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rasengan0on Extra Big Ass Intelligence

The ban hasn't even passed yet: https://www.sanders.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Ban-Artifi...

No output to this prompt, not even an error: AI, opps nope SI is huuge. The best evar.We're gonna be rich right?

Needs a huggingface gguf

rasengan0on Reddit is ending RSS support on November 13

for posterity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

rasengan0on Deodands put a price on objects that caused death

helpful in unpacking https://youtu.be/KaaqEikZSd0?si=_Naid96hJxKdeoAZ

rasengan0on Qwen 3.8 27B

Got Qwen3.8 to run on my Framework 12 Intel Core 13 Gen Raptor Lake i5-1334U small laptop with 48G RAM stick:

llama serve -hf unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:UD-Q4_K_XL

but it failed my basic prompt to compose a vim regex to match CamelCaseWords

downgraded a bit with Q4_K_M from ollama run qwen3.8:27b

and /set nothink and at least 1 regex matched FooBar

prompt eval at 2.8 t/s eval at 0.94t/s

I particularly enjoyed this usage of the regex: /%\1\%/ ... onward for 700+ characters of \%\/ :-)

rasengan0on The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II

crafting one: https://youtu.be/tB8qTbdw-OQ?si=BQtwuOh83-nG8CrT

rasengan0on Inside the 24 hours that led to pulling Fable 5

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/13/inside-the-whirlwin...

rasengan0on Take better notes, by hand

Loose leaf, works great [1]

[1] Lion Kimbro. How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think. 2003 https://users.speakeasy.net/~lion/nb/book.pdf

rasengan0on Boomloom: Think with your hands

The boom loom boss was a winner of the 2025 Core77 Design Award for Toys and Play.

It's like an analog computer of weaving.

If you have any experience with weaving you will understand the importance of shed formation. The key innovation is the heddle mechanism which affords great efficiency with weft pattern making through rotation of a pattern bar allowing the weaver to focus on other variables like yarn selection or design sequence. There is even a web app pattern picker to plan out designs developed with the help of a mathematician [1]

Perhaps other similar ideas might be something like tablet weaving [2] or Der Weberknecht [3]

The primary difference is the quick prep and setup time with the boom loom and it's near instant to develop modular samplers [4]

If anyone knows of any other hacking mechanical weaving machines like the boom loom; please share!

[1] https://www.theboomloom.com/krokbragd-picker

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_weaving

[3] https://weberknecht.notion.site/Projekt-Weberknecht-Project-...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/@janethughes8151

rasengan0on January 6: A Date Which Will Live in Infamy – The White House

from The White House

rasengan0on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

I like my shiny local gewgaw as much as the next person https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLM/

but I find it curious that the many will always pay for the few https://youtu.be/y12yZ7bQizk?si=Mbgg-F7IP8HJXJPz

and at what cost ? https://youtu.be/-sNKfRq1oKg?si=6m8pVM9tvawohUbm

Why not just mechanical turk the codebase? Lotsa jobs even with LLM augmentation at current state.

Where is the long term thinking of utility vs cost?

Until AI can solve its own energy generation issues, the hype is gross.

Thankfully I'll be long dead (hopefully) before a local AQI > 500 is considered the new normal common good trade for high fidelity personalized deep fake pr0n

or the cure for cancer at US healthcare billable rates.

rasengan0on I canceled my book deal

>"All of our future books will involve AI." >It is antithetical to the premise of the book (classic programming projects!) that they agreed to publish.

I hope this trend is not industry wide. A publisher chasing fads and trends over enduring quality, so sad. I wish I knew who the publisher was to avoid but I can foresee their pivot to AI authors with titles like "From Zero to Hero, ChatGPT 5.2 Top Prompting Secrets for Dummies"

rasengan0on We invited a man into our home at Christmas and he stayed with us for 45 years

Glad this story got on HN, it moved the heart and I hope it spreads in the little openings of our lives. Nothings perfect, but day by day, more kindness and care, we can share https://youtu.be/wlpcFnOPH2k?si=C1Wa1cviJMa1zlYm

rasengan0on Hashcards: A plain-text spaced repetition system

Thank you, finally a SRS implementation I can use for my plain text files. Very nice! I had Gemini make a deck from https://github.com/eudoxia0/hashcards , hashcard_tutorial.md and after correcting my deck to account for escaping the < and > with \< and \>; on the second run ($ hashcards drill --card-limit=10 ./)dealt me all the correct cards, like a self QA I really like the keyboard shortcut of space and 1,2,3,4 for making deck reviewing quick work.

rasengan0on Transparent leadership beats servant leadership

>transparent leadership. In my book, a good leader ...

I practice this in my day job, as in that is the default mode for continued employment. Not sure how these practices are new. I wonder if it is a generational thing.

rasengan0on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGoogle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop

and why? = UI/UX

rasengan0on Show HN: I'm a dermatologist and I vibe coded a skin cancer learning app

that was fun: Score: 6 / 7 (86%)

rasengan0on The End of Handwriting

>it is the shoulder that moves the hand which is incidentally holding a pen.

Yes, arms instead of fingers, thanks for the great ergonomic video link, this was the most surprising finding when I got into fountain pens and feels like a totally different skill from the school days of handwriting cursive: https://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/topic/372976-recomm...

rasengan0on Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file

i just standardize to TiddlyWiki (2004) https://tiddlywiki.com/#History%20of%20TiddlyWiki format now supporting json to maintain interop with PlainText editors emacs, vim, mobile, or bespoke GenAi DIY vibe code import/export tool, etc and all done!

[{ "title": "HyperClay", "text": "2025-08-18 Experience the Zen of making, hosting, and sharing great software in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file\nBuild web apps like you're sculpting clay, not managing infrastructure.\n\nModern web development forces you through layers of abstraction: config files, build steps, magic frameworks, deployment pipelines.\n\nHyperclay returns to a simpler model: your app is a single HTML file you (and your clients) manipulate directly. Edit the file through its visual UI and it persists its own state.\n\nWhat if web apps were as simple to edit as documents? Hyperclay makes it possible: UI, logic, and data live in one self-modifying HTML file. Edit it live. Share it instantly. Download and use it locally.\n\n---via [[Single-file HTML apps | Hyperclay|https://hyperclay.com/]]", "tags": "SelfHost Html TiddlyWiki Spa NodeJs", "type": "text/vnd.tiddlywiki", "created": "20250818000000000", "modified": "20250818000000000" }]

rasengan0on Ollama's new app

Enjoy Ollama CLI so the output can be redirected or piped; definitely a useful feature.

rasengan0on FEMA staff baffled after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season

Federal commitment - Agency Standing Orders, Day 1: https://youtu.be/_JspM8fCyak?si=CyrWavBSPungUxkH

rasengan0on Social Security Administration Moving Public Communications to X

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-investors-elon-musks-x-re... Just supply your SSN to Saudi Arabia and all will be well.

rasengan0on Tenstorrent Launches Blackhole Developer Products at Tenstorrent Dev Day

Nice filter of models supported: https://tenstorrent.com/developers but needs that another filter for Blackhole RISCV p100a p150; my guess going by memory https://tenstorrent.com/hardware/blackhole it is up there with n300 https://docs.tenstorrent.com/aibs/wormhole/specifications.ht...

rasengan0on The Rise and Fall of America's Response to Foreign Election Meddling

Fall indeed. The ultimate state hack and this story is not even ranking high on HN.

rasengan0on Lynx Browser: The Land That Time Revived (2022)

I use w3m with vim https://github.com/yuratomo/w3m.vim but just reinstalled lynx from this post after a couple of decades. This has helped with vim bindings: https://www.fuw.edu.pl/~jt/lynx-FAQ/kbd_130.html basically o for options then on for on for keyboard input > VI keys. C-f works for page forward :-)

rasengan0on Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help

Thanks for posting this collective effort.

Pretty easy to get started after signing up at login.gov

then https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/get-started-trans... with video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwQ5pEWWFY8

The support forum is https://historyhub.history.gov/citizen_archivists/ to ask questions

rasengan0on ELIZA Reanimated

$emacs

MX doctor

enter prompt, type RET twice to submit

pass output to https://github.com/rupertl/eliza-ctss or modern llms

rasengan0on EUCLEAK Side-Channel Attack on the YubiKey 5 Series

gotta bunch of yubis and was about to ask about https://store.google.com/product/titan_security_key then found https://ninjalab.io/a-side-journey-to-titan/ by the same folks

rasengan0on Show HN: Semantic Grep – A Word2Vec-powered search tool

very cool, led me to find https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jjaakkol/sgrep.html and semgrep is taken so another symlink it is, w2vgrep?

rasengan0on Challenger Disaster 1986

Challenger: "A lot of people just had this gut feeling that this just doesn't feel right."

rasengan0on Yerba mate, from Paraguay to Syria

Had an ex who did Peace Corp in Paraguay and first introduced me to it. Hated it: bitter, astringent; didn't really care for the green version. Later in life came across mate again from Argentine culture and fell hard. While I liked sharing, I did enjoy drinking solo more. It really made me super productive at work during problem solving and was an all-day drink unlike tea or coffee. Moderation is key: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es303494s I had to attenuate my drinking after 3 yrs of my favorite brand, Rosamonte Seleccion Especial. I've since moved more to coffee but there is still a lingering tender spot for my beloved mate.