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New comment by _def in "SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code"

_def — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:17:45 +0000

> In Progress / Unstable:

> - Extension host is early-stage — not all extensions will work

New comment by _def in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

_def — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:47:26 +0000

On a long enough timeline literally everything has 100% chance of failure. I'm not trying to be obnoxious, I just wanna say: we only got this one life and we have to choose what to make of it. Too many people pretend things are already laid out based on game theory "success". But that's not what it's about in life at all.

New comment by _def in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

_def — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:40:49 +0000

I miss resizing windows with alt+right click

New comment by _def in "A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs"

_def — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:25:53 +0000

I can't even download the archive, the transmission always terminates just before its finished. Spooky.

New comment by _def in "Judge order bars feds from altering or destroying evidence in Pretti shooting"

_def — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:54:48 +0000

Why is that even needed, honestly? Like is "destroying or altering evidence" usually legitimate or what?

New comment by _def in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

_def — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:48:23 +0000

I get that this is tempting but it just means you'll slowly get dependent on things that will eventually break in ways you will have no capacity to fix. And disaster recovery is most certainly a manual task.

New comment by _def in "The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets"

_def — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:44:30 +0000

> When the topic is dry and quantitative (Finance), the market is efficient. When the topic allows for tribalism and hope (Sports, Entertainment), the market transforms into a mechanism for transferring wealth from the optimistic to the calculated.

I get that the finance market is _more_ dry and quantitative than sports, but certainly not immune to hope and tribalism,

New comment by _def in "Briar keeps Iran connected via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when the internet goes dark"

_def — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:49:56 +0000

They are human, that's all you need to know.

New comment by _def in "Show HN: 1D-Pong Game at 39C3"

_def — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:38:23 +0000

TWANG? https://github.com/bdring/TWANG32

New comment by _def in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

_def — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:18:52 +0000

I recently learned about a shortcut you can enable for moving windows, is something similar around for resizing? On linux I do this via alt + left click and alt + right click

`NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture` setting allows you to drag windows at any point if you hold ⌃⌘

`defaults write -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture -bool YES`

New comment by _def in "The No Fakes Act has a “fingerprinting” trap that kills open source?"

_def — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 05:45:23 +0000

"Open Source" in this case means "ML models with open weights"

(not my interpretation, it's what the post states - personally that is not what I think of when I read "Open Source")

New comment by _def in "How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code"

_def — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 03:21:47 +0000

Are there useful open source "agents" already ready to use with local LLMs?

New comment by _def in "There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout"

_def — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:05:35 +0000

From the article:

    When BGP traffic is being sent from point A to point B, it can be rerouted through a point C. If you control point C, even for a few hours, you can theoretically collect vast amounts of intelligence that would be very useful for government entities.

New comment by _def in "Show HN: A simulator for engineers transitioning from IC to management"

_def — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:03:31 +0000

On which guidelines are the solutions based on?

New comment by _def in "Show HN: I designed my own 3D printer motherboard"

_def — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:42:49 +0000

I got excited but "people" here does not really refer to hobbyists I suppose (please contradict me)

New comment by _def in "Days since last GitHub incident"

_def — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:12:51 +0000

woah this time i even caught it before the status page reported something - i thought they were rate-limiting me.

New comment by _def in "Show HN: Web app that lets you send email time capsules"

_def — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:15:54 +0000

I don't get emails for my calendar events though (which is kinda important for my workflow, as my inbox is my task backlog)

New comment by _def in "How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM"

_def — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:12:09 +0000

Anyone got a link to some community work on the open source side? Sounds like useful devices, if you fix the issues mentioned.

New comment by _def in "Most technical problems are people problems"

_def — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:35:09 +0000

> Build out what that tech debt is costing the company and the risk it creates

How to do that? Genuine question.

New comment by _def in "Most technical problems are people problems"

_def — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:29:40 +0000

> the perception that your team is getting a lot done is just as important as getting a lot done.

This might be true. But I hate it. I think I should quit software engineering.