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Re:Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust) on Saturday September 19, 2026 @04:19PM (#49769798)
That’s some great work! It’s interesting to read the LLMs translation of the yoga sutras
It’s a crime against humanity if the only way to retrieve the digital version of the works is through an LLM.

The web getting flooded with slop and drowning all original work is one way to go about that.

Another is paywalling and gatekeeping en masse.

A third is shutting down shadow libraries.

Re:Eating Fruit Skins on Saturday September 12, 2026 @05:17PM (#49677304)
A guy I was hanging around with in India (Himalayas) asked me why I was peeling the mango. He said you should eat it with the skin. So I continued doing that. One day, at the top of one mountain, I sat down to eat my mango. This Indian guy with his girlfriend walked by and asked why the hell I was eating the mango with the skin on.
Re:iPhone Duo on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @02:21PM (#49631100)
I’ll not buy a new iPhone until they release a new mini. No, this duo is not worth it.
Re:typ.ing on Saturday August 22, 2026 @02:21PM (#49402315)
Would be fun to load text from some book from Gutenberg.

Edit: found that functionality. Nice!

It’s remarkable functional.

I’ve gone weeks using no other browser than Dillo. Usually also disable CSS for most sites.

Built in custom CSS for all sites is also a treat.

Re:Everything You Do Is Being Recorded on Sunday August 09, 2026 @12:18PM (#49232780)
You can easily find my home address by starting with my HN profile.

I do understand what you are getting at. I just don’t find people repulsive by being curious of me; even if they find materials I myself did not make public.

As an aside, I sometimes stumble upon websites of people who write and show pictures of themselves and their family. I find them beautiful[0] to visit and hope more people would do that, as was more common 20 years ago.

[0] https://www.pement.org/

Re:Everything You Do Is Being Recorded on Sunday August 09, 2026 @08:16AM (#49230724)
No. Why should I find you repulsive?

You might find something I wrote interesting. Then whatever public info there is on me helps you to get to know me a bit better. You may stop there and forget about me, or you may try to reach out.

There is nothing wrong about that.

My brain cannot process these AI generated websites anymore.

I’ve hit the back button within 1 second.

Side-by-side didn’t do it for me but flicker made all the difference!

This is great, wish that browsers would implement a better algorithm.

Also good execution with the demo page.

Re:Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source on Thursday July 16, 2026 @12:24PM (#48936656)
That’s hilarious. I hope to see some fun spinoffs.

Ran comic chat on a freshly installed Win98 (or 95, don’t remember) Pentium II.

> kill-region-dwim fixes a decades-old papercut. Set it to 'emacs-word and hitting C-w with no active region kills a word backwards instead of signalling an error.

Thank you! No more:

(defun cutregion-or-killword (beginning end) "Kills region if marked else backward kills word." (interactive "r") (if (use-region-p) (kill-region beginning end) (backward-kill-word 1)))

(global-set-key (kbd "C-w") 'cutregion-or-killword)

Re:Google Declaring War on the Web on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @11:54PM (#48217679)
There’s wander: https://susam.net/wander/
Re:Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now on Monday May 18, 2026 @04:29PM (#48185166)
This weekend I installed Haiku on my old Thinkpad X40. It’s fast and surprisingly stable. Emacs, VLC works like a charm. Computer to slow for web browsing. The BeProductive office suite is a masterpiece of application at a 9MB download; although not open source.

Then I installed Haiku on my XPS13 under KVM/Qemu. Everything runs blazingly fast. I’m thinking of maybe using that install for organizing my photos. The metadata functionality built into the BeFS is great for that.

I must say that I am really impressed.

Well, having both girls and boys, I can concur.
Re:Permacomputing Principles on Thursday May 07, 2026 @12:49AM (#48045492)
On what page did you find that?
You haven’t had children growing up during the last two decades have you?
From the comments here it seems like people are stress prompting their builds instead of planning and reviewing.

If one model seems to be a bit off during a session I just switch to another (Opencode) and plan and review from there.

Re:Migrating to the EU on Monday March 23, 2026 @07:10AM (#47487807)
https://tuta.com/ and Protonmail
Why not be real and multi faceted in both thinking and writing? Trying to be perfect in writing just makes you plastic.

By the looks of it, I don't even think I'm replying to a human.

Re:The Book of PF, 4th edition on Sunday February 01, 2026 @05:33AM (#46845117)
There are e-readers and DRM-free electronic libraries.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Thursday January 15, 2026 @07:12AM (#46631372)
https://m.legnered.se - My BJJ journey, notes and some writings.
Re:Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone on Friday January 02, 2026 @05:19PM (#46470141)
I loved my MP01. However, GSM is not available anymore where I live.

I used the CAT S22 for a while but it just isn't the same.

If they release a 5G MP03 I might buy one. I don't see the point of a Punkt smartphone.

Re:Show HN: A Lisp Interpreter for Shell Scripting on Sunday October 12, 2025 @04:22AM (#45556404)
This looks good! I've seen other tries of shell scripting with lisp dialects but Redstart syntax looks more intuitive (from a shell scripting standpoint) and easy to read.
Here in Sweden I get all mail, except occasional missed payment notices, electronically by way of https://kivra.se/en/private

Costs nothing extra.

Re:Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy on Sunday May 04, 2025 @01:24PM (#43888034)
I really like his talk about basic income and communities role in fostering ideas:

”Although great new ideas are articulated by individuals they are nearly always generated by communities.”

https://archive.org/details/brian-eno-on-basic-income

And no mention in the article of the ways of culture that managed the systems.
Re:Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:47AM (#42928523)
It’s a Buddhist monastery.
Re:Show HN: Complete decompilation of Lego Island on Monday December 23, 2024 @07:23PM (#42498657)
The game looks like Roblox and is just as creepy too: https://youtu.be/xyqXZDyR-RA

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