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Omachy := Arch + vibed dotfiles. It might as well be a single AUR package. Ie arch for newbies with AI
The web made many mistakes. Only thing it got right is HTML and convenience. JS is garbage, browsers bloated. The web is centralized forgetful and fragile. No thx.
Re:Being Ambitious and Being a Dad on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @03:40AM (#49358255)
Like OP with my first kid, I constantly had itchy fingers -- too many ideas to ever execute on. Tired and no more flow state. Work seemed like a waste of time with politics. My hobbies were my outlet - and now it was reduced to maybe 1 hrs a day.

Then AI got good. I've always been able to solve problems fast in my head, but was bottlenecked by fingers and dumb infra.

AI gave me my time back honestly. Nix solved infra. backlog CLI kept the work clear. Good engineering, in spurts.

Now I have more execution power than ever, and I can steer my minions. Yes, I don't get to code and there is little flow state, but I always better liked to solve a problem and go to the next than actually typing it out.

From my phone, wireguard and aVNC to my homelab, I conduct ralph loops on my architecture and principles. This is so powerful, that my brain poops out even more ideas - and so I find myself fully immersed - another kind of flow state.

Consequence: Brain fry and less sleep, so sometimes I just crash out and sleep for 10 hrs. Usually get 5-6 hrs nowadays.

why are people still surprised that this is possible? To me, this is has been normal for the past 1.5 years.
Re:MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent on Sunday August 16, 2026 @04:19PM (#49323278)
the tricky bit is ensuring your inaccurate plain english statement is captured and formalized correctly as lean.
Re:MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent on Sunday August 16, 2026 @04:17PM (#49323265)
git clone is slightly faster
Why does everything turn into a browser
Re:Show HN: A udev implementation in Guile Scheme on Friday July 31, 2026 @05:25AM (#49120868)
503. also Why?
Re:Claude Is Down on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @04:15PM (#49102433)
yes. confirmed
Re:Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @04:49PM (#48926858)
do you want them to focus on the website or their model? do you buy a device because of its unboxing experience?
Backlog.md the project: tasks live in your repo, atomic and race free
Re:Peter Steinberger – WhatsApp CLI: sync, search, send on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @04:30AM (#47776221)
Matrix
Re:Big-Endian Testing with QEMU on Friday April 03, 2026 @10:49AM (#47627295)
I did that many years back, but with MIPS and MIPSel: https://youtu.be/BGzJp1ybpHo?si=eY_Br8BalYzKPJMG&t=1130

presented at Embedded Linux Conf

https://github.com/eisbaw/litterate_bitorrent 800 pages, noweb extracts rust. Made by claude in a ralph loop over 1-2 days.

yes, it downloads actual torrents.

Re:Open Source Teams Client on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @02:58AM (#46882847)
CLI rust-native client for Microsoft Teams, incl audio calling and messaging. Still very much alpha. Contributions welcome.
Re:Proof of Corn on Friday January 23, 2026 @03:37PM (#46737557)
I thought this was another joke from https://cornhub.website/
Re:Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @02:39PM (#46710487)
submit and see if Anthropic accepts it
Re:Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @01:53PM (#46709832)
1023 cycles
Re:Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @08:43AM (#46705611)
I got to 1364 cycles for now, semi-manually: Using design space exploration organized via backlog.md project, and then recombination from that. 20 agents in parallel.

Asked to generate drawio for the winner so I can grok it more easily, then I gave feedback.

Edit: 1121 cycles

mawk is fast
Re:MTOTP: Wouldn't it be nice if you were the 2FA device? on Monday January 19, 2026 @04:33AM (#46676823)
or we could use asymmetric biometric fingerprints. Turns out features can be extracted into public and private sets, and both are required for a match. I hold a patent on it btw
Re:Finnix on Monday December 15, 2025 @01:54PM (#46278683)
I would think anything that works with PXE network boot would qualify. For cloud stuff, nixos-anywhere.
sounds very interesting but also hard to understand - do you have an introduction or some examples?
Seems like SoM GPT-4o is the one to beat. Also table and plot does not seem to agree
Re:I don't care how well your "AI" works on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @08:10AM (#46057045)
Programming and CS is the art of solving problems - hopefully problems that matter.

AI lets you do that faster.

AI may suggest a dumb way, so you have to think, and tell it what to do.

My rate of thinking is faster than typing, so the bottleneck has switched from typing to thinking!

Don't let AI think for you. Do actual intensional arch design.

Programmers that don't know CS who only care about hammering the keyboards because they're artisans have little future.

AI also give me back my hobby after having kids -- time is valuable, and AI is energy efficient.

We are truly living in a cambrian explosion -- lot of slop will be produced, but market and selection pressure will weed those out.

Re:General principles for the use of AI at CERN on Monday November 24, 2025 @08:07AM (#46033699)
So general that it says nothing. Very corporate.

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