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Re:Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS on Friday July 24, 2026 @02:57PM (#49040180)
As a long time BeOS fan (and user back in the day) I really enjoy reading about progress on Haiku. Similarly cool as the Half-Life 2 port is the work on the ARM platform. With early support for M1 Macs (https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-haiku-arm64-progress/19044...) and Raspberry Pi 500+ (https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-haiku-arm64-progress/19044...).
Re:How to sequence your own DNA at home on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @04:13AM (#48814957)
via comparison to other nucleotide sequences. This is called sequence alignment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence_alignment
Re:Homebrew 6.0.0 on Thursday June 11, 2026 @03:21PM (#48495167)
there is `brew update`
prismML provides a llama.cpp fork which is compatible with the 1 bit models:

https://github.com/PrismML-Eng/llama.cpp

After fails with Ollama and main llama.cpp the fork worked on my M5 MBA.

Edit: Typos

Re:Show HN: Aldi's Price Map on Thursday February 15, 2024 @08:00AM (#39382135)
In Austria, Aldi (South) is called Hofer.
Re:Nim v2.0 Released on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @03:28PM (#36961298)
This provides a good overview of packages for various applications: https://github.com/ringabout/awesome-nim

I think most of them are available via nimble.