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Re:Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @01:52AM (#49341776)
TIL there are people who throw knives away instead of sharpening them.
Re:The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015) on Monday June 29, 2026 @03:27AM (#48715951)
Yep. No one else would shove bing search down your throat. https://learn.microsoft.com/pl-pl/answers/questions/5658359/...
Re:The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015) on Sunday June 28, 2026 @03:22PM (#48710598)
Meanwhile, in 2026 I suddenly cannot type capital Ś in Edge on Mac. I feel like I moved back in time 25 years or so.
Re:Conway's Game of Life, in real life on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:12AM (#47439841)
Or, in Krakow, Poland in 2012 :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KitN5HFGWc
Re:Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel on Monday October 13, 2025 @04:02AM (#45565921)
Terrible idea for color-blind people. And I don't even mean severely color-blind, like when you can't distiguish red from green at all, but something more common and less severe, like deuteranomaly - where it's shades of these colors that are hard to distinguish.
Re:Ask HN: What's a good 3D Printer for sub $1000? on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:48AM (#45287649)
Same. New to printing but haven't had a single failed print yet (only used PLA and PETG so far though), and the print quality is generally excellent. That said, it does not meet all the requirements of the OP.
Re:Ollama has a native front end chatbot now on Thursday July 31, 2025 @08:15AM (#44744842)
I may be too picky, and on reflection I probably shouldn't be - it was just my first thought when I saw what the project actually is for the first time.

What I meant is the "Py" prefix is typically used for Python APIs/libraries, or Python bindings to libraries in other languages. Sometimes as a prefix for dev tool names like PyInstaller or PyEnv. It's just less often used for standalone apps, only to indicate the project was developed in Python.

Re:Ollama has a native front end chatbot now on Thursday July 31, 2025 @03:42AM (#44743349)
Have you seen https://pygpt.net/ ? Overloaded interface and little unfortunate name aside, this seems to be the best one I tried.
Re:Different Clocks on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @07:05AM (#44721745)
If you're into interesting clocks, here one that is obviously not digital but fun to watch (pun intended)

Corpus Clock - Wikipedia https://share.google/aAjMb15aeaVvHLJFa

Have a look at https://github.com/DisplayLink/evdi and (shameless plug, toy project, be gentle) https://github.com/mlukaszek/evdipp
Re:No need to email me about Cisco AnyConnect on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @06:28AM (#42305047)
Surprised to see (not that funny at all) "I will slaughter you" email on the list.
Re:Show HN: MathGPT – Create math animations for any question on Thursday November 21, 2024 @03:51AM (#42202359)
Haha I did not even register that as I expected 1.5 as the answer...
Re:Show HN: MathGPT – Create math animations for any question on Wednesday November 20, 2024 @05:06PM (#42198601)
It's pretty good! It did quite well when asked a variant of "when do the trains meet" problem, although it used different values for speed than what I told it to use (and what it actually used in textual response: 120km/h and 20km/h in video vs 80km/h and 60km/h in the prompt and textual response).

https://math-gpt.org/?video_id=a7489ec5-b06e-480a-96c4-27765...

If it did the animations in 3Blue1Brown style, that would be cherry on the top! ;-)

Edit: I did notice it uses Manim, it just doesn't have the same feeling

There was also Bada OS, Samsung's attempt to cut the dependency on Android. I was actually running a device with 1.0, and it was surprisingly usable. The investment in building a development community was also there. They released lots of documentation and the SDK. Sadly, they followed with a 2.0 that really wanted to feel like Android (but wasn't).

They obviously didn't want to put all their eggs into one basket and kept releasing Android phones in parallel. Eventually, Bada died a silent death, although some of it probably found its way to Tizen.

Re:Nothing: Simply Do Nothing on Monday September 16, 2024 @04:49AM (#41554070)
Missed the trick to detect lost window focus, which is easy to do when you are using multiple monitors and very much NOT doing nothing ;-)
Any significant differences from Meshtastic other than a console PC app?
Congratulations on the launch! Not sure if anyone mentioned it already - huge kudos for publishing insights of your journey in the detailed posts on your blog. I learned so much! Loved the details, photos, clips demonstrating problems you encountered. Thanks and good luck!
Re:Jessica Fridrich – My speed cubing page on Saturday September 09, 2023 @02:52AM (#37442884)
Came here to also recommend J Perm videos. His way of explaining the solve clicked with me, and it was easy enough for my 11yo daughter to pick it up super quickly!
Re:Reviving Chromebooks with Ubuntu on Saturday March 25, 2023 @04:33AM (#35300663)
Isn't that project mostly dead? Last release years ago, tons of people having trouble on Reddit... Also, https://github.com/GalliumOS/galliumos-distro/issues/631
Re:Reviving Chromebooks with Ubuntu on Saturday March 25, 2023 @04:25AM (#35300610)
Slightly off topic, but I'm wondering if alternatives aren't safer. Does anyone have any experience with Brunch Framework https://github.com/sebanc/brunch and its compatibility with actual chromebooks? Context: I own a Samsung Chromebook Pro (codename Caroline), which goes out of support in June...
Re:Bubbles on Saturday November 12, 2022 @03:58AM (#33571383)
And move the spike!
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Re:Microsoft Clipchamp on Saturday August 27, 2022 @08:28AM (#32618217)
I swear a god, when I read the name I though MS have released a game featuring Clippy as the main character. Must be getting old, I guess. :-)
Re:Python App in the Browser on Friday April 15, 2022 @02:43AM (#31037219)
Slightly off topic, but in the live demo it looks like model model wasn't really trained with images of a shovel that is diagonal in the frame, with the tip in top right and the base bottom left. The model detects all kinds of things but not the shovel - a spoon, a rifle, baseball bat etc
Re:Commodore 64 Guides on Friday March 04, 2022 @05:23PM (#30561407)
Very impressive. What's the estimate cost of a print?
Re:Pixel prevented me from calling 911 on Thursday December 09, 2021 @11:04AM (#29498990)
I thought an email only works if there is a fire, exclamation mark, fire, exclamation mark...
Re:Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist on Friday October 01, 2021 @02:19AM (#28715249)
Yes, materialistic is what I settled down on so far!
Re:Show HN: Hacker News client with a twist on Thursday September 30, 2021 @11:08AM (#28707231)
Like it! Some suggestions to consider:

- I'm missing a "jump back up" shortcut, something I'd recommend using capital "G" for, like in Vim.

- It seems it hits some hardcoded limit for paging? i.e. it does not allow me to open more stories once I reach the "bottom" one.

- Two things I'm used to that exist in the Android app I'm using: * stories are numbered, so I see how far from the top I am. It's a dimmed down grey number, but it's there and I like it. * depending on the number of comments, an article can be marked as hot with a "fire" emoji. I got used to that to immediately spot things which are trending.

Overall, well done! I am definitely subscribing, and I'll test if I can switch to it on Android.

(edit: typos)

Re:IMGZ – Paid image sharing on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @12:19PM (#28684532)
Same. You can say I'm easily influenced, I don't care :-)

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