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replete··on Framework (2nd Gen) Event – 2025 Launch Event
$1999 is impressive for 128GB unified memory, the 8060S GPU with the Ryzen APU on this machine is similar to a 4060 in performance, with dynamic VRAM this is an interesting option for an AI box.

Later a demo was showed with multiple networked boards in one case.

An AMD guy came on later and said they are focusing on Rocm in 2025, let's see what that means.

replete··on Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
I need some ice for the burn I just received.
replete··on WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops
Not really, you can tweak a lot with the right CLI commands, and the desktop experience is not constantly being messed with or your settings reverted, as is the case with Windows and its forced updates.
replete··on WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops
I am referring to how some window buttons not rendering macOS style in some linux applications.
replete··on WhiteSur: macOS-like theme for GTK desktops
Use this on Fedora, mostly works great apart from a few apps for whatever reason do their own thing.
replete··on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
Or, this is how they save face with their customers having complied with the request rather than stop trading with the UK.
replete··on What Makes a Great Software Engineer (Dissertation) (2016) [pdf]
Short version: HN is not Reddit
replete··on Typst 0.13 is out now
I've been following the HTML export thread, good to see some progress.

I've experimented with 'transpiling' to RST with Pandoc for purposes of digital documentation - but it's not quite there. Would love to see a flavour of Typst that could be viable for digital documentation with a decent live preview experience in VSCode.

I know this isn't the purpose of Typst, but one can hope. Would also welcome advice on this subject of decent authorship digital documentation - some of these frameworks are quite frankly massive, unweildy and painful to deal with.

replete··on Svelte 5 is not JavaScript
What are the best resources for approaching complex enterprise apps with Lit?
replete··on Svelte 5 is not JavaScript
If you want your own Web Components, you're going to build an entire framework around the creation and management of them because making proper 'web components' for your project is in effect a whole other project
replete··on Show HN: Tetris Variant in a Rotating / Flipping Square
Pretty cool, but the sudden ramp up in speed makes it impossible around 7000 points - speed should probably increase more linearly
replete··on Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5
10x pi5s would be 480w vs 360w
replete··on Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5
Thanks for sharing. Pi5 + cheap AMD GPU = convenient modest LLM api server? ...if you find the right magic rocm incantations I guess

Double thanks for the 3rd party mac mini SSD tip - eagerly awaiting delivery!

replete··on Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5
That's not a bad result, although for £320 for 4x Pi5s you could probably find a used 12GB 3080 and probably more than 10x token speed
replete··on TeX and Typst: Layout Models (2024)
Great write up. Looking forward to a day when a Typst doc framework is a reality.
replete··on Markdown's Big Brother: Say Hello to AsciiDoc
Do you also use it for company docs, policies etc, or only for software documentation? Would love to see the back of Word.
replete··on Ask HN: Recommendations for a Linux Distro and Laptop?
I don't like Ubuntu either, and also ended up on Fedora. I don't know anyone who ever stuck with their first Linux distro and still think Ubuntu first is a sensible first distro recommendation for a web developer who hasn't used Linux before, for many reasons.
replete··on Ask HN: Recommendations for a Linux Distro and Laptop?
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replete··on Ask HN: Recommendations for a Linux Distro and Laptop?
For a first distro, Ubuntu is probably a good idea. Fedora later maybe. Arch or LinuxFromScratch is a good learning experience too.
replete··on Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop
Had a go at booting this in a VM. The ISOs apparently have some issues, meaning you can't just boot in a VM and have a poke around...
replete··on Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop
Definitely going to take this for a spin. BSD has been appealing to me for a long time, but the driver situation is wanting. In theory, a more integrated BSD like experience but with Linux kernel/drivers? Interesting!
replete··on GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search
A lot of this will seem trivial if you haven't used Github for an organization's management of issues. This also lets you start off with a markdown checklist, and convert items to sub-issues.
replete··on Why Angular Is the Better Choice for Long-Term Projects
Thanks for sharing this.

I'd like to hear more from you about the specifics of Angular that work really well in an enterprise (at least, large complex flagship saas webapp) scenario, and how you overcame specific Angular challenges? I hear many negative thing about Angular, but I really just wonder if there is misunderstanding about how things should be done.

If that's not something suitable for a casual HN comment, perhaps something like this would be a good blog article.

Faced with a technology decision, it's been interesting reading what people on HN say about React/Svelte/Angular.

What I seem to read around here is that React is great and simple until it's very large, and you could pay a high price later on if you make poor decisions early. Lots of complaints about complexity in a large codebase, telling me that architecture gets tricky especially with many vendor libraries.

Angular is talked about with disdain mostly, steep learning curve and lack of JSX. That could be a feature or benefit. You don't need to reinvent the wheel or architect everything as there's a strong structure in place, but you have to understand and do everything the prescribed way. What I want to know more about is once you have the right practices in place, how good is it to work with? What compromises and unsolvable issues remain once you get to a significantly large application?

Svelte has a very positive reception, but I'm not sure there are many 'enterprise'-y success stories yet and obviously specialists/talent will be rarer.

replete··on Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15
You don't need to use icloud to use a Mac.
replete··on Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15
Does it phone home? I don't care about scanning my files. I do care about details of my private data leaving my device.
replete··on DivestOS ROM shuts after ten years
RIP DivestOS, truly a top-tier project.

Not just the best alternative to GrapheneOS for non-pixel devices, but also a suite of other apps such as Mull, an Android Firefox fork.

This really was a passion project and SkewedZeppelin deserves much respect for the monumental amount of quality work that was involved in this, at massive personal cost. Wish him the best for the future and whatever else he does next.

Thanks for the 3 years of faultless updates. Not sure who else could fill those boots to be honest.

replete··on The new science of controlling lucid dreams
I found another method: after waking up in the morning (with time to doze off again), nicotine pouch under the gum just after the heavy breathing starts. Super vivid lucid dreams, with obvious gotchas of using nicotine
replete··on Raspberry Pi 500 Delivers Great Performance, Convenient Upgrade to the RPi 400
I've not seen 1080p playback issues even on 3rd gen Intel machines, to be honest. All I could think is that it was a driver issue with PiOS, as the SoC [0] should have good support for decoding these codecs. When I was in the rabbit hole trying to solve the issue I read many reports from others with the same problems.

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-raspberry_pi_4_b_broadcom_...

replete··on Raspberry Pi 500 Delivers Great Performance, Convenient Upgrade to the RPi 400
Can it play youtube videos without saturating the resources yet?

This was a major problem with Pi 4/400, I had to resort to quite an extreme overclock and some hacky custom browser builds to improve this. Bought it for a family member new to computing. I was put off so much of the 'pi as a basic desktop computer' that I wouldn't buy another for this usecase. Never did make sense to me why it struggled so much with a quad core SoC that should have been able to handle it.

First thing I do on an SBC now is to see what resources are consumed playing back a 1080p youtube video.

replete··on macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive
It's actually insanely useful. Weekly clone to disk is something I value because if the machine dies I can use my clone on another machine and boot my real desktop without fuss and Continue Doing Things
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