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smetannik··on AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
If this approach works with AI companies, why the same doesn't work for nuclear power plants? :)
smetannik··on How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs
On one side of a spectrum I see people like DHH who claims that "coding is dead", on other side - there are articles like that.

Usually the truth is somewhere in the middle, but I wonder how that "middle" looks like.

smetannik··on Nokia Design Archive (2025)
403 Forbidden
smetannik··on Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
So is this basically a ngrok from CF?
smetannik··on What will our economic future look like?
> AI today is around 100x cheaper than 2 years ago. it will continue to get cheap.

2 y.o model is probably 100x cheaper, but model size and requirements are also growing proportionally.

2 years ago, thinking was an optional, nowadays people use Opus with high effort almost by default.

smetannik··on Oceans hit highest temperature on record
Next year will be a new record
smetannik··on Fixing a bricked Framework laptop
Tip: if you already have Raspberry Pi, your can skip purchasing CH347.

RPi has SPI pins and is supported by flashrom.

smetannik··on Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
Why a spare machine has to be exactly a mac ? For iMessage?
smetannik··on Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer
> slow computer > 25 GB of RAM

What?

smetannik··on What to learn to be a graphics programmer
For some reason, graphics is one of most popular topics for recreational programming.
smetannik··on My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable
> Unfortunately, HDMI 2.1 does not work with AMD graphics on Linux due to shenanigans from the HDMI Forum.

IIRC, recently, AMD got permission to implement HDMI 2.1 in their foss driver, so soon this shouldn't be an issue.

smetannik··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
Can you suggest some tutorials for Verilog and FPGAs in general?

I have a spare Tang Nano 9k but I don't feel confident about blindly asking Claude to vibecode me a solution and still would like to have at-least a basic level of understanding.

smetannik··on Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2
Luanti more seems like an attempt to build a FOSS Roblox with Minecraft gameplay base
smetannik··on Stop Using JWTs
This debate pops up every few years and the community still seems like don't have a clear consensus
smetannik··on Linux 7.1
Looking forward for a new NTFS driver to try. I hope this new iteration will be better than ntfs3 from Paragon.
smetannik··on The state of building user interfaces in Rust
Slint is an attempt to build a Qt competitor

Although it's built in Rust, it supports a variety of languages + a custom DSL (like QML).

smetannik··on Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages
I might be wrong, but this situation seems like a signal of desktop Linux adoption growth
smetannik··on How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
I wonder why something like LM Studio didn't work for the author?
smetannik··on Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
Please, stop using "written in Rust" as some kind of advantage or killer feature.
smetannik··on Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
They're selling it to investors. Population isn't their client.
smetannik··on The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
That list is quite long
smetannik··on Cal.com is going closed source
This sounds more like a good excuse to go closed source. I feel that real reason might be revenue-related.
smetannik··on Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?
Building the Better Go Playground - https://goplay.tools

Tool to run, test or bench Go code online. An alternative frontend to official Go playground, but supports WebAssembly, syntax highlighting and basic autocomplete.

smetannik··on OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)
This didn't age well
smetannik··on Run Linux containers on Android, no root required
Android's terminal app is really slow and takes some time to boot comparing to Termux.

Also, the Terminal app is essentially a webview (as I understand, the reason is architectural).

smetannik··on Oracle Files H-1B Visa Petitions Amid Mass Layoffs
Did oracle manage to circumvent 100k payment per H1B applicant?

Also, why they need to do H1B instead of just outsourcing abroad?

smetannik··on EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
IMO unlike WP, EmDash can he harder to host.

With WP you can find a plethora of cheap PHP hostings that offer WP preinstalled. If you need to tweak a theme - just download a .php file via FTP, tweak it and upload back.

No server management or restart is required.

One big potential benefit that EmDash has - every WP deployment is basically a honeypot.

smetannik··on OpenCode – The open source AI coding agent
This shouldn't be related to Wayland.

It works perfectly fine on Niri, Hyprland and other Wayland WMs.

What problem do you have?

smetannik··on Wired headphone sales are exploding
Back in the day when I was in school, I wanted to learn how to solder, so I started fixing my classmates headphones.

This "service" ended up to be quite popular - broken headphone wires were a very common problem.

I think the average lifespan of wireless headphones is definitely longer than that of wired ones.

smetannik··on Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan
MoltenVK was replaced by KosmicKrisp
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