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symlinkk··on SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)
I'm surprised a bunch of tech professionals are totally fine with downloading random .dll's and patching executables. How do you know this is safe?
symlinkk··on Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
You’ll face unfairness with DEI / diversity quotas to get in to the college, and then if you graduate you’ll face unfairness by having your job outsourced to AI or H1B, but yeah cheating in school is totally where we draw the line.
symlinkk··on AirPods Max 2
> All of them have bad microphones (worse than wired ear pods)

Yeah this is why people just buy AirPods Max.

symlinkk··on AirPods Max 2
They just work. The integrated mic is clear and easy to use for daily standups. They connect to my work and personal laptop in a few seconds every time - I’m never left panicking right before a big meeting. Of course the audio quality, noise canceling, and battery life are world class, but that’s the case for their competitors too - the reason I coughed up the extra $150 for Apple headphones is because I know they’re going to fucking work exactly as advertised, no glitches or gimmicks.
symlinkk··on The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline
Most men can’t even get a date anymore, but we’re not allowed to talk about the reasons why.
symlinkk··on AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
Yep, the only reason their pay is high is artificial barriers to entry.
symlinkk··on AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'
If you have to be “top talent” to survive it’s not a good field to get into anymore.
symlinkk··on Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?
It’s matter of incentives. Everyone knows the value of college is in the piece of paper they give you at the end, the things they teach you are not super helpful in real world. So people cheat so they don’t have to waste time learning useless knowledge and instead spend that time on something valuable, like working out or going to a party.
symlinkk··on VLC's Jean-Baptiste Kempf Receives the European SFS Award 2025
He is a good guy for not selling out but let’s be honest, it’s just a thin wrapper around ffmpeg.
symlinkk··on Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?
Have to agree. This whole procedure of booking an appointment with a GP who then books you an appointment with a lab who then takes your blood is a huge waste of time. The technology is largely there for people to continuously monitor their health in real time, you see this in smartwatches as feature by feature slowly trickles in.
symlinkk··on Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
I’ve had it for days and it’s still slow
symlinkk··on Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
Made my phone immediately much laggier (iPhone 13 Pro) which is probably the intention
symlinkk··on Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August
I thought colleges only had a limited number of slots to accept students each year. Seems like US citizens would be competing with foreign students in that case.
symlinkk··on Nearly 20 Percent Fewer International Students Traveled to the U.S. in August
99% of those students were not any more talented than the average US citizen
symlinkk··on Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
Adblockers are a safety risk of their own - you’re giving @gorhill admin-level access to your browser.
symlinkk··on I didn't bring my son to a museum to look at screens
It costs $2000? Why?
symlinkk··on No place in children's hands: <16s in UK to be banned from buying energy drinks
Most are zero sugar
symlinkk··on Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs
Really? Where do you see that?
symlinkk··on Trump Threatens 25% Tariffs on Apple If iPhones Not Made in US
Yeah that sounds like a good idea
symlinkk··on CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
Not all dimensions. VSCode’s Remote SSH is better and UI is better. To me that’s worth the trade offs.
symlinkk··on CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
People that say this are completely out of touch. You know there are VSCode extensions for Java (made by Oracle and Redhat themselves), right? Once you install that you get Intellisense, debugging, etc. Same with C#, Python, etc.
symlinkk··on CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
+1, the Remote SSH is horrible. Takes forever to connect and is extremely laggy once you have connected. Feels like they’re practically streaming video of the UI back to you instead of VSCode’s Remote SSH which feels indistinguishable from running locally.
symlinkk··on NYC home prices rise 10% in early 2025
Austin is down 20%. Doesn’t make sense to me. I keep hearing “they overbuilt” - so what, none of the builders saw this coming either?
symlinkk··on DJ With Apple Music launches to enable subscribers to mix their own sets
How is this legal? I thought you could not use streamed music commercially? If you’re a DJ making money on a gig you’d be violating that law.
symlinkk··on Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one
Good way to have your knowledge fed into an LLM.
symlinkk··on Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart
People die if you move too slow too.
symlinkk··on Australian man survives 100 days with artificial heart
Crazy how slow medicine progresses compared to technology.
symlinkk··on Review of Mullvad VPN
Oh so you’re stealing. Got it.
symlinkk··on New iMac with M4
The “separate screens” you can buy all suck. They aren’t 5k resolution, and they always have some weird edge case issue you find out about 2 weeks after you buy it.
symlinkk··on Rider is now free for non-commercial use
What tools are missing? It has debugging, a test runner, Intellisense.
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