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Re:Herdr has released native app on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:03PM (#50305870)
The app doesn't even work as advertised. Opened the app, started a new session, closed the app, and my session was gone. I thought this was supposed to be persistent sessions. I think i'll keep using Cmux.
Re:I Became a Citizen of Japan on Saturday October 17, 2026 @04:31PM (#50134851)
Stopped when he said he waited forever to get naturalized, skipping 6 years, and then saying he never got his permanent resident card, so he was just living off renewed visas, and they thought it was strange.

It is strange. A lot of the things he said he needed, would have been done in the permanent residence portion of his time in Japan. Just as it is in any country.

Re:How we made claude.ai 3x faster in two weeks on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @03:47PM (#49821515)
This was a fantastic read. Lots of useful info in there for your own projects.
Re:AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible on Saturday September 19, 2026 @04:12PM (#49769751)
I literally saw that poster today in London and had this conversation about AI posters with my wife. I had no clue it would literally be a post today.
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:22AM (#49710838)
Absolutely the same experience here. Pretty much worse in every way.
Re:iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @07:21AM (#49710827)
My experience with the new Siri is objectively worse. I am on an Iphone 17 Pro Max and all searches are very slow, accessing utilities has slowed down quite a bit, lagginess when settings timers. Failure to make new notes or reminders. Stuff just not working. I've been using the OS since the RC. I give it a flat 0/10
Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @03:27PM (#49526824)
That doesn't make sense at all. Fail open means the method of it's use is still in use.

Say you have a door that has powered locks. You want it to fail "open" so that when the power goes out, it's still useable, and people can get out. That's the source of the term.

Re:France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026 on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @02:06PM (#49453324)
I spent a lot of time in SF in the early 2010s and I couldn't believe how absolutely terrible the internet was in the heart of silicon valley. It's incredibly sad honestly. You'd expect that SF would have the worlds top internet speeds, but nope. It was quite disappointing.
Re:France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026 on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @02:00PM (#49453261)
The UK is absolutely terrible. I've noticed this quite a bit in my travels there.
Re:France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026 on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @01:57PM (#49453210)
I am in Italy right now, in fact, spent a lot of time here. I can safely say, the 5G sim coverage is extremely spotty, and when you can get internet from a physical line, it's generally pretty poor speeds. I am pretty sure a lot of that 78% includes 1 bar of LTE coverage, so it's "technically" true.
Re:MapComplete – Contibute to OpenStreetMaps on Thursday June 11, 2026 @11:57AM (#48492125)
Yeah, it's definitely super slow right now.
Re:MapComplete – Contibute to OpenStreetMaps on Thursday June 11, 2026 @11:55AM (#48492109)
I use the app "flush" for this, and it works pretty well.
Re:Apple WWDC 2026 Livestream on Monday June 08, 2026 @07:25PM (#48453864)
Go watch the dev videos, they feel 100% AI. The people are real, but everything else about it is uncanny valley.
Re:Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot on Thursday June 04, 2026 @03:24PM (#48403423)
Yep, I am a runner too, ran 6 marathons with this knot and run 20 miles a week. It just never comes undone.
Re:Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot on Thursday June 04, 2026 @03:19PM (#48403347)
I came across this site in the late 90's / early 2000's as well. I've been using the Ian Knot ever since, and even forgot how to tie my shoes "normally". I will teach it to anyone who will listen to me rant about knots.
Re:DaVinci Resolve 21 on Thursday June 04, 2026 @04:45AM (#48395936)
I use both in my workflows. Though with all of the features of Resolve, I still use FCP for most of my content. FCP is just faster to edit and has a smoother end-to-end workflow. Resolve is still best for colorgrading and fine details, but if you just want to get a project released on time, nothing beats FCP.
Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos on Thursday May 28, 2026 @04:06AM (#48306065)
Good luck with that. I work in classical music and we can't post anything because it gets automatically flagged as copyrighted. They couldn't fix it then and they certainly won't fix it now.
Re:YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos on Thursday May 28, 2026 @04:04AM (#48306044)
I think that if a video gets accidentally flagged as AI, it might signal to the creator to create better content. If your content is flagged, then it must be of a quality that is not discernable from slop.
Re:My two-part desk setup on Sunday May 24, 2026 @08:32AM (#48256752)
That's exactly what I did. It really doesn't look bad and is super cheap.

https://ibb.co/Kj6vYL0v

Re:My two-part desk setup on Sunday May 24, 2026 @08:27AM (#48256719)
I wouldn't say comparable, but I built my desk with HomeDepot "Everbuilt" shelving system. I coveted the vistoe 606 system forever, but the price was just way too much. The system from HomeDepot looks 80% as good and is 90% cheaper. It doesn't have the pullout shelves, but I put some cabinets with rollers underneath, so everything moves out of the way and it's a truly "floating".
Re:Scorched Earth 2000 – Web on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @10:37PM (#48130471)
I was gonna say, this is totally tank wars!
Re:We have a 99% email reputation. Gmail disagrees on Sunday April 12, 2026 @12:36PM (#47741668)
Seriously, almost no one uses RSS. Of course it's the best format for subscriptions, but the average person uses e-mail and understands e-mail.
I use Daniel Meissler’s PAI and it’s been an incredible harness.
Pretty much everything broken in the USA stems directly from Reagen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g95fiZCzjlo

No one would trust a US made router for fears of backdoors. Even if they did manage to make one, the market would be minuscule for it.
Not sure why his stuff is being slept on here on HN, but his PAI and to a lesser extent, Fabric, changed the way I use AI. PAI+Claude has been a gamechanger for me.
Re:Ramtrack.eu – RAM Price Intelligence on Thursday March 19, 2026 @01:29PM (#47442873)
Needs to have 48GB SODIMMs
Re:AirPods Max 2 on Monday March 16, 2026 @10:43PM (#47407959)
I wish someone would find a way to take the wireless chips and battery out of thrown-away headphones and put them into a decent pair of headphones.
It's anyone who manufactures plastic or parts. 3D Printers are the wild west of printing your own replacement parts and soon the goal will to ban these things, unless there is right to repair.
This is exactly what I do. I have Immich as just a viewer and keep everything in external libraries. This is the major failure of Immich as far as I am concerned. I really don't like "black box" style of photomanagement. I also find that NextCloud has a very good photo viewer as well, which is almost as good as immich.

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