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1ark··on No Skill. No Taste
This is so amazing! I am so stunned and deeply interested on how you set it up and your workflow. To me it sounds like you are already in the future many of us sighted people imagine with AI.

I am not sure if you are able to use it, but I saw Droidrun.ai (https://www.droidrun.ai/) the other day, and agents should be able to drive the phone.

1ark··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
I feel you about SQLAlchemy, so I switched to peewee, which is beautiful to work with.
1ark··on Eating capitalism: How our food got hijacked by profits
It is very easy and sad to see how fiat affects farm to table.
1ark··on 10k pushups and other silly exercise quests that changed my life
Some form of horizontal pulling such as Aussie pullups. It's even better in this scenario. If you have the pullup bar at home already, get some gymnastic rings for example.
1ark··on [dead]
EU Chat Control, coming soon.
1ark··on Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-greens-habeck-presses-charges-...
1ark··on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
It is Apple terminology for an app that supports both iPad and iPhone.
1ark··on Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube
> Started in 2017 by a programmer known as Chocobozzz, development of PeerTube is now supported by the French non-profit Framasoft. The aim is to provide an alternative to centralized platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube

1ark··on You might want to stop making your bed in the morning
There are handheld vacuum cleaners for sucking up virus, bacteria, pollen, and killing mites. Stuffy nose in the morning, gone! Do it once in a while, and keep making your bed.
1ark··on Dumbification of Our Smartphones
Hisense have a few e-ink Android phones.
1ark··on Ask HN: How do you stay organized for solo dev?
Most answers seem to be different documentation and reminders, but I'd like to focus on something a little different. I think Scrum and daily stand up is a "forcing function". It creates tension in individuals. Even if you get side tracked at work, and you are a bullshitter, most would probably reason something like "It is better so do some useful work that I got assigned/committed to so I can report progress tomorrow. And I want to avoid conflict". That would create "force" to move you and the rest of the team forward. Tools and reminders etc. are all good, but weak forcing functions. You still have to be disciplined.

I don't think you can create that same force pure solo, but can still improve current process. One way could be to have a friend, sibling or virtual assistant that you do the same reporting to every few days. Perhaps pick someone assertive. And as you know, if you bullshit you just fool yourself. Hopefully something like that is a strong enough "forcing function" to snap you out of your tangent and back on track for a few hours/days before the next report.

1ark··on EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
https://archive.is/3CSSv
1ark··on Ask HN: Why is nobody manufacturing low tech electric cars in 2024?
Honda N-VAN e[1] or Honda e, maybe?

1. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/japans...

1ark··on Ask HN: Going low-level – what to learn next?
I love Kip Irvine's book on x86 assembly. Very practical for building small programs, with questions and exercises. It is in the Windows environment though, but I don't think it matters significantly much, instructions are the same after all.

http://asmirvine.com/index.htm

1ark··on ICQ will stop working from June 26
This resonates a lot. When MSN become the norm was a big hit, then Windows Live and many people scattered around, left was Facebook but now only with IRL friends. Most alternatives since ICQ have been worse.
1ark··on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
HuggingFace?
1ark··on Japan: The land that doesn't need Ozempic
Candy bags in Japan are small, 50g. Drink vending machines contain 50% green tea of different varieties. Domestically sweets are big, usually with sweet bean paste and so on.
1ark··on Sleeping Tesla driver caught on Swedish highway – after 25 miles
That would be Norsholmen right before Stockholm, but there is a small town Norsholm between Linköping and Norrköping that the author put in the image in the article.

Here is a non-paywall version of the same event that says "4 mil" (40km): https://nyheter24.se/motor/1273809-tesla-forare-sov-pa-e4-me...

1ark··on Plotille: Plot in the terminal using Braille dots
Worked with this a bit but since it is very basic and unmaintained I've changed to plotext (https://github.com/piccolomo/plotext)
1ark··on Sleeping Tesla driver caught on Swedish highway – after 25 miles
Mjölby to Norsholm is about 56km, and they stopped a bit before that.
1ark··on Ask HN: Any fun ways to learn Emacs?
You need which-key for your emacs. This way you only need to know the first keys (like C-x) in a chord, and then you will see what all the keys do. And since you come from vim, like me, you can use evil (and evil-collection). The other thing is you likely need to start liking and learning some basic Lisp.
1ark··on Portr: Open-Source Ngrok Alternative
Here is a bunch of more alternatives https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling
1ark··on Ask HN: Free alternative to Teamviewer?
Not an answer to this particular case, but Steam Link can work as a free replacement for when you need performance. I use VNC for the more robust situations.
1ark··on Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
For the Emacs user, maybe not exactly one-to-one, but useful:

https://github.com/s-kostyaev/ellama

1ark··on BYD is launching its next-gen Blade EV battery – more range and even lower cost
US/Europe are destroying themselves and their industries with the ESG agenda.
1ark··on What makes switching to GNU Linux almost impossible for many?
Need to frame it correctly, monetary and safety, for example. "You have to buy a new PC when Microsoft decides to not update your Windows anymore and make the new version incompatible with your current PC. If you don't, your PC will be vulnerable to criminal hackers. With freedom and control you control the schedule, otherwise Microsoft does."
1ark··on Immediate Mode GUI Programming
This is such a good and clear take.
1ark··on Ask HN: How can I make local dev with containers hurt less?
It is, when you know what you are doing, and your peers know what they are doing. If you are a Python/JS shop, even if you get your dependencies right, one dev has the wrong Python version (because they didn't update), or wrong NPM version because they just joined the company and downloaded the latest obscurely incompatible version (because one of your deep dependencies breaks the build process). True stories from the battlefield. Of course other environments might have it easier. Containers can solve some of that pain (with other pain!).
1ark··on Extracting training data from ChatGPT
You need to write a paper with sophisticated words and hard to read charts to be taken seriously! /s
1ark··on Formula 1 didn't realize Las Vegas would be cold in November
I watched the announcement of the LV GP. And I am pretty sure Domenicali answered the question that the GP is for local and the Las Vegas audience, regarding the time of the event.
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