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New comment by smetannik in "AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity"

smetannik — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:29:27 +0000

If this approach works with AI companies, why the same doesn't work for nuclear power plants? :)

New comment by smetannik in "How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs"

smetannik — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:51:33 +0000

On one side of a spectrum I see people like DHH who claims that "coding is dead", on other side - there are articles like that.

Usually the truth is somewhere in the middle, but I wonder how that "middle" looks like.

New comment by smetannik in "Nokia Design Archive (2025)"

smetannik — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:41:45 +0000

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New comment by smetannik in "Cloudflare Quick Tunnels"

smetannik — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:59:20 +0000

So is this basically a ngrok from CF?

New comment by smetannik in "What will our economic future look like?"

smetannik — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:28:28 +0000

> AI today is around 100x cheaper than 2 years ago. it will continue to get cheap.

2 y.o model is probably 100x cheaper, but model size and requirements are also growing proportionally.

2 years ago, thinking was an optional, nowadays people use Opus with high effort almost by default.

New comment by smetannik in "Oceans hit highest temperature on record"

smetannik — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:50:21 +0000

Next year will be a new record

New comment by smetannik in "Fixing a bricked Framework laptop"

smetannik — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:05:33 +0000

Tip: if you already have Raspberry Pi, your can skip purchasing CH347.

RPi has SPI pins and is supported by flashrom.

New comment by smetannik in "Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide"

smetannik — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 22:25:31 +0000

Why a spare machine has to be exactly a mac ? For iMessage?

New comment by smetannik in "Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer"

smetannik — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:42:48 +0000

> slow computer > 25 GB of RAM

What?

New comment by smetannik in "What to learn to be a graphics programmer"

smetannik — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:02:12 +0000

For some reason, graphics is one of most popular topics for recreational programming.

New comment by smetannik in "My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable"

smetannik — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:19:49 +0000

> Unfortunately, HDMI 2.1 does not work with AMD graphics on Linux due to shenanigans from the HDMI Forum.

IIRC, recently, AMD got permission to implement HDMI 2.1 in their foss driver, so soon this shouldn't be an issue.

New comment by smetannik in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

smetannik — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:39:21 +0000

Can you suggest some tutorials for Verilog and FPGAs in general?

I have a spare Tang Nano 9k but I don't feel confident about blindly asking Claude to vibecode me a solution and still would like to have at-least a basic level of understanding.

New comment by smetannik in "Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2"

smetannik — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:58:29 +0000

Luanti more seems like an attempt to build a FOSS Roblox with Minecraft gameplay base

New comment by smetannik in "Stop Using JWTs"

smetannik — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:53:36 +0000

This debate pops up every few years and the community still seems like don't have a clear consensus

New comment by smetannik in "Linux 7.1"

smetannik — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:17:07 +0000

Looking forward for a new NTFS driver to try. I hope this new iteration will be better than ntfs3 from Paragon.

New comment by smetannik in "The state of building user interfaces in Rust"

smetannik — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:02:59 +0000

Slint is an attempt to build a Qt competitor

Although it's built in Rust, it supports a variety of languages + a custom DSL (like QML).

New comment by smetannik in "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages"

smetannik — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:20:12 +0000

I might be wrong, but this situation seems like a signal of desktop Linux adoption growth

New comment by smetannik in "How to setup a local coding agent on macOS"

smetannik — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:21:15 +0000

I wonder why something like LM Studio didn't work for the author?

New comment by smetannik in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

smetannik — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:45:03 +0000

Please, stop using "written in Rust" as some kind of advantage or killer feature.

New comment by smetannik in "Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution"

smetannik — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:30:47 +0000

They're selling it to investors. Population isn't their client.