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ape4··on Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent
I imagine it would be harder to make a design product that doesn't use pixels but it needs to be done - because that's the right way to make CSS
ape4··on Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent
The music was trying too hard ;)
ape4··on Running out of disk space in production
Very cool. Reading the man page I see, by default, shred does 3 iterations. Adding --iterations=1 makes it random enough for this purpose and faster.
ape4··on Running out of disk space in production
Interesting! I did `fallocate -l 1G myfile` - very fast. Its all zeros but probably won't be compressed by the filesystem since its created with the fallocate() system call.
ape4··on Git commands I run before reading any code
You could make a local `man` page.
ape4··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
I have noticed I can make a less sharp sound with my bike bell by ringing it a certain way. I use this to let pedestrians know I am coming but that they don't have to jump out of the way.
ape4··on Running out of disk space in production
That's very cool. Sadly running that exact command gets an incomplete file and error "error writing output file". It suggests adding iflag=fullblock (to dd). Running that makes a file of the correct size. But still gives "error writing output file". I suppose that occurs because dd breaks the pipe.
ape4··on Running out of disk space in production
If I recall correctly:

    dd if=/dev/urandom of=/home/myrandomfile bs=1 count=N
ape4··on The Cult of Vibe Coding Is Insane
Can they ask the Claude to clean up the duplication etc its English code?
ape4··on I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK
Can the "app" just load the mobile website. Then everyone is happy?
ape4··on How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?
Didn't they rename everything "dotnet" when that was the hot thing
ape4··on Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation
Shouldn't a scientific paper be using metric units (like 30T) rather than 30B.

There are two distinct billions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

ape4··on Simple self-distillation improves code generation
ATT=All TLAs are Taken
ape4··on Quad9 Enables DNS over HTTP/3 and DNS over QUIC
So many more layers than the original simple DNS protocol.
ape4··on Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens
Remember when we worked on new hashing, cryptography, compression, etc algorithms? Now we are trying to find the best ways to tell an AI to be quiet.
ape4··on Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML
Yeah, the first example on that site doesn't need any formatting. It just says your code is <code>
ape4··on Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating
So will I be able to upgrade my old computer without a Trusted Platform Module 2?
ape4··on I hate: Programming Wayland applications
He complained there is no way to do the easy thing in Wayland - there is a way: Gtk and QT
ape4··on Stdwin: Standard window interface by Guido Van Rossum [pdf]
Still seems like it could be useful
ape4··on Rethinking Syntax: Binding by Adjacency
Maybe with a Java string templates:

    var myDate = MAGIC"2025 July 19"
ape4··on Microsoft announces new "mini PCs" for Windows 365
Doesn't it just need a browser?
ape4··on Turing Completeness of GNU find
Doom Complete
ape4··on A deep dive into Apple's .car file format
Someday JSON will be out of fashion - like XML is now.
ape4··on AISLE’s autonomous analyzer found all CVEs in the January OpenSSL release
I wonder too. Did it take many human hours to verify everything?
ape4··on The browser is the sandbox
cgroups are part of whats used to implement docker and podman
ape4··on FUSE is All You Need – Giving agents access to anything via filesystems
By your definition, a physical child's sandbox isn't a sandbox.
ape4··on I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year
They moved from platform A to platform B.
ape4··on Parasites plagued Roman soldiers at Hadrian's Wall
How could that be observed?
ape4··on How the RESISTORS put computing into 1960s counter-culture
A maker space https://www.nycresistor.com/
ape4··on Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files
The spam checker alone is an ton of work. It needs to handle millions of mails for millions of users a day.
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