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soniczentropy··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
Almost exact same experience here, but I'm using Opencode's $10/month sub. It's perma set to DS 4.1 flash and I have anywhere from 3-5 agents going at a time. Never once hit a cap of any sort. I have absolutely no idea why people would be paying $200/mo when you can get perfectly good AI for $10 from multiple places
soniczentropy··on Ask HN: How can I browse HN in dark mode?
Dark Reader's slowness primarily stems from its auto-detection of pages that need darkening. If you turn that off and manually enable it on pages that need it, it doesn't feel any slower than anything else
soniczentropy··on 'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online
It's also extraordinarily easy and discreet to grow cubensis shrooms. The age of buying awesome RCs online are OVER, there's nothing left but horrible, horrible chemicals. Do not go there
soniczentropy··on Chicken products recalled in five states due to “false marks of inspection”
They absolutely understood exactly what they were doing. They're stupid, but they're not STUPID. Don't let them excuse malice by faking incompetence
soniczentropy··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
They ARE needed in their home country, that's why they're here. The fact is simply that the best way to help their family is to make American money
soniczentropy··on Show HN: C# Game Engine with its own scripting language and IDE
As somebody else with a game engine that has its own scripting language:

AI is incredibly good at making scripting languages with your ideal dream syntax/functionality. It's pretty fun to use it.

(No, neither my engine nor my language is worth using and never will be)

soniczentropy··on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
Do you have some evidence of that? I use both daily and my experience has been the opposite, if anything. Once I was as proficient at Rust as I was at Go, the "increased development and maintenance time" disappeared completely.
soniczentropy··on Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did
The funniest part of this is that you're paying to still see 10% of the ads. I use Firefox and see 0% of the ads for free
soniczentropy··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
When I got laid off because of it.
soniczentropy··on US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification
This is the most elegant and polite refutation of age verification I've ever seen
soniczentropy··on Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips
I'll heartily second this. After years of Unity, I just couldn't stand the developer experience any more. Waiting for iterative compiles that took an ice age each time I changed a line of code killed me. Angelscript UE is as close to engine perfection as I can imagine
soniczentropy··on Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks
This is horrifying. Everyone should be horrified.
soniczentropy··on OpenD, a D language fork that is open to your contributions
B is exactly how I've felt about, in order: C, C++, Java, C#, Javascript. I spent almost 20 years writing languages I did not like because I couldn't find jobs in anything else.

Rust saved some of us from a lifetime of exactly the problems you have with Rust, maybe let us have this one :)

soniczentropy··on Challenging projects every programmer should try (2019)
Woodworking, blacksmithing, gardening, etc

Things that don't take computers to create

soniczentropy··on PCSX2 Disables Wayland Support
Never tried it on AMD hardware, but I can confirm Nvidia drivers cause it to go haywire on all 4 of my machines. I try yearly or so, see everything's still a dumpster fire, and head back to X11
soniczentropy··on Functionality that has been deprecated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
This has been my every experience with Wayland + Nvidia thus far. Tried Tumbleweed and Fedora both, nothing but display bugs as far as the eye can see.

Lets not even talk about trying to use Wayland in a VM desktop -- Even Firefox/Chrome don't render properly.

soniczentropy··on Ask HN: Why is there no good open-source LMS?
This is the correct answer for sure. I managed an LMS department for years and you nailed it.

I'd also like to add that most education IT departments tend not to have many people capable of building or maintaining something as complex as an LMS. That means you'd need to hire at least a couple new software devs at software dev salaries and software dev benefits to keep them...which ends up costing MORE per year than it costs to shove 99% of the problem off onto Blackboard support and remove a large source of risk while saving money.

soniczentropy··on How to win at CORS
How do you become one of those kind instead of smashing your face against CORS constantly