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Talk about over engineering a problem! If typing speed is an issue guess what, humans can train themselves to type really fast on a keyboard.
Re:I Made Tinnitus My Friend (Then It Disappeared) on Sunday August 09, 2026 @07:56PM (#49237566)
Amateur musician with mild/moderate high frequency tinnitus here. I was treated with exposure therapy, and while I hear the sound (less now than before) it doesn't bother me any more. I would recommend a book called "Living Well With Tinnitus". Good luck!
Re:FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @12:58AM (#48655341)
Awesome project!! I will migrate off from gboard when support for Norwegian gets better.
Re:What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI? on Friday June 05, 2026 @06:29PM (#48419172)
I was tasked to rewrite an Oracle Apex webapp. 70k lines of PL/SQL. I asked Claude Sonnet 4.6 to read it all and boil it down to markdown file with business requirements. Took about 15-20 minutes, and I got a 700 lines long markdown file to guide me during the rewrite. I've since had great joy using /grill-with-docs!
Re:Agent Skill for TDD on Friday June 05, 2026 @06:20PM (#48419097)
Haven't tried this, but I've recently become a big fan of Matt Pococks skills. Workflow: /grill-with-docs -> /to-prd -> /to-issue -> /tdd. That will interview relentlessy until there is a "shared understanding" using "ubiquitous language", then it will spec all requirements with user stories, create issues and implement them using tdd.
Re: on Thursday June 04, 2026 @06:24PM (#48405459)
Software engineer here, since 2008. Will coding be relevant in the future? Not so sure. Maybe a little. Mostly for teaching? How about code? Absolutely! Everything is code! If we don't understand code, we're useless. Software engineering applies to code, just as mathematics applies to numbers.
Re:Webcam head tracking, webcam to control in‑game FOV on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @03:30AM (#48381005)
It requires robotics monitor arm
Re:Work with Codex from Anywhere on Thursday May 14, 2026 @06:37PM (#48142182)
I've been trying voxtype (using whisper models) lately, and to my surprise all my ums are filtered out. It's really good now actually!
Re:Zed is 1.0 on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @05:30PM (#47954990)
> Yes it takes a bit of work but it isn’t that bad.

Agreed, it takes a few hours to set up everything. But just did it with Claude the other day, and I was up and running in no time! :-)

Re:How Complex is my Code? on Sunday April 12, 2026 @03:06AM (#47736875)
> if you feel that code is too complex

Now you're assuming a human is actually trying to understand the code. What a world we live in (sarcasm).

Re:Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed on Monday February 02, 2026 @04:12AM (#46853954)
How cool is that! Feature request: Let the user select another language than English.
Re:Building a CI/CD Pipeline Runner from Scratch in Python on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @06:28PM (#45908393)
When was the last time you used Jenkins? I don't get the hate. Not only from you, but lots of people on the internet. What makes Jenkins stand out IMO is the community and the core maintainers, they are perhaps moving slow, but they are moving in the right directions. The interface looks really nice now, they've done a lot of ux improvements lately.
This is just awesome! But seems like a closed source project, and the pricing page returns HTTP 404.

Are there any open source alternatives like this? First time I hear about this idea. However, I can imagine it wouldn't take much effort to implement the basics. Chromium even has a design mode you can activate by typing `document.designMode='on'` in the console. Then you would just need to write a little javascript that handles auth, a save button, and a backend to persist the altered html.

Are you saying that black holes don't share any information? xD
Re:The New Science of Controlling Lucid Dreams on Friday December 27, 2024 @07:47PM (#42527519)
Similar story happened to me once: I had recently got my drivers license, and one day went to bed early (completely sober). In my dream that night I got drunk, took my dads car and wrecked it. When I woke up next morning, first thing I did was to take dads car to pick up a friend of mine. I felt so hung over, and was driving like I was "still drunk". I had that feeling the whole day. Still remember it well today, even 20 years later.
Re:Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model on Thursday December 05, 2024 @03:05AM (#42326025)
One cool use case for this could be "generative hybrid video meetings"; when I participate in a teams meeting and the majority is in the same physical room, the video conference software could read the wall camera video feed and generate individual video streams of each person as if they sat just in front of me.

Of all things this must be the most boring use case for this crazy looking new technology. But hybrid video meetings have always annoyed me and I think to myself that surely there must be a better way (and why hasn't it arrived yet?).

Very interesting! Is there reason to believe that the outcome would be different if the experiment was re-run but replacing the humans with coin-flipping machines?
This is really stupid, old, legacy sh*t. If the USB HumanInoutDevice spec would support full unicode, keyboards could just send unicode directly and not rely on a not-known-by-the-keyboard-firmware language setting. The language settings would be implemented in the keyboard firmware, but with todays hardware shouldn't be a problem.

Edit: typos

Re:Functional Programming Library for Golang by IBM on Friday August 18, 2023 @07:43AM (#37174348)
> very important senior grug say "this too complicated and confuse to me"

https://grugbrain.dev

Re:Show HN: CodePerfect, a fast, lightweight IDE for Go on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @02:51AM (#36596444)
Been using LazyVim for professional go development for over a year now. I can't see any features promised here that I do not already have. LazyVim is a NeoVim configuration for those who don't know. Together with the golsp its insane how good it is. Sometimes I miss those heavy refactoring functions that Jetbrains provide though, like extract function etc.
Re:I have reached Vim nirvana on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @04:02PM (#34153744)
Ever since I learned how to use the Miryoku layout, I've been using vim with the hjkl navigation-keys shifted one position to the right. Those are also my arrow keys on a separate layer in the keyboard firmware. And I never looked back, this is how it really should be!
Re:Cool HTML elements nobody uses on Monday October 03, 2022 @12:24PM (#33069705)
<marquee>remember this tag?</marquee>
Re:Programming on 34 Keys on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:49PM (#32655601)
Miryoku user here. Nice post!

Symbols in a mirrored numpad shape to fix $ and ^ seems brilliant, I might have to try that! And the caps word feature, holy crap thats awesome.

Where are your \, ` and F keys, you don't use them? And why stock colemak not mod-dk?

Re:Our Roadmap for Nix on Sunday August 07, 2022 @04:23AM (#32374856)
I'm a senior software developer and experienced unix user, and I loved the nix principles. So I installed nixOS on my laptop and it worked like a charm! But after a few months those complex corner cases came up and I was forced to write my own packages. At that point there was no help reading the docs, so I gave up and deleted the whole OS. So I really hope things will improve, and if they do I'd give it another shot.
Re:Down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole on Monday March 21, 2022 @04:57AM (#30751822)
Wow, no this is new to me. Looks a bit heavy for my personal taste, but nice to see some solid quality products like these available on the market.
Re:Down the mechanical keyboard rabbit hole on Friday March 18, 2022 @04:39AM (#30719859)
Karabiner looks awesome, thanks for the tip!
Re:Lessons from seven years of remote work on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @02:08AM (#29401457)
> And I assume they have similar mental process which recently I have come to realize is not true.

How did you realize it? I'm asking because you sound a lot like myself.

Re:Show HN: My proposal for a new keyboard layout on Saturday November 27, 2021 @05:53PM (#29364421)
Sorry for late response, but no. RightAlt+q gives æ, RightAlt+w gives å and RightAlt+l gives ø.
Re:Tell HN: GitHub is down again on Saturday November 27, 2021 @05:26PM (#29364210)
I was working on my Nix config. I had just added a small command line utility and wanted to install it, but then got 504 errors from github.com. Annoying!

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