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rovr138··on Show HN: Unfucked - version all changes (by any tool) - local-first/source avail
> Edit: You can download the current version now: https://github.com/cyrusradfar/homebrew-unf/archive/refs/tag...

This does not contain the source.

rovr138··on How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
The similarity is to,

> You think you'll get better long-term support from an experiment that a single engineer did in his spare time?

Linus started it as an experiment. That's a single engineer doing it on his spare time.

Do you think Linux doesn't do long-term support right?

The one changing the goal post is you.

https://github.com/cloudflare/vinext It is MIT licensed. It can be used and maintained by anyone.

If it'll get adoption like Linux did, that's different. But the base is there.

rovr138··on How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
Security.
rovr138··on 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
By what you're saying, the cost of AI sounds like a good argument.
rovr138··on 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March
people are going to complain it wasn't subscription and that it was native.

Honestly, it's a really nice app. Most people don't care about that. My family finds it easy to use and the features are good.

Could I selfhost? Yes.

Would my family find that annoying?, Yes.

Could I use bitwarden? Yes.

My family would be annoyed at me migrating to another alternative if my argument is that I don't want to pay $1/month/year ($12/year).

rovr138··on Large US company came after me for releasing a free open-source alternative
> Nominative fair use permits use of another’s trademark to refer to the trademark owner’s goods and services associated with the mark. Nominative fair use generally is permissible as long as: (1) the product or service in question is not readily identifiable without use of the trademark; (2) only so much of the mark as is reasonably necessary to identify the product or service is used; and (3) use of the mark does not suggest sponsorship or endorsement by the trademark owner.

https://www.inta.org/fact-sheets/fair-use-of-trademarks-inte...

rovr138··on Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI
There's implode() and explode() as well as serialize() and unseralize()

No idea what's used in wordpress, but back in D6 and before, it was common to see it when it would store multiple values for an instance.

rovr138··on Show HN: Winslop – De-Slop Windows
So what does it actually do?
rovr138··on Speed up responses with fast mode
Oh, I don’t like it.

Not including broken things, you end up with random errors or things that just don’t work right.

rovr138··on Speed up responses with fast mode
There's a lot of people out there that aren't paying as close attention to the actual code. Wild times!
rovr138··on OpenClaw security assessment [pdf]
More interesting, looks to be from this 16yo, https://github.com/x1xhlol, https://www.lucknite.dev/
rovr138··on OpenClaw security assessment [pdf]
Looks interesting, https://github.com/ZeroLeaks/zeroleaks

At least, I am curious about the tool

rovr138··on Claude Code is your customer
Yeah, it's pretty nifty.

It's got a couple tools built into it that it can use.

rovr138··on Claude Code is your customer
Here's an example, https://shottr.cc/s/165K/SCR-20260131-oys.png

        Claude Code v2.1.29
      Opus 4.5 · Claude Team
           ~/stow/tmp
    
     I have a new project
      In it, I want to scrape hacker news data.
      The project will be built in python.
      I want to search first what are the latest projects in python that could help me extract the data. This could be via api or scraping it.
      Once you have a plan, ask me 10 questions to help navigate the structure.
    
     I'll help you research the latest Python options for extracting Hacker News data. Let me search for current tools and approaches.
    
     Web Search("Python Hacker News API scraping library 2026")
      ⎿  Did 1 search in 20s
    
     Web Search("Hacker News official API Python wrapper 2025 2026")
      ⎿  Did 1 search in 17s
    
     Web Search("best Python library scrape Hacker News data extraction")
      ⎿  Did 1 search in 20s
    
     Let me get more details on the official Hacker News API and some specific library documentation.
    
     Fetch(https://github.com/HackerNews/API)
      ⎿  Received 373.8KB (200 OK)
    
     Fetch(https://pypi.org/project/hackernews-python/)
      ⎿  Received 3KB (200 OK)
    
     Fetch(https://github.com/avinassh/haxor)
      ⎿  Received 378.1KB (200 OK)
    
     I've gathered comprehensive research on the available options. Let me write up my findings and then ask you the 10 questions.
    
     Updated plan
      ⎿  /plan to preview
    
     Research Summary
    
      I found several solid options for extracting Hacker News data in Python:
    
      Best Options Found:
    
      1. Official HN API (Firebase-based) - Free, no rate limits, real-time data
        - Source: https://github.com/HackerNews/API
      2. haxor - Most popular Python wrapper for the official API
        - Source: https://github.com/avinassh/haxor
        - Install: pip install haxor
      3. DIY Scraping - BeautifulSoup + Requests/httpx for data not in the API
        - Source: https://www.proxiesapi.com/blog/scraping-the-hacker-news-with-python-and-beautiful.html.php
      4. Commercial - https://apify.com/epctex/hackernews-scraper for hosted solutions
    
      ---
      Now, here are my 10 questions to help define your project structure:
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    ←   Data Source   Data Types   Storage   Use Case   Submit  →
    
    Do you want to use the official HN API (recommended, no rate limits) or scrape the website directly?
    
     1. Official API (Recommended)
         Use Firebase-based API - reliable, real-time, no rate limits
      2. Web Scraping
         Scrape HTML directly - more flexible but requires maintenance
      3. Both
         API as primary, scraping for data not available via API
      4. Type something.
    ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
      5. Chat about this
      6. Skip interview and plan immediately
    
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rovr138··on Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
He said it was the harness, not the model though.
rovr138··on Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot
> Not really, you can emulate macOS on any Linux/x86-64.

Intel is going to stop being supported with the current OS version (Tahoe, 2025). OS are supported for about 3 years.

I'm curious what will happen after. If they'll break it or if they'll allow the services to keep running on unsupported hardware.

Got a couple years left

rovr138··on Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
Unless something’s changed. It can’t even be used legally in the US.

They sell the device without firmware and you have to acquire and install it yourself to bypass government regulations.

Or something like that.

rovr138··on Comma openpilot – Open source driver-assistance
..if your Tesla is an EV, aren’t you answering your question?
rovr138··on Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
and a 747 is a nice bed until you fly it. Doesn't mean it's overkill and a plane.
rovr138··on GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers
These are 100, already reviewed papers and accepted papers, by researchers in their areas of expertise. Usually PhD's and Professors.... They judge.

These are not all the submissions that they received. The review process can be... brutal for some people (depending on the quality of their submission)

rovr138··on Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
> essentially a fancy text editing environment

No, it’s an IDE first. Not a text editor that’s extensible. It has a lot of features built-in, pre-enabled, and configured out of the box.

Yes, it can edit text. But it can do a lot more.

rovr138··on SETI@home is in hiberation
> That's also a list of achievements with no links without any information regarding how much if any volunteer contributed computing has contributed to them.

That's papers that are citing them. The reason for no links is explained on the page,

> The distribution rules for published papers vary by the publication in which the paper appears. Due to these rules, a public web-source of each paper may not be immediately available. If full version is not linked below or available elsewhere on the Internet (Google Scholar can be helpful for this), most, if not all of these publications are freely available at a local municipal or collegial library. These articles are written for scientists, so the contents are fairly technical.

rovr138··on Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal
On the Ghostty recommendation, read this first - https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-memory-leak-fix

> A few months ago, users started reporting that Ghostty was consuming absurd amounts of memory, with one user reporting 37 GB after 10 days of uptime.

> ...

> The leak was present since at least Ghostty 1.0, but it is only recently that popular CLI applications (particularly Claude Code) started producing the correct conditions to trigger it at scale. The limited conditions that triggered the leak are what made it particularly tricky to diagnose.

> The fix is merged and is available in tip/nightly releases, and will be part of the tagged 1.3 release in March.

rovr138··on Libbbf: Bound Book Format, A high-performance container for comics and manga
If the data is big enough, collisions. Right?
rovr138··on If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design
Pages is Apple's word processing program.
rovr138··on Anthropic is making a huge mistake
Not really where I am.

> They should.

Why? Didn't you just claim in your other comment that price will skyrocket on these? Why would a company pay for it then?

> We should hope for extreme levels of competition.

We have them. There are also open weight models.

...the rest is just crazy talk.

rovr138··on Anthropic is making a huge mistake
Heck, you can use OpenCode with some other model (or even anthropics )
rovr138··on Anthropic is making a huge mistake
> Anthropic doesn't want anyone training on its model or using its tools outside of its blessed environment.

They have no problem with anyone using this. They just don't want you to get the subsidized cost.

You can use opencode directly via the api. Not through the pro/max plan.

> Anthropic is going to put extreme pricing pressure on your wages soon. You shouldn't give them an ounce of latitude when they act like an antagonist. You should hope that Anthropic has a ton of competition, not that they get to defend their moat.

Maybe. But the internet in which I grew up, and the movements within open source would say you free as in freedom, not as in beer. They can charge. If anyone wants to move, they can use OpenCode with any model. If enough people leave, the market will dictacte.

I prefer Open Source, yes. If they license it that way, I can't say that I still will because I don't like it. They do give the option.

rovr138··on Anthropic is making a huge mistake
>is this really a company you want to rely on in your workflow?

Should your company be paying for API access instead?

That's what most companies will do if they need it.

rovr138··on My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated
> a string

At this point, multiple. Just in case.

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