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New comment by url00 in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

url00 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:13:12 +0000

But it's Bluetooth so short range only? So it's not even good for that?

New comment by url00 in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

url00 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:08:38 +0000

Yeah the Dan Luu post was very convincing. People want to believe what Zitron's story is (which I do think there is some truth to) but the facts Zitron uses fail to support the story to the degree of the claims.

New comment by url00 in "Em dashes are fucking amazing"

url00 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:31:21 +0000

It's a bit like 2 space indention versus 4 or 8 space. I find the em-dash example pretty compelling because visually relaxes my eye more than commas do — similar to how prefer at least 4 space indention over 2.

(Unrelated: The alt-code for em-dash on Windows is Alt+0151. I just typed my first manual em-dash wow exciting.)

New comment by url00 in "Notable Knot Index (2016)"

url00 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:14:17 +0000

"This website is best when viewed with a rope."

Surely there is a data structure joke in here?

New comment by url00 in "S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-"

url00 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:10:45 +0000

Similar experience. It was surreal coming from the (relatively) simple waters of Azure and Digital Ocean.

New comment by url00 in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

url00 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:01:07 +0000

Something interesting is the author right away wants to isolate and reduce placebo. But surely, latency is all about "placebo" and "vibes" and "feel" is it not? The ultimate test is how it feels to use on a personal level.

Of course, where gathering this sort of data _is_ useful is diagnosing and fixing real latency so it obviously has merit. I just think it's ok to lean on taste and experience for most things UI/UX, including latency.

Another point, by couching the comparison in a less technical form (for example, rating a configuration/setup out of 5 stars or some similar approach), it protects from being "too methodological" during testing and data-gathering. One possible issue with the author's methods is if there are degenerative cases that are common in the day-to-day experience of a given configuration, they are unlikely to be present during the precise test that they have setup.

New comment by url00 in "AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit"

url00 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:31:49 +0000

Yeeeeep. There is no moat at the moment. AI companies are trying to dig one as fast as they possibly can. Either through passing laws to prevent local inference ("It's too dangerous! We need to control it") or by creating/limiting possible integrations (locking down OS/hardware, APIs/MCPs that only work with Claude/ChatGPT, etc).

How Microsoft is migrating repositories to GitHub

url00 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:29:51 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/how-microsoft-is-migrating-repositories-to-github/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445911

Points: 2

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New comment by url00 in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

url00 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:02:25 +0000

The comment above literally said this took them 20 minutes of prompting. That doesn't sound like much if any value add.

New comment by url00 in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

url00 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:29:50 +0000

As someone who went down the keyboard only blackhole, I've rebounded all the way to mouse maximization. Mice are nice! Another tip that really helped me is embracing good mouse acceleration (i.e. not the Windows or Mac built in garbage). This tool has honestly made using a mouse at least 3x better for me: https://github.com/RawAccelOfficial/rawaccel

New comment by url00 in "The First Fully General Computer Action Model"

url00 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:25:44 +0000

Frankly, this comment does little to avail the parent's point - doing this on the open road was both illegal and reckless. It reflects extremely poorly on your character and the project as a whole.

New comment by url00 in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

url00 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:22:20 +0000

Once the bureaucracy is automated, there will be no "reasonable" choice.

New comment by url00 in "Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload"

url00 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:40:27 +0000

100%. MSDN is the definition of saying nothing with as many words as possible. I guess if you wanted a case for why LLMs are helpful, MSDN is a good one haha

New comment by url00 in "The UK is shaping a future of precrime and dissent management (2025)"

url00 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:09:02 +0000

It is important to note that this is a deal struck for just some ethnic groups of the citizenry. It does not apply fairly across the board to all people under Chinese governments' control so it's not even as good as it sounds for the average Chinese citizen.

New comment by url00 in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

url00 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:25:13 +0000

I use this all day everyday. Love this, changed how it feels to work with GUIs for me.

New comment by url00 in "Gentoo Linux 2025 Review"

url00 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:28:59 +0000

I would also be very interested in reading that blog post!

New comment by url00 in "2025 Letter"

url00 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:21:51 +0000

As often the case with Dan's letters, a well balanced take on many issues. I particularly appreciated the thoughts on AI and (what I read) the undertone of infrastructure being the real differentiator between the US effort and China. We'll see how it plays out this year. "May you live in exciting times" etc.

New comment by url00 in "Please just try HTMX"

url00 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:12:57 +0000

This matches my experience. State management is the key thing - you end up needing to put way more on the backend then you'd otherwise like to. Quick example: something like a multi-step "wizard" is far more difficult to express in HTMX than with any SPA-ish pattern.

New comment by url00 in "Stacked Diffs with git rebase —onto"

url00 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:18:58 +0000

Wow you aren't wrong, the first blog post on Google talking about this is exactly what this complicated method does just built-in.

New comment by url00 in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

url00 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:15:35 +0000

I don't want a more conversational GPT. I want the _exact_ opposite. I want a tool with the upper limit of "conversation" being something like LCARS from Star Trek. This is quite disappointing as a current ChatGPT subscriber.