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jllyhill

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ljpuk.net 5d ago

Pebble provides a positive update but I still wouldn't recommend buying one

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lore.kernel.org 6d ago

Linus Torvalds position on LLM use in Linux kernel code

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www.codersnotes.com 13d ago

A Constructive Look at TempleOS (2015)

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humancode.us 23d ago

Open Source Software Is the Pastime of the Rich

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blog.johanneslink.net 1mo ago

To Gen or Not to Gen: The Ethical Use of Generative AI

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www.apple.com 1mo ago

Due to DMA, Siri AI delayed in EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27

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www.eurogamer.net 1mo ago

Star Citizen tops $1B crowdfunding milestone

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third-bit.com 2mo ago

Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding

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evanhahn.com 2mo ago

In defense of GitHub's poor uptime

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codeberg.org 2mo ago

Open Slopware

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infosec.exchange 3mo ago

Tracking in Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini Chatbots

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shkspr.mobi 3mo ago

FobCam '25 – All my MFA tokens on one page

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www.bitecode.dev 3mo ago

What "Parse, don't validate" means in Python? (2025)

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ploum.net 4mo ago

The Winmail.dat Syndrome (2013)

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beej.us 4mo ago

Making

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ossama.is 4mo ago

Betrayed by My Own Blog

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kevinmunger.substack.com 4mo ago

Everything Was Rational and Nothing Vibed

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imagico.de 5mo ago

Digital Ecosystems and Lobbying

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zahlman.github.io 6mo ago

Python Packaging 外伝1: Oxidation and Radiation. The Rise of uv in 2025

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cryptography.dog 7mo ago

Responsible Bot Operation

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cryptography.dog 8mo ago

Shouldn't we trust Google and other pertinent questions

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Did you write it or did Claude code slopcoded it for you? Claude is the contributor to all your other repositories. There is a world of difference between "here's a problem that I'm really concerned with and poured all my expertise to solve it" and "I told Claude to fix it for me and now I'm gonna abandon it as soon as I'm done with the HN advertising".

Do you remember what you've used to add your business? The process shouldn't be so difficult and normally the changes to the OpenStreetMaps database are instant and don't require any moderation or review. There are some sites that were intended to help business owners to get info to the database, maybe there's a problem with one of them.

The actual business is listed, but with a slightly wrong name. But I can put that exact slightly wrong name into the search on openstreetmap.org right now and there's zero results.

Can you give the name and location? I can look it up to see if there are any errors.

Then I can manually zoom to the location (which is correct), see my business, tap on it... And nothing. It doesn't open. So given all of this, why would I bother with openstreetmaps as a business owner?

That's the part that annoys me the most. Counterintuitively the map at openstreetmap.org is NOT intended to be an interactive common user web-map, a Google map alternative. It is a non-interactive map for the mapping volunteers to get feedback on whether their changes to the OpenStreetMap database were correct. While you can still right click on a feature, select "Query feature" and look at the raw text, you are better look up your business on something like mapy.com or an app like CoMaps (that use OSM data to create a Google map alternative) to understand what would the users see.

The thing is that the best way to get the phones and opening hours is to walk in person and look them up. Any source for the automated collection is way more likely to be outdated/wrong than what the sign or the person behind the counter tells you. And can also have non-permissive license not compatible with the OSM license.

Think of it as a very stripped down and opinionated version of OsmAnd. It lacks a lot of power features, but is extremely fast and all of the options are easily available and work out of the box. So it's great for everyday use (especially in cities with a lot of POIs) but not as good for in depth travel and route planning.

For example, I've used F-Droid OsmAnd extensively when planning my trip to Japan, because its guides, WikiData and Wikipedia integration are godsend for finding interesting places to visit, but used CoMaps when I was there to look things up and build routes. I'm also exclusively using OsmAnd for writing GNSS tracks because I can fine tune the parameters of measurements it captures.

Show HN: Zanagrams 24 days ago

Damn it, it was the longest word I've already found in plural form :/ Not sure this is good puzzle design to be honest

Show HN: Zanagrams 24 days ago

+1 for this. Also not a native speaker and can't for the life of find the two last words in the #5

Plotnine 29 days ago

What would you say are the benefits of the grammar-of-graphics approach? I've been working with plotting for more than a decade now and have never heard of it. Right now I'm looking through the gallery and can't really grasp what makes this approach better than the one in matplotlib.

PS. It took someone in the comments writing "import plotnine as p9" for me to understand it isn't plotLine.

Open Slopware 3 months ago

What is your opinion on this? While I think it is interesting to catalogue the use of LLMs (I still really dislike the term "AI" being used for next token prediction) in the open source projects, using even a permissive AI policy to switch projects is taking it too far. There's even `curl` on the list.

Flipdiscs 3 months ago

The first thing I dig in the article was a search for "bad". Glad I'm not the only one.

I wouldn't recommend trying if you don't like it already. In order for the twist to have any impact the game needs to pretend to be something else and the developer have chosen it to be a visual novel with 0 substance. It would be cute anime girls yapping about nothing in the most non interesting way possible for a couple of hours before anything worth your attention happens. I'm somewhat of an anime slice of life trash enjoyer and even I couldn't force myself to watch a full let's play of this part (even with commentary adding something to latch to) and had to skip a half of it to get to the twist faster. Doesn't worth it.

To be honest, I'm getting tired of a "laptop" in every one of these clickbait titles turning out to be $3000 Macbook. Sure, it's impressive to achieve this degree of the LLM compression, but I really don't like that the title implies local LLM becomes a viable for an average person with the actual hardware being out of reach for 99%.

You Just Reveived 5 months ago

Back in 2017-8 I've got a four consequent top ups of an equivalent of $50 each (so a total of $200) from an unknown source. After that I've got a call from a resident cell number saying I've got a $200 fine for watching porn that I laughed off and hung up. I thought it was a scam to make me pay the "fine" with the money I've just got and then call the operator, tell them they "mistakenly" paid for the wrong number (four times for $50, lol) and get the money back. So I sat there and waited for the money to be recalled... but it never happened.

My theory is that it was exactly then I was changing operators while keeping my number, so the scammers tried complaining to the wrong one and failed. Not that I had any objections for the 2 years of free calls and data this got me but this still is a bit of mystery to me.

The disappearance of these kinds of interactions from day-to-day life – in pubs, restaurants, shops, queues, on public transport – is striking.

We are losing a basic human skill. The ability to speak to others and understand them is being compromised.

I fail to see how these two ideas are connected. How is my ability to speak and listen to the people I care about—my parrnts, my friends, my spouse and kids—hindered by my unwillingness to talk to a complete stranger in a supermarket line? I don't hate or hold any ill feelings towards them, it's just that I'm more comfortable being to myself and I have only so much capacity to talk and too many people in the city I live in. I would understand if the article was focused on the reluctancy to bond with people in more or less stable groups (at work or at school) but I don't buy the "strangers" argument.

And, to counter the arguments that "the site tells you that you need WebUSB support": you get to the https://e.foundation/installer/ when you click "Check device compatibility" on the main page. Personally, I'd expect either a check that works in any browser or a simple compatible device list. Why would I need a special browser just to check if I can use this OS?

This is especially strange considering they have the list of supported devices in their docs https://doc.e.foundation/devices

So I think the issue is that the button on the main page is poorly named

Do you use single email address on your domain or multiple for different purposes? Or do you have one main address and throwaway aliases for the one-time registration purposes? I see that the Fastmail provides a single inbox that can handle multiple addresses and wonder how does it work.

Haven't had a need for a hardware calculator since the first year in the university, even though I got to the PhD in physics. The calculations are either too hard to do by hand (at work) or too trivial and few to require anything more complex than a basic Android or Windows calculator.

But "enough to not get fired" is not an answer to a question "why should I know anything?". To be honest, it's not clear if the rest of your post tries to answer the initial question of why you should know anything or the implied question of how much should I really know.

Am I the only one having troubles with the site on mobile? I'm using Firefox on a decent Android phone but the scroll is extremely stuttery and it distracts from the article unfortunately.

I guess the bad takes are unavoidable. I couldn't find a clear and succinct explanation of the mission anywhere on that site and had to read your post to have any idea what are they even arguing for and against.