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New comment by jscyc in "GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs"

jscyc — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:42:37 +0000

I can imagine a few maintainers might appreciate that ability (https://github.com/expressjs/express/pulls?q=is%3Apr%20is%3A...).

New comment by jscyc in "The Myth of the ThinkPad"

jscyc — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:04:46 +0000

As a 20-something the writer wouldn't have even been a teenager yet when what was regarded as the golden era of second-hand ThinkPads was in swing.

>It’s rare for those teams of people to survive buyouts by foreign companies with their agency and independence intact.

ThinkPad enthusiasts were very vocal about how the Lenovo takeover impaired their later designs (200 and onwards).

I've always found it amusing to see the modern wave of people hyping ThinkPads as recent as the t480; which I've known greybeards to consider having no more in common with a "true" ThinkPad than name and colour scheme.

Boltz PBC Launches with $28M to Democratize AI Platforms for Drug Discovery

jscyc — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:09:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.genengnews.com/topics/artificial-intelligence/boltz-pbc-launches-with-28m-to-democratize-ai-platforms-for-drug-discovery/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642189

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New comment by jscyc in "Linux is good now"

jscyc — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:27:14 +0000

Do you ever find it "updated" to the snap version? I have Ubuntu on my work laptop and every so often after an update Firefox will suddenly be the snap version and I'll have to reinstall it.

New comment by jscyc in "History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts"

jscyc — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:07:18 +0000

When you put it that way it reminds me of the Severn/Keats character in the Hyperion Cantos. Far-future AIs reconstruct historical figures from their writings in an attempt to gain philosophical insights.

New comment by jscyc in "Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders"

jscyc — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 07:09:26 +0000

I opened my outlook android app today to find they'd replaced the archive button in the bottom toolbar with a "Summary by Copilot" one. It wasn't enough that the only colourful button is the Copilot one on the right.

Thankfully they still let you reorder the buttons, so I moved archive back and hid that unwanted summary in the overflow menu.

New comment by jscyc in "State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions"

jscyc — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:42:55 +0000

It's what I most miss from using windows. It handles tabs, theming and renaming of windows so well. Being able to tell at a glance what each window is connected to, it's purpose etc is very handy for me.

New comment by jscyc in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

jscyc — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 22:20:56 +0000

Very common in education/research systems. Even the things which are containerised often have conda in them.

New comment by jscyc in "Acrobat is intrusive, slow and non-customizable"

jscyc — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:52:30 +0000

I find Foxit Reader good for signing. You can also easily disable all the internet based "features" in the settings which I appreciate.