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New comment by nurettin in "Linux 7.1"

nurettin — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:13:49 +0000

Looking back, I wonder what really changed over 25 years for the linux ecosystem. We had lots of distros, there were games built for linux (I remember playing the entire Neverwinter nights on debian) there was wine for StarCraft broodwars, x11+compiz for cool accelerated desktop graphics, proprietary Nvidia drivers were always there. Sure, everything was 32bit but it was good enough for desktop, and amd64 was about to pop.

The other day I tried to install fedora 44 on a friend's computer. He wanted kde so we set that up and whoops, no way to start programs on the discrete video card. I hacked around it by starting xorg, setting an alias and environment variables, but it was a bit embarrassing to see that things have regressed.

New comment by nurettin in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

nurettin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:34:30 +0000

I'm not going to downplay it. I've been coding since the 80s and using these models since 2023. 10 minutes after using fable I told my colleague this is a new era. It is the difference between sonnet and opus. I didn't think this was possible.

It was over before this announcement. After a couple of days, even though the model was set to fable, it felt like opus. We are back to sticks and stones.

New comment by nurettin in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

nurettin — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:34:12 +0000

Sometimes it is ok to sit there in confusion and ask the user to clarify rather than go on an adhd fueled rampage to figure it out without asking.

New comment by nurettin in "The Causes of Long Covid"

nurettin — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:52:31 +0000

What do you mean by water fasting? Do you avoid drinking water directly, or do you avoid all food? For example salads are basically sacks of water.

New comment by nurettin in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

nurettin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:06:12 +0000

I also run a Qwen 3.6 moe A4B on old hardware. I set it up with

numactl --membind=1

so it is constrained to one of the memory sticks which speeds up token generation a little.

New comment by nurettin in "Please Use AI"

nurettin — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:08:19 +0000

Learning some schmuck's framework, IDE, language or OS never felt rewarding to me. It was always like playing with broken toys. Hear me out.

There was always some subtle quirk, a bug that irks me once every so often, something I'd never want to unleash upon masses and although these people made their work available through various channels, paid or unpaid, for some reason I felt more of a grudge than gratitude.

And I tried to fix things I did. It was a breathless, thankless exercise of working through someone else's code line by line for decades while hardly being able to lift my head because of actual work I had to do to support my life. And thus a villain was born.

I am so glad it is over. It is all ingested into neural network weights and high-pressure sprayed to the masses through RNG. I am finally free. I don't have to learn your stupid aws commands, your helm configs, your systemd antics, your http api. I don't have to care about your life times, your gc params. I tell the computer and it clinks and clanks and eventually gets the job done like gene rodenberry intended.

New comment by nurettin in "Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM"

nurettin — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:24:08 +0000

To be fair, nowhere on the frontpage does it say it can build libraries that depend on node. It seems like you are just waiting in the bushes to dis AI assisted coding.

New comment by nurettin in "Let's compile Quake like it's 1997"

nurettin — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:25:33 +0000

And it was so much better/more stable than Borland C++6! Open/close 15-30 files or mistype a path and borland gave you the good old crash. You had to handle that IDE with extreme care. You'd develop a feeling for its quirks and sometimes it would work for hours without crashing.

New comment by nurettin in "Does anybody like React?"

nurettin — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:28:26 +0000

I loved react in 2013 when it had the life cycle methods. Everything was deterministic, I knew what caused what where and when. Now every framework is a mess and I'm glad I won't have to learn anyone's crap anymore thanks to random code generators.

New comment by nurettin in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

nurettin — Sat, 23 May 2026 06:58:26 +0000

---- Before it was:

Me: We need to do this this that.

Claude:

Me: Are you sure?

Claude: Well actually there is a bug

----- Now it is:

Me: We need to do this this that.

Claude:

Claude: Let me consult the advisor on that.

Claude: advisor came up with some advice, adjusting according to that.

New comment by nurettin in "GitHub Compromised"

nurettin — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:50:36 +0000

Because every developer asking for permission 3,800 times is exhausting for everyone.

New comment by nurettin in "kharp – k version 3 Language Interpreter in C#"

nurettin — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:15:25 +0000

Feels like 7/2025 claude. Nowadays it doesn't do that very often, only when you get it into a happy-go-lucky mode.

New comment by nurettin in "US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI"

nurettin — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:57:38 +0000

The demand for cushy white collar desk jobs (which weren't around 30 years ago) is crashing. Rest of the world, not so much.

New comment by nurettin in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

nurettin — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:26:49 +0000

There are more points of view than that on HN.

A common one: "I have stopped writing code, the world is going to end"

Another: "I will code by hand, I don't care"

Another: "I use it as a tool, but the hype bothers me so much that I have to bitch and moan from morning to night"

This one is: "I have stopped writing code, it wasn't the end of the world."

New comment by nurettin in "Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks"

nurettin — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:49:54 +0000

Find the best LLM for your local hardware.

lifts mask

It's qwen.

New comment by nurettin in "Claude for Small Business"

nurettin — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:32:22 +0000

I think anthropic gave ample warnings. I set up periodic backups and I wouldn't hold them accountable because they basically serve good RNG.

New comment by nurettin in "Claude for Small Business"

nurettin — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:10:56 +0000

I had a trust issue up to opus 4.6

Now I have claude hooked up to a dozen projects I used to maintain manually. It is such a pleasure watch it read the complaint and go to town on small problems without dropping any databases or removing home dirs.

New comment by nurettin in "Scrcpy v4.0"

nurettin — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:56:27 +0000

My phone's screen died the same way. Thank god I had adb set up for claude to use.

New comment by nurettin in "Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI"

nurettin — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:22:22 +0000

Rust has bad ergonomics. You will see that "attitude" as long as coding exists, or lifetimes are fixed in a way to allow you to omit them in contexts which are not concurrent or are embarrassingly parallelizable.

New comment by nurettin in "Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics"

nurettin — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:44:41 +0000

It didn't cause a problem in my Commodore 64. ROM4L