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abroadwin··on Herdr has released native app
Am I missing something, or is there no way to use plugins with the herdr app?
abroadwin··on I still teach OpenGL ES 3.0
I probably owe my career to him; it was learning the old fixed pipeline OpenGL API from his tutorials that led to me making games, and those games that led to a family member encouraging me to interview for an internship at his company. All that led to a 20 year career (so far) in software engineering.
abroadwin··on Code is clay now
People with poor comprehension have been changing code for years, and in great numbers. Doesn't mean it goes well, mind you.
abroadwin··on Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome
To be fair, that only tells they've been in the industry since at least 2008.
abroadwin··on ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model
Kind of like how disposable vape pens often have a 24 MHz Cortex-M0+ with 3 kB SRAM and 24 kB flash, which would have seemed ludicrous a while back.
abroadwin··on Ordinary Abundance
I was in the same boat. When I bought this house it had a standby generator, but not on the same meter as the well and not enough power to run my central heating. I recently upgraded the generator to be able to power everything and switched the well onto the house panel. Such a huge improvement.
abroadwin··on Ordinary Abundance
Can confirm. As someone living on well water in an area with semi-frequent power outages in winter I have periodically been given renewed appreciation for the value of power, central heat and running water.

Now I have a great standby generator, though, so I'm sure I'll start taking it all for granted again soon.

abroadwin··on Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes
"Quietly"
abroadwin··on Claude Opus 5
If you wish to make ls from scratch you must first invent the universe.
abroadwin··on Advertise in ChatGPT
I really hope pro subscriptions don't include ads going forward...
abroadwin··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
I live in an area of the US where the only alternatives are 3.5 megabit DSL which stops working when it rains or Hughesnet, so basically no real competition at all.
abroadwin··on Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates
"Quietly" seem to be the most popular headline word this year.
abroadwin··on The ability to regrow body parts is dormant in mammals, not lost
Judge not, lest ye be denied CRISPR.
abroadwin··on Your Most Improbable Life
> But is that not also "following a path laid out by someone else?"

Not really. I'd use the analogy of breathing. Imagine you're convinced that you need to breathe properly, so you consciously obsess over each breath (congratulations: you are now breathing manually). Then someone comes along and says "you know, you can just breathe without thinking about doing it right."

Is letting go of that manual breathing and just breathing without thinking about it following a path laid out by someone else?

abroadwin··on Your Most Improbable Life
It sounds to me like their "trick" is simply not acting from the psychological position that you need to do something you're not doing in order to realize your authentic or best self. Wu wei?
abroadwin··on Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything
Reminds me of the book "Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning" and its comparison of spaced repetition and cramming.

Cramming often feels more satisfying, more like you're learning, but actually leads to worse retention. Spaced repetition that includes the struggle of recalling something just at the edge of being forgotten, on the other hand, feels worse but leads to much higher retention.

abroadwin··on April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini
Alas, this does not resolve the issue for me.
abroadwin··on April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini
Even with the latest version of LM Studio and the latest runtimes I find that tool use fails 100% of the time with the following error: Error rendering prompt with jinja template: "Cannot apply filter "upper" to type: UndefinedValue".

EDIT: The issue is addressed in LM Studio 0.4.9 (build 1), which auto-update wasn't picking up for me for some reason.

abroadwin··on My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant (2025)
My favorite is when I ask Siri to set a timer and get back "there are no timers running."
abroadwin··on What 'Project Hail Mary' teaches us about the PlanetScale vs. Neon debate
For me it's all about the branching Neon provides. Being able to instantly and automatically have a branch of my production data for every dev branch is incredibly useful.
abroadwin··on Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts
Oh hey, looks like it's mostly Kenton Varda, who you may recognize from his LAN party house: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42156977
abroadwin··on Sidekick: Local-first native macOS LLM app
But it still forces you to download a local model before you can use that feature.
abroadwin··on Sidekick: Local-first native macOS LLM app
Neat. It would be nice to provide an option to use an API endpoint without downloading an additional local model. I have several models downloaded via ollama and would prefer to use them without additional space being taken up by the default model.
abroadwin··on Generate audiobooks from E-books with Kokoro-82M
If there's one thing our capitalist society has taught me it's that people are always willing to endure a crappier product. I'm not sure we've found the bottom yet...
abroadwin··on I live my life a quarter century at a time
I just set mine to auto-hide. Right now it's showing just shy of 30 icons, and I feel it really benefits from the additional horizontal width.
abroadwin··on Mothbox 4.0
Are they using birdnet or something else?
abroadwin··on AI speech generator 'reaches human parity' – but it's too dangerous to release
Relevant research post from Microsoft: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vall-e-x/va...
abroadwin··on Reading list to join AI field from Hugging Face cofounder
What "AI" means has always been shifting; right now when most people hear it they assume it means generative AI and deep learning, but it's really a very broad category.

Early incarnations/uses of the term include what is now sometimes referred to as Good Old Fashioned AI (GOFAI), with such things as expert systems and ontological classification systems; these still technically fall under the umbrella of "AI". After GOFAI came other forms of technology, including the precursors to our current deep learning models, including much simpler and smaller neural networks. Again, these are still "AI", even if that's not what the public thinks when they hear the term.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOFAI and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_artificial_intelligen...

abroadwin··on Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
Definitely doesn't feel native or accessible on web. Can't tab between radio buttons. On macOS CMD+A doesn't select all text field text (CTRL+A does).
abroadwin··on Ask HN: How do you use AI for software engineering?
I'd mostly been using ChatGPT until recently. Now I've mostly been using Gemini 1.0 Ultra.
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