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Re:If you love a website, back it up on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:05AM (#50348967)
To find a middle ground between needless data hoarding and saving value, I saved my top 5 most used static URLs.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:46AM (#50335595)
I could have sworn NUCs come with CEC built in?

I'm sure I've seen it in the BIOS menus of either my 8th gen or 12th gen.

Raspberry Pi definitely comes with it, and a Pi 4 does 1080p x264 and x265.

Guy who makes product says that you owning your own product is terrible and you should rent it from him instead.
Has been in my regular installs for years, even if the only thing I use is errno.

    $ errno 5
    EIO 5 I/O error
    
    $ errno ENOENT
    ENOENT 2 No such file or directory
Re:Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracy on Saturday October 24, 2026 @05:53AM (#50219665)
The work is released under the Apache 2.0 licence which is permissive.

If this is your concern, complain about the licence, not about people acting within rights granted by the licence.

Copyleft is the only good sort of licence. (oh boy am I gonna get downvoted for that)

Re:Docker Is Weird on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:26PM (#50202976)
Always nice to see someone demystifying a complex thing by learning the building blocks it's made from.

Knowing this, you might find rootless Podman's fork-exec method of starting containers to be more sensible. I certainly do. No root, no daemon, no socket.

If you want to learn more about the Linux Kernel namespaces which work together to make a container, this LWN series is really good: https://lwn.net/Articles/531114/

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1xatxqk/qwen38f...

Recent evaluation result.

I find QFN on xhigh usually overruns the context window for no good result. If it can do the task, it'll do it quicker on medium. If it can't do the task, xhigh won't change that.

Whenever I see LLM "thinking" or "reasoning" I replace it in my mind with "generating hopefully-related tokens to hopefully steer the conversation to a more related area in vector space to hopefully generate a more useful next token".

But I understand that isn't very catchy.

Re:Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains on Sunday October 18, 2026 @06:44PM (#50146258)
Then you need a new username
Radio is heavily regulated and policed.

If you do something naughty on the internet, there's a reasonable chance you won't get caught.

If you do something naughty on the radio, you will get a large fine if not prison time.

Re:Ask HN: Which books did you read at least twice? on Friday October 16, 2026 @07:36AM (#50117152)
I've lost count of the times I've read Neuromancer.

Kim Stanley Robinson's The Wild Shore is another repeat favourite.

In mice.
Re:Using a PS3 Navigation Controller on Arch Linux on Friday October 16, 2026 @07:28AM (#50117075)
All these complicated mouse control programs and all this time I could have done it with xdotool scripts?
Re:OpenCode 2.0 on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @06:09PM (#50096131)
2.0 is a big disappointment so far.

Several basic things don't work, like hiding the sidebar.

With 3.2k open GitHub issues there's no point reporting anything.

Qwen 3? (Jumanji) What year is it?

What a waste of time.

Strata already does this with Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata

Re:Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X on Monday October 12, 2026 @10:02PM (#50065654)
With an impressive 1.5TB/s RAM bandwidth you'd think they'd advertise that more.

Marketing department asleep at the wheel.

Re:Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly on Monday October 12, 2026 @03:47PM (#50061963)
It's just practice. I've been playing that way since GT1 so the ergonomics of anything else is awful to me.
Re:Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly on Monday October 12, 2026 @08:14AM (#50055281)
Right analog should be accelerate and brake.

Analog buttons were always a bad idea and should never be used.

These days you can map analog triggers to the sticks for a modern experience if you want that.

The first thing I do is install upstream owrt.
No, I want a router with OpenWrt pre-installed.

So I buy GL.iNet routers, which come with OpenWrt pre-installed.

Re:Computers Cannot Make Decisions on Saturday October 10, 2026 @06:08AM (#50031347)
I like what you said about good managers. A good manager sets their reports up to win and ensures those reports get the credit, because the manager's job is to enable career progression of their reports.

That's not the situation here. We aren't enabling the career progression of software which does matrix multiplications.

Accountability of us schmucks at the end of the org chart goes both ways. We get some reward when we do it right, and we improve when we do it wrong.

A reward might be something tangible or might be as small as your own personal satisfaction.

An improvement is hopefully identifying what went wrong and doing better next time, and in extreme cases your employer will let you try again at a different workplace.

Re:Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:44PM (#50029015)
Look at the amount of AI-required jobs advertised these days. If you really like driving agents, someone will absolutely pay you to do it.
Re:The End of Software Secrecy on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @01:01AM (#49974388)
As someone who has participated in a game RE community project, this feels more like the end of the golden age for me.

The work is fun, but the best part was making new friends and working a craft to create mastery over time which could be then shared freely with others, empowering them as they make their own modifications. Feeling like you'd made a contribution and seeing the human fruits of that labour.

You can't build a community when one person with Codex does all the work and dumps it in a GitHub repo. That's not mastery or purpose or community, that's automation. Few people do this hobby so they can pump out git repos of games probably less than 1000 people care about anymore.

I'm not alone in this, the retro game translation community absolutely HATE machine translations. Translation patches made by LLMs are usually a separate category or not allowed at all, depending on site.

Terminator 7: Grok goes back in time to eliminate Elon Musk
Re:ReBarUEFI: Resizable BAR for almost any UEFI system on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @10:26PM (#49810901)
I am in need of this from the opposite direction - an RTX 3080 20G BIOS which adds ReBAR to the card.

Claude tells me the BAR is outside the encrypted part of the card firmware so theoretically should be possible?

The next board meeting, after buying at least 51% of the shares.
> or turn to alternatives like Firefox

Implying I ever left Firefox in the first place.

"If only there was someone could stop me, the CEO of Torment Nexus Inc, from creating the Torment Nexus."
Re:Nine coding harnesses vs. your laptop on Friday September 11, 2026 @06:54PM (#49666544)
I skimmed chad the other day. There's very little to it (by design). afaics you should be able to replicate what chad does by copying the chad system prompt into a SYSTEM.md for Pi. Then you could use it with whatever model/provider you want.

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