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ChromaticPanic··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
Checking things off might give that small endorphin drip enough to break the procrastination habit.
ChromaticPanic··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
Too many programmers think they have a unique use case without considering that maybe the existing projects are bloated for a reason. Then they end up just recreating the same bloat.
ChromaticPanic··on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database, faked data, told fibs
People press the red button all the time. People still commit crimes even though there are laws that result in consequences.
ChromaticPanic··on What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?
They were also marrying at 19
ChromaticPanic··on Young graduates are facing an employment crisis
7% unemployment means 93% are employed. So it's really not that bleak.
ChromaticPanic··on Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
That's how any filtering service works
ChromaticPanic··on LLM Inference Handbook
Not the footgun you think it is. Ollama comes with a few things that make it convenient for casual users.
ChromaticPanic··on Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses
The signs say No Foreigners not No non Japanese speakers . A subtle but important difference.
ChromaticPanic··on At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says
This is why it's unethical for governments to use closed source software. Anything related to government functioning should be auditable.
ChromaticPanic··on The Broken Microsoft Pact: Layoffs and Performance Management
I've always wondered how much one has to lick the boot until they stop tasting leather. Or maybe it's an acquired taste.
ChromaticPanic··on Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip
More than a hundred TB
ChromaticPanic··on OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D
This isn't a game so it's not about picking winners. It's about steering the economy so local businesses get an advantage over foreign entities.
ChromaticPanic··on Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app
If that means I lose access to my accounts if my device dies on me, then hard pass.
ChromaticPanic··on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
You just described the evolution of every streaming platform out there
ChromaticPanic··on Launch HN: Chonkie (YC X25) – Open-Source Library for Advanced Chunking
When I was looking at your library last week, It didn't look like there was a direct way to use my own embedding model endpoints. For example, I run snowflake arctic embed in vllm and it would be good be able to use it with Chonkie's semantic chunkers.
ChromaticPanic··on Workhorse LLMs: Why Open Source Models Dominate Closed Source for Batch Tasks
Yes some have existing infra
ChromaticPanic··on Cursor 1.0
Been using Cursor on Linux and Windows for 2 months and I've never seen this bug
ChromaticPanic··on Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware?
Ollama has a really good perk in that it makes it trivial which model is loaded and unloaded from the GPU. So if you're using a frontend like librechat or openwebui, then switching models is as easy as picking from the drop down without having to fiddle with the command line.
ChromaticPanic··on Ask HN: What is the best LLM for consumer grade hardware?
What were you trying it in? With openwebui RAG pretty much worked out of the box.
ChromaticPanic··on On "Vibe Coding"
I bet it can code an entire app faster than you can. If you already know what you want, AI is a huge productivity boost.
ChromaticPanic··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
Have you worked in an actual workplace. Confidence is king.
ChromaticPanic··on Canada votes for Mark Carney as prime minister
The problem is conservative policy makes those same problems worse.
ChromaticPanic··on Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io
Jet brains DataGrip is great for this. Compared to pgadmin an dbeaver. The DataGrip visualization options are so good that I grabbed a subscription.
ChromaticPanic··on Reproducibility project fails to validate dozens of biomedical studies
You mean like how tobacco company CEO's went to Congress telling them that there is no cancer risk? Oil companies pretending they didn't know about global warming? Shrinkflation? Corporations lie all the time and the people running them are never punished.
ChromaticPanic··on The Future of MCPs
Open webui let's you do all that. You set up single model agents and assign specific tools. You can also beef it up with system prompts.

On that note, the various agents libraries will let you create that same setup.

ChromaticPanic··on The Llama 4 herd
Not everyone has either or, some even have both
ChromaticPanic··on The Curse of Ayn Rand's Heir
Nobody should be teaching anyone things that is not factual. That is detrimental to society and definitely affects everyone.
ChromaticPanic··on The role of developer skills in agentic coding
Seems like the code is designed poorly if it can't be worked on in small chunks
ChromaticPanic··on America Is Missing The New Labor Economy – Robotics Part 1
In contrast to North America which has under invested in real estate, having all that extra real estate sounds like a dream.
ChromaticPanic··on EA Open Sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert, along with other games
We want that artisanal hand crafted environmentally friendly codebase
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