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Re:9000 RPM is faster than your screen refreshes on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @05:35PM (#49542909)
Re:Almost Went Back: One Month on NixOS on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @06:41AM (#49004593)
Hyprland will bite you in the bum soon

They changed their config to lua, so no more hyprland.conf good thing nix has rollbacks !

Maybe migrate sooner rather than later

I'd prefer reading about a rust rewrite then a saas paas CMS integration web thing on the latest framework It'll probably go nowhere, but it's cool to see people test the limits of what they can do and I can't watch without spending a penny

Kinda like jackass, fascinating to watch but damn I do not want to do it

I highly recommend UV If you find yourself forced to use python, UV is the way to go

Try it out :)

uv init uv add XXX uv run main.py

( You can pin python versions and auto install them etc )

Re:NixOS 26.05 on Monday June 29, 2026 @05:19PM (#48725401)
I converted with claude Use my repo for lsp.nix as neovims new v10 has a new way of configuring lsp's as lspconfig is depreciated, so I used the new lsp configuration method but went doc hunting to find out I need lspconfig for proper completions! ( I'll give it a push now to ensure it's my latest version)
Re:NixOS 26.05 on Monday June 29, 2026 @12:32PM (#48721386)
I eventually gave up using mason and lsp servers and used nixvim

https://github.com/will-x86/nixos-dotfiles

( ./home/base/nixvim)

Re:Bot vs human traffic on Thursday June 04, 2026 @02:57AM (#48395043)
..... I like my auto generated username it's a funny one
Used it today, I like it so far

One small thing I have now got 30 more red dots as during my gym session I regulary change the music by opening my phone :)

Re:Why Everyone's Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @05:06AM (#48105895)
Seems like you want a custom cartridge

They exist, e.g. https://www.coolspotgaming.co.uk/products/custom-game-boy-ad... ( I haven't used this service )

This seems like a good mid point between a $500 cartridge and having no friction between games

Docs are 404 and terms send me to pricing...?
Re:Reverse Engineering Crazy Taxi, Part 2 on Thursday April 02, 2026 @02:08AM (#47610538)
Fascinating

Are you not wasting 8 bits using a Qn.m of 8.8? If you values are only 0-1?

Re:Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people on Thursday March 26, 2026 @12:56PM (#47532851)
https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/

A bit like this? ( iocaine is newer)

If engines are hard to build, why not build a car 3x the size of a normal one, well you can but due to things like aerodynamics, etc etc you'll never match the speed or fuel economy of cars.

Same with chips, efficiency, speed, etc all depend on good design, and cutting edge factors, if the main reason your chip isn't faster is because of the distance between your L1 cache and your core is far, then having a bigger node process but bigger chip won't make it quicker.

Re:Building a Shell on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @04:40PM (#47417994)
Re:Ask HN: Which DNS based ad blocker do you suggest? on Saturday March 14, 2026 @06:54AM (#47375362)
+1 I love the parental controls I can limit social media to only a few hours a day ( only on my phone profile) And it has good Tailscale integration!
Love it!
Re:Searching for a Well Designed API on Friday March 13, 2026 @09:27PM (#47372338)
Very interesting thank you :)
Re:Searching for a Well Designed API on Friday March 13, 2026 @09:25PM (#47372330)
Thank you!
Re:Searching for a Well Designed API on Friday March 13, 2026 @06:41AM (#47362667)
This is primarily to try and learn from, I should've made this a bit clearer.

Searching for a Well Designed API

Hihi I'm looking for an example of a well designed api that's a small scope, a lot of places I've tried to learn from are such monoliths that where to start is dauntingPreferrably an open source projectI'd prefer: REST/gRPC/ contained and hopefully not something huge Go/Rust/Python/js-ts ( in that order!!)Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask! Thank you

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Re:Rust Is Just a Tool on Sunday March 01, 2026 @07:00AM (#47205947)
As someone who has only used zig a little

I've has more core dumps/seg faults than any other language I've ever used.

Skill issue? Yes, 100℅, it's definitely due to my lack of skill in the language

The only time I've ever made a rust program seg fault is when using nightly macros/"features" and being on stable, leading to rustc crashing with a nice error and then I change to nightly

and that was caught at compile time...

Skill is a huge factor in safety

"70% of vulns are..." Yes, production code written at huge companies by experts... If experts are making those mistakes, that says a lot about it IMO

That being said, I'm not a "one language for all", they have their place, embedded rust is hilarious as it's essentially a requirement to have unsafe blocks in your initialisation

Anyway rant over

Re:Understanding the Go Runtime: The Memory Allocator on Friday February 27, 2026 @05:27AM (#47178867)
Personally I've spent a lot of time coding in go relative to my total time programming

An introduction into topics that are a bit deeper than typical are very interesting to me

It may not make me an expert in the topic reading this, but it at least gives me some new information and if I'd like to know more, I know what to look for.

Before this article if I wanted to know more my searches would be "How does Go memory management work"

Maybe I'm in a minority as this being not trivial information to me though

Re:Show HN: Scrappy – Open-source browser scraper written in Go on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @06:39AM (#47059981)
Pretty cool

Short thing, when I built something similar using chromedp I had to scroll on some pages to properly render all of them, due to lazy rendering on some websites ( also some pages had infinite scroll so had to break after a certain amount scrolled)

Might be worth adding it as an option ( unless it is already)

Nice project

Re:Show HN: Toil, a go library for simple parallelism on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @05:17AM (#47059433)
Another thing maybe

Using context here would be great so jobs can be cancelled instead of timeout

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