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_alex_··on Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms
Interesting that your impl agents are not opus. I guess having the more rigorous spec pipeline helps scope it to something sonnet can knock out.
_alex_··on Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip
this seems like the killer app. how long do you comfortably wear it? do you take it off for breaks?
_alex_··on Kimi K2
wow!
_alex_··on Apple M3 Ultra
what flavor of deepseek are you running? what kind of performance are you seeing?
_alex_··on Apple M3 Ultra
apple keeps talking about the Neural Engine. Does anything actually use it? Seems like all the current LLM and Stable Diffusion packages (including MLX) use the GPU.
_alex_··on Apple M3 Ultra
m2 ultra tho
_alex_··on Laravel Cloud
Vercel
_alex_··on Cuttle – a MTG like game using a standard 52 card deck
What other games do you like?
_alex_··on Uncut Currency
That was with the dollar coins
_alex_··on Glue and Coprocessor Architectures
a lot of people on HN hate cryptocurrencies
_alex_··on Programming Zero Knowledge Proofs: From Zero to Hero
Yeah prover time is the big challenge rn
_alex_··on The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
This was really sweet to read. Thanks for sharing.
_alex_··on Senior Intel CPU architects splinter to develop RISC-V processors
How’s it going?
_alex_··on US Judge Strikes Down Ban on Worker 'Noncompete' Agreements
I thought right-to-work is an antiunion mechanism?
_alex_··on An open-source flow battery kit
I dont know anything about flow batteries, but some quick searching leads me to believe that there are two tanks of electrolytes with pumps that pump them along a membrane and then you get power across the membrane. In this small battery kit, is the idea that the battery provides enough power to both operate all its own pumps/electronics, and then output usable power? Does anyone know how much power you'd be able to get out of a small setup like this?

Looks like a cool project!

_alex_··on Sig Sauer guns hanging on soldiers' hips may be firing without trigger pull
The military version of the P320 (M18) has a manual safety. Not clear from the article whether or not it was engaged. That said, I’ve always thought it is bonkers that the P320 doesn’t have a trigger safety.
_alex_··on Alexa is in millions of households and Amazon is losing billions
Third party sellers make up most of the inventory. Means Amazon has less inventory risk, but the buyer experience is terrible. Really unfortunate.
_alex_··on Coding in Vision Pro
Why say no to the the nano texture? Looking at a studio display these days and trying to understand the option
_alex_··on Twitch.tv Lays of 400 Employees
Zero growth or negative growth (real or nominal) are both cases that not keep pace with expectations.

What about that paragraph makes you think things are gangbusters but they have to lay people off?

_alex_··on Of regrets
yes
_alex_··on Ultibo – Bare-Metal Pascal for Raspberry Pi
thats really cool
_alex_··on Extremely Linear Git History
Proof of work git hashes. This is nuts and I love it.
_alex_··on LPD: Libertarian Police Department (2014)
Don’t shoot the bullets! HODL the bullets. Greshams law tells us that the harder munitions will push out the weaker munitions.
_alex_··on Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code
I pay out of pocket for a JetBrains license because it makes me a LOT more productive. I don't spend money on a lot of dev tools, but if it saves me non-trivial time, it's a no-brainer.
_alex_··on Taler Systems SA is looking for investors for development of GNU Taler
has anyone been able to withdraw taler tokens from the demo bank? Getting an error `could not find any exchange`. Don't think it's my setup.
_alex_··on Meta lays off 11,000 people
more than that. Here's a tracker: https://layoffs.fyi
_alex_··on Alcohol death toll is growing, US Government reports say
Club soda with a lime is a good way to go
_alex_··on Postgres WASM
Please don’t put Postgres into webpages
_alex_··on Signing Git commits with your SSH key (2021)
if you sign your commits, you should also consider timestamping your commits. I use OpenTimestamps for this. Docs and some rationale here: https://github.com/opentimestamps/opentimestamps-client/blob...

from the doc:

> My signing keys (e.g. blog or Qubes code signing keys) do not have expiration dates. This is not laziness. There is a fundamental problem with using an expiration date on keys used for code signing (e.g. git tag -s), because it is unclear what the outcome should be when one verifies some old code (written and signed when the key was still valid) in the future when the key has already expired?

> Naturally we would like the old code, written and signed when the key was still valid, to continue to verify fine also in the future, after the key expires (and the developer passed away, perhaps). However, it is very problematic to prevent the attacker from creating falsified code pretending to be an old one.

_alex_··on I turned my iPad Pro into my main computer (2021)
Tailscale + rpi is a great idea
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