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GalaxyNova··on Show HN: A modern low-poly SimCity 2000 clone, built by Opus 5.5
Seems poorly optimized
GalaxyNova··on Making a GTK application in Haskell, part 1
McCLIM is better
GalaxyNova··on Cloudflare OHTTP gateway
Cloudflare is like the systemd of the internet
GalaxyNova··on FTL: A new operating system for clouds
Seems like it's only an issue on mobile.
GalaxyNova··on Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields
I don't know if it's that refreshing. Looks like standard Claude generated style.
GalaxyNova··on Gemini 4 Argon
It seems like a new model is being released every few days now, wow.
GalaxyNova··on 1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops
I am very confused if I am speaking to real people or to LLMs
GalaxyNova··on Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
I don't think he said anything factually incorrect though?
GalaxyNova··on I have a theory that software drives people insane
This is why I hope to retire on a farm
GalaxyNova··on GPU World
What will happen when everyone has access to a hot air balloon?
GalaxyNova··on Claude × retrocomputing: emulating a QIC-117 tape drive
I think LLMs go against the retrocomputing ethos
GalaxyNova··on 1kB Website as Status Symbol
There is something distinctly dystopian about someone using AI to write a blog post about how we sold out our taste to LLMs.
GalaxyNova··on Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"
Gentoo, Guix, a few others
GalaxyNova··on Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7
But CCL is very stable and works very well on the platforms it supports, sometimes in a much more compliant way than SBCL.
GalaxyNova··on Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7
CL can be used pretty much anywhere nowadays, even on the web with ECL wasm compilation.
GalaxyNova··on The Zilog Z80 has turned 50
The Z80 stopped being manufactured last year unfortunately
GalaxyNova··on Don't you mean extinct?
It's reminiscent of the proprietary compilers of the 80s
GalaxyNova··on [dead]
what does it even mean to "adopt AI"
GalaxyNova··on OpenRA
I love OpenRA! Play it every weekend with my dad.
GalaxyNova··on Epoll vs. io_uring in Linux
The year is 2050; there are 20 different ways to poll a socket on Linux.
GalaxyNova··on Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches
Yes I have seen it happen a few times with `strlen` being called in a loop silently causing O(N) to turn to O(N^2)
GalaxyNova··on Automating my job away
What? Am I missing something? I was expecting more of a story... As it stands the article doesn't really convey any information.
GalaxyNova··on I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys
No, it's because a lot of the time you want to use a different keyboard layout. For instance with international keyboards.
GalaxyNova··on IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake
No they are not. There is frankly no other way to handle the cases that IPv6 zones do.
GalaxyNova··on Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
What's next? Vibe coded coreutils?
GalaxyNova··on Leave Me Behind
Maybe our customers do care about how it's made.
GalaxyNova··on It is time to build a new internet
And I definitely suggest writing a server or client for it! It is a really fun weekend project.
GalaxyNova··on Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical Magnifica humanitas to be published May 25
Serfs were of value to the lord, and they were usually not treated that badly compared to many workplaces today.
GalaxyNova··on Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
Doesn't matter much as long as it is a pseudonymous identity
GalaxyNova··on Nginx Rift
RCE in nginx is pretty bad.
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