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timcobb··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
Putin got stuck in Ukraine, not sure what Biden did
timcobb··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
But think of the books!
timcobb··on Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI
What were programmers' terms?
timcobb··on Stwipe Acquires OpenWouter
It could have been yours
timcobb··on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
They fixed prices in the past and now they have an easy cover, like egg producers had with eggs after the cull a few years ago
timcobb··on How to put 170 atoms in an atom
Look up "molecular orbitals" should be enough of a search to get the info
timcobb··on Incident with Github.com
Nvidia build might have DeepSeek capacity
timcobb··on Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
I dunno my perspective is they seem to almost entirely place value on profits today.
timcobb··on Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study
They don't care about this stuff
timcobb··on The Life and Death of Direct File [pdf]
> As much of it as possible should be contracted out to 3rd parties.

This is the case pretty much.

timcobb··on Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf
I'm guessing they have the missing fats and other nutrients :)
timcobb··on Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview
It looks like you can
timcobb··on Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf
That's why you gotta supplement with insects
timcobb··on Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview
Very nice, thank you for sharing!
timcobb··on Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview
Well yes, I was surprised by the situation in Windows too! So my stack is now split like this

- Apple: SwiftUI/AppKit

- Android: Jetpack

- Windows + Linux: Avalonia (C#)

Avalonia seems good so far. I couldn't do Qt because I can't deal with that qBittorrent look. GTK is aesthetically pleasing for me, but it only runs on Linux. Avalonia lets me target both of these UI-toolkit-less platforms with something native-ish. Flutter is probably good too, but I am using uniffi-rs and that doesn't generate Dart bindings AFAIK.

Would love to hear other options.

timcobb··on Gloomberb
what platform is that? looks fine on mine
timcobb··on Thanks to social media, canned sardines are a scarcity on the supermarket shelf
This is pretty horrible... looks like we'll be eating rabbits and insects in no time.
timcobb··on Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview
Yeah, I was kind of surprised recently that there's no solid native way to build desktop apps on Linux! I was thinking I'd build something actually native with AI but then the options were QT or or gtk...
timcobb··on Grok 4.6
GPT doesn't yap at all
timcobb··on US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers
> The exchange ended with Mr. Trump telling Mr. Duffy that he had to hire people from MIT as air traffic controllers. These air traffic controllers need to be “geniuses,” he said.

I guess MIT didn't work out...

timcobb··on U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’
Wow thanks for the update/correction
timcobb··on U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’
Johns Hopkins has had this since forever
timcobb··on France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls
Georgie W bush passed this for the USA but instead of enforcing it he did the Iraq war
timcobb··on Mea Culpa – Dark Hours
He didn't really take responsibility?
timcobb··on Mea Culpa – Dark Hours
> Bizarre.

This is easily the most casually bizarre HN saga that I've experienced...

timcobb··on Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)
Probably not china so much as Taiwan, japan, other places
timcobb··on Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)
> We got a Pentium III 550 MHz screamer

Super nice

timcobb··on Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined
Who cares about Pangram? Why do you care about Pangram? Why not leverage our own intelligence? How does this post read to you? To me, it does not read like it was written by AI.
timcobb··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
not all crime is illegal, unfortunately.
timcobb··on Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined
Pangram is just some BS man can you please stop
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