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penetrarthur··on Jellyfin 12.0
Has cloudfare become any more strict with passing large amounts of video data through them? I heard they were kind of against it, but haven't enforced anything.
penetrarthur··on Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
I wouldn't call Terra a mid tier model. Terra xhigh is the only model I use for coding and it is good for literally everything. The difference between Terra and Sol is negligible, but it is way more limit hungry and much much slower.
penetrarthur··on Immich 3.0
Has anyone personally upgraded to 3.0? How is the experience?
penetrarthur··on Who Does What? Team Topologies for the Agentic Platform
I actually think it is people who write using these terrible short punchline sentences. In my experience, llms do better job at generating complicated sentences.
penetrarthur··on Claude Fable 5
My .md files are specific to my domain - game development using Unity. Something that is probably universal and is a good baseline for every project and domain:

- which libraries to use for standard problems - project structure, it helps if it has a name(vertical slice etc) - which things llm is free to edit, which not - naming, comments etc

And most importantly: "what not to do", and you should do this a lot: Whenever llm does something that is a code smell, make it fix it and make it add a new rule to agents.md.

penetrarthur··on Claude Fable 5
I got the codex to write near perfect code with somewhat strict agents.md and coding standards(a separate .md file referenced from agents.md). My .md files have examples and a long list of do's and don'ts I accumulated over the last 6 months or so, totaling 300-400 lines. I plan every feature with it until I am satisfied with the general approach it wants to take, and then it oneshots it in 95% of cases. The planning takes anywhere from 5 to 30 minutes. The actual execution has gotten stupidly fast, most of the times it is faster than making a cup of coffee.
penetrarthur··on Energy return in running shoes explained (2025)
Good job on getting into running! I would highly suggest you find some "exercises for runners" videos on youtube and find some exercises that are comfortable for you to do. Focus on the exercises that are asymmetric(lunges etc). You can do most of them at home and it takes 30 minutes twice a week. You will feel the results in less than two weeks. Most of the people who run consistently do those kind of exercises because running is very demanding on your body and if stabilizer muscles are weak, the impact will go to your joints and tendons.
penetrarthur··on Energy return in running shoes explained (2025)
yeah, it is great that you've read a book or two, but why is it that every single elite athlete runs and trains in modern "springloaded" shoes?
penetrarthur··on Claude for Small Business
Is there a way to find "the concerns" of people from back when MS Excel was becoming a thing? Maybe someone here can share how people took the introduction of the early days "productivity tools" like MS Word and MS Excel?
penetrarthur··on Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server
Mine was automating mining ore via an assist tool called UOInject. I think the language there was Visual Basic. I started programming purely out of necessity.
penetrarthur··on The Brand Age
> So what happened to the Swiss watch industry is not merely an interesting outlier. It's very much a story of our times.

I am not saying it is, but it sounds like the first paragraph of every Gemini deep research.

penetrarthur··on Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years
I thought that's called "hangover" and you just need to drink more when that happens.
penetrarthur··on Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years
I like it because it differs a lot from whites and reds and allows to get a different perspective on how wine can taste. While the difference within whites and within reds can be huge, the orange wine tastes like something completely alien, yet it can be very tasty.
penetrarthur··on Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years
There were not a whole lot of Russian tourists 10 years ago because the memories from Russian invasion of 2008 were still fresh.

I'm not saying that inflow of Russians is particularly bad, it just raised the prices of everything very significantly, and together with the pro-Russian government and reversal in pro-European development, the European tourist influx is stagnant at best.

penetrarthur··on Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years
I've been to Georgia 10 years ago and there were a lot of tourists from Germany and France. Both the buses with organized trips for retired people and youngsters renting AirBnbs for cheap.

The problem we faced was with the inconsistency in price/quality in restaurants and services. Some places are really cheap - a huge dinner for two in a "I want this, this and this and two bottles of wine" manner costed 25EUR, while a 15 minute transfer could cost 50EUR. This inconsistency is something that leaves a bad aftertaste for many tourists, who would otherwise want to go there again and again to enjoy the beautiful nature, food, wine. And the tap water is literally Evian. That was in Kutaisi.

If it wasn't for the sudden grab of power fueled by Russian money and the influx of people fleeing from Russia because of war, give Georgia another 10-20 years, and the living standards would rise dramatically. Similar to how it happened in early 2000s.

penetrarthur··on Georgian wine culture dates back, uninterrupted, approximately 8k years
There are a lot of Georgian wines in EU. Especially the recently popular orange wines(white wine made like red wine).
penetrarthur··on Show HN: I built a silly thing to send love to strangers on the internet
Next love in 0:19, can't wait
penetrarthur··on Your Job Isn't Disappearing. It's Shrinking Around You in Real Time
or "reels" equivalent of an article
penetrarthur··on Your Job Isn't Disappearing. It's Shrinking Around You in Real Time
God damn it. Can people write interesting articles in NORMAL writing style nowadays? Why is everyone writing in these stupid short "punchline" sentences?
penetrarthur··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
By ChatGPT you mean web interface of chatgpt? You were copypasting the "context" every time?
penetrarthur··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
I started working on a simple Telegram bot with llm backend and .md knowledgebase that would help me organize, track and research my long-term hobby projects.

The problem that I am repeatedly facing is that I am trying to build a home server and I keep asking chatgpt questions, but it is hard to keep all the little details in one place. The way I see it is that I can just text my assistant bot and ask it something like "hey, can you research which NAS setup would be the best for me given x and y". It will offer some setup and I would say "can you add it to the plan" and "can you plan the next steps for me?". The bot will also update the knowledgebase and version control it.

You might also want to use it for something like planning a trip to Paris, where at some point you might say "hey, given my schedule, can you squeeze a tour to top5 croissant places in the center of Paris".

The whole thing sound really vague and sounds like something solved long ago, but I cannot find solutions that will be guaranteed to stick to a very precise plan that I can review at any given moment. If you happened to know existing solutions, please let me know. I really don't want to build this thing.

penetrarthur··on Why proteins fold and how GPUs help us fold
Great article!

On a sidenote, what is this new style of writing using small sentences where each sentence is supposed to be a punchline?

"And most of those sequences? They don't fold into anything useful. They're junk. They aggregate into clumps. They get degraded by cellular quality control. Only a TINY fraction of possible sequences fold into stable, functional proteins."

penetrarthur··on Show HN: Aidlab – Health Data for Devs
Any information on how comfortable the strap is? I am wearing a Garmin HRM Pro for one hour a day during workouts and it is not very comfy. I know a lot of athletes are moving to way less precise optical hand straps just because of the comfort issues with chest straps. I would not wear a chest strap for longer periods of time, unless I absolutely had to.
penetrarthur··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)
Great idea! Great website! Terrible video. The 90 second format is great, this is how much I would like to spend learning what exactly your product does. But the whole video is just clicking some user interfaces with no result. After watching the video, I have even less idea of what it the product is for. I would love to see a video that goes through the "next, next, next" in the wizard and then shows the actual outcome.
penetrarthur··on Apps SDK
And Dropbox is just an FTP server with SVN.
penetrarthur··on Nine things I learned in ninety years
and moisturize
penetrarthur··on GNU Midnight Commander
Total Commander is still the first thing I install on every fresh Windows install for the last 20 or so years. Copy/move/delete etc keys are the same as in mc.
penetrarthur··on Firing programmers for AI is a mistake
This still implies that the person who is currently paying freelance programmers is 1) good with LLMs 2) knows some html and js 3) can deploy the updated website.
penetrarthur··on Firing programmers for AI will destroy everything
There is only one word worse than "programmer" and it's "coder".

If your software developers do nothing but write text in VS Code, you might as well replace them with AI.

penetrarthur··on Why Tracebit is written in C#
Static methods in modern C# are either extension methods or some other very rare cases like mathematical functions.

The super complicated comments become readable and useful when you hover the mouse cursor over something. There are also tools that can parse those comments and create documentation.

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