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The idea of Wordpress rewritten in rust made me laugh
We’ve opted into surveillance as a feature. It’s sad.

Now if someone can root tizen so we can actually bypass their insane restrictions on booting to an HDMI input by default it would be appreciated.

Re:Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later on Sunday September 27, 2026 @01:49PM (#49868995)
I was really hoping this was about George Costanza
Re:Tesla Robotaxi on Monday March 30, 2026 @11:48PM (#47582534)
Nope
Re:Charles Proxy on Saturday December 20, 2025 @02:53PM (#46339004)
flashback to 2009 right here...
I think I interviewed you the other day and you didn’t get the job…
Re:Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @11:47AM (#42934887)
Its all about the context window. Even the new Mistral Codestral-2501 256K CW does a great job.

If you use cline with any large context model the results can be pretty amazing. It's not close to self guiding, You still need to break down and analyze the problem and provide clear and relevant instructions. IE you need to be a great architect. Once you are stable on the direction, its awe inspiring to watch it do the bulk if the implementation.

I do agree that there is space to improve over embedded chat windows in IDEs. Solutions will come in time.

My doctor can barely use a mouse let alone comment on surveillance technology
meta and google should be classified as public utilities
Re:Mermaid: Diagramming and Charting Tool on Thursday August 15, 2024 @10:31PM (#41262596)
This is the best thing ive found on the internet this week...
Re:Steve Albini has died on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @12:58PM (#40300330)
Re:Steve Albini has died on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @12:55PM (#40300293)
very sad... he had his hands on so much good noise that i absolutely cherished. We'll be lucky if I don't bust out crying
Re:Tell HN: Bash.org Is No More on Thursday January 11, 2024 @02:22PM (#38957408)
rightisleft slaps you around with a large trout
Re:Noteable.io is shutting down on Friday December 15, 2023 @08:31PM (#38660934)
a Series-A company failing is not news let alone noteable...
Re:OpenAI announces leadership transition on Friday November 17, 2023 @06:05PM (#38311888)
Government regulation is a defensive moat for incumbents. These folks asked for regulation to keep the dogs off their heels...
I switched back to a docker workflow because they finally fixed bind mount IO performance: https://www.docker.com/blog/speed-boost-achievement-unlocked... (Technically 2022)
There are a ton of pi derivatives that offer a pretty broad range of configurations. I always think of the Pi as the general consumer flagship. I was still pretty impressed with the Pi 4B... I just wish it had broader availability.

Just a handful of examples:

Banana PI M5: https://www.banana-pi.org/

Odroid C4: https://wiki.odroid.com/start

Odroid N2+: Odroid C4: https://wiki.odroid.com/start

Libre "Le Potato": https://libre.computer/

Libre "Renegade": https://libre.computer/

Orange Pi 3 LTS: http://www.orangepi.org/

Orange Pi 5: http://www.orangepi.org/

Rock Pi 4C+: https://rockpi.org/

Nano Pi M4B: http://nanopi.io/

Re:Flexport is rescinding a bunch of signed offer letters on Sunday September 10, 2023 @12:33AM (#37452928)
CEO should be fired - this is grossly negligent
Re:Penmanship on Thursday April 21, 2022 @11:48AM (#31111023)
I switched to all caps after undergrad.

Whatever i had before was essentially illegible. I think the act of learning something by choice, as opposed to having it forced on me through public school, allowed me to embrace that artistic aspect of it and see handwriting as something other than purely utilitarian.

Re:Ask HN: Share your personal site on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @09:04PM (#30939437)
Re:Ask HN: Grep like tools for full text search? on Saturday January 29, 2022 @05:29PM (#30131241)
I use this for searching through multi repo setups for code, it should be great for multiple text documents:

AG: The Silver Searcher https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

Re:Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés? on Sunday January 16, 2022 @06:46PM (#29961681)
This is a great comment for most data collection use-cases *****
Brave is great. It works on 99% of websites. For those that tank, turning down the shield is a 2 click task. I've been using it for 12 months now and recommend it to everyone I know.

( You can also turn off the crypto notifications )

Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:00PM (#29596741)
you just reinvented the news journalist...
Re:BusKill – A USB kill cord for laptops on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @10:29AM (#29567211)
My 2010 MacBook pro acquired this feature about 3 years ago...
Re:Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company? on Friday December 03, 2021 @10:25AM (#29431048)
Circling back on this - "DocuSign shares plunge nearly 40% after the company gave weak guidance". Just saying...
Re:Ask HN: Why is Docusign a $50B company? on Saturday November 27, 2021 @05:52PM (#29364413)
Unrelated to open source, but DocuSign is literally one of the examples i list when explaining why the tech sector is over bought. They've tripled their market cap since the beginning of the pandemic, and while there is some merit to work from home, their moat is laughable. There are plenty of alternatives to DocuSign that should make share holders terrified... Adobe Sign, Panda Docs, HelloSign - i wouldn't even bet against notarize.com

Someone is going to roll a decentralized ID system on blockchain and tank this whole sector...

To be clear, he did that and then had his manager blacklist the two women who spoke up about it. It’s not just the act, it’s the cover up that makes it particularly heinous.
I'll just leave this here: http://iswebrtcreadyyet.com/
Re:The college dorm shopping industrial complex is real on Monday August 16, 2021 @04:19PM (#28202423)
Elder millennial here - I attended university in the bay area. Before leaving, my family sent me to the military surplus store and then handed me a bus ticket. We are not a military family, but starting the experience at such a utilitarian place set the proper tone.

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