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Re:Vista is a Marathon 2 museum on Sunday October 11, 2026 @03:35PM (#50046976)
Quoting the maker (https://bsky.app/profile/daniloc.xyz/post/3mwi4bpttxs23):

> VISTA is a Marathon 2 museum > > revisit the planet Lh'owon from your browser, read all the terminals > > Marathon 2 was so successfully atmospheric despite the technical limits of the day, it's really cool to be reminded

Love it!

Also "oil-timer".
Re:DeepSeek v4.1 Flash on Thursday September 10, 2026 @12:50PM (#49646753)
I think they meant it's 0.3c (= $0.003), not 0.003c.
Re:Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools on Friday September 04, 2026 @01:22PM (#49567503)
It's good, and my agent is using it just fine (explicitly told it to prefer it over just grepping randomly). I use it in Swift, Go, and Node projects. If you use worktrees, make sure to run `codegraph init` post-setup to avoid confusing the robot :)
Re:The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @04:13PM (#49527489)
Because it's doubly good.
Re:Grok Bot on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @09:08AM (#49271830)
Upvoted. Nobody else seems to be fine with the White Supremacy site, but you aren't. Thanks for making me feel less alone.
Re:Claude Sonnet 5 introductory pricing made permanent on Monday August 10, 2026 @03:40PM (#49248643)
The moat is shrinking, and shrinking fast.
Re:A Week in Matrix on Saturday August 01, 2026 @12:49PM (#49136021)
Came here to say that. https://chatto.run/
I really liked her 2024 Bloomberg series, "The Future with Hannah Fry".

https://www.youtube.com/show/VLPLqq4LnWs3olV_z1ZXBSDTbcXEBNO...

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Monday July 13, 2026 @09:52AM (#48892683)
https://actions.work/listening-post - Listening Post is my macOS multi-scrobbler that works with Last.fm, ListenBrainz, Rocksky, Maloja, Shortcuts, social posting, etc., independent from Spotify or Apple Music. The app can also scrobble shazams (music recognitions) from iPhone and Apple Watch, without the need for an extra app.

Basically, I built the scrobbler of my dreams. I love it to bits! I'm a professional software engineer for ~27 years by now but I only now got around to building that thing. :)

Re:Chatto is now Open Source on Thursday July 09, 2026 @05:30AM (#48843223)
Pepperidge Farm remembers!
Re:Chatto is now Open Source on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @05:02PM (#48837369)
You asked a number of good questions there on the live call just now! I agree, you having Hendrik on would probably make for quite an ep.
Re:Chatto is now Open Source on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @02:37PM (#48835677)
I second that. I've personally known him for almost 30 years by now, and he's still one of the smartest, most experienced, and most curious devs I've ever met. All around good guy, would work with him again any day of the week.
Re:Chatto is now Open Source on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @02:33PM (#48835604)
It's a first-class PWA currently but no native desktop apps yet.
Re:Last.fm is now independent on Thursday May 28, 2026 @05:35PM (#48315848)
Excellent timing. I am currently working on a macOS scrobbler that (also) works with Last.fm, and supports music recogs from iOS, Apple Watch, and macOS.

https://actions.work/listening-post

(AFAIK, the official Mac scrobbler is dead by now.)

Re:Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @02:46PM (#48212220)
Look around for EU LLM routers. There are some, but none are as big as OpenRouter. Still, Cortecs (Austria) is quite good and offers a couple of recent models through its EU-based providers. Zero data retention, GDPR compliant, etc. Really nice.

https://cortecs.ai/serverlessModels

Re:Operation: Epic Furious on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @12:47PM (#48110808)
Stop with the logic and whatnot
Re:I've sold out on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @07:05AM (#47688532)
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026) on Monday February 09, 2026 @06:48AM (#46944226)
I'm working on a macOS app that identifies music playing around you, constantly. You can scrobble them to Last.fm, ListenBrainz, LB-compatible sites, a Mastodon account, local Shortcuts workflows, and/or or local files. It also support Apple Music and Deezer.

I built it because most scrobblers only keep track of Apple Music or Spotify plays, but I have streaming stations on all day long, or the radio is on, and those never make it into my playing charts or recommendations etc.

Early days, more to come, public beta is ongoing, and I am looking for testers :)

https://actions.work/listening-post/?ref=hn

Re:Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters on Saturday February 07, 2026 @03:46PM (#46927787)
It's 2026. If you still host your newsletter on Substack, YOU ARE AN ENABLER. At this point, you're either complicit or plain lazy, neither of which is an excuse. You make a choice every goddamn day.
Re:The New Collabora Office for Desktop on Friday February 06, 2026 @04:19AM (#46910717)
I had to look that up, found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyOffice#Organization:

> Based in Latvia, OnlyOffice owner Ascensio System SIA was a subsidiary of Russian-based New Communication Technologies. Due to EU economic sanctions targeting Russia, European organizations that used the commercial version of OnlyOffice were prohibited from doing so.

Re:Voxtral Transcribe 2 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @12:54PM (#46889091)
I liked Parakeet v3 a lot until it started to drop whole sentences, willy-nilly.

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