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greazy··on Before pixels: Modular industrial dashboards
The very cool https://www.astrouxds.com aims to be the pixel version of the physical dashboards. It's a very cool design library.

Not related to Astro the templating engine.

greazy··on Qwen 3.8 Omni Flash
This is the approach recommended for starting a hobby as well. Buy the cheapest set of tools and if they break or are not meeting your needs.
greazy··on How much of F-Droid is LLM generated?
And this is why I hate reading other peoples R scripts.

15 packages loaded but only 3 used, `rm(list = ls())` at the top of every script, hard coded paths or worse using the `here` package.

greazy··on Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
I've been watching seaweedfs for a few years now. It is very cool tech and I'm itching to use it but unfortunately the docs are very bare bones.

Do you have plans to improve the docs? Some of the info I needed was inside GitHub issues / discussions.

Overall very cool project. One of these days I'll reach out about enterprise support for my usecase.

greazy··on StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter
If you're a fan of single player checkout the mod scene. It's very good. UED First Light is excellent.
greazy··on No Man's Sky Cosmos
In a way, it might reflect accurate space and our universe. We really might be alone.
greazy··on Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs
What is "sticky" in this context?
greazy··on How to build a printer
Right! I like this usecase very much. For uses existing software infra to perform the required task.

I wonder now what else we've reinvented when it comes to sending data...

greazy··on How to build a printer
I don't understand the purpose. What am I missing?

The author "prints" to the eink display. Why not load say the pdf directly?

greazy··on Bill Gates tries to install MovieMaker (2003)
> Bill's frustration is not unreasonable.

I find this single sentence not only awkward but frustratingly annoying. Bills frustration is beyond reasonable.

greazy··on 120 days until Google restricts side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom
https://progressive.international/wire/2025-08-26-un-calls-o...
greazy··on Unified Arabic
The lack of books and therefore lack of reading leads to reduce vocabulary. I read somewhere the average of known words by an Arabic speaker was substantially lower than English speakers.

When I switch to speaking Arabic (poorly) I struggle to find words because my vocab level is so bad. Imagine for an every day person, not being able to effectively express themselves. It would lead to a ton of frustration, miscommunication and misunderstanding.

I really need to improve my Arabic!

greazy··on Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
Thanks for answering my question! I also have mild aphantasia, I can navigate okay but not as well as my wife.

I also get lost or disoriented in big city centres but in a natural park or trek I'm totally fine.

greazy··on Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
I want to know if aphantasia is associated with any other mental models. For example, driving, map reading, spatial awareness.

I have a theory that Aphantasia is the symptom of something else, and this other thing relates to how the brain of such individuals stores information. I think it's stored in a more "compressed" state.

As an example, I find myself remembering where info is and not what the info acrually was.

Humans are not homogeneous. I think this is a huge evolutionary advantage, different mental modes improved our survivability.

But of course in modern day life such "divergence" can lead to pathology.

greazy··on Slack Code
You're right, they won't be paying me to write code in the near future... They will be paying me to fix code.

Good times ahead!

greazy··on AI isn’t outthinking mathematicians, it’s out-remembering them
But they are very good at identifying patterns though. This task requires little logic IMO. So why not leverage LLM to perform redundancy analysis?
greazy··on AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain
What I was suggesting is to ask the LLM to compare function usage across files to identify overlap/redundancy.

The idea is to use the LLM to analyse the code base first before taking any action.

I think I'm suggesting a centaur approach.

greazy··on AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them
Can LLMs not do this for you? Or would they go too far?
greazy··on Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data
Oddly aggressive comment on something so mundane. Guess it's a pet peeve of yours?
greazy··on Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out
For me that's not the old web.

The old web was local forum created by gamers for gamers who hosted real life events. You could post asking for super specific advice to your locale. It was eaten by reddit.

There were cool IRC servers for all sorts of niche projects and topics. This still exists of course but a lot of it was eaten by Discord or Slack.

While I never participated, sites like LiveJournal provided both a unique outlet and view into other people's lives. I think a lot of social media like Instagram and Facebook eat this up.

I'm sure everyone has their own versions. And this is the old web that was gobbled up by mega sites which aim to commericalise the crap out of everything.

Btw I consider HN part of the old web.

greazy··on Show HN: I spent a week building a CLV model and the CMO shrugged
This would be a better link for the article to match the title.

https://nasserboan.github.io/clvkit/user_guide/the_shrug.htm...

greazy··on Ask HN: I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills"
Where are you selling them?
greazy··on Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents
DAGs are used in scientific workflows like snakemake. I wonder if such pipeline engines are use in LLM space.
greazy··on Refactoring cuisine: how an Iraqi stew sailed to Singapore
What's the deal with Amba eating in Iraq? It seems out of place as it's spicy source condiment.

Okay... There's a whole Wikipedia about this topic! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amba_(condiment)

Wow I have to tell my dad about this (he's going to not like this lol)

greazy··on AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
Plenty of research is performed by non PhDs.

The main difference is reproducibility and peer review process.

greazy··on New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study
I think all viruses do to some extent. We refer to them as DIPs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defective_interfering_particle

List includes RSV, flu, sc2 and of course hiv

greazy··on Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper
I'm not a big fan of puzzle games but these are great.

Are the clues hand coded?

greazy··on How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in
There's plenty of viewers, I think even MS used to offer free MS Office readers.

We need interoperability between MSOffice and everything else. But were stuck with MSOffice because even the so called open format is not well documented.

MS Office is the last roadblock for Linux desktop. It's literally the last thing holding back many users from moving to anything else.

greazy··on Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?
> EDIT: It's very funny, I've asked the same thing on Reddit and over there 14 out of 15 comments advised me to take the job offer and here on HN the first 3 out of 3 comments tell me to do the masters

Which subreddit did you post on? Try one that's similar Hacker News like maybe programming and I think you'd get similar adobe as HN.

greazy··on The fine print that follows you out the door: non-compete clauses are spreading
Australia is limiting / banning non competes for certain workers

https://www.mlc.org.au/whats-changing-with-non-compete-claus...

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