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deciduously··on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
I genuinely cant tell if this is sarcastic. Im all for innovation where its productive, but some things already just work.
deciduously··on Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library
There's also Fable for F# but I believe this commenter is being sarcastic. Javascript is a common backend language.
deciduously··on Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
Broken seems a little hyperbolic, it has an implicit dependency on a standard POSIX tool.
deciduously··on Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2
And add the cost of transit to france
deciduously··on Physicists Discover the Most Complex Forms of Ice Yet
Which one gives you that godzilla shape in the header image?
deciduously··on Our principles
I'm not sure its money but influence, which money greatly facilitates.
deciduously··on A dot a day keeps the clutter away
That's how you get Talmud.
deciduously··on Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet
Won't somebody think of the disgruntled misanthropes?
deciduously··on AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
Endearingly close to "take off, hoser".
deciduously··on Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT
This was not a word I was prepared to learn about today.
deciduously··on Detainees at 'Alligator Alcatraz' facing 'harrowing human right violations'
At least we can take solace in the fact this is totally unprecedented, a complete first for this country.

....oh wait.

deciduously··on Parents say ChatGPT encouraged son to kill himself
The double "its not X, its Y", back to back.
deciduously··on Look, Another AI Browser
Is this true? Most of mine is in a text editor. In a previous role, it was in Excel. My partner spends her day in Power BI, etc etc. Are we outliers? What jobs are mostly in browsers instead of task-oriented specific other software tools?
deciduously··on Claude Sonnet 4.5
Just to add another anecdotal data point, ive absolutely observed Claude Code doing exactly this as well with git operations.
deciduously··on Zig got a new ELF linker and it's fast
While also a great book, there is very little overlap in content to Linkers and Loaders.
deciduously··on [dead]
If you're genuinely surprised by this you haven't been paying attention.
deciduously··on AI fares better than doctors at predicting deadly complications after surgery
Let's see how well it draws an SVG of a pelican on a bicycle
deciduously··on Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase
You of course know that "you of course know _____, right" is the preferred HN rebuttal format, right?
deciduously··on Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones
They use a hash function.
deciduously··on What motivates you to contribute to open source projects?
Usually, because a particular project fails to meet a particular need I happen to know how to fix.
deciduously··on Claude 4
This feels like more of a system prompt issue than a model issue?
deciduously··on How to program a text adventure in C
Which, generally, is true.
deciduously··on Regex Isn't Hard (2023)
The letters with diacritics sort lexicographically after 'z', so it does stand to reason they wouldn't appear in that range.
deciduously··on Cutting down Rust compile times from 30 to 2 minutes with one thousand crates
Which is exactly what this project is now able to do. Your parallel make jobs don't help if you have one gigantic compilation unit, as they originally did.
deciduously··on Show HN: I built a Rust crate for running unsafe code safely
Far from all of it, seems like a big leap to write it off as pointless because of one subset.
deciduously··on OpenAI's o1-pro now available via API
Better than my svg pelican would be, but it's a low bar.
deciduously··on OpenGL to WASM, learning from my mistakes
Your last off-by-one bug was in your first few weeks of programming?
deciduously··on Meta announces 5% cuts in preparation for 'intense year'
It wasn't cute there, either, it was explicitly a device to stage the desperation that catalyzed the rest of the plot.
deciduously··on Autocorrect in Your Keyboard Firmware (2021)
Last week, near Boston MA.
deciduously··on Show HN: Org-Supertag
I like how the very act of writing it out led you to draw a new conclusion. Very meta.
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