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esaym··on Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?
Use Perl
esaym··on My personal AI benchmark: "Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw."
https://imgur.com/a/1BM8J1B
esaym··on Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
Yeah bro, you can just use AI!
esaym··on Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
There are many ways and tools on linux to get a "VM" up and running. But with libvirt you can easy script out what the initial environment and network stack is. The heart of it is just running the 'virt-install' command, but as you can see I've got a bunch of other opinionated stuff going on before that.
esaym··on Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
Outside of the article's mentioned graphics development, there is no reason to isolate an agent using actual hardware. I threw together this script[0] using libvirt to give claude its own graphical desktop env to be able to do user acceptance testing with Chrome. It has full root and can do what ever. If it makes a mess, I can dump and reinstall in seconds.

0: https://gist.github.com/smith153/04b4068b5a2d7b234f1c3d5992d...

esaym··on Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)
Yes, this
esaym··on The early hiring funnel is now breaking on both ends
Me right now
esaym··on Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers
> on the other hand, the ransomware groups that want to stay in business need to be honest

I was thinking about that the other day. Honestly I'm not sure it matters. I feel like if a company didn't pay the ransom that would possibly open them up to lawsuits or something because they "tried nothing". At least paying it makes it look like they did something and could be some sort of legal defense. But again I'm not a lawyer.

esaym··on Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations
>probably just a dirty contact or something

I have a Leopold with MX brown keys. Bought in 2012. Last year the left ctrl (or maybe left alt? can't remember) started to sometimes not work. I took the back cover off and the soldering job was horrid everywhere. And on that key the solder was mostly non-existent. I touched it up and a few others. All good now.

esaym··on The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker
What is wrong with just using a compass??
esaym··on Claude Managed Agents
The website is solid black on Firefox mobile for android. Maybe they should get an agent on that.
esaym··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
Posted 23 days ago: (Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47298183
esaym··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
> The layoffs are directly tied to Oracle’s aggressive and debt-heavy expansion into artificial intelligence infrastructure. According to analysis from TD Cowen, the job cuts are expected to free up between $8 billion and $10 billion in cash flow — money the company urgently needs to fund a massive buildout of AI data centers.

Interesting that they admit that the layoff off is due to a pivot from software to hardware.

esaym··on A laser-based process that enables adhesive-free paper packaging
Has anyone seen my stapler?
esaym··on Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 (2018)
When did the industry transition to different/lead free solders? Wonder if that was part of the issue?
esaym··on Oracle may slash up to 30k jobs to fund AI data-centers as US banks retreat
Oh do tell.
esaym··on Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?
Add https://github.com/obra/superpowers

and then try again.

esaym··on Toyotas and Terrorists: "Why are ISIS's trucks better than ours?" (2023)
Try this one: https://youtu.be/Yl1FNX08HFc
esaym··on Malicious skills targeting Claude Code and Moltbot users
No.
esaym··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
>This was me in 2005.

Ha, same. Windows XP for me had a horrible habit of booting into a blue screen randomly after updating video card drivers (happened with both ATI and Nvidia). Trying to do a repair install wouldn't work. The only option was a full reinstall.

Installation from the disk took an hour. Then (if you were going about this the legal way) you'd have to call the microsoft number to register your install, but be on hold for another 30 minutes. Then it was multiple hours of install your favorite video player, reboot. Install video codecs, reboot. Install firefox, reboot. Apply all of your registry tweaks, reboot. Install all your games from CD-ROM, more rebooting. And multiple hours of that.

I moved to linux back in 2006 or so and never looked back. Documented part of the journey here https://net153.net/ubuntu_vs_debian.html

esaym··on Go away Python
> My proposition for compatibility is to not use dependencies, and instead rely on the standard library

Funny that was the whole attack angle python used against perl back in 2005,etc.

esaym··on Nvidia's $20B antitrust loophole
>Timing it for Christmas Eve ensures minimal media scrutiny of these connections.

Sounds like the media is truly the one in charge.

esaym··on I got hacked: My Hetzner server started mining Monero
So this is part of the "React2Shell" CVE-2025-55182 issue? I find it interesting that this seems to get so little publicity. Almost like the issue is normal or expected. And it looks like the affected versions go back a little over a year. So if you've deployed anything with Next.js over the last 12 months your web app is now probably part of a million node bot net. And everyone's advice is just "use docker" or "install a firewall".

I'm not even sure what to say, or think, or even how to feel about the frontend ecosystem at this point. I've been debating on leaving the whole "web app" ecosystem as my main employment ventures and applying to some places requiring C++. C++ seems much easier to understand than what ever the latest frontend fad is. /rant

esaym··on Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES
I would read the manual too on the ride home. But I think that was only for new games? I seem to remember that rentals didn't come with manuals. The best memory was my grandma picking me up to spend the summer at her house. We stopped by wal-mart and I grabbed the first release of Gran Turismo for psx. It came with a fairly giant manual. Had a three hour drive to her house. I read it over and over!
esaym··on Freeing a Xiaomi humidifier from the cloud
> Use evaporative humidifiers

You don't have to buy one either. A suspended wet towel with a fan blowing on it will work very well. If you want to get fancy, have the last inch or two of the towel sitting in a tray of water.

esaym··on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
You'll be back.
esaym··on Roc Camera
I'm going to buy this just to take a picture of my Kodak mining rig...
esaym··on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models
I think the end customer shares some of the blame for the current state of things. Cars have gotten worse and worse reliability wise since 2010. Yet sales only continue to increase. People don't own cars any more, they simply see them as a $500 a month payment and once they get too annoyed with it, they just go and get a different one. I don't know about other manufacturers, but with everything GMC, all dealer repair shops are independent. GM does not make any money off of those, therefore they are only interested in giving you another car and another payment plan. How many times of you heard someone trash talking a specific model? "That car was a POS! I took it back to the dealer and got a different one" Yea you sure showed them....
esaym··on Claude Sonnet 4.5
You are not alone
esaym··on MrBeast Failed to Disclose Ads and Improperly Collected Children's Data
Shut it down!
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