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Re:Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart on Friday October 23, 2026 @11:18AM (#50210520)
I have a 55" LG Wallpaper signage display on my living room wall right now, with just an Apple TV plugged in, and it's fantastic. Cost $5000, 3.65mm thick, no smart features at all.
That's the writer, it's the US Attorney who has to kiss the boot.
Re:Agents don't need memory. They need documentation on Saturday October 03, 2026 @10:31PM (#49950033)
Didn't Cline formalize the "memory bank" way back in February 2025?

https://cline.bot/blog/memory-bank-how-to-make-cline-an-ai-a...

Re:Why didn't anybody tell me about Redis Hash Slots? on Saturday September 26, 2026 @12:35AM (#49853238)
"The resolution is a lever."
"Optimize the jobs that gate other work " ... "We gate on those checks at the job level" ... "We moved that write into a job that runs once the test shards finish but gates nothing"

Was there some vast corpus of training input that made Claude think that people commonly use "gate" to mean "block"?

Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @03:14PM (#49806622)
1/6 the price, if they're right – that's a logarithmic cost-axis on the graph that shows Opus 5.5 medium matching Fable 5.1 max...
Re:The Last 24 Hours Are the Opening Scene in a Horror Movie on Friday September 11, 2026 @12:50PM (#49661505)
Technically right is the best kind of right?

He resigned from OpenAI to join Anthropic in May; it's Anthropic he resigned from just before making the announcement being discussed in this article.

Re:Authorization Terminology Is a Mess: Let's Fix It on Friday September 04, 2026 @11:41AM (#49566234)
ENTIC and ORIZ would make more orthographic sense...

or 4entic5 and 4oriz5, inverting the k8s, i18n pattern...

pronounced "forentics" and "forizes"...

somebody stop me!

Re:Google translate is a better writer than me on Sunday August 30, 2026 @03:55PM (#49502162)
"than I" ツ
Re:Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions on Friday August 28, 2026 @10:59AM (#49479547)
What the hell is "right drag"?
Re:How I Use Git Worktrees (2024) on Monday August 24, 2026 @11:28AM (#49421159)
Note that, since the 2.55.0 release this June, git offers "instant fixup" as "git history fixup <SHA>"

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-history

Re:Elevators on Friday July 31, 2026 @02:26PM (#49126855)
Little extra "fun" anecdote: my building has two banks of eight elevators, each servicing 20 or so floors, and has six destination dispatch kiosks: one at each end and the middle of each bank. The kiosks originally had nice metal buttons for each floor and you could easily tap yours as you walked by.

Sometime during Covid, the metal buttons were replaced with glass touch screens – which are totally unreadable on sunny days, because in our stunning glass-ceilinged atrium mezzanine they sit directly in sunbeams[0]. So now you have to walk up to the kiosk, shade it with your body, and squint at the screen to make out where to touch it.

[0] http://www.angel.net/~nic/photos/elevators.jpg

Re:Em dashes are fucking amazing on Saturday July 25, 2026 @11:52AM (#49048654)
I have done this for years – it looks much better to me than an em dash – so it's nice to have some authority to cite!

Especially unspaced—this is just way too close—I can't even read it.

Re:LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps on Thursday July 23, 2026 @01:50PM (#49025497)
My 55" LG Wallpaper signage display is pretty much perfect – it just has HDMI in from an Apple TV and never bothers me. But, it takes ~10 seconds to turn on after a signal is detected, since it was never meant to be turned off!
Well, yeah – if the door's open for 30 seconds with no-one in the seat. How long should that battery-powered vehicle try to air condition the entire planet before giving up? If the driver wants a cold cabin, why don't they close the door?

This is ragebait.

Re:Redis and the Cost of Ambition on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @06:15PM (#48128318)
Citing Aphyr's analysis of a pre-release version of Redis-Raft as though it applied to a shipped product is so disingenuous as to invalidate this whole post. The very next sentence after the one he quoted is

> We emphasize, again, that these are all internal development builds: Redis-Raft has no production users, so the real-world impact of these issues is negligible.

and of the 21 errors he found, 20 were already fixed before he published his review.

Re:Postgres's lateral joins allow for quite the good eDSL on Thursday April 30, 2026 @02:27PM (#47966423)
You don't need an ORM for any of that, just a query builder. In Python e.g. you can use SQLAlchemy Core instead of the SQLAlchemy ORM.
I think they meant "evoked", for which Merriam Webster has

    1: to call forth or up: such as
      a: to bring to mind or recollection
      b: to cite especially with approval or for support
Maybe April Fool's Day was the wrong day to release that.
Re:Show HN: A context-aware permission guard for Claude Code on Saturday March 14, 2026 @11:39AM (#47377769)
Yeah, same – mine gives Claude a proxy to the host's Docker socket that disallows mounting anything outside the dev dirs or starting a --privileged container, so it can run tests.

https://github.com/nicwolff/claude-container/

Re:Pike: To Exit or Not to Exit on Friday March 13, 2026 @02:18PM (#47367743)
Hi, using the app now and it's been great fun. (Now if my wife would actually take an exit so we could eat!)

However, we're on 290 E and it's showing me the exits that are behind us – as if it thinks we're westbound. Is there any way to convince it we're not?

And for my iPod touch! I was prepared to keep using it around the house – it's so much lighter than a phone – but I was worried about leaving it logged into iCloud Keychain if it wasn't going to get this fix.
Re:BC got rid of Daylight Savings on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @02:33PM (#47327109)
It's "Daylight Saving", not "Savings".
Re:Our Agreement with the Department of War on Monday March 02, 2026 @04:46PM (#47224608)
The "funniest" thing about this is that in any other context, this administration absolutely insists that everyone should be called only by their legal name, not any other name that they prefer because they think it better suits their identity.
Re:Apple Watch or Don't Bother on Monday February 23, 2026 @03:32PM (#47128363)
I'm excited for my preorder – but realistic in my expectations: it just won't integrate well with Apple tech.

https://ericmigi.com/blog/apple-restricts-pebble-from-being-...

It'll never be able to react to a notification, or send an iMessage.

Re:Something Big Is Happening on Friday February 13, 2026 @03:06PM (#47007130)
It's a bit more than zero, because I have substantial tooling around Claude Code – subagents, skills, containerization, &c – that I'd have to (have Opus...) reimplement.
Re:The Enchiridion by Epictetus on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @04:27PM (#46787119)
Wow, instant bookmark. Thanks!
Re:Bugs Apple Loves on Friday January 23, 2026 @01:22AM (#46729108)
And they had it solved! 3D Touch worked perfectly – you pushed the screen hard to get a cursor, moved it to the start of the selection, and pushed hard again to drag to the end. They killed it because "not all iPhones had the hardware to support it" or something.
Re:Unconventional PostgreSQL Optimizations on Friday January 23, 2026 @12:54AM (#46728901)
COPY INTO a temp table and INSERT INTO... SELECT FROM... ON CONFLICT UPDATE...

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