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I use Instapaper on my kobo for this, ifttt or zappier can subscribe an rss feed to Instapaper, also the browser extension is nice. See some article whilst I'm at work, click the browser extension, and when I'm on the train home Its there on my e-reader.
What % of people reading that will know to not take it at face value? Of HN people yes very high, of the people living in my country I'd guess pretty low. The "AI responses may include mistakes" disclaimer is only shown when you expand
Re:Can I Run AI locally? on Friday March 13, 2026 @12:13PM (#47366375)
This is awesome, it would be great to cross reference some intelligence benchmarks so that I can understand the trade off between RAM consumption, token rate and how good the model is
Re:Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead on Sunday February 22, 2026 @06:03AM (#47110052)
could you just add "!.gitkeep" to .gitignore?
Re:Code and Let Live on Sunday January 11, 2026 @04:39AM (#46574026)
This looks great, i've been wanting a dev sandbox that doesn't run the risk of costing a lot if I forget to turn it off.

I had a few issues

1. manpath: can't set the locale; make sure $LC_* and $LANG are correct

suspect this is due to it inheriting locale from my local machine? easy to get around with some updates to .bashrc

2. the $SHELL environment in my sprite is `/opt/homebrew/bin/fish` I use fish on my local (mac + homebrew) machine and it seems to have inherited from my local machine, its nice to be using fish in the sprite, but seems weird that $SHELL in the sprite points to non-existent path. Slightly concerning that a local env var is being transferred to a remote machine without my explicit permission, I have some sensitive env vars locally.

Re:RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @11:56AM (#46136847)
Re:PlainBudget – Minimalist Plain Text Budgeting on Saturday May 10, 2025 @05:24AM (#43944325)
I love this, could you add a licence for the cli code?
Re:Intentionally Blank Page on Thursday March 07, 2024 @11:53AM (#39631257)
Seems fun that most of the huge engineering effort seems to have gone into making the device feel as if its not there, Passthrough, Persona, EyeSight, and most of the downsides in the review comes from the fact that the device is still there.

The device is a simulation of the dream device that can overlay UI on top of your vision without you looking any different to those around you, I wonder how far away that is.

Re:The games Nintendo didn't want you to play on Thursday December 07, 2023 @07:36AM (#38555659)
>How did they do it? As it turns out, crime. Unable to reverse engineer the chip, Tengen convinced the United States Copyright Office to hand over the source code of the lockout chip, claiming it was necessary for a lawsuit. With the code in hand, Tengen could make their own clone with ease. And Tengen was going to sue Nintendo for antitrust violations, so they probably figured they could get away with it.

Brilliant

Re:“perpetual motion” device is clever [video] on Thursday September 14, 2023 @04:12PM (#37514225)
I thought it was going to be a railgun
Should read “The richest 10 percent”
Re:Why Developers Hate Agile on Monday August 14, 2023 @07:03PM (#37127931)
I dont see many suggestions of a better way to do things. We can always find the flaws in the way things are but that doesnt mean they’re not optimal. When I learned this the first time it was just either agile or waterfall, if agile is so bad are we saying that waterfall would be better for all these situations?

My opinion is that agile needs to be agile, in that we have to adapt ways of working based on the team’s situation, what were working on, how well resourced we are … and have agility to change how we do things to optimise our work based on those constraints.

Re:Ask HN: Why is the hunger for RAM never satisfied? on Sunday March 12, 2023 @12:41PM (#35122361)
Unused ram is wasted, are you swapping after a few browser tabs? If you have a load of spare ram then the browser might as well use it to keep tab state and such, it can always free it up if the system starts to run out. Are you actually seeing problems?
Real nice nostalgia flicking through this
there are quite a lot of accounts from people who have left
Re:Are You Ready for the Internet? (1994) [video] on Friday September 23, 2022 @08:17AM (#32950894)
Interesting that the copper wires stuck around, UK's fibre optic rollout still ongoing not to be completed til 2026 or later
Re:Ask HN: Best dev tool pitches of all time? on Saturday June 18, 2022 @03:13AM (#31787834)
Dan Abramov - Hot Reloading with Time Travel https://youtu.be/xsSnOQynTHs
Re:Hexwords: Hex colors that are similar to words on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @06:29PM (#31675245)
Didn't someone once set the PETA website to #BEEEEF
Re:System Font Stack on Sunday May 29, 2022 @08:35AM (#31548630)
Use Arial everywhere?
Re:I hate what video games have become on Monday March 28, 2022 @10:27AM (#30830839)
I can't believe how many people care about the cosmetics, I've been playing RL for years, unlocked heaps of things to wear but never changed the appearance of my car once. All I really care about is playing and trying to win, although sometimes other peoples cars do look cool, I have no desire to update mine.
Re:Advice on JSX Conditionals on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @11:28AM (#30616369)
Thanks, this is really useful.

I’ve been using this Babel plug-in found it quite intuitive

https://github.com/AlexGilleran/jsx-control-statements

Re:My Custom CSS Reset on Saturday November 27, 2021 @03:29AM (#29358583)
Not read it? Shame. It addresses that very article
Re:Amazon to pay full college tuition for its front-line employees on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:53AM (#28471047)
looks like they will do anything to avoid paying their employees properly
also non-video games are not forbidden
The equivalent of some people having ‘one of those faces’ that look familiar and recognisable

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