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smnplk··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Wow, didnt know Guinness Zero existed. Now that stuff might actually be good 4 you :D
smnplk··on Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
Just don't upload to Google. Their maps navigation is terrible anyway. Fuck them. But do continue to provide your valuable data to alt maps.
smnplk··on Ask HN: Is Opus 5.5 another step change?
yea, apparently you dont need to know Rust
smnplk··on What even is an OS now?
he did mention slop
smnplk··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
Classic DHH.Allways talks about what is good for his situation, not what is good for the community in general. I can understand his excitement of slashing his server and labor expenses. He will be richer and have more time, less people will work for him and wow, rails came a long way, didn't it ? The world is your oyster now! Oh and btw, we are changing the name of the conference, it's called Rust conf now.
smnplk··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
I often need to prepare to speak my mind
smnplk··on Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]
I that case so is Clojure.
smnplk··on Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
can confirm, looks like crap is not on a list
smnplk··on Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
Needs to also have an alarm clock waking you with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4J1zyrW_VQ&list=RD-4J1zyrW_... :)
smnplk··on OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
They should get sued into oblivion.
smnplk··on Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light
I dont think there can be intuition for this. How can one even imagine an electron "flying" through space, there is no measurable thing that travels, we can only see the disturbance of the surrounding space caused by it. But what is the it, does it maybe live in other dimension not accessible to us, or is there no it at all ? I gave up as a layman trying to understand any of this. Sure, there is math and you can somehow make some mental models involving 3d graphics and all, but that is not actually what is going on down there.
smnplk··on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
One would think that ze germans would be among the first to be conquering space with all that german engineering.
smnplk··on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
The other day i was trying to learn why there is no internal structure to electrons and other quarks, but it failed. I still dont know.
smnplk··on How I use LLMs to learn complex topics
Have you tried using the caveman skill ? :D Might be worth a try if you dont like long prose https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman
smnplk··on Devtools must be open source
That goes against "business model" of AI companies
smnplk··on LLMs reward expertise
This sounds like coding manually would take less time.
smnplk··on Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10
This sucks for Europe. Cant add shit. I guess this is only for muricanos.
smnplk··on Show HN: I made some transistor animations
You can google for "From nand to tetris" or get the book Digital Design and Computer Architecture by Harris to get the idea of how these machines work.
smnplk··on Qwen 3.8
Do this giant open-weight models have less active params and could be run on consumer hardware or no ?
smnplk··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
looks great, i just don't know how to actually hook the fish
smnplk··on How to earn a billion dollars
I think that avocado farms in Earth orbit have the avogadrillionare potential. Musk is on it. :P
smnplk··on Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end
Imagine you get this original version from a frontend guy pre AI , would you still see slop seep through ?
smnplk··on It's death
So you will experience something then, if you say that you experienced this nothingness before you were born :D ;)

What I was aluding to is that people have profound consciouss experience when they are dying. Even clinicaly dead people with zero brain activity. But even if EEGs can't detect extremely low brain activity, it's still weird to have such rich experiences.

I would have never found metaphysics in my life, if i didn't have a few unnatural experiences. I would not find the big explanatory gap between experience and matter, which is so obvious to me now. I would still be a materialist while not even knowing I was one, like many here in these comments.

Before I was a materialist like you and I was not afraid of dying, because like you, I thought it's just lights out and I am no more, so I can not suffer. But now I am more afraid od death, because of the unknown that follows.

smnplk··on It's death
> And the afterlife also sucks apparently (although I don't personally believe in an afterlife).

Why don't you believe in the experience after dying ?

smnplk··on Project Glasswing: An Initial Update
I wonder how many minivans per second can ClaudeCode generate.
smnplk··on I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
Omg, I am dead. Dick Pick. That is the best name, not just for a developer :D
smnplk··on Jumping into cold water can stop your heart
Oh, the famous "The takeaway" bullet point.
smnplk··on Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)
Looks like a rat hideout.
smnplk··on Artemis II Launch Day Updates
I hope they will be able to stretch their legs on the moon.
smnplk··on SSH Secret Menu
sssshhhh...don't just give out secrets like that .
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