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tyingq··on Linux on ESP32
The responses all seem a little harsh. If you poke through the user's history, this kind of thing isn't new for them, going back to pre-LLM-could-do-this days.

I think the docs are light because the primary goal for them is not to provide everyone with a well documented linux on esp-32-s31 guide, but rather this that they shared:

"I'm currently working on a hackable music player and I used to prototype with the OG esp32, and tbh if I wasn't for Bluetooth audio I'd move on to S3 already" ( from the links in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49134987 )

tyingq··on Show HN: BitBang – Reach machines behind NAT from a browser, no account
Cloudflare's is $0.05 per GB if your traffic exceeds the 1,000 GB free threshold.
tyingq··on Using sed to make indexes for books (1997)
> awk wasn't very portable because you still had the awk,nawk,gawk flavors

Debian and Ubuntu both ship with mawk and Alpine has the busybox flavor of awk (nawk like). MacOS still ships with a default nawk. I don't know the scene has changed much, still many flavors out there.

tyingq··on PyPI Blog: Releases now reject new files after 14 days
BitTorrent used hash pinning earlier than that even.
tyingq··on TypeScript 7
Last I tried, there's still often (not always) fighting with typing, mypy, pyright because of the dynamic nature you mention. I think the complaints about it are sometimes misinterpreted as "disliking types".
tyingq··on Ask HN: Another "Hacker News" with less AI and more human-focused hacking news?
Might come off like a flippant joke, but it might give you what you're after.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210201005447/https://news.ycom...

tyingq··on GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance
> reasoning-token clustering at 516/1034/1552

Interesting. So 516 probably means initial 512 byte buffer and a 4 byte header. Then 516 + 518 = 1034...so another 512 + 4 byte header + 2 bytes for a linked list ref or similar, 1034 + 518 = 1552, etc.

tyingq··on Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable
One area I think is really going to get slaughtered by LLMs are marketplace plugins. Those monthly fee plugins people release for things like Jira, Shopify, Salesforce, etc. There's a subset of those that don't have some backend that's hard to replicate, and asking an LLM to reverse engineer and make your own plugin is trivial.
tyingq··on Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%
When it was, it was typically some amount less than inflation. 1-2%
tyingq··on Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access
Maybe not, but I have the feeling Google doesn't like that FF continues to support manifest v2.
tyingq··on AI Engineer Claims to Have Cracked Linear A
The same pattern/tech is generic enough that it might be able to solve other unrelated, and so-far undecipherable, written languages.
tyingq··on Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
Anyone doing it with a "rent a GPU over the network" path? Is that at all cost effective for any use case?
tyingq··on Making glass-to-metal seals for home­made vacuum tubes
The research here is clearly interesting, but if you just need to get something like this working, premade neon tube electrodes are plentiful and inexpensive.
tyingq··on Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases
Consider all of that can be used for forced confessions and forced plea bargains also. In those cases, the "evidence" doesn't even need to exist at all, or be on the record in any way.
tyingq··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
I see what you mean, though ITAR restricted software has been around for decades. It classifies some software as "munitions" :)
tyingq··on Google is finally killing uBlock Origin in Chrome for good
Once the end-user fail-safe of "use a real heuristic ad blocker that's hard to get around" is gone...the incentive for ad platforms to get around the relatively easy hostname based blockers goes WAY up. They know it won't drive people to more sophisticated ad blocker if the technical barriers for those are high.

Google's playbook of slowly eeking out this stuff so that you don't notice you're in the boiling pot has played out several times.

tyingq··on Google is finally killing uBlock Origin in Chrome for good
Much, much, earlier if you squint a little. 1998.

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

"The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine"

-> "Appendix A: Advertising and Mixed Motives"

-> "The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users."

Not browser specific, but they understood the problem well.

tyingq··on Notes on DeepSeek
It mentioned the lobby also, not just external signage. Yes, it's unusual to be that low profile.

I did not have expectations about the number, but now there is a number.

tyingq··on Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension
It will work fine until Google and others stomp out all easy paths to smart, heuristic based ad blockers.

The ad folks don't work around ubo lite now, because they understand it drives people to ubo actual.

Once that option is not really reasonable for anybody not highly technical... That's when the fun begins.

tyingq··on AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
No, I'm not. Yes, those companies exist. And, so do many companies on the other end. Where they bend over backwards to ensure their data only lands in places where they have the exact contractual language they want. Any stodgy F500 typically falls in that category. They would not likely be using Anthropic through the AWS "bridge" in the first place if they were chasing latest/greatest.
tyingq··on Notes on DeepSeek
Were things like "300 employees" and descriptions of the deliberately low key hdq out there before? That counts as actual information to me.
tyingq··on AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
Surely some provider will see the then open opportunity and offer something to capture it.
tyingq··on AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models
It will absolutely cause some non-trivial number of customers to shift their configs away from Anthropic.
tyingq··on 'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack
Would be really curious what the internal market share for Kiro is. Not a really good look for it if it's just smattering use here and there.
tyingq··on Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets
The abrupt swing in many non-technology company IT departments from "hey developer, you aren't using enough tokens" to this is just too funny.

And I'm seeing almost no self-awareness from leaders. They are making decisions about things that they just don't understand. And are completely unworried about it. Just blindly following whatever the news cycle is about AI.

tyingq··on MCP is dead?
The pro-MCP arguments sound a lot like the same ones for SOAP, J2EE, "Enterprise Service Bus" and other "once-dominant, now dead in favor of dev driven simpler solutions" tech.
tyingq··on Building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning
You could borrow the output of the perl scripts from openssl.

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/master/crypto/aes/as...

tyingq··on Bariatric surgery procedures fall below 200k, first time since 2020
Reminds me there are several studies showing a very high occurrence of alcohol use disorder following bariatric surgery. Depends on whether you look at lifetime risk or immediate risk, but the numbers are really high...20 to 30%.

Various theories, like addiction transfer from food to alcohol, that euphoric effects are so much more quickly felt, post surgical depression, etc. But nobody really seems to know for sure.

tyingq··on Appearing productive in the workplace
Well, and Google's proxy read of "quality" might have flawed assumptions. A concise page where you get what you need and leave quickly might read as "high bounce rate".
tyingq··on Why airlines are always going bankrupt
One thing it leaves out. For bankruptcies that result in reorganization rather than liquidation, it offers the airline an "out" on its many labor contracts. And freedom to renegotiate that contract with a lot of leverage. Labor is the highest cost they have, other than fuel.
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