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Re:WiCi: Connecting GPUs over WiFi on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @11:59AM (#50354557)
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Re:uBlock Origin filter to block autoplay videos in TechCrunch on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:27AM (#50350204)
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Re:My Favourite Laptop on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:13PM (#50343846)
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Re:My Favourite Laptop on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:43PM (#50343439)
>I bought mine second-hand for about £100 in 2018. They’ve only got cheaper since then.

You'll be surprised. Due to surge in popularity within the last few years, in part thanks to youtubers, it's gotten hard finding old ThinkPads at this price, let alone cheaper. They've gone from their function over form and low used cost due to corporate surplus as their main appeal, to being geek-y lifestyle objects, not much different than Apple products for the mainstream. They're great machines but paying ~£150 for 10yo system, not even with great specs, is laughable.

Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:53AM (#50334858)
If something urgent appears, a point release will be made asap. If worry that isn't soon enough, can use the daily snapshot builds. That said, imo an essential device like a router should be as solid as possible and only upgraded if important rather for minor bug fixes.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:52AM (#50334853)
Can disable those annoying buttons (or even make them do something useful for you) with Button Mapper.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:46PM (#50332076)
OpenWRT is a Linux distro. Just one optimized for embedded devices. If don't like the very utilitarian web UI can connect over ssh and use iptables or whatever else you want.
https://github.com/ivankovic/omnidiff#usage

  OmniDiff also works directly with git diff and git log -p, through GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF. This path needs no difftool config:

    GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF=omnidiff git diff
Seems for the other public project they've https://tibleiz.net/clade/ and its predecessor https://tibleiz.net/code-browser/.
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it on Sunday November 01, 2026 @02:48PM (#50329037)
Mathematics as field won't. It is the future of mathematicians that is uncertain.
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it on Sunday November 01, 2026 @02:45PM (#50329009)
Many academic disciplines bring no everyday life improvements. They exist because they provide intrinsic value and long-term foundations, hence they aren't merely entertainment. Mathematics/physics happen to be fields that span the entirety of applied/pure spectrum. Those said, your question can be generalized: Should society continue funding human intellectual activities when AI can perform them substantially better?
Re:Novellas with Groff on Sunday November 01, 2026 @02:09PM (#50328652)
>I suspect many people will prefer HTML for markup.

Most people hate writing HTML by hand. That's why we got lightweight markup languages like Markdown, Asciidoc, reST, etc.

Re:Novellas with Groff on Sunday November 01, 2026 @02:04PM (#50328602)
EPUB got specific structure/components, which includes metadata files, and isn't just `zip book.epub book.html book.css *.jpg`. Of course can set-up from start to have expected structure, write xhtml files as expected, write metadata files manually, and create epub with just `zip book.epub -r *` but is more convenient via script/app.
Because incompetence.
Interesting those those news are quite late, probably because it (and the entire ThinkPlus USB lineup) wasn't available outside CN. The product was first announced 2019, the flaw was found Aug 2025, CVE-2025-13453 was issued early Jan, and Li's presentation was in Mar.
https://www.thinkpad.com/device/458

Thought was fake branded product at first and just no one bothered to check, but apparently is available in Lenovo CN's store.

This should've been submitted link really. It makes original technical-heavy article more approachable and provides the sources. TH/w offers nothing over it, and neither does the reddit discussion.
Re:OpenIDEA: The IDE you know, rebuilt in Rust on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:53AM (#50326258)
The author's comment appears AI generated (or at very least heavily edited) and (imo) should be taken with a grain of salt. Very probable they don't know or/and thought of any of the usability/maintenance/performance considerations/costs mentioned within and they just blindly accepted whatever Claude generated.
Re:OpenIDEA: The IDE you know, rebuilt in Rust on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:46AM (#50326197)
>but does it makes any sense without feature parity?

The entire project makes no sense. Names itself Open when IDEA is already open, says built in Rust when 60% is TS, says it's native app when it's a web app with a native connection, clueless benchmarks, made by vibe coders who don't even use/need an IDE, ...

Re:Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:34PM (#50311544)
It's LaTeX because the reddit post, inquiring on how to do this and which sparked author to make this project and into which author shared it, was made in the LaTeX sub.
His startup was acquired by Cisco so not weird for Cisco's CPO to know the startup's founder/CEO. That said, not sure how knowledge on speech translation means he's totally qualified on rewriting infra/networking/cybersecurity (Cisco's primary fields of operation) code. Unless the legacy code expected to be rewritten is constrained on related services/solutions, e.g. CVP or/and WebEx.
Huh, thought ArtCraft slopsuite had something like it. But then again we're moving from the world where we coop to build complex software to one embracing NIH with fleets of agents remaking everything.
Re:NetBSD adds a new beginner-friendly text editor called atto on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:47PM (#50292042)
Moodle's is a PHP-written web editor. Submitted is a C-written terminal editor.
Re:NetBSD adds a new beginner-friendly text editor called atto on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:29PM (#50291718)
And before you was: https://github.com/makuke1234/atto, which notes its name originating from A Truly Tiny text editOr.
Re:NetBSD adds a new beginner-friendly text editor called atto on Thursday October 29, 2026 @12:22PM (#50291584)
>Why "Write Out" and not "Save"?

At least "Uncut" has been renamed to "Paste".

Re:LimonOS Custom x86-64 Kernel on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @08:30AM (#50258134)
Based on README, this seems like yet* another vibe coded OS. Any interesting design/engineering decisions/remarks worth talking about?

*Thinking about it, kinda crazy how we can now casually build a simple independent OS in the time it took to just go through OSDev pages.

This Sony is an Android TV...
It's because in Goose* you write `x > a && x > b`, not `x > (a & b)`. :)

*And really in most if not all, Raku excluded**, languages.

**In Raku junctions can be specified with infix ops, i.e. a | b, a & b, a ^ b, equivalent to list ops any(...), all(...), one(...) respectively, and can define a custom one for none(...).

It's less being slop and more being technical bomb drop, especially the features section. (And this section pales in comparison to the implementation notes.) Although Claude-generated, it reads fine to programming language nerds like the author but, indeed, will give headaches to those that aren't.
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:53PM (#50215884)
Retro game emulators were allowed only 2y ago and bold retro. JIT is still not allowed so they are restricted in being run in interpreted mode. Also, neither is allowed executing arbitrary arm64 binaries. And, of course, no hypervisor access. The Linux-using term (iSH) works by utilizing a x86 emulator / compatibility layer (basically translates x86 binaries and maps Linux calls to native ones). In the sole VM host available, UTM SE, the "SE" means "slow edition". Now jailbreak and you've full, JIT-capable, UTM (QEMU) and NewTerm (kinda Termux for iOS). Hypervisor access still not possible though.

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