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Re:GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode on Saturday October 31, 2026 @03:55PM (#50319500)
I would love the revival of the RTS genre with better computer enemies.
Re:What I Self-Host on Thursday October 15, 2026 @06:33PM (#50111335)
I always love reading other peoples self hosted stacks. I never heared of SnapCast but it sounds interesting! Will check it out.
Re:Creating a Garmin "MCP" on Thursday October 15, 2026 @04:21PM (#50109693)
This does not work for golf, I tried to get the activity but could not find it.
Re:How to Build Wealth as a Career Person on Sunday October 11, 2026 @02:36PM (#50046344)
Be sure to talk about your achievements. As important as making things work is making sure the right people know you did that.
Re:The art of defusing a second world war bomb on Saturday October 10, 2026 @08:15PM (#50038432)
https://www.bundestag.de/resource/blob/909216/a5448dd84ac14a...

I came across this paper last week. It was quite an interesting read, it is in german but I assume translations will work fine.

Re:The art of defusing a second world war bomb on Saturday October 10, 2026 @08:12PM (#50038419)
You dont live in a country that got bombed do you?
Re:`123456' password used in Danish CPR data breach on Saturday October 10, 2026 @06:28PM (#50037823)
Maybe I'm missing the point but isn't the parent comment asking with the admin accounts had no 2FA?
Re:Show HN: Sigabrt.dev – cronjob monitor with an SSH TUI on Sunday September 20, 2026 @08:13PM (#49781545)
It seems closed source and comes with a pricing model, seems reasonable to show alternatives.
That is very true and with llms someone who wrote low quality code can now output a whole lot more code. Maybe in better quality, maybe not.
Re:Shopify moves back to Native from React Native on Thursday September 10, 2026 @05:50PM (#49650602)
> React Native was always about making app construction easier for people who don't want to learn ObjC or Swift.

There are more OS than just iOS, depending on the app a lot of shared logic has to be written only once with RN.

Re:Building a Wall Lamp from Scratch on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @12:56PM (#49629597)
Do you have examples? I have seen a few US woodworking/carpentry videos and the tools seem pretty much the same.
Re:Shutting down our public encrypted DNS on Friday September 04, 2026 @09:12PM (#49572100)
German courts and technology are not always the best friends
Re:GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @08:05PM (#49558805)
I work for a larger german retail chain and agentic shopping is already on the "near future vision". No one thinks this will be used but somehow shareholders love it.
Reading some of these comments is really depressing. Since I can remember we talk about climate change and it's still not in peoples head.

When will it be real? When your home burns down due to a forest fire? When there is no water? When there is no food because everything is too dry? When a storm destroyed your home?

It really is not but I'm glad it works for you today.
AI is another symptom, adding up with everything thats wrong.
Re:Hacking IKEA Furniture on Sunday August 30, 2026 @03:03PM (#49501741)
Five years is not much in terms of a furnitures lifespan, i own some pieces my grand grandmother already used that got passed down the generations.

I highly doubt this will happen with ikea furniture. But thats the tradeoff for cheaper and affordable stuff i guess.

Re:Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI" on Saturday August 29, 2026 @10:43AM (#49490324)
How is it different to hand written code if the author doesnt care?
Re:Software engineering is about managing complexity on Thursday August 27, 2026 @11:50AM (#49466797)
I started to look around the site and opened this: https://hack8s.com/409/ziglings-all-exercises-solve-v0-16-0

The site just goes into a reload loop on iOS?

Re:Don't Wordle on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @09:52AM (#49434152)
No reject all button means a closed tab.
Re:Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's on Monday August 10, 2026 @02:39AM (#49240068)
In germany you had to do an exam to prove your local knowledge before driving a taxi, this did not apply to uber which pissed the taxi drivers off.

They got rid of the exam in 2021, now you only need an navigation device in the vehicle.

Re:Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's on Monday August 10, 2026 @02:33AM (#49240007)
I wonder if the usage of mobile navigation will increase Alzheimers for our generations.

When driving I either now the way or use maps, there is rarely any guesswork or active thinking involved, maybe running is helping but even there I sometimes run routes navigated by watch.

Metas ads are all over the place. Thomas Kehl, one of the founders of "Finanzfluss" (a german site/content creation company about finance) is currently suing meta because scammers keep using his picture.

There really needs to be some harder punishments for this kind of behavior, after all meta profits by selling scammy ads.

> > "On my visits to the Bay Area, I would ask AI researchers or interns why they are doing their current research or projects, when in a year or three agentic LLMs could probably do them; they rarely had a good answer, or any idea what they would be doing in 3 years"

I heard this already when ChatGpt came up. Still waiting to be fully obsolete.

Re:Vehicle Motion Cues on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @08:10AM (#49082608)
At my first job our project manager was colorblind (red-orange/yellow). One day he dropped a photo of his cars dashboard at a red light with an orange "check engine light"

> "Quick, is this red or orange I need to know if it'll blow".

I'm sure it's a really annoying condition but at the time it was pretty funny and he joked around with it a lot

> “Vulnerability-Trust exercise”

Sounds like an awfull time.

I'm not sure nutri score is helpfull, most people don't understand how it even works and whats actually being compared for the rating.
Re:Writing by hand is good for your brain on Thursday July 23, 2026 @01:13PM (#49024992)
I started doing this in cookbooks, less of this, this needs longer time in the oven, etc.

The first time it felt like a crime.

There is a code freeze coming up at may job, I'll probably browse through some of the links in the spare time. So thanks for curating this.
And yet the search on mobile opens half cut, the dark mode icon isn't centered like the search icon and in the resurfaced section are overlapping texts. And thats just from glancing through the page on my phone.

Maybe I'm too picky but it gives a sloppy, unpersonal feeling.

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