whyisdifficult/jiratui

Re:Rust cross-platform GPUI components on Monday October 27, 2025 @01:04PM (#45723485)
Iirc Cosmic Desktop uses Iced
Re:ReMarkable Paper Pro Move on Thursday September 04, 2025 @07:19AM (#45125977)
It mostly depends on your needs, the Note Air series is good if you are on the go while the bigger models like the Note Air Max are fit for a more stationary use.
Re:ReMarkable Paper Pro Move on Thursday September 04, 2025 @07:16AM (#45125955)
> It also has a full Android system, which comes with advantages for sure but invites distractions and leads to very disappointing battery life.

While some models have a disappointing battery life, it's most definitely because of BSR[0] not because of them running Android. I had a Note Air 3 and that thing got easily 2 weeks of battery life with heavy use while the BSR version (Note Air 3C) barely survived 2 days.

0: https://shop.boox.com/blogs/news/boox-super-refresh-bsr-tech...

Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something? on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @03:51AM (#44809018)
OP mentioned he took over an existing project. He would then have to track all the people who contributed in order to be able to relicense to AGPL. Even then, Anthropic would probably then write their own.
Re:Anthropic rejects the main developer of the library they use on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @03:46AM (#44808962)
Implementing the features they would want to prioritize. Just like most companies hiring OSS maintainers.
Re:Anthropic rejects the main developer of the library they use on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @03:44AM (#44808937)
Iirc the homebrew guy did at least get an interview
Re:Multiple Security Issues in GNU Screen on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @07:51AM (#43971862)
Nice write-up.

> Screen offers a multi-user mode which allows to attach to Screen sessions owned by other users in the system (given the proper credentials). These multi-user features are only available when Screen is installed with the setuid-root bit set. This configuration of Screen results in highly increased attack surface, because of the complex Screen code that runs with root privileges in this case

I wasn't aware of such a feature but I guess it's what makes stuff like tmate possible. Speaking of which, I wonder if tmux is affected by the same kind of vulnerability.

> In windows, I can just shut the lid and not worry about it, because it will sleep first, and eventually hibernate. Ubuntu would just sleep until the battery dies.

It's really funny because this is one of the things I absolutely do not like about Windows. I absolutely hate it that I put the computer to sleep and when I come back the next day it has hibernated. That said, I agree that hibernation has always been finicky on Linux, however, I would say Ubuntu is not the best distro for this use case. I have been using Fedora and they even publish official guides for it[0] that's how seriously they take it.

0: https://fedoramagazine.org/update-on-hibernation-in-fedora-w...

Re:Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic on Sunday February 02, 2025 @06:27PM (#42912997)
My only gripe with Netguard is that it screws up roaming. With that enabled I couldn't access apps like my bank and various others when I was out of the country. Other than that, amazing piece of software.

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