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Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal website here? on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @04:32PM (#46623841)
https://nijaru.com/ - I used agents to rewrite my website in the past year. Added a space and stars theme and a projects page that pulls in pinned repos from my GitHub account.
For something under 100 MB, this is probably the strongest option right now.

https://huggingface.co/MongoDB/mdbr-leaf-ir

Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @05:55PM (#45675655)
Do you have experience with these tools? Some such as sshrc only apply temporarily per session and don't persist or affect other users. I keep plain 'ssh' separate from shell functions that apply dotfiles and use each where appropriate. You can also set up temporary application yourself pretty easily.
Re:Scripts I wrote that I use all the time on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @04:31PM (#45674779)
You can apply your dotfiles to servers you SSH into rather easily. I'm not sure what your workflow is like but frameworks like zsh4humans have this built in, and there are tools like sshrc that handle it as well. Just automate the sync on SSH connection. This also applies to containers if you ssh into them.
Re:Anthropic raises $3.5B at $61.5B valuation on Friday March 07, 2025 @02:08PM (#43293229)
They're likely running the Dark Reader extension and turned it off for the site, but didn't refresh the page. The extension doesn't always fully reset when you disable it for a specific site. Reloading the page with the extension turned off fixes the issue, so it is not your site.
Re:My LLM codegen workflow on Tuesday February 18, 2025 @06:58PM (#43096749)
I add something like “ask me any clarifying questions” to my my initial prompts. For larger requests, it seems to start a dialogue of refinement before providing solutions.
Re:AMD Ryzen Master Utility for Overclocking Control on Saturday February 17, 2024 @01:37PM (#39412071)
The automatic testing and setting of stable undervolt VF offsets per core is a great feature and something I miss on my current intel build. I don't know of any motherboard or other software that offers that.
I had to turn it on manually under Nvidia control panel. My GPU used roughly 100W more while playing a video on any of the super resolution settings, so it is definitely working when turned on. I didn't do rigorous testing of video source quality though.

The idea is cool, but I'm going to leave it off since I don't think I'll get much benefit out of it.

I have a pair of Hoka shoes for walking and a pair of Salomon shoes for hiking. Both are great.
Re:Advent of Code 2021 on Saturday November 20, 2021 @11:36PM (#29294211)
I just started rosalind after someone posted it on here last week. They're definitely focused on bioinformatics similar to euler being more math focused.

I haven't gotten too far, but the initial problems don't seem too hard in higher level languages. They are very good problems to get better at IO, string manipulation, and data wrangling in your language of choice though.

Re:Why Are Topre Keyboards So Expensive? on Friday November 19, 2021 @06:42PM (#29284059)
Browns are recommended for typing over reds, etc. as they have the tactile 'bump' but aren't excessively noisy. Reds are supposed to be quieter along with some other less common switches.

I have a leopold with browns I bought used for $40 years ago plugged into my work laptop, and a cooler master with cherry browns and backlighting I use on my desktop that cost me a little over $100. I did get one keyboard with gateron switches because they're cheaper than cherry switches, but one of the keys was failing within months. I have stuck with cherry switches since.

I've been on the fence for a few years about buying a kinesis advantage 2. The layout does seem like it would make typing much more comfortable and ergonomic.

Re:Mozilla VPN Completes Independent Security Audit by Cure53 on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:23PM (#28383718)
For clarification, I believe he is saying you pay the same price as a mullvad subscription if you lock into a 12 month subscription, not that you pay double the price and are locked into that.
Yes that is correct. It's not always the most intuitive language.

5 times less than 20 would be 4 or (20 * 1/5), the same as 20 is 5 times more than 4.

Re:Behold z, the unsung jewel that rethinks shell navigation on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @04:48PM (#26159217)
A similar tool that saves me immeasurable amounts of time is fasd[0]. I started using it as a part of prezto[1], which is similar to oh-my-zsh, and have never gotten around to trying any other solutions such as z.

[0] https://github.com/clvv/fasd [1] https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto

Re:The Worst Experience I've Had with an Aarch64 MacBook on Monday February 15, 2021 @10:40PM (#26150665)
I prefer linux, but it is quite easy to install different shells on macOS.
Re:SDL Moves to GitHub on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:04PM (#26082985)
Mercurial is probably the most popular alternative, although if git wasn’t so ubiquitous, I would spend some time trying out fossil.

edit: I can’t remember where, it was when I was researching fossil, but there are some good reads on why Linus created git and the history of VCSs.

I don't think it's work from home as much as it is the lack of socializing altogether. If we were able to go out and socialize outside of working from home, I'm sure many people would be faring and feeling much better than what our current situation is.

I have only been around family for the entirety of the last year, and as much as being close and connected with them is, not being able to go out to eat or do anything else does take it's toll.

I have been staying connected with friends and strangers online through things such as discord, etc. and I would have to say it has helped tremendously. Getting regular interaction with others even if it's just over audio or video goes a long way through all of this.

Re:WSL2 corrupting Git repositories and shell history on Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:52PM (#25617391)
I’ve always solved this issue by keeping windows on one drive and linux on another. It does have an upfront cost, but keeping my dev work / linux environment setup has always worked well for me. Lately I’ve thought of trying WSL, but I don’t see any real benefit over my current setup
Re:How bad is your Spotify? on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @06:38PM (#25523571)
>I really wish that there was a way to explicitly tell Spotify that I "dislike" a song and to never recommend it to me again.

You can at least for radio playlists. You can specifically say to never play this song or artist again. They used to let you thumb up or down on tracks which I think was a much easier UI.

Skipping songs doesn't seem to do enough for songs in your playlists so you have to go through the whole right click -> never play again workflow. I really wish I could just downvote individual songs as they play and tailor it that way since sometimes I'm just tired of a particular song, but maybe I like the song or the artist and don't want to click on 'never hear this again'. It just seems to repeat certain songs way too much based on your listening history.

Re:A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (2002) on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @06:15PM (#25450103)
I remember the first day of chess club in elementary school another kid played this against me. I hadn't seen it before playing with friends or family, so I failed to counter it. It's been years, but I always remember it. Thankfully it has never gotten me since!
Re:Use macOS Recovery on a Mac with Apple silicon on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @10:24PM (#25145872)
I don’t think bootcamp has ever been a requirement to boot into linux on a mac, and I never have used it to do so on various macbook pros over the last ~10 years
Small nitpick: CD quality is in fact 44.1khz. The nyquist theorem essentially says you need to use a sampling rate twice as high as the highest frequencies you want to record and reproduce. The article gets the gist of this right, just the cd quality numbers wrong. Izotope has a really good article that goes into digital to analog conversion, sampling rates, and the history behind them.

https://www.izotope.com/en/learn/digital-audio-basics-sample...

Re:Reversing the technical interview (2017) on Friday October 09, 2020 @09:01PM (#24735901)
There’s three great reads like this. previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13886626
Re:Vinyl LPs Sell More Than CDs for the First Time in 3 Decades on Friday September 11, 2020 @01:03AM (#24439338)
I’m no expert audio engineer, but the dynamic range of vinyl is limited by the space between the grooves. That being said, it shouldn’t have any effect on the quality of the audio, just the difference in volume of the loudest and softest parts.
Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it on Saturday September 05, 2020 @01:54PM (#24385475)
Debian absolutely can give you bleeding edge if you just change your repos from their stable release to testing or sid/unstable. Same thing applies to Fedora and pretty much every major Linux distribution.

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