Hacker News: circularfoyers

New comment by circularfoyers in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

circularfoyers — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:52:07 +0000

Which sadly appears to not even be holding for them now that they decided to start displaying ads on their App Store.

New comment by circularfoyers in "Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads"

circularfoyers — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:55:11 +0000

I feel like the suggestion to just delete your Meta account is unhelpful and even harmful in some situations. I know a lot of us in this field don't mind having a small social circle, but for us that struggle to even have that, or that the process of doing that, requires you to be as open and reachable as possible to make it easier to create or maintain friendships, this often requires having an account to use Messenger (I know regionally this may differ).

Being difficult in this way, when most other people, particularly non technical people, don't have a problem with this, in my experience significantly hurts your opportunities and limits the types of people you socialize with in real life, which I think can eventually be harmful.

New comment by circularfoyers in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

circularfoyers — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:32:08 +0000

If this is still the same install that you've been using since 38, you might find a clean install resolves some issues (whether or not your upgrade got botched). Also helps me get rid of software I installed that I don't use anymore, which I feel is relevant to this article. But part of why I love Silverblue so much is I don't have to worry about upgrades getting botched and fwiw as well, I haven't noticed any of those bugs on 44 across several very different machines.

New comment by circularfoyers in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

circularfoyers — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:31:17 +0000

The database changes late last year is laying the grounds for other database engines[1].

[1] https://jellyfin.org/posts/jellyfin-release-10.11.0/#the-lib...

New comment by circularfoyers in "Claude Managed Agents Overview"

circularfoyers — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:07:13 +0000

Not sure popularity necessarily suggests it's good, but possibly just what people have most heard of or is easiest to setup with. This is going to be even more true now that Claude subscriptions are going to be essentially vendor locked.

New comment by circularfoyers in "Hypura – A storage-tier-aware LLM inference scheduler for Apple Silicon"

circularfoyers — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:51:31 +0000

Don't even need to use llama-swap anymore now that llama-server supports the same functionality.

New comment by circularfoyers in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

circularfoyers — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:49:53 +0000

Comparing this project to is-odd seems very disingenuous to me. My understanding is this was the only way you could use llama.cpp with Claude Code for example, since llama.cpp doesn't support the Anthropic compatible endpoint and doing so yourself isn't anywhere near as trivial as your comparison. Happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.

New comment by circularfoyers in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

circularfoyers — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:25:21 +0000

I would hazard a guess that it's because there's been many debates about contributing PRs that might be perceived as AI slop. Not saying that's the case here, but it's possible the fix might be a poor one, not follow the project's guidelines, or one which the contributor doesn't fully understand, but doesn't care because it fixed the issue. I would guess the better approach would be to submit a bug report with the same information the LLM used, and maybe suggest there the fix the LLM provided. Unless this really was a tiny patch and none of the above concerns applied.

New comment by circularfoyers in "Freemediaheckyeah – A collection of free stuff on the internet"

circularfoyers — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:17:22 +0000

Whose "they"? Private sites do a phenomenal job at preserving a large amount of rare content.

New comment by circularfoyers in "Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?"

circularfoyers — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:42:56 +0000

The prompt processing times I've heard about have put me off wanting to go that high with memory on the M series (hoping that changes for the M5 series though). What's the average and longest times you've had to wait when using opencode? Has any improvements to mlx helped in that regard?

Discord dataset of 78M messages, voice sessions, actions and servers

circularfoyers — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 23:47:03 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/H4ckmanac/status/2010691804132454708

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46595713

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

InfiniTime 1.16 "Starfruit"

circularfoyers — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 01:45:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/InfiniTimeOrg/InfiniTime/releases/tag/1.16.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46521483

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by circularfoyers in "Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document"

circularfoyers — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:13:12 +0000

Now with even more significance that Amanda Askell has confirmed it is based on a document they trained Claude on (https://x.com/AmandaAskell/status/1995610567923695633).

New comment by circularfoyers in "Light exposure at night predicts incidence of cardiovascular diseases"

circularfoyers — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 05:15:16 +0000

> These relationships were robust after adjusting for established risk factors for cardiovascular health, including physical activity, smoking, alcohol, diet, sleep duration, socioeconomic status, and polygenic risk.

There's more details further in the article[1].

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.20.25329961v...

New comment by circularfoyers in "I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it"

circularfoyers — Thu, 22 May 2025 09:14:52 +0000

It's so subtle I've for a long time wondered if it's something most people experience and don't notice, or they assume is normal, just because unless I think about it I don't really notice it either. I have been known to focus on details more than others do. Not sure if this contributes to my seemingly heightened sense of smell as well. But not being able to experience what others experience, makes me wonder if I'll ever know.

New comment by circularfoyers in "Show HN: Extension for full-text browser history search"

circularfoyers — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:39:45 +0000

Seeing the GitHub link made me assume for a second this was open source, which it's disappointingly not. The LLM search is interesting, but it's not interesting enough for me when there's already an open source full text history extension that I've been using https://github.com/iansinnott/full-text-tabs-forever

New comment by circularfoyers in "Why Flatpak apps use so much disk space on Linux"

circularfoyers — Sun, 04 May 2025 23:15:18 +0000

> On one hand, understandable; on the other, again, the software is effectively useless because of this.

Just in case you didn't already know, you can use Flatseal[1] to add the symlinked paths outside of those in the default whitelisted paths.

I think it's a good thing Flatpak have followed a security permissions system similar to Android, as I think it's great for security, but I definitely think they need to make this process more integrated and user friendly.

[1] https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal

An independent package manager for compiled binaries

circularfoyers — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 20:48:50 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/marwanhawari/stew

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43756301

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

An independent package manager for compiled binaries

circularfoyers — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 01:47:42 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/marwanhawari/stew

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43700535

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by circularfoyers in "Creating a Proxmox or QEMU ChromeOS Flex VM"

circularfoyers — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 00:18:47 +0000

It's a shame then that Google are moving away from ChromeOS in favor of Android. This also explains the improvements to desktop mode in the latest Android betas.