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New comment by kristianp in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

kristianp — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:13:45 +0000

> You can enter ALT+F to open the File menu, then hit N

Some developers raised on Macs don't understand the need for this behaviour in the Windows version of their software. Most do, but it's frustrating when the windows version of a multi platform framework doesn't afford for this.

Also the arrival of windows 8 which put controls and buttons at top and bottom of the screen was a big step backwards in consistency. Mobile interfaces (Android) still do this and it slows down interactions.

New comment by kristianp in "Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)"

kristianp — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:38:34 +0000

According to this, Dr Dobbs was to stop new articles at the end of 2014: https://slashdot.org/story/211167

Before the internet it was a good way to have a picture of what was out there. I remember the magazines had a particular smell in early 90s. Like a sweet smell, different to other magazines. There was rarely an Mac content though, which seems shortsighted. Swaine started writing Mac articles at some point if I recall, but they weren't very technical, often about hypercard?

I was reading this article from '91, the creator of Wizard C, Bob Jarvis criticised C++'s lack of modules, something it's getting around 35 years later. 91 was when Mode X graphics programming was introduced by Abrash in a series of articles.

New comment by kristianp in "Apple is running out of A18 Pro chips for the MacBook Neo"

kristianp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:12:27 +0000

More detailed is the source they cite: https://www.culpium.com/p/apple-in-talks-to-boost-mac-neo-pr...

Apparently the processors for the Neo are 5 core rejects from iphone 16, (which is no longer in production), which is a 6 core A18 cpu.

Apple in Talks to Boost Mac Neo Production as Sales Exceed Expectations

kristianp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:09:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.culpium.com/p/apple-in-talks-to-boost-mac-neo-production

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688566

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kristianp in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

kristianp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:54:23 +0000

Also why are most requests for non existent pages?

New comment by kristianp in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

kristianp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:32:31 +0000

> Nearly all of them were for non-existent pages.

Do any webservers have a feature where they keep a list in memory of files/paths that exist?

Voltage drops when powering a Raspberry Pi4B from a LM2596T regulator

kristianp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:06:21 +0000

Article URL: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/767760/voltage-drops-when-powering-a-raspberry-pi4-b-from-a-lm2596t-regulator-how-can

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47683445

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by kristianp in "Solod – A subset of Go that translates to C"

kristianp — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:35:30 +0000

> multiple returns

So no go error handling?

    x, err := func()

Not a choice I would have made.

New comment by kristianp in "Kimi's response to "hello. what are you" is "I'm Claude ""

kristianp — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:46:42 +0000

From https://github.com/bgauryy/open-docs/blob/main/docs/opencode...

> 1. Provider Header Purpose: Some providers benefit from identity "spoofing" to improve behavior.

> "You are Claude, a large language model trained by Anthropic. Knowledge cutoff: 2024-04 Current date: 2025-01-15"

Don't Buy the DGX Spark: NVFP4 Still Missing After 6 Months

kristianp — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:41:16 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1scf1x8/dont_buy_the_dgx_spark_nvfp4_still_missing_after/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645925

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by kristianp in "Kimi's response to "hello. what are you" is "I'm Claude ""

kristianp — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:40:26 +0000

What's the context of that? It's an opencode session share site, so is that based on opencode's system prompt?

Dr. Dobb's Developer Library DVD 6 (2010)

kristianp — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:37:57 +0000

Article URL: https://archive.org/details/DDJDVD6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47645010

Points: 127

# Comments: 53

New comment by kristianp in "Run Linux containers on Android, no root required"

kristianp — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:12:07 +0000

I thought why is qemu used here? Why not use linux native namespaces and cgroups.

New comment by kristianp in "Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had"

kristianp — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:52:56 +0000

There's table valued functions over json as well, as mentioned by [1].

https://sqlite.org/json1.html#table_valued_functions_for_par...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47618597

New comment by kristianp in "The Claude Code Leak"

kristianp — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:23:40 +0000

Yes, and once they've found their market, why does claude code need to keep changing at high velocity? Has the harness really needed to change so much that they're not converging on a stable shape to the code?

Is it possible to start with something of this size that's vibe coded and refactor your way into something resembling a human codebase?

New comment by kristianp in "Trinity Large Thinking"

kristianp — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:50:25 +0000

I've heard someone mention feeding back thinking when talking about gpt-oss-120, at the time that was the only evidence I could see that this is a thing.