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Poor people eat more cheap carbs, hence fat. high fructose corn syrup and the way we make our bread also makes people fat
A new laptop isn't 3.5x more expensive, so I guess you just mean a memory upgrade?
It always amazes me they don't hit a fist sized rock at that speed that just destroys it.
I wonder if switching to openbsd for my servers soon might be a good idea...
Yeah a good portion of the population is PWM sensitive and OLED displays hurt their eyes. Macs are a bit better with the like 10khz modulation, but after a few days they still make my eyes feel like they're burning :/
Posted by
winrid on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:18PM
from the ask-hn dept.
... or has it encouraged you to upgrade?I'm still using an 8th gen i7 (w/ linux) for most of my dev work. I was going to upgrade, but now I just run like 10 terminal tabs instead of IDEs. Concurrent builds even w/ Rust and Java usually aren't a big issue. I have several backup machines so if it dies, not a big deal. If I need to, I can just tell Claude "do all builds on and iterate via CI"The...
The best is when it's just two devs blindly sharing output from Claude back and forth during a major outage instead of USING THEIR BRAINS
I love my touchscreen thinkpad. For some things it's faster than the mouse. Scrolling is also nicer.
Will be fun to see how bad the PWM is on this display.
Haven't been able to use any newer macs :/
What do you mean wrong allocator? What if you want to use a different one (will it work?)
That's because in Zig that would be seen as a surprise side effect - the allocator is expected when the action is performed, not when it's "prepared", this way you know append() allocates. Otherwise it wouldn't be explicit which Array methods allocated.
The Odin way is useful, too. Depends on what you're building.
I'm aware. I've vibe coded some of the electron based tools I used into C++ apps, GB of memory to 50mb...
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This! I was using this in like middle school in 2006 or so to run my sites. Cool to see it still works.
even my ten year old laptop browses the web fine ^_^
If I had to complain about any site/app it'd be datadog... each tab uses like 1gb in firefox.
I have to admit, I don't recall this issue in any of Google's products. So they at least do that right.
That's the perfect amount of layout shifts.
Lol I have the same thoughts for ChatGPT. How much code are they writing, but the main chat UI moves around like 3 times during load so you constantly click the wrong buttons. How does this not infuriate anyone that works there? I've actually switched to claude's mobile site for more queries now.
Not sure if related but you can adjust how WSL releases virtual memory back to windows which will lower your memory usage
not everyone is writing simple web servers :) and if you are, then the rust is easy to read as it's simple. I also use django in some large projects, and don't see a future of my use of django really anymore. If I'm not feeling like rust is a great fit, I usually reach for Java with javalin.
Posted by
winrid on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @05:07PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://netpanzer.io/play/
Hello HN! I got Netpanzer back online after the old maintainers abandoned it/died (rip), including the master server. Recently I used astra 6 to get it compiling and playing in a browser! I have nostalgia for this game as I played it a lot in 2007 on my pentium 3 machines :)Enjoy!
Rust is nice to read because you can see from a function signature what it mutates
If you write slow rust, it's very easy to read, and still plenty fast.
"I've gone ahead and placed an order based on your Google doc Daily Diary "Bad Dragon" entry."
Some projects exist just for our enjoyment of coding, so yeah I read the code on those.
I didn't either until I used all Samsung displays for a couple years and now I can't look at any of them for more than like 5mins without eye pain. I can only use IPS displays now. But it could be some kind of genetic issue or something.
My biggest issue is that a lot of them have cheap power supplies with terrible PWM, so they hurt my eyes. So my nightmare is basically finding a nice place to rent and realizing they put all these cheap fixtures in and then I can't spend more than like an hour in the house without feeling like someone is stabbing my retinas.