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rawoke083600

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rawoke083600··on Fuck Android Developer Verification Program
Honestly, I agree!

I paid my fee - $20 or $25, I can’t quite remember - but when I couldn’t reliably enter or find my physical home address via Google Maps because of some weird street-name issues, I never got to complete the process!

rawoke083600··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
Interesting and not saying you wrong lol. I live in South Africa (cape town), a modernish city by modern standards, but ive never heard of Hoka nor On Brand.

In some ways that should be good news to them as clearly some untapped markets still

rawoke083600··on GLM-5.3-Flash
I got so much better experience LLM-Chunking(think RAG) with qwen-38 27B ONCE i move the thinking effort to HIGH vs XHIGH (i think is the default on Open Router).
rawoke083600··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
My last three phones has been XIAOMis. I absolutely love them for the their price-performance value, and honestly their Android version MI (build/skin ?) is my favorite android version.
rawoke083600··on Gemini 3.7 Flash
I wish they will always put it front and centre what are all the models name as how i call it in via their API.
rawoke083600··on LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach
Unpopular take:

I "just" use google chrome password manager for "everything".. yes im sure it horrifies some HN ppl but my thinking is, from all the password managers out there, does anyone one spend more on security or hire better security ppl or have access to better security tools and infra than google (yes yes im sure outliers and some counter examples exists).

I routinely die a little inside when i see my gf (none techie) try and remember which one of her fav 3-5 often used passwords she has used for site/service abc as she tries to login.

Kinda tongue in cheek, I always tell her if you can remember your password it's a bad one !

rawoke083600··on Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
MinerU works well to get it markdown
rawoke083600··on GLM 5.2 Is Out
Digg is still a thing ?
rawoke083600··on Samurai City
Great article.. NGL, in about the first paragraph and visual intro, I already was hoping and wanting a real Samurai city MMO/RPG with a true vibrant city and interresting characters to explore..

Me (char) climbing the ranks and politics while hiding my secret ninja origin from the nobles trying to get closer to the shogun.. Sometimes doing side-quest in my Samurai outfit-and-skillset... and sometimes doing missions in my ninja-outfit-and-skillset..

But good article :) It's Friday and I'm feeling creative

rawoke083600··on Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
Lol what ??
rawoke083600··on Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software
Been thinking of this mental model held by some "oh ai coding is always bad etc etc" (fair we all allowed opinions).

But why are we okey with colleagues making from time to time terrible blunders (hey we all human ). But when ai makes mistakes its a sweeping judgment of "oh ai coding is terrible".

We seen to not include all the amazing code they do right and security bugs they do find..

I feel if it was a human or colleague we be more fair with its failure and balance about his/her achievements also.

Just a thought.ymmv

rawoke083600··on Ferrari Luce
I do get a lot of "plastic" vibes and "high quality raching sim gear"
rawoke083600··on Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
Brillant post ! I love Hetzner's cloud UI. Happy customer for many many years with them.
rawoke083600··on Gemini 3.5 Flash
I like your chain of thought there !
rawoke083600··on StarFighter 16-Inch
Looks nice ! :) I like the design and name

Not sure who the target market is.. but on the homepage it only lists the CPU's in the era of AI/Models etc I'd put the GPU and VRAM somewhere on mainpage as well.

Even when I view "Tech Specs" still don't see the VRAM ? Just some feedback.

rawoke083600··on Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons
No disagreeing with your points. I can see the passion in your reply :)

But Hetzner Cloud UX/UI is wonderful, compared to the rivals, Digital Ocean, Google, AWS (yea those are bigger and offer more, but still)

rawoke083600··on Laws of UX
These are nice (and ofc not set in stone).

Me not being a "traditional or natural" designer, I like to have a set of best practises recipes or laws. These laws might be difficult to constantly hold in your head. I think this is a PERFECT starting point for AI to "bulk check" some screens.

Honestly I would map it to a short-cut, like I map "format source code" to a shortcut. If you building business software a set of laws or (shortcut mapped to them) can be really useful as a sanity check.

In fact I just did that:

- Downloaded the UX Laws as a screenshot

- Downloaded a screenshot of a dashboard (a userform might have worked better)

- Asked ChatGPT and Claude to do a review with those laws in mind and then to create a new mockup based on those recommendations

Project 1: CMMS Dashboard For Maintenance (fast food chain)

- Dashboard old: https://imgur.com/a/R3wrMpr

- Dashboard new (Claude): https://imgur.com/a/cYq4gE8

Project 2: https://swellslots.com (Surf Forecast App, arcade look and feel)

- Forecast old: https://imgur.com/a/W3daZrP

- Forecast new: https://imgur.com/a/kNi2Nvg

rawoke083600··on Zed 1.0
Congrats on shipping !

I love that most of my (small but important) set of keyboard shortcuts from VSCode jsut works.

- Terminal - Ctrl + P (and siblings).

Suggestion (minor):

To me, font size is as import these days as dark/light mode. Would be cool if basic font-size (ui panel etc, were part of default/first-run config)

Also like that AI is a "first class citizen" it seems on Zed.

Well done guys :)

rawoke083600··on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
Check out hetzner ui (regardless if you like their services, i know some ppl have opions or experiences lol) BUT, their cloud ux/ui is fantasties for a cloud company!
rawoke083600··on Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good
Agreed ! So what
rawoke083600··on Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good
Or "It turns out..." Somehow it just bugs me, and I'm usually so laidback
rawoke083600··on Tim Cook Is Leaving. Good
English is not my first language, although I am ok with it, whenever I write I always pump it through an AI first with a prompt of "Make it better English", especially if its a business email with English speaking clients.

I enjoyed your article and shared it on my family-geek-whatsapp group

rawoke083600··on Ubuntu 26.04
Been a long time i3 user. Usually works well if you put in the initial time. But of late been very happy with Xubuntu (xfce)
rawoke083600··on Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner
Super happy customer for about 5 years now..

And i say it every time they came up: Their cloud UX is brilliant and simple! Compared to the big ones out there.

rawoke083600··on Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines
I like the name ! :)
rawoke083600··on Why is IPv6 so complicated?
Honestly... Its more machine vocab than human level vocab.

Ipv4 is jsut about able still to hold in your head, have a convo or more importantly you can: "Shout an ipv4 across the open office floor from your desk to your tech colleague"

If you shout an ipv6 address in public, you jsut seem broken

rawoke083600··on Claude Design
I know what you mean.. and me as traditional none designer have been using bootstrap css since the start. As usually my css would look like an engineer trying toso design.

When you say old school artisnal design and weirdness do you mean something like this: (shameless plug, but relevant to design)

https://swellslots.com (surf forecast site)

The design for this was literally "90s Arcade / street fighter 2 look"

Funny enough without AI, i would not have been skilled enough to make the graphics (background, logo etc)

rawoke083600··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)
a 90's Art Style (think Street Fighter 2) - Surf Forecast App.

I wanted a surf forecast app that i can look at glance, which "time-slot" of the week is good enough to go surf.

And I wanted it to look like nothing else out there, at least surf forecast wise

https://swellslots.com

rawoke083600··on Show HN: SwellSlots – Grid Based Surf Forecast App with a Street Fighter 2 UI
Ahh thank you for checking it out. Yea the surf spots turned out to be the hard part.

Will look at readability.

rawoke083600··on An opinionated critique of Duolingo
I went down this road with their Japanese.. in summary, their focussing on "words" vs "phrasing/talking" from day one like Pimsleur was, wat killed it for me.

On that note Pimsleur was/is EXCELLENT for me: 1. Focusing on phrases vs words 2. Talking from Day 1 3. Lesson oriented.

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