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itomato··on Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts
Is it a legit summary? Does it derail you?
itomato··on Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts
0:04 for the first , 0:02 for the second. I'm personally all done with that.
itomato··on Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC
Cool. I did something like that so agents and people could communicate with a Jira instance using Websocket-aware IRC and a browser-based client based on superchat.

Put the issue context in a #channel and invite external parties/entities, bring the results back to the work.

I have tested it but the complexity didn't justify the results in my experiment. I couldn't get it accepted into Atlassian Marketplace, either.

itomato··on The Copilot+ PC brand is dead
You're telling me all those laptops with the keyboard, trackpad and screen askew are tainted in another way?

Who is buying these?

What forecast suggests these BOMs are profitable?

itomato··on People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes
I bring this up every decade because I haven't been able to find (many) supporting studies.

Chilis. Nibble a Thai bird chili instead of facing a nicotine fit. Sip some Tabasco if you must.

I quit this way, and the point is not burning your mouth or the heat. It’s the endorphin complement.

Tobacco products out. Capsaicin products in.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10742298/

itomato··on Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
Notes - It’s got what clankers crave.
itomato··on Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
Cool - now do Lotus Approach
itomato··on AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
If you have ever looked at a kite and said to yourself, "that is as good as a hang-glider. maybe better.", you might be subject to the perils of one-shot AISDLC
itomato··on Apple Copland D11E4 Booting in the Browser
DingusPPC fork: https://github.com/dingusdev/dingusppc
itomato··on Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
You can delete this now.
itomato··on Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion
Yes, and then delete or edit the comment.
itomato··on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
"It's only a problem if your definition of done makes it one".
itomato··on PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"
Lowered the barrier to entry, but also raised the stakes. My money is on dedication to the high-stakes problem.

How old was this bug? How much energy has been devoted to RE of this proprietary console? Not enough, apparently.

itomato··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
Yes it was a speedrun. Fresh kicks, more clicks.
itomato··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
When the counterfeiters came, that's what they chose to put in the box.

They have been reduced to pleather collectibles.

itomato··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
Yes, for running mountain centuries and ultras.

Karl "Speedgoat" Meltzer broke the Appalachian Trail record in them, and whoever was doing marketing then really blew a big bubble with that result.

Trad brands didn't stand a chance against that sole and backstory.

https://thewalkahead.com/2016/09/21/karl-meltzer-crushes-at-...

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/run/clown-shoe-th...

itomato··on Spaceships (Reverse Asteroid)
Mr. Don’t? “Centimpede”
itomato··on Coyote v. Acme (1990)
TIHI
itomato··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
I've been working on PCB generation projects with MCPs, mostly with KiCAD because of the ROI.

- Flexible rp2040-based instrument tuner

- Stratocaster-style PCB art pickguards

- NeXTBus experimentation board (not that I'll ever use it, but I'll be darned if I don't understand the nuances between NeXT and Apple's NuBUS implementations better now)

This extends to firmware and emulation projects like Doom and the Quake trilogy running in Jira Cloud (https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/3372062249/doom-for-j...) and a fork of 86box dedicated to NeXTstep systems (i want an emulated object.station, darnit)

itomato··on Coyote v. Acme (1990)
Yes, it's like an seeing an issue of "Space Jam" from the original treatment
itomato··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
I've been struggling with this for a few years for Yoto LED icons. Design rules didn't cut it, but a pymagick workflow did, more or less.

I have abandoned the work I was doing, but if you provide the image constraints along with some examples and descriptions of those examples using the terminology of your constraints, you should get something iterable.

itomato··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
"I don't know why all the other shops turned me down..."
itomato··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
No but it can write a tool that can.
itomato··on Can AI design circuit boards yet?
npm run art

https://github.com/wjkennedy/stratopcb/tree/main

itomato··on Can AI design circuit boards yet?
I got a flexpcb that validates in JLC and PCBWay DRC tools from the KiCAD MCP Server and Codex.

I have yet to order any or program it, but it was enough to make me push on with a PCB art project for ST-style guitar pickguards - no netlist, no problems.

I'm also foolishly toying with NeXTBus dev boards for the Cube. Is it cursed? Probably. https://github.com/itomato/NeXTBus-Dev-Board

itomato··on Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers?
If the kid lacks curiosity that’s not something a kit can fix.

“Why??!” doesn’t come in a bottle, and that’s the X factor here.

itomato··on Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers?
All it takes is for someone who knows how to make regular tech bend down and say "this is for me." not to dumb it down beyond recognition.

Logo was a Programming Language, not a blunt-edged primary-colored disposable plastic blinkenlight.

itomato··on Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers?
Snap Circuits are just ingredients - or a way to develop fine motor skills with something that is entertaining for a parent.

You wire them up to something else then blow their mind by programming an ESP32 to be a switch with a touchscreen.

itomato··on GPU World
All the world has access to forks/chopsticks/spoons, but every person has a preference that might be N+1 or 0.

Does the population-indexed GPU cluster reconfigure or autoscale? What's the tipping point before population change is gamed?

It's a weird premise, if you want my opinion.

itomato··on Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS
The source for all the OpenGL screensavers has been available for a while from an NT SDK.

I ported GL Pipes to run in Jira and show project data.

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