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Re:Ask HN: What default model do you use and why? on Saturday September 12, 2026 @11:36AM (#49673419)
I was using various open weights models until glm-5.3-flash came out recently. It's incredibly capable and cheap, even if it's very verbose and not the fastest. I've assigned it to all my agents across my harness and it's getting the job done. Still needs a good steer every now and then, but a great work horse.
Re:Linux 7.1 on Sunday June 14, 2026 @04:23PM (#48532237)
Check out FastFlowLM for AMD NPU support.
After seeing the photos of earth from the Artemis II mission, I wondered why the new photos look washed out. Could it be the ”dirty mirror" effect described in this paper?
Re:Asbestos, talc, and The Lancet's 1977 publication on Thursday March 26, 2026 @04:50PM (#47535544)
Veritasium recently did a very good episode about asbestos which also mentions this paper. Well worth a watch. https://youtu.be/cMx139eTxoc
Re:Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @04:18AM (#46431213)
I haven't used it for a while, but imapsync[0] still supports Gmail. With an approach like this you can regularly sync and get your messages in a standard format. Plus you don't have to wrangle those 50GB takeout dumps.

0: https://imapsync.lamiral.info/FAQ.d/FAQ.Gmail.txt

Re:DNA Learning Center: Mechanism of Replication 3D Animation on Monday December 15, 2025 @02:58PM (#46279650)
I remember studying this in detail 30 years ago. To watch that whole process in a video now it's mind blowing. Thank you.
I had a similar experience, i.e. strict keto for 9 months and fully came off meds with no signs of UC or asthma. UC came back after around 2 years and I don't remember how long before I had to start asthma meds again. I can no longer do keto though, each time I try I get palpitations now after around a week.
AmneziaVPN has censorship circumvention options and makes it easy to set up a self hosted instance of that's what you prefer, or use their hosted service.

https://amnezia.org/

Once upon a time, prior to Microsoft or eBay purchasing it, this is what Skype was. It required a set of central instances to be supernodes to facilitate discovery, then each client communicated with others directly. And IIRC any client up long enough and with sufficient compute and bandwidth, could become a supernode.
According to Wikipedia this is misattributed.

Still resonates though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Wilhoit

There's another issue with a more complete proposal

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/216351

I've been using https://github.com/denisidoro/navi for this kind of scenario.
I hadn't come across overmind before and searching turned up several very different projects.

I think the parent comment is referring to this one: https://github.com/DarthSim/overmind

Re:Goodbye K-9 Mail on Thursday February 27, 2025 @02:38PM (#43197671)
Re:Wikipedia Searches Reveal Differing Styles of Curiosity on Sunday January 12, 2025 @06:02AM (#42672680)
There's a good episode of Mindscape (Sean Carroll) with the authors of Curious Minds, Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, which goes into depth about the busybody, dancer and hunter concepts.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2022/11/28/219-...

Re:Cannonball: An Enhanced OutRun Engine on Saturday January 11, 2025 @02:04PM (#42668153)
This is great.

If you're into these retro games there's a couple of others that have been fun:

Ultimate Stunts: https://www.ultimatestunts.nl/

Descent 3: https://github.com/DescentDevelopers/Descent3 (if you own the original, or on other platforms if you want to buy)

I don't get it, are the figures here typos?

> Given that GNSS satellites typically travel in medium Earth orbit, approximately 20,000 km or 12.4 miles above the surface, GNSS systems are well suited for detecting fluctuations in ionospheric density. > > Further, because ground stations can detect GNSS satellites from such a significant distance (up to 1,200 km),...

Should that be 2000 km and 1240 mi?

Re:macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive on Saturday December 14, 2024 @03:44AM (#42415606)
A bit of nostalgia.

Switch to whatever you want https://youtu.be/9GO3mccvTCs

Re:Using Rust in Non-Rust Servers to Improve Performance on Monday October 28, 2024 @05:39PM (#41976660)
I'm curious how many cores the server the tests ran on had, and what the performance would be of handling the requests in native node with worker threads[1]? I suspect there's an aspect of being tied to a single main thread that explains the difference at least between tier 0 and 1.

1: https://nodejs.org/api/worker_threads.html

Re:Proton announces release of a new VPN protocol, "Stealth" on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @02:25PM (#41173664)
Tailscale has been working in China for me the last couple of weeks.

Also check out Amnezia VPN and the cloak implementation.

Re:Unveiling URI, URL, and URN on Saturday June 15, 2024 @07:47AM (#40689166)
> All URLs or URNs are URIs, but not all URIs are URLs or URNs.
Re:Actual SSH over HTTPS on Sunday December 24, 2023 @04:02AM (#38752257)
I used to use a tool that does exactly this nearly 20 years ago to poke a hole through corporate firewalls, corkscrew[0].

Nice standalone implementation and write up though.

0: https://github.com/bryanpkc/corkscrew

Re:Stop using JSON Web Tokens for user sessions on Saturday November 25, 2023 @06:42AM (#38412890)
And set the SameSite attribute to strict to prevent CSRF
I recently came across Caddy Security[1], and while it's not an OIDC IdP itself, it does serve as a good authentication gateway that's easy to get up and running and maintain.

1: https://authp.github.io/

Last year we were at a very well kept Airbnb in Cornwall that turned out to have been bugs.

Last spring we stayed at an equally nice family place in the black forest (Germany) also with bed bugs.

My brother bought a nice wooden cabinet in London that turned out to be infested.

It's incredibly distressing cuz you don't want to bring them home. And I've spoken with a fair few people since who've had similar experiences in the past few years.

Re:The place where no humans will tread for 100k years on Friday August 25, 2023 @03:45AM (#37259178)
There was a documentary about this by Michael Madsen in 2010 called Into Eternity.

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