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Re:Docker Is Weird on Friday October 23, 2026 @01:08AM (#50204729)
Not related to the topic but. Do you have any book recommendations? Not necessarily programming or system related, looking for great books ~
Re:Teach My Little Sister How to Drive on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @07:59AM (#50070271)
Why would anyone jump to that trope? This is a girl, that is LEARNING to drive of course she doesn't know how to do it yet
Cool, being non reactive to these kinds of medication save my ass in some way
Re:Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day on Friday August 07, 2026 @06:49PM (#49217170)
same here
Re:The Cold Email on Thursday July 30, 2026 @01:15AM (#49106320)
Do you have the email by any chance ? That sounds like an awesome read
Re:Pay for Software That Respects You on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @09:46PM (#49092476)
i ended up paying for the ReadEra Premium app way after my phone was no longer my primary way of reading, just because i love it so much and for the time i use the free version i feel so respected and was so happy with the app that i needed to give back in some way.
Re:OpenPrinter on Sunday July 05, 2026 @07:48PM (#48799154)
Do you have any recommendations for models or what should i look out for ?

My mom wanted a printer for her birthday and it's been a few months without any success when it comes to selecting the right model

Re:Steam Machine on Monday June 22, 2026 @05:57PM (#48636812)
That's just bad ragebait
Re:When I reject AI code even if it works on Sunday June 21, 2026 @08:38AM (#48618410)
I'm part of the middle ground. Not able to do full agent code, but I'm fine using it to generate snippets that i fully read. I find it great to use apis with little documentation. For me AI is similar to a google search when im not able to find meaningful doc or i want the code snipped and refine over it
Re:Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI? on Saturday June 06, 2026 @06:36PM (#48429721)
I'm not particularly anti-ai i do find it useful and i use it everyday for my job, i actually find it great for iterating ideas and especially for finding information about libraries or obscure APIs

But i read everything, i write most of my code by hand and I'm very careful to not shoot myself on the foot.

I say this because on the other side of the spectrum, some colleagues at work are VERY hyped about AI and i constantly suffer the consequences of them making changes without looking, the code is brittle and often introduces bugs

So I'm mostly anti hype, i can recognize it as a useful tool, but im tired of people using it without taking a few minutes to review what is outputting

Re:Music for Programming on Monday April 06, 2026 @09:58AM (#47661034)
Will Wood is such a great artist. Glad to see someone giving him recognition in the wild
Re:I am happier writing code by hand on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @12:46AM (#46955846)
I have a problem vibecoding and frustrating experiences with coworkers that are a little too much into it.

I can use AI to help me explore libraries or to replace a search, generate small snippets here and there, or even scripts that i occasionally need. But i can't vibecode, i don't know how to let go, i babysit too much, i read the code and i feel uneasy if I don't understand what I'm building, or why I'm building it in a certain way, i need to understand how the pieces work to make a whole

Re:Uncrossy on Monday January 12, 2026 @02:15AM (#46585138)
Fantastic work, very fun ! I actually only ran into the dead end scenario right until the last few words so not a frustrating first experience. But reading other comments maybe a setting to prevent the player to take a route that ends up unsolvable would be great. Kinda like the "Normal" and "Expert" Modes in worldle
Re:Show HN: An LLM-optimized programming language on Monday January 12, 2026 @12:29AM (#46584449)
I was thinking the same. Maybe if he tried to think instead of just asking the model. The premise is interesting "We optimize languages for humans, maybe we can do something similar for llms". But then he just ask the model to do the thing instead of thinking about the problem, maybe instead of prompting "Hey made this" a more granular, guided approach could've been better.

For me this is just a lost of potential on the topic, and an interesting read made boring pretty fast.

Re:Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks on Saturday December 20, 2025 @07:55AM (#46335823)
Recently i bought a book from Kindle because i couldn't find it in any other platform and I'm so happy it only cost me 1$ because i haven't been able to download the ePub version, none of the methods on the internet have worked for me or they need to use a physical kindle device. God it's so frustrating i just want to read a 1$ book on my Kobo
Re:Advent of Code 2025 on Sunday November 30, 2025 @05:10PM (#46100934)
why would delegate to an LLM something that is supposed to be fun. THIS specifically is the kind of stuff you shouldn't delegate to an LLM
Re:Roadmap for Improving the Type Checker on Saturday November 01, 2025 @02:42AM (#45779686)
Not much experience with multiplatform Kotlin. But Kotlin in the JVM compiles fairly large project +200k lines without cache in few minutes < 3, incremental compilations in the millisecond range maybe a few seconds if large chances were made
This was already a thing, it played a massive role in the events following the past election.

After the election, every sane person knew that Maduro lost, however as the government didn't recognize the results and Maduro was declared president once again

A number of protests started in various cities, so the government instructed their followers to use the app to report any activity, during the following months it was scary to leave the house, the military and cops got free pass to search any citizen on sight, they were allowed to just take your phone and if something against the government was found they could take you to prison or use some kind of extortion.

Also, Maduro gave a free pass to the "Colectivos" basically criminals supported by the government with weapons to just terrorize the common people. IT WAS WILD, to be on the street, hear a group riding motorcycles and needing to take cover in a building if you didn't want to be shot

Much of this stuff was coordinated using the reports given by the app

Re:I Don't Have Spotify on Sunday August 31, 2025 @01:41PM (#45085146)
Seems like you can provide the link of an Spotify hosted song and the site would give you links for alternatives such as Youtube Premium and Apple Music
Re:Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @10:33AM (#45027106)
would you be interested in writing an article about it ? sounds really interesting
Re:What Does It Mean to Be Thirsty? on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @01:17AM (#44872662)
YES YES i get migraines and it's my body saying "Hey you need more water to function you know ?" usually i don't feel any thirst nor hunger, although, i do get hungry more often, but i can last a day without food before my head starts to hurt
Re:Copyparty, turn almost any device into a file server on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @12:49AM (#44719179)
Saw the demo video on YouTube today. Almost made me rent a cheap vps with lots of storage just to run it
Twitter used to. My first username was "myusernameXII" cuz i thought it looked cool in one of the suggestions
That's just a way to create a toxic environment filled with elitism similar to StackOverflow
Re:Kagi for Kids on Monday March 31, 2025 @04:38PM (#43539681)
This. I was a kid with too much free time and exposed to the internet with some but not enough supervision.

I stumbled with some f up stuff that i still remember to this day. But somehow I'm grateful that it wasn't the current brainrot

Re:From Languages to Language Sets on Monday March 17, 2025 @03:58PM (#43392172)
> But in plain ones.. nope. C++, Java, whatever - noone checks things at runtime. Most of those do not have a way to know what some n-bytes represent

But then my question is, what are you doing that you need to manually check for types ? I mean i get it at some point, usually at the time of user input usually you need to run checks to actually convert some input into a valid type. But once it is inside your program you don't need to check anymore because well... static typing and all that, you should know what you have in every step just at a glance

Re:A Small Contribution to Curl on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @09:02PM (#43020949)
i vividly remember getting bitten by a poor example in the android documentation when i was a beginner. It was a typo and a weird use of the " | " to separate some values.

It took me hours to debug why it was faulty in my app, until i asked for help on a discord server and someone answered me saying that the same mistake happened to them a few months back...

It seems small, but it really does help.

Re:To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @08:41PM (#43020799)
He paid account boosters and got mad when people called him out
Re:To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @08:37PM (#43020778)
> is busy playing video games

Funny thing, he faked that too. For a guy with so much money he is weirdly insecure about some absurd stuff

Re:To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @08:15PM (#43020597)
for such an infuriating situation the phrase

> I didn’t have a car, I had a tamagotchi with wheels

Was too funny it made me chuckle loudly.

Anyway f Tesla

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