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Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:21PM (#50332340)
For those of us that are pickier about UX, even a basic A/V receiver solves this problem.
Tangent - The War On Drugs is an excellent band.
Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:35AM (#50326114)
Subtle but crucial difference: the explicit prompt replaces the default algo's biases.
Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:31AM (#50326065)
IMHO the "by recency" qualifier is optional. Also, don't engage in comments.
Sure - just a decent place to start
Search for "Broca and Wernicke" to learn more about the distinct areas of the brain responsible for producing vs processing language.
Re:Official Claude Code extension compromise on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:40PM (#50309154)
There's been too much guessing already. Anthropic employees answered in this thread almost 4h before your response.
Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:14PM (#50308820)
FWIW, Fastmail is awesome.
Re:Official Claude Code extension compromise on Friday October 30, 2026 @10:10AM (#50304146)
Try smolvm microvms from https://smol-machines.com
Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month on Thursday October 29, 2026 @02:15PM (#50293526)
Your dismissive assertion is rude and inaccurate.

Larn was a text-based RPG that was in fact easily run as a networked game over a modem to a server at GenRad where my dad worked. Details escape me (it was over 40 years ago, I was like 12 years old) but these basics are factual.

Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month on Thursday October 29, 2026 @09:47AM (#50288981)
Get off my lawn! I was playing Larn on my dad's VT100 long before the C64 was released.
that's incredibly confusing. what's the point of the tag if the version is really the sha it happens to now point to? it only looks like semver?
Right, so it's not just git, it's a bunch of system-provided utilities; macOS trusts bad certs, and these utils that trust the OS are affected. I use homebrew for my git and curl but haven't yet checked to confirm whether that matters here. Kind of outrageous that Apple's guidance is to edit the cert chain manually, and to expect that subsequent OS updates may revert your mitigation, reintroducing the vulnerability (as happened at least once so far).
Re:AI promised less work. I've never worked more on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:12AM (#50259693)
"formally-privileged" -> "formerly-privileged"
I'd love to hear your ideas about what makes TanStack Start less "serious" than Astro
Re:Anthropic S-1 on Monday October 26, 2026 @04:36PM (#50250543)
> "SpaceX has the vertical integration to be able to plonk down datacenters and get them powered with literal jet/rocket engines/turbines that they make from scratch"

Is that really a viable path? (Honest question)

Yeah, that's what I figured too. Sadly, that shallow / kneejerk response leads to unearned mindshare advantage for problematic incumbents like Next.js, and risks stifling meaningful improvement.

TanStack Start absolutely merits a closer look. It's not a flash in the pan or "the new shiny". It's the robust, coherent, independent and logical evolution of battle-hardened wisdom and brilliant design and implementation from first principles. See TanStack Router and TanStack Query for more evidence and background context. I've been around the block (25+ years in webdev) and gained a deep appreciation for Tanner's way of thinking. No affiliation, just a grateful user trying to help others notice by amplifying the signal in the noise.

P.S. Yes I wrote ~"it's not X, it's Y". No I didn't use genAI to write here (nor anywhere, ever).

I'd be grateful if whoever downvoted my comment could explain what they found objectionable.
+1 for TanStack Router (and TanStack Start if your needs evolve to merit a metaframework).
I recommend ditching Next.js in favor of Tanstack Start^1, an alternative metaframework that gives you more freedom, better DX, and better defaults. Stick w the best aspects of SPAs and introduce SSR selectively if and when it makes sense.

1. https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-start-1-0

Re:How I Reverse Engineered a Board Game on Friday October 23, 2026 @10:18AM (#50209493)
FWIW, the original Hitster game is really fun, highly recommended.
Re:mitmproxy adds --emudhra option on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @11:50PM (#50190968)
mitmproxy is an amazing cli powertool I first discovered over a decade ago (around the same time as lnav). highly recommended.
Re:Most advice is right for the person giving it on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @10:36PM (#50190491)
The idea that "most users" won't notice the absence of 2 slices of bread per day strikes me as unlikely.
Re:The Future of CSS on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:55AM (#50180125)
That's not quite right. jQuery was exactly the right tool for those of us who knew what we were doing. Browser inconsistencies in the early days were practically insurmountable without jQuery to provide a consistent API surface.
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:48AM (#50167268)
Relying on an LLM's baked-in syntax knowledge is suboptimal, compared to leveraging reasonable context affordances (skills, examples, tool calls, MCP servers, search) to ensure adherence to precise APIs and language specs. Don't get me wrong; a model specifically trained on your desired framework is obviously preferable for more consistent generation of idiomatic code -- but relying on that in a large general-purpose model is a questionable proposition IMHO.
good for you, I hope it lasts another decade+

just sharing my lived experience

Re:GLP-1 may slow biological aging on Monday October 19, 2026 @10:58PM (#50160834)
you're not necessarily wrong, but science is likely also to continue saving a lot of lives while the endless search for our collective ass continues
into the modern era... ... or back into the dark ages
Synology NAS - an ugly doorstop with data loss resulting from its half-baked post-purchase attempts to enforce hardware vendor lock-in. (Was working fine w/ a Western Digital drive, the next day, boom.)
Re:William Gibson and the Trademarking of Cyberspace on Monday October 19, 2026 @02:02PM (#50155704)
no doubt (tho I see it as a "yes and")

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