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Re:Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root on Sunday August 30, 2026 @06:52PM (#49503618)
You are not missing anything for not knowing but Pirate Software in this context is another youtuber/influencer.
Re:RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @06:50AM (#49082007)
Similar idea to the "turbo" button in some old pentiums?
not sun protection factor?!
Don't you find it funny that when you ask for song lyrics these models suddenly remember copyrighted material?
MATLAB was used extensively during my electronics eng degree 20+ years ago. You could do pretty much about anything with it: signal processing, neural networks t, simulations, anything... It was what made me take an interest into programming. Sad day. RIP Cleve.
Re:The "Vibe Coding" Wall of Shame on Sunday March 29, 2026 @04:45PM (#47567123)
Indeed. The joke is that the website itself is vibe coded.
Re:My Astrophotography in the Movie Project Hail Mary on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @01:14PM (#47520283)
That's really great news. For anyone looking for the astrophotography equipment, this is from one of his posts:

Telescope: William Optics UltraCat 76 Mount: Sky-Watcher Wave 150i Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM-Pro

Not commenting on the content itself (others have done it better) but anybody getting tired of seeing the same vibe coded websites over and over again?
Then came DVD±RW which used the magic pen technology. Each time you write, it changed both the color of the disc and the data. Surprisingly enough if you did it long enough it ended in color/data corruption...
The EU Commission had an open consultation about "Open Source and Digital Ecosystems" recently and is planing to (more) heavily invest in OSS in the future as a matter of sovereignty. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-ope...
https://nocodb.com/ is an open source alternative.
Re:HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @09:15AM (#46433511)
Same reason here. It didn't like Florisboard.
Cool work, thanks. A bit like https://github.com/kevin1024/vcrpy in python, if you weren't aware OP.
Re:./watch on Saturday October 18, 2025 @02:44PM (#45629507)
Re:Moving away from US cloud services on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @06:20AM (#43397657)
Hetzner might get a lot of love here but it's another service that treats protonmail users as second class citizens since they ask for ID. I would avoid them just because of this.
Re:UK's elite hardware talent is being wasted on Monday January 20, 2025 @03:08PM (#42772536)
A theory I've heard of why this happens is that Europeans are generally suspicious because there is a lot of international trauma considering Europe was the center of two World Wars, both relatively recently. The US on the other hand didn't have that imprinted in its collective memory.
Re:Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora on Saturday May 11, 2024 @04:10AM (#40326756)
I've read another theory: It's because of the sun damage to their eye from using a sextant for navigation. Haven't been able to confirm it though.
I see wildcard imports. I'll pass. Also if you want to use R in python why not use the rpy2 library?
Re:Ask HN: Code review as part of the peer review process? on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @08:06AM (#36225761)
The Journal Of Open Source Software addresses this problem. Reviewers test the code, submit Reviews as GH issues and PRs are corrections. Code review and coding in the open is what the academic review process should be. - https://joss.theoj.org/
Re:Amazon’s quiet open source revolution on Monday April 24, 2023 @12:25PM (#35689711)
It's Azure but, Apache Atlas : MS Purview
Re:What it's like to go blind (2015) on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @09:14AM (#35627737)
This is exactly (same genetic disease) the subject of the book Slackjaw by Jim Knipfel. It's surprisingly a _fun_ read!
Re:We achieved a 6-fold increase in Podman startup speed on Thursday April 13, 2023 @07:05AM (#35553654)
This should be part of the "How to Overengineer Anything and Everything" series.
Re:Terence Tao on GPT-4 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @12:33PM (#35542420)
Nail in the head. But can you imagine what it would have been if hakia would have been a thing instead of the SEO-spam, ad-infested Web that Google and Co. gave us?
Maybe it's the new old way of making known to the reader that an LLM was not used, like back in the day when printed maps had minor intentional mistakes (for entirely different reasons though) !
Re:Ask HN: Can ChatGPT generate fully functional code? on Friday December 09, 2022 @06:04AM (#33920032)
The future looks like debugging hell.

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