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Re:Eyes On – News on Monday January 26, 2026 @11:00PM (#46775368)
There has to be a snippet showcasing what to expect if we sign up.

"You will receive a concise, data-driven briefing covering the most critical global military developments and geopolitical shifts. Our goal is to provide situational awareness without the fluff, delivered straight to your inbox."

This is just an empty promise statement that is soliciting our email.

Re:What If Linus Torvalds Gets Hit by a Bus? (2000) on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @11:12PM (#46130225)
"Instructions on getting hit by a bus will soon be posted to our project Web site, so that the average developer will be able to gauge his or her importance to the Open Source community."

Oh God XD

Re:Calendar.txt on Friday November 21, 2025 @09:32AM (#46004970)
This dude's love for terminal utils is mirroring mine and I'm here for it.
Re:How to Read on Wednesday November 19, 2025 @10:54AM (#45981098)
I liked the fuck out of this article. I read it fully and I liked it. I read it because I liked reading it. And I wrote this because I want the author to know I liked it. What a riot of actionable points written so simply! <insert of-course-simpson meme> Alright then. I'm off. To read . Anything I want.

Show HN: A tool for folks to check their Substack writing habits

https://writingprogress.vercel.app/

I created a tool for folks to check their Substack writing habits!Not sure why Substack doesn't have it natively (and hopefully it will soon), but I created a free tool - "When did I last Substack?" - so you can check how regularly you've been writing and navigate to past posts easily. Currently viewable only on desktops/laptops.For example, The Pragmatic Programmer, who is an excellent writer...

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I tried it out and it seems ...okay? I'm yet to identify all the pitfalls. But to the seasoned terminal (CMD/Terminal/Bash) user, who has his dotfiles and aliases etc configured (I use batch files on Windows :( ), I don't know how much of a difference this is going to make on a day-to-day basis. How are folks using it so far?
Re:Ask HN: Is GPT-4o overall worse than GPT-4 for you? on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @09:46PM (#40436515)
Their claim hasn't been that 4o is better than 4. Just that it's faster and cheaper. So it's better than 3.5-turbo but not as good as 4, atleast from the examples I've tried out for summarization, code gen etc.
Re:Show HN: Giton. A GPT powered Git replacement on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @03:23AM (#39367711)
I'm wondering what the usecase for this is. There are literally 5-6 git commands folks use. Ctrl+r does the job beautifully for most of my needs. And for free.
People have too much free time. Classic solutionism