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mkl··on Htmx 4.0
https://htmx.org/essays/lore/#hinges
mkl··on Htmx 4.0.0
> (plus at game)

Typo of "a"?

mkl··on 507 Mechanical Movements
Past discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10374436, 27 comments 11 years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26373539, 30 comments 5 years ago.

mkl··on Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms
I think JPEGs will be around forever, but JPEG XL can losslessly recompress JPEGs to be smaller, so that would be one way.
mkl··on OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell
No, Cerebras holds the weights in SRAM - they are changeable, not baked in.
mkl··on Thomson Reuters Launches Its Own Frontier Model
No it doesn't. There is no mention of Qwen at all.
mkl··on Show HN: terminal-code – VS Code inside the terminal
It uses the kitty graphics protocol, if you're wondering how it can look like that instead of being rendered with text characters.
mkl··on Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
At least two people. Link to link to links (because there is a relevant reply here): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49347038
mkl··on Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
That sounds more like rolling shutter effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_shutter
mkl··on Linear algebra done right
Wikipedia says "The book has a pure, proof-heavy focus and is aimed at upper-division undergraduates who have been exposed to linear algebra in a prior course." [1], so it seems to be a different category of book?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Algebra_(book)

mkl··on GIMP Development Update
Krita is good at editing images, so it is an image editor. It is also good at digital painting, and that's where much of its development focus lies.
mkl··on Asus Bike Booster
A lot of extra force when slowing down from faster speeds though, no matter where the motor is added.
mkl··on The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here
With only one you can't detect rotation around the axis that goes through the sensor, and for rotation close to that axis the resolution will be very poor.
mkl··on Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (2018)
They are differentials. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_(mathematics) has some info but is not great as a beginning introduction. dx is an infinitesimal bit of x, and dy is an infinitesimal bit of y. dx here is the same dx as in an integral, which you can think of as the width of one of the infinite infinitesimally thin rectangles whose areas are being added up to find the area under the curve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_integral
mkl··on The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here
Looks like it has just one mouse sensor, so no.
mkl··on The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here
Okay, so assembly and soldering required, but all parts included and I don't need a 3D printer. Can do. Weird that they don't mention any of that. The finished item looks like a good trackball.
mkl··on The Ploopy A+ Trackball Is Here
> preorder a kit for $99CAD

What is a kit here? A trackball? All the parts needed to assemble a trackball? A populated circuit board, where the rest needs 3D printing? A pile of electronic components that need to be soldered together and the rest needs 3D printing?

mkl··on A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy
Or alt-^ to do it without any configuration.
mkl··on A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy
> For the same reason I'll often Ctrl+C and start again instead of trying to backspace and correct.

Try ctrl-x ctrl-e to edit the command in your choice of editor ($EDITOR).

Editing commands is not hard with a few keys. At least learn alt-b and alt-f to go a word back or forward. Often ctrl-left and ctrl-right will do the same thing easier (depends on your terminal). Ctrl-w deletes back to the previous space, alt-backspace and alt-d delete the previous and next word respectively. There are many more keys in the manual, but those cover most things.

mkl··on A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy
> alt-. is great for what it is designed to do, iterating over the previous "last arguments" of your shell history. It's great at doing that, but it is also limited to doing just that one thing.

No, it isn't limited to just that. Alt-0 alt-. will give you the zeroth "argument" (the program), alt-1 alt-. will get you the next (the program's first argument), etc. Negative arguments count back from the end: alt-- 1 alt-. will get you the argument before the last one (note that alt is held for the "-" but not the digit).

When you do use event designators, ctrl-alt-e (or alt-^) is critical. It expands all the ! codes inline to what they refer to, so you can see what you're doing before you hit enter, and as you're constructing the command too.

mkl··on Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
Definitely not. Brute forcing this would be exhaustively searching the space of possible proofs until succeeding. This is heuristically remixing and extending existing work.
mkl··on Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
It still isn't an option for most problems, either because it would take far more computing power than is available or because the number of things to compute is infinite. In both cases, new theory is what can succeed instead. Developing new theory by brute force can be attempted, but will almost always run into the same problems. Using AI to develop new theory is using heuristics rather than brute force.
mkl··on Squeak 6.1
For me, that was my "I'm getting out of here before I break it irreversibly" moment while working through some introductory tutorial ~20 years ago; I've never touched Smalltalk again. I can't understand why being bespoke and unreproducible would be a desirable thing for software.

(Yes, clearly I don't "get it". Happy to hear explanations.)

mkl··on 2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026
> by "legitimate stand-out products", I meant exactly that, with no connotation of commercialization

The word "product" implies commercial.

mkl··on Agent-Manager: A Tmux TUI for Running Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode
This is great! It would be really helpful if it had some measure of the number of users (stars?) and a contributor count. It's pretty hard to determine which of these projects are going to stick around. Total length of time under active development and percentage of code committed by agents would also be informative.
mkl··on Show HN: Manim (3Blue1Brown's animation engine) in the browser via WebGPU
In that case you shouldn't call it Manim or "3Blue1Brown's animation engine". At best this has a partly Manim-compatible API, similar to how XY [1] has a partly Matplotlib-compatible API.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085798

mkl··on Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction
We have many homes for fiction already. Mine is my ebook reader. For many it's their bookshelf or local library.

First impression: autoplay of noisy audio when you go to a book is awful. Please don't do this.

> Humanity has a massive corpus of fiction, thanks to copyright law...

Seems a strange thing to credit first.

https://tale.fyi/tell says you need to sign in to tell your own story, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that (I'm on Firefox Android).

mkl··on Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API
Atlanta, Denver, Paris, Sydney: https://developers.telnyx.com/docs/inference/models/regions

The top text says MENA as well, but the regions page doesn't mention it.

mkl··on Writing by hand is good for your brain
No: https://faq.brandonsanderson.com/knowledge-base/what-program...
mkl··on Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
Probably this: Kenneth E. Iverson - Calculus https://www.jsoftware.com/books/pdf/calculus.pdf
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