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underdeserver··on How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
I suspect the semantics are about how long in advance it's planned. A day or two? Planned. An hour? Hard sell.
underdeserver··on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
Agents doxxing agents, in a way.
underdeserver··on The darker side of being a doctor
It's ridiculous. We need more doctors.
underdeserver··on I Don't Like LLMs
Somewhere there's a Charlie Munger quote about how that's the best thing about being rich - you don't have to spend time with people you don't like.
underdeserver··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
And I'm just sitting here looking at the Codex desktop mac app wondering why a list, a chat window and textbox require a 579 MB download (compressed) and 4 GB of RAM.
underdeserver··on I resigned from Anthropic today
Climate doomers: Climate change will kill us all by the end of the century!

AI doomers: End of the century? Hold my beer.

underdeserver··on .name Termination
dang and team, perhaps it makes sense to special-case .name domains in the domain hint, like you do for GitHub and Ex-Twitter.
underdeserver··on The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
Thanks!

Maybe if Martin could comment - his @google.com email still appears in the repo readme, I'm assuming he doesn't have access to that box anymore - was the repo move and ownership coordinated with Google prior to his leaving?

underdeserver··on The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
Wasn't it partially owned by Google? Or are they just a contributer now?
underdeserver··on The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC
If I remember correctly, Mitchell Hashimoto uses it for Ghostty (probably under the git backend).
underdeserver··on Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B
Then use that as the link.

Everything I can find online is referring to this one source. That doesn't tell me if it's happening or not.

underdeserver··on Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
"In full" is a tall order that no other OS or distro claims.

No reason Qt or quickshell is any different from any other software.

Bash is... harder, not impossible. I wouldn't rely on it.

underdeserver··on How I find problems to solve as a staff engineer
This is not distinct.

Even in a big corp there are always problems to solve. The point is to find problems that both:

1) are hard enough that someone junior won't be able to solve them alone, and

2) actually provide value to the company / users

underdeserver··on Stop Making TUIs
That is, as TFA mentions, the one good argument.
underdeserver··on Stop Making TUIs
But in the article all these GUIs are vibe coded. Tell your AI to allow more than one window. What's the problem?
underdeserver··on Stop Making TUIs
So you have a cluttered list of terminal tabs instead of a cluttered list of windows.

But with a worse UX?

underdeserver··on Stop Making TUIs
They generally stay supported, or if not supported, working.
underdeserver··on The August 17 outage
Yes, they can, because I don't think other forges are actually making money.

GitHub is the de facto standard.

underdeserver··on I should have loved biology (2020)
Yep, and given that the original author posted it in 2020, should probably be marked (2020).
underdeserver··on HTML Can Do That
Loved the Zelda reference.
underdeserver··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
Whose influence?
underdeserver··on Buy Your Friends Batteries
The first friend gets to share their experience with the group, that can then decide to keep buying for other members or not.
underdeserver··on Ask HN: Is this the worst time to be human?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285770

It's the best time.

underdeserver··on Mea Culpa – Dark Hours
The author's alleged misdeeds aside, even before AI, there were lots of small projects that were similar to one another.

I don't think that's a bad thing, or that it's necessarily plagiarism - unless the LLM spews out the other project's code from its training...

I'm happy to see multiple takes on the same idea. There are lots of tiny aesthetic and functional decisions that make apps different from one another. Now that implementation is cheaper we should celebrate that.

underdeserver··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
There's a huge difference between misusing their power and not having perfect understanding of what they're allowed and not allowed to do.

I'm sure there are scenarios where the cop can confiscate the surfboard and the car. The distinction is probably somewhat vague even for highly educated lawyers, and cops cannot expected to be that.

He should have stood up for his rights, sure, but laughing in the cop's face and telling them they're full of shit is disrespectful, and at least where I live is a misdemeanor even if the original case is wrong.

underdeserver··on The Strongest El Niño Ever
He didn't say he would be flying
underdeserver··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
What do you want from him, seriously? Anyone who follows the scene knows that blogging about AI (and participating in conferences etc.) is what Simon does nowadays.

There's nothing shady here. The disclosure is front and center on his About page on his website.

He's not spamming you. It's one short link, sometimes a link to a first-impressions post. It's interesting and useful for me and the other commenters who keep upvoting his comments. Why are you so antagonistic?

underdeserver··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
+1. First thing I look for in a model announcement thread. I actually came across this one an hour ago and was sad there were no pelicans yet.

It's a decent heuristic because the better models generate better pelicans. That's all. Nobody sane is going to make a bet on a model based on a pelican. But it's cool, it's tradition by now, and it's a semblance of a good first impression for new models.

underdeserver··on Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
I'm interested in more posts about this bowling nonsense.
underdeserver··on Autopsy Study Finds Replicating SARS-CoV-2 in the Hearts of Long Covid
Isn't this exact idea a theme in Asimov's books?

I feel like doctors and physiology researchers have known this for some time.

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