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Re:56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:42PM (#49915914)
Re:Elektron Machinedrum in the Browser on Monday September 21, 2026 @10:57AM (#49788118)
I have a UW (user wave) version. It doesn't look like they implemented some of the more interesting parts of the MD. I wonder if this was a firmware R/E effort? I don't see any details on what's behind this and I can't read the non-english parts of the app. Anyone have more details?
Re:I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy on Wednesday August 05, 2026 @06:15PM (#49189809)
Good to know I'll still have the reassurance of a 9:30 standup even though AI is reading my thoughts.

Show HN: I visualized Wasteland as an RTS game

https://gascraft.ai

I'm trying to get into Gastown, and now Wasteland is kind of breaking my mind. I looked into what kind of data was being published and found that I could just read the public dolt data from dolthub. I envisioned it all as a game so I vibe-coded this isometric view of what's going on. The process of trying to refine this to show actually useful things going on really helped my understanding.You...

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Re:Reverse-engineering the Alesis MMT8 firmware on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @01:39AM (#47597218)
The MIDI sequencer that launched a thousand 90s EDM careers. Unique workflow that I wanted to preserve so I reversed it and built a simulator with Claude.
Re:Curses-exec: interactive xargs for less on Friday March 13, 2026 @04:23AM (#47361859)
I always wanted to pipe `ps -a` to something interactive using vim key bindings to select the process to kill. Maybe now someone in the comments will tell me how to do it with xargs and a complicated vim script instead of vibe coding my own.
The authors mention the possibility of holographic curing of multiple simultaneous layers. That seems significant although they haven't demonstrated it here.
Re:The C64 OS Programmer's Guide on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @05:10PM (#33538705)
This is basically the Atomic CSS idea [1]. Yes it violates separation of concerns, but it does a good job at getting the page weight down.

[1] http://acss.io

Re:David Karp Quit School to Get Serious About Tumblr on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @03:19AM (#5742304)
Since I moved to California I no longer wear socks at all. I find that there is little need given the climate. Maybe this is the real reason for the miracle of Silicon Valley?
Re:Linux is not about choice (2008) on Monday May 06, 2013 @06:04PM (#5665075)
You can prefix your command with pasuspender to temporarily disable pulseaudio. This is usually what I do. It's kind of inconvenient and half the time I forget to do it, so sometimes I just write a little launcher script that includes it.
Re:Why you need a home lab to keep your job on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @11:24PM (#5180518)
To get true understanding of what you're working with you need to be able to trash the configuration of your gear at will. I learned a lot buying up some big old Cisco Catalysts and EMC Clariion SAN boxes back when I was doing data center work. Later on though, when I was in charge of buying new stuff I'd rack the stuff up first and go crazy with it before it was in production. Either way works. I don't miss having those fans running in my house though.
Re:Delete the Save Button on Wednesday July 18, 2012 @09:44PM (#4263998)
There just needs to be some UX work here indicating the document status. Just like typing a chat message. "blahblah has entered text"-style. Evernote did this early on in their Windows application, we did it with Ubernote - it rocks. Everything should be autosaved+versioned.
Re:On Configuration on Monday July 09, 2012 @02:25PM (#4219587)
This is one of the reasons I stopped messing around trying to find the perfect text editor. I focused on getting better with a stock VIM install.

I think the spirit of this post is that you should at least give the defaults a chance before you go crazy trying to make everything "better". However, I would add that you shouldn't totally ignore that voice that says "is this setting getting in my way?".

Citing a single data point doesn't refute the quoted assertion. It is basically the same as me trying to refute that air travel is safer than automobile travel per passenger mile by mentioning a single notable crash.

I'm not trying to downplay the plight of those affected, but it's worth separating these concerns when evaluating the true risks involved with any technology that can potentially have great benefits for the bulk of humanity, the rare catastrophe notwithstanding.

Re:Cascading errors caused AWS to go down on Monday June 18, 2012 @03:09AM (#4125348)
It takes a lot of discipline to run a shared power setup like you describe. Most of those servers that have two power supplies operate in a shared power mode, rather than active/failover. This means that if one of your sides (LH/RH) is over 50% and you fail over, you are going to have a cascading failure as the other side goes >100%. It used to surprise me how often I saw things like this, although I'm talking about server rooms in the low 100s of servers, not huge data centers.
Re:Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin on Friday June 08, 2012 @03:43PM (#4085845)
I used to use CopSSH for running sshd on Windows. Worked pretty well from what I can remember. It's just cygwin+sshd packaged up nicely.
Re:On Mastery on Sunday June 03, 2012 @10:25AM (#4060778)
> by acknowledging the mastery, we have changed the practice.

I'm somehow (without irony) enlightened by this statement.

Re:Save Time On Hacker News: Mark All Read on Sunday May 27, 2012 @01:35PM (#4030549)
I wrote something like this as a user script that works in FF(w/Greasemonkey)/Chrome/Opera a while ago [1]. The idea is to remove individual stories or add filters rather than removing everything like the OP. My script is based on VI-style shortcut keys though so that may influence how useful you find it.

[1] https://github.com/dnewcome/hn-plonk

Re:Rainbow.js - code syntax highlighting in 1.2kb on Monday March 26, 2012 @04:40PM (#3758542)
I like the declarative way of defining/extending the highlighters in code. Clean, direct and easy to grok if you're familiar with regexps.
Re:Cleaner Hacker News on Sunday March 11, 2012 @02:38PM (#3690911)
Hacking HN content helped me more with readability than hacking the style. I wrote a userjs to apply kill filters https://github.com/dnewcome/hn-plonk
Re:How I improved my life with a PS3 controller on Sunday January 29, 2012 @12:21AM (#3524530)
I've tried what the OP has done in the past. I ran into the mouse issue and what I did to make it better was to map the button under the analog stick to increase the mouse speed. Getting the pointer to a rough position quickly is a more gross muscle movement involving pushing down on the stick while moving it in some direction. Fine positioning is done then by letting up on the stick and maneuvering using fine motor control. I agree that using analog sticks for the mouse is kind of awkward though.
Re:Do you make these 5 database design mistakes? on Monday January 02, 2012 @03:55PM (#3417301)
I've got to push back on the anti-guid stance for surrogate keys. They may be big but it is nice to have opaque IDs so that no one makes flawed assumptions about ordering or relative insertion time/trying to guess valid IDs, etc. Opaque is good...
Re:Poll: How much do you make as a programmer? on Sunday October 23, 2011 @03:41PM (#3147032)
This made my morning. You should write a gonzo-style programming epic. It reminds me that some of what we do might as well be magic to the people that hire us and unlike in past cultures where we'd be anointed as medicine men and revered as holy, we're given gilt boxes by monkeys.

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