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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) on Monday August 10, 2026 @12:48PM (#49246262)
Hermes agent assistant for homelab server maintenance backed by the (still cheap) DeepSeek v4 Flash 0731:

- Stack enhacements

- Updates/upgrades

- Security audit

- Prometheus/Grafana monitoring and alerting

- Backups

Basically a sysadmin for my own local cloud.

Re:Map of Metal on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @11:55AM (#48209815)
FWIW, There's a lot of new bands sounding like the old classic Metal bands, they are `tagged` as NWOTHM (New Wave of Traditional Heavy Metal), such as:

- White Wizzard

- Tailgunner

- Skull Fist

- Wolf

- Enforcer

- 3 Inches of Blood

- Lucifer

- and many others

Re:The Beginning of Scarcity in AI on Friday April 17, 2026 @02:57PM (#47809323)
I understood this concept with this simple equation: Agent = LLM + harness
Re:Buying a retro game console on Thursday March 26, 2026 @12:03PM (#47532182)
Not really, you can now use a Steam Deck or similar to replace the original pad, yet, you'll need to have the Steam Deck though https://github.com/vanilla-wiiu/vanilla
Re:Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @02:31PM (#46785165)
Not really, /lib -> /usr/lib was worse for me
Re:RTX 5090 and Raspberry Pi: Can It Game? on Friday January 09, 2026 @05:23PM (#46560272)
Single-digit FPS can _absolutely_ be playable if you're a desperate enough ten-year-old...

Absolutely, sweet memories playing at less than 10fps using zsnes on a 486 dx2 by 1999...

Re:Windows XP – By Bradford Morgan White on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @01:39PM (#44879517)
FCKGW-RHQQ2...
On the other hand, here in Latin America, the offshore/nearshore jobs have been increasing in the last couple of years. Source: LinkedIn spam, and a couple of past jobs I've worked have been for nearshore companies.
Re:Parser Combinators Beat Regexes on Thursday April 10, 2025 @12:15PM (#43645397)
It makes sense, Combinators can parse a superset of formal languages than regex, according to Chomsky's hierarchy [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy

Re:The Potential Pitfalls of Pagination on Monday August 19, 2024 @01:32PM (#41292940)
One solution that we've been implementing in our APIs is the Seek Method (https://use-the-index-luke.com/sql/partial-results/fetch-nex...) which scales very well with large data sets in postgres, while avoiding some of the mentioned problems.
Re:JetBrains AI Launch Event [video] on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @02:29PM (#38548376)
Yesterday I started to explore CodeGPT, it allows to download and run local model via llama.cpp, it's working fine for me so far, at least with with DeepSeek model 6.7b https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/21056-codegpt
Re:The Netwide Assembler (NASM) on Thursday November 09, 2023 @12:13PM (#38207779)
Same thing came to my mind, when zsnes became open source in early 2000s and we were able to explore its thousand of ASM lines in NASM dialect.
Re:English is a pictographic language with 26 radicals on Monday August 21, 2023 @02:25PM (#37213437)
Funny, the last part reads a lot as if it was written phonetically by a Spanish speaker.
Is more likely that XMPP was killed by Google instead, and Meta is trying to do the same over ActivityPub https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-netwo...
Re:Stability AI Launches Stable Diffusion XL 0.9 on Friday June 23, 2023 @04:24PM (#36451776)
That's not accurate, I was able to make my old RX 5500XT work with ROCm some months ago, only after 6 hours of compilation process though...
Good to know, I initially tought that name was for the Nobel laurate writer Gabriela Mistral.
Re:Where have all the laid-off tech workers gone? on Friday March 31, 2023 @01:49PM (#35390568)
Nearshoring companies that hires developers to be assigned to external clients, just acting as brokers.
Re:Arch Linux turns 20: Small, simple, great documentation on Thursday November 24, 2022 @11:26AM (#33733121)
Using Arch Linux since 2009 as my main desktop OS, and after 3 complete PC ugprades, I never had to reinstall it.

It has been working pretty well for me, except for a couple of issues that I ran over these years (e.g. the transition to systemd in 2012/2013, or no pacman -Syu for several weeks).

Re:Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of? on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @10:48AM (#33707007)
I've been following closely emulation scene since 1999, more recently, I started following FPGA recreation scene. Never imagined what emulation would turn nowadays, specially since it's officially supported and sold by companies which back in the day they saw it as an evil practice.
Re:Europe’s energy crisis hits science on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:53AM (#32780749)
From my experience, usually micro-optimizations (such as optimizing code) don't have a great impact on execution performance than, for example, changing the approach at a higher level (introducing caching, etc), the same may apply on energetic performance I guess.
Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't the ACH system been more abused? on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @01:16PM (#32652756)
Usually there's a 3 day window for the money to settle, if the bank claims that it did not receive the transaction on this time window, they will "deny" the failed transaction and send to the originator a "return"[1] which contains the type and explanation of why did it failed, and the money won't be transferred to the receiver.

If it surpass the 3 day window a "late return" will be sent to notify the origination that the transaction failed, however, the money may already have been transferred to the receiver.

[1]: https://www.moderntreasury.com/learn/ach-return-code-referen...

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