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bni··on Meta VR Glasses
The are quite careful from what angle they show the headset
bni··on JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development
I have Ghostty with Claude open with one tab per project. Then I have IntelliJ open also with one tab per project.

I find this setup works great for actually participating in the development. To understand what is happening and keep the mental model of what the project is about. Review in progress work in IntelliJ, use the Git, Database and REST(.http files) in the IDE as the agents generate the code.

I don't see a problem with this setup is it really that uncommon? Have people stopped using TOOLS completely? That said I don't have much interest in these JetBrains AI products, at least not currently.

bni··on iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com
As I user of this service I like this.

However filtering for these hide my e-mail addresses is quite easy if you are motivated to do it, they have a recognizable pattern.

bni··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
This is very true
bni··on Tim King, AmigaDOS developer, has died
This is an interesting "what if" story. What if they pushed on with CAOS, would it have been awesome or would the Amiga never have existed as a commercial product. We will never know.
bni··on As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program
This is one of my favorite things with the Mac. I feel it is very intuitive me moving the app to Applications, then just move it to trash if it sucks and it is completely gone.

setup.exe .pkg installers make me feel dirty because I hav enough control over how it will fuck up my system or not.

bni··on French musician Kavinsky found dead
I like this interview with him from 2008 https://foolsgoldrecs.com/2008/09/17/fools-gold-qa-vol2-kavi...
bni··on Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein – how Italian children became so overweight
Article is good but with one puzzling flaw. They mention protein is one of the culprits, but nothing about why or how.
bni··on Reconstructing Andy Warhol's Debbie Harry Portrait (1985)
I worked on this a few years ago but progress stalled.

Maybe with the tools that exist now (AI) this could be completed quickly. Would be an interesting challenge.

bni··on China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
What about AWS, Azure, cloud computing?
bni··on Linux on the Atari Jaguar
I think this is very impressive. I remember from eons ago people were running Linux on Amiga, but then it was the later models with 68040 processors with more RAM.

As far as I remember no one ran it on a 68000 with 2 megabytes of RAM.

Could Linux today run on an Amiga 500 with RAM expansion, in this same way?

bni··on Resetting Xbox
Go back in history, why did Microsoft create xbox at all?

It was Bill Gates fear of being overtaken by some "living room PC" or set top box that never materialized. It was an industry wild goose chase basically, with echos of past efforts (remember Philips CD-i ?)

Is this a concern Microsoft has today? xbox was a money sink from the beginning.

The sad part is they bought a bunch of very good game studios.

bni··on 1-Bit Pixel Art Emojis
Another idea would be to make emojis that could be used as Amiga Workbench 1.3 icons. The Blue, white, orange and black kind.
bni··on What Is a Dickover?
If you zoom websites to be able to read them, like I do.

Then these are especially frustrating because I have to zoom out to find the close button. Its a chase every time, and sometimes I give up.

How are these allowed to exist when there are the EU Web Accessibility Directive ?

bni··on Ferrari Luce
The Porsche 914 of 2026
bni··on Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations
Yes all the time. Healthy conversations are shut down immediately with the "AI research" slop-wall.

Meetings are 55 minutes of speculating about what AI will be able to do in a few years. Then if you are lucky the last 5 minutes can be used to discuss a real issue.

bni··on Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI
As a European I don't understand why this company exists at all.
bni··on Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)
Thank you precisely what I was looking for on the Windows side
bni··on Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)
This is great, I have a monitor with built in KVM (CORSAIR XENEON 27QHD240 OLED)

m1ddc works fine on my Mac, but why isn't there a single multiplatform cli tool that can be ran on Mac/Linux/Windows?

I need a Windows one for this to be useful for me.

bni··on Turbo Vision 2.0 – a modern port
A critical part that is somewhat lost when running this in a terminal is how the mouse behaved on a real text mode screen. It was a yellow block that you moved with the mouse not a mouse pointer.

Anyone tested to run this on a high resolution Linux text mode with GPM?

bni··on Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
Remember, only big tech is allowed to pirate
bni··on The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes
> LN2 had something in a bathroom?

Toilet flush chains. You entered two different park restrooms (both marked F) and combined them to a nunchuks.

bni··on Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games
With games we just need some really good slop filters on the storefronts. I mean this has been the case already for some time even before AI
bni··on C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes in Dapper
yes it is
bni··on Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine
If you want to play Half-Life today I highly recommend Xash3D FWGS (yes its a super awkward name)

https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs

Easy to use Mac build here: https://www.macsourceports.com/game/halflife

bni··on BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
Does this mandate allow me to use a. 3rd party Teams, Google Chat and Slack client?

I suspect the answer is no, but why?

bni··on Ask HN: How do you find the "why" behind old code decisions?
If it's architecture you need to time travel back to the time and the circumstances, requirements and priorities around that time. Good luck.

When it comes to code, run the unit tests.

bni··on The lost art of XML
Developers (even web developers!) were familiar with XML for many years before JSON was invented.

Also "worse is better". Many developer still prefer to use something that is similar to notepad.exe, instead of actual tools that understand the formats on a deeper level.

bni··on Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain
Only Big Tech is allowed to pirate
bni··on jQuery 4
Prototype
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