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Re:CSSQuake on Saturday June 20, 2026 @10:26AM (#48609470)
You win! I laughed way too hard at this. Boss man is now giving me the side eye.
As a clown, I can confirm.

If you hand me a clean, well-labeled, representative dataset, I can make the model do a respectable little dance by lunch.

If you hand me a Kaggle CSV with duplicated rows, target leakage, mislabeled outcomes, and columns named final_final_v2_REAL, suddenly I’m not doing ML anymore. I’m doing archaeology with a red nose on.

The model is the balloon animal. The dataset is the elephant you had to drag into the tent.

Re:Ask HN: How do you deal with color blindness? on Thursday May 07, 2026 @10:17AM (#48049792)
I have moderate red/green colorblindness. I ended up getting some Enchroma glasses and it has really changed my world for the better. I always knew I was colorblind, but had no way of actually knowing what I was missing until now. Before I got the glasses I would tend to do my best effort on things and then ask a co-worker if anything needed tweaking.
I know my setup is pretty dumb and very specific to me, but I am using: * iPhone 15 Pro * Shortcuts app to schedule it to run on a timer * Scriptable to process the returned data * ChatGPT app as the brain
Re:Is anyone actually using OpenClaw? on Wednesday April 15, 2026 @06:31PM (#47786206)
On iPhone I use ChatGPT via Shortcuts and a-Shell for tool execution and Files for memory and state. I can schedule it to run or can invoke it from the home-screen via a shortcut.
Re:Firefox is and always has been terrible on Friday March 27, 2026 @06:02PM (#47548931)
I, personally, prefer WaterFox. I use it daily and have had no issues with it.
Re:Deploytarot.com – tarot card reading for deployments on Thursday March 26, 2026 @06:13PM (#47536502)
office crybaby
Re:Nmap in the movies (2008) on Saturday March 14, 2026 @01:47PM (#47379162)
Give NMAP a lifetime achievement award too
Re:Bubble Sorted Amen Break on Friday March 13, 2026 @10:51AM (#47365277)
It's pronounced "Doobie Brothers"
I thought this was about charging batteries made from coins. I'll stick do salt water lmao
Re:Global warming has accelerated significantly on Friday March 06, 2026 @11:39AM (#47277278)
Y E S
Re:Cosmologically Unique IDs on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @06:25PM (#47067810)
offset length

  00     04:    Version + Flags
  04     08:    Timestamp (uint64)
  12     16:    Node/Agent Hash
  28     16:    Namespace Hash
  44     32:    Random Entropy
  76     20:    Extra / Extension
  96     32:    Integrity Hash
Total: 128bytes
Re:Bassoontracker, Tracking in the Browser on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @04:49PM (#46787444)
Sick! I mostly use Reason 13 now but still have a love for mod tracking.

Here is my mod file player in javascript: https://xovt.neocities.org

To me, this sounds like the reality we currently exist in. My definition of alien may not match with yours. Normal people don't have control over AI's inner workings is all i mean by that.

I would watch that movie though.

Re:Zero-knowledge encrypted notepad, no account, no ads on Saturday January 17, 2026 @04:09PM (#46662130)
Uhh...what the fuck?!
Re:Why I actually like TPMs on Thursday January 08, 2026 @04:09PM (#46546503)
I read it as "Tire Pressure Monitor"
Re:Ask HN: Who here is not working on web apps/server code? on Thursday December 18, 2025 @01:48PM (#46316810)
I build audio software engines mostly. This is highly enjoyable to me, because I get to create new sounds and new audio effects with results being near instant. Upgrading old Amiga ProTracker .MOD file playback to not sound so 8-bit and low samplerate is a fun challenge too.

Compressing Lamport Signatures is a side-project of mine too.

Re:Ask HN: Is There a Market for a "Phone-Only" VA Proxy? on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @10:25AM (#46046631)
I'd pay for something like this. Not for like talking to my attorneys or related, but I would definitely use this to call my ex and tell her that I'm taking her to court, scheduling appointments (which would need sensitive info), checking inventory of nearby distributors, ordering carryout, and more than what I can think of right now.
Re:FAWK: LLMs can write a language interpreter on Friday November 21, 2025 @09:58AM (#46005170)
I got ChatGPT5 to one-shot a Javascript to stack-machine compiler just to see if it could. It doesn't cover all features of course, but it does cover most of the basics. If anyone is interested I can put it on github after i get off work today.
With SAMBA you just get boring old authentication, but with SCP you need to file a Form-72B with Site Command, ensure all new users pass a Class-3 memetic hazard screening, and then hope that the account doesn't escape containment and start replicating across subnets.

Sure, it's more overhead, but you can't put a price on preventing your NAS from developing sentience.

Re:Show HN: I've built a tiny hand-held keyboard on Thursday October 09, 2025 @12:44PM (#45530117)
I code this way using the Rayneo Air 3S Pro. Feels like I accomplish more this way because the display is on my head and I can relax.
Re:Share What You're Working On on Thursday October 02, 2025 @05:24PM (#45455745)
A vanilla javascript web-based audio player exclusively supporting Amiga .MOD files. It has a custom PCM audio mixing routine supporting various interpolation algorithms and dithering.

Status: Alpha - Runs solely on my phone lmao Reference: http://127.0.0.1:9898

Re:Holocaust testimony is AI litmus test, and it fails on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @03:01PM (#45266403)
Maybe it recognizes the absurdity of the claims?!

>the AI tool left out the detail that her mother cut her own finger to give her dying child drops of blood – “the faintest trace of moisture” – to stay alive.

Re:John Coltrane's Tone Circle on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @12:07PM (#45117379)
To be honest, I am not a jazz musician or even a jazz fan. When I do record music I have better progress when holding myself to a standard or a set of limitations to work within. It gets the brain going to find new solutions to fit within a self-imposed framework.
Re:John Coltrane's Tone Circle on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @09:56AM (#45115869)
This is pretty solid, I try to use this method all the time.

In my opinion the underrated "Get Your Greasy Head Off The Sham" by Breastfed Yak is jazz at it's finest.

Re:Trading Bot on Bybit Exchange: Greedy Recursive Arbitrage on Thursday August 28, 2025 @01:21PM (#45054692)
This is interesting! Is this on Github or, if not, care to share the implementation or even pseudocode?
Re:Microsoft QuickBasic Remembered on Thursday August 21, 2025 @10:10AM (#44973031)
QB4.5 changed my life. Being able to make games and save as .EXE was mind-blowing at the time. It lead me to learn x86 assembly and C. I wouldn't probably code at all if it wasn't for QB4.5.
Re:AnduinOS on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @03:03PM (#44955061)
I read this as Arduino OS. :sad_face:
> Thank you LMAOOOOO I love the response, it's similar to "Thanks for noticing" B A S E D

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