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Re:Old Icons on Friday July 17, 2026 @08:31AM (#48946585)
Perhaps something like Windows 98 Icon Viewer[0]?

[0] https://win98icons.alexmeub.com/

Re:What was your "Oh Shit" moment with GenAI? on Friday June 05, 2026 @06:48PM (#48419330)
I couldn’t make a Rockbox (the alternative iPod OS) simulator run on my MacBook M2 no matter how many guides I followed, then I fired up Claude code and by modifying the original source code it made the simulator run and I was able to start developing custom plugins for my iPod. It honestly felt great since I only have basic C knowledge.
Re:Ferrari Luce – Designed with Jony Ive on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @05:22AM (#48277206)
This is what happens when you hand over the job to a Silicon Valley yuppie with absolutely no car design history. As an Italian, this design feels like an insult and it's mental that a company like Ferrari even approved such a project.

The supercar EV market had such huge potential to innovate and inspire but no we decided to follow these average EV design trends instead.

Re:New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire on Saturday May 23, 2026 @06:35PM (#48252267)
Link to the actual atlas built by the group [1]

[1] https://itiner-e.org/

Re:Music for Programming on Monday April 06, 2026 @01:32PM (#47664111)
I remember back in 2012, thanks to the playlist #4 by Com Truise, I discovered Boards of Canada. I will always be thankful to Datassette for this project!

Ask HN: How do you audit LLM code in programming languages you don't know?

If you've used Claude Code or similar tools for "vibe-coding" in programming languages you aren't fluent in or that you don't know, how do you validate the performance or architectural quality of the outcome?I'm curious how people are catching subtle bugs or technical debt when the LLM produces something that works but might be unoptimized.

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Re:An Update on Heroku on Friday February 06, 2026 @06:44PM (#46919731)
No my one is a simple ruby sinatra app with no DB. Yeah unfortunately it wasn’t super reliable as heroku but they’re getting better at keeping the instances up
Re:Hackers (1995) Animated Experience on Friday February 06, 2026 @12:37PM (#46915763)
Last month they had a rerun of the movie at the cinema in Dublin (IE) and went to see it with a friend. It was such a surreal experience because after watching it on my laptop so many times I could hear the laughter and the jokes of the audience on the cheesy hacking scenes, it was like watching the movie in 4D, I enjoyed it a lot!

I even brought my PowerBook Duo 280c along with me

Re:An Update on Heroku on Friday February 06, 2026 @11:20AM (#46914779)
Moved from heroku to fly.io three years ago and I don’t regret it, great platform occasionally goes down and requires a bit of attention but the support forum is great
As someone with many animator friends, this sounds very bleak. Their work processes are very similar to software engineering, with the difference that their hiring process is much quicker (they just show a bunch of reels and shots they made for previous films or cartoons, and they’re hired). The sad part is that they have almost no labor rights, and competition is incredibly high, which means pay is very low and turnover is high. All these years, I’ve been setting my expectations that one day my field may become like that.
I can’t wait to get home and try this on my Pi. Past few months, I’ve been building a fully local agent [0] that runs inference entirely on a Raspberry Pi, and I’ve been extensively testing a plethora of small, open models as part of my studies. This is an incredibly exciting field, and I hope it gains more attention as we shift away from massive, centralized AI platforms and toward improving the performance of local models.

For anyone interested in a comparative review of different models that can run on a Pi, here’s a great article [1] I came across while working on my project.

[0] https://github.com/syxanash/maxheadbox

[1] https://www.stratosphereips.org/blog/2025/6/5/how-well-do-ll...

Re:AI World Clocks on Friday November 14, 2025 @01:57PM (#45930495)
I’m very curious about the monthly bill for such a creative project, surely some of these are pre rendered?
Re:Steam Machine on Thursday November 13, 2025 @03:13AM (#45912165)
I'm sure someone will install OpenStep and recreate a NeXT computer 2.0
Re:Pointer Pointer on Monday October 20, 2025 @02:20PM (#45647258)
Very interesting explanation, I've always wondered how it was built, I didn't know Paul Irish made a video about this. Thanks for sharing!

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