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Re:Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @03:24AM (#49889437)
Love it! I'm currently learning electronics (again, did some in high school) and this kind of project is really inspiring.

Thank you for sharing the build process.

Re:Mistral raises €3B on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @03:08AM (#49606589)
If they were cash flow positive they would tell it to everyone, be sure of that.
Re:The turbulent AI era is here on Thursday August 27, 2026 @07:08AM (#49462846)
Re:typ.ing on Saturday August 22, 2026 @06:27PM (#49404470)
https://keybr.com is also a really good tool to learn typing on your keyboard.
It will only cost you $200 in RAM, definitely a good time to raise the minimum/recommended specifications.
A friend of mine, a dermatologist, told me that LLMs are quite performant for melanoma analysis. Based on their own statistics, LLMs are able to beat humans with ~10 years of experience in the field.

They will never beat the human instinct tho, but they can be great tools sometimes. Unfortunately, LLMs mostly produce garbage.

I use French nearly all the time, it works well. Not that I can't write English prompts, but I find it easier to use my native language.
Kagi Maps isn't bad, it's slow but POIs are there with enough data.
Re:Grok 4.3 on Friday May 01, 2026 @05:43AM (#47972836)
Prediction is not intelligence.
Re:A new spam policy for "back button hijacking" on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @12:22AM (#47774649)
Actually, you can do that with Firefox, either per site or as a global policy.

https://superuser.com/a/1317514

It is true, it's the official pricing of GitHub Copilot.
>Really? Lol. If it's true why would you publish it? To ensure Microsoft will patch it up and fuck up your workflow?

It's true and it's their official pricing, so talking about it won't change anything.

People are spending way too much money with Claude Code while they could simply pay for GitHub Copilot and fire up OpenCode to get the same results but way cheaper.

Show HN: Otel-GUI – an open source OpenTelemetry viewer for dev and debug

https://github.com/metafab/otel-gui

(The author is a work colleague, I'm posting on his behalf due to "Show HN" limitations for new accounts)During my recent projects with OpenTelemetry, I was looking for a truly practical tool for local development.I found several existing solutions —some very powerful— but for my day-to-day local use, they were often too heavy, not simple enough to install, or not quick enough to get started...

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> I have never heard of scammers pushing sideloaded apps upon their victims in order to carry out their scams.

Maybe not scammers, but an abusive partner could sideload an application on your phone to spy on you. I've seen that before within my relatives.

Re:Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @03:49AM (#47409732)
Love it! I had this idea before but never took the time to implement it. You did it, thank you.
> I am not seeing the performance degradation everyone talks about after 50% context window.

I pretty much agree with that. I use long sessions and stopped trying to optimize the context size, the compaction happens but the plan keeps the details and it works for me.

I've been searching for a solution to let my wife have access to my master password if I die someday. This is definitely something that could work, thank you!
One recommendation to help this tool gain traction: use a black and white terminal for your terminal preview (GIF).

1. It will ease reading. It's currently terrible, you might be used to it but we aren't.

2. It will sharpen the text and make it easier to read since there's less to encode into the GIF format.

Additional recommendations: remove the useless part on the right—I use Arch BTW vibe—and make the font bigger.

I've been working part-time for two years, works great for me! It's not easy to negotiate—and not with every company—but feasible.
Re:Publish (On Your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere on Friday January 02, 2026 @04:44PM (#46469773)
Just discovered https://posseparty.com/ to ease your cross-posting.
Re:In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information on Friday October 03, 2025 @02:38AM (#45459738)
I've ditched RSS feeds more than 10 years ago but I'm increasingly wanting to go back to them. Thank you for sharing this blog post, it'll help to get me started.
Then it's the worst marketing piece because there's not an even single link to the app.

You might not appreciate the topic, but this is definitely not an ad, just honest learning and sharing about a difficult part of the entrepreneur job.

I didn't know who he is and still found this blog post really interesting because the real topic is about marketing your app when you're a software developer.

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