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New comment by ashenke in "Firefox Enterprise"

ashenke — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:42:30 +0000

They list this as a feature in the submission page.

New comment by ashenke in "Firefox Enterprise"

ashenke — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:39:49 +0000

There is a AI menu in Firefox where you can disable individual AI features, as well as a single toggle to disable every current and future features.

New comment by ashenke in "Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]"

ashenke — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:28:47 +0000

Are the remasters not translated? I remember playing Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, and all the other LucasArts games when I was a child, and they were dubbed in French.

EDIT: I checked, and I was mistaken: DOTT was never dubbed in French, but Grim Fandango (and its remaster) is.

New comment by ashenke in "Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device"

ashenke — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:27:20 +0000

A lot of the models would be useful in a web context, to improve on the CMS we're making for clients. But they look like most of them are iOS only, few have a node package or something other, and all the benchmark are running it on modern iPhones so I doubt it would be that fast on a 20$ VPS.

New comment by ashenke in "Tiny $70 Xteink X3 e-reader"

ashenke — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:04:30 +0000

Justs a heads up, people are comparing with the X4 and not the X4 classic. The classic is a brand new one released today, and it replaces the X4 on the official store. It doesn't have a USB connector either, so it's all pogo connectors now

New comment by ashenke in "Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk"

ashenke — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:13:24 +0000

Do you have more information? It looks interesting

MiniageOS: "Dumbphone" Version of LineageOS

ashenke — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:07:46 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ofdryads/miniageOS

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49370284

Points: 50

# Comments: 25

New comment by ashenke in "Show HN: Dreeve, a self-hosted dashboard for your sports and fitness data"

ashenke — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:51:36 +0000

This looks nice, it also imports data from Garmin Connect? If I use Garmin Connect to sync to Strava, should I use the Garmin integration to have more data?

I'd like to have a way to archive and keep all my workout data locally and this looks interesting

New comment by ashenke in "Xteink X4 Pro"

ashenke — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:48:49 +0000

Review : https://www.theverge.com/tech/966560/xteink-e-ink-e-reader-x...

Xteink X4 Pro

ashenke — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:48:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.xteink.com/products/xteink-x4pro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993054

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

New comment by ashenke in "CloudsLinker: Move and sync files across 50 cloud services"

ashenke — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 01:52:20 +0000

Maybe it should link to the landing page? https://www.cloudslinker.com/

New comment by ashenke in "Leanstral 1.5"

ashenke — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:51:47 +0000

I use their Voxtral Mini STT audio model to automatically transcribe my podcasts into markdown. Out of all the STT models I've tried, it's both the best performing and one of the cheapest! It's really accurate, feeding the episode notes and the podcast description ensures all names are properly spelled, and speaker diarization works really great. (I just do a Gemini flash pass at the end to identify the speakers, so it shows the host name instead of "Speaker 1")

New comment by ashenke in "Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck"

ashenke — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:28:54 +0000

> Springer Nature deviated from the normal practice of merely slapping the word RETRACTED across the digital version of the paper while still allowing scholars to read the text. Instead, the publisher posted a blank white page with the cryptic phrase, “This article has been withdrawn due to article violation.” Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95.

The system is broken

New comment by ashenke in "Steam Machine launches today"

ashenke — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:08:14 +0000

But not at a thousand dollars. SFF builds are more expensive and fussier to setup and cool down . So a well made, prebuilt Steam Machine is good value when compared with an equivalent SFF

New comment by ashenke in "MiniMax M3 vs. GLM 5.2: Codegen comparison across autonomous coding tasks"

ashenke — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 04:55:05 +0000

I'd love to see a comparison with both Deepseek v4 models as well

New comment by ashenke in "Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia"

ashenke — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:18:47 +0000

Also, W and Z are switched in the AZERTY keyboard. So maybe someone mistyped work on the wrong layout??

An Electric Bike for the Mind

ashenke — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:13:43 +0000

Article URL: https://ebike.nologos.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48574360

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ashenke in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

ashenke — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:41:14 +0000

Because it's not in the top 20 in their benchmark, it's at #23

New comment by ashenke in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

ashenke — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:31:49 +0000

I had the same reaction with Deepseek V4 ! It would be more useful as a vision model

New comment by ashenke in "One ant for $220: The new frontier of wildlife trafficking"

ashenke — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:38:39 +0000

https://canada-ant-colony.com/blogs/articles/starting-your-f... This is what I used at first. There are also a lot of ant keeping discord communities you can lurk on.

The basic thing is just knowing what you need to start with, and really that's : - knowing the local species, what they look like, when they take their nuptial flights - buy some test tubes, and always keep with you a test tube with some cotton to block the opening - walk with your head down. Notice the ants. Try to see where the entrances to their nests are. If you can, try to id them (or take a picture and ask on discord)

What you're looking for is a queen that just mated. Sometimes they still have their wings on, most of the time they don't. They really, really big ants, at first everytime I saw a big ant I thought it was a queen, but the first time you see one you'll have no doubt about it. Look at pictures of winged males as well, you can see a lot of them flying around during mating but you need to distinguish them from females.

Then once you've captured a queen (I recommend 2 or 3 of them), you transfer them to another test tube filled 2/3 with water, blocked by a cotton ball, then closed with another cotton ball. Put the test tubes in a completely dark, silent place, where you'll keep them for a few months. During this time try to never bother them, don't look at the tubes, don't move them. This is the founding stage, of the queens are fertile and have been fecundated, and they're not stressed by the whole operation, they'll lay eggs. After a few weeks the first workers will hatch and that's when you should connect the tube to an outworld so you can feed them without disturbing them in their nest/test tube!

So really buy some test tube, read up on ants and look down, and you're set for a few months!