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Re:The Effect of CRTs on Pixel Art on Sunday September 20, 2026 @09:30PM (#49782017)
This is a great post. Also reminded me of a video I saw a few months ago that was equally as entertaining (and somewhat informative): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC-8y2R6IxI
Re:Your car is selling your data on Sunday September 13, 2026 @10:36AM (#49684474)
It is possible to remove the hardware itself that is responsible for this, but depending on the car it can very involved: https://arkadiyt.com/2026/05/13/removing-the-modem-and-gps-f...
I know I'd love to run something like this!
Ditto. I've started reading recently. The last time I seriously read a book was High School. It's rather enjoyable, and I have a newfound appreciation for public libraries.
This is one of my favorite libraries from the premise alone. Here is an example of Mario in Half-Life 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld3qhqkegNw
Re:The death and rebirth of my home server on Sunday July 19, 2026 @01:01PM (#48969784)
Zram creates a compressed RAM disk. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Zram
See "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams. (That was even before Facebook became Meta)
Re:Gaining control of every projector and camera on campus on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @11:26PM (#48130760)
Banger
Re:Making RAM at Home [video] on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @11:42PM (#47858658)
Subscribed. Genuinely looking forward to what this gent gets up to.
Re:Filing the Corners Off MacBooks on Friday April 10, 2026 @07:14PM (#47725012)
Steve Ballmer here, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!
Re:1D Chess on Friday April 10, 2026 @12:15PM (#47720319)
Finally, a version of Chess I can understand. Thank you.
Where my Juggalos at??
Re:Malus – Clean Room as a Service on Thursday March 12, 2026 @11:02AM (#47351643)
Thank you for pointing that out, I genuinely was scratching my head and questioning if this site was serious.
Re:Block the "Upgrade to Tahoe" Alerts on Saturday February 28, 2026 @11:59PM (#47203882)
Out of curiosity, how did you go about doing that? That sounds really nice and I'd be interested to see if it could work with LuLu as well.
Re:Vim-pencil: Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing on Monday February 16, 2026 @07:53AM (#47034394)
As someone who writes academic essays and prose, I can't live without this plugin. I will constantly need to write multiple page paragraphs, and it's incredibility more convient to be able to navigate within a paragraph as if it was multiple lines, as opposed to needing to perform some horizontal motion gymnastics to get the cursor where I need it to be.

Hat's off to everyone who has worked on this plugin!

Re:Gmail is entering the Gemini Era on Thursday January 08, 2026 @09:18AM (#46541237)
Does this really deserve to be on the front page of HN?
Re: on Friday December 26, 2025 @07:30PM (#46397908)
I hope this is satire.
Re:GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @02:13PM (#45904709)
Gemini 2.5 Pro is still my go to LLM of choice. Haven't used any OpenAI product since it released, and I don't see any reason why I should now.
This seems promising! Great work! Any chance there will be a Ollama Modelfile for the masses?
Re:Avante.nvim: Use Your Neovim Like Using Cursor AI IDE on Monday August 26, 2024 @08:37AM (#41356526)
It's best to check the LMSYS chatbot arena leaderboard to find the model that best suits your needs: https://lmarena.ai/
If your into the tiling window manager experience, I would highly recommend looking into yabai + skhd + Sketchybar

- https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai - https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd - https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar

Some honorable mentions: Hammerspoon - Unlock insane levels of configuration/automation (https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon) Raycast - Spotlight search replacement (https://www.raycast.com/) LuLu Firewall - An amazing FOSS firewall (https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu)

Re:Amon Tobin – Foley Room site (2007) on Friday January 26, 2024 @08:58AM (#39142612)
I honestly had to do a double take when I saw this make the front page. Never thought I'd see Amon Tobin top HN!
I'd recommended using llama.cpp and The Bloke's GGUF version of this model!

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/ https://huggingface.co/TheBloke/MonadGPT-GGUF