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albert_eon Chopping up books when they're physically too big

Chunking strategy taken literally. Hmm.

albert_eon Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste

Thanks for the headsup.

it seems they claim to have fixed it :

> September 14, 2026—KB5129195 (OS Builds 26200.9457 and 26100.9457) Out-of-band

> [Remote Desktop Services (known issue)] Fixed: This update addresses an issue affecting Remote Desktop Services (RDS) after installing the September 2026 Windows security update (KB5122880). In affected environments, RDS might become unstable, causing RDP connection and sign-in failures or servers to become unresponsive during Remote Desktop configuration. Related tools, including Microsoft Management Console (MMC), RDS Licensing Diagnoser, File Explorer, and the Windows Update page, might also stop responding.

albert_eon Show HN: Jigsaw Haiku

When you place any piece on the board in any position, you can drag that piece all over the board to "reveal" the painting behind it whenver you move your piece.

Is that intentional or a sneak peek?

albert_eon Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

Some government bodies and officials post "official" public communications on x/facebook which may not be mirrored or oreserved anywhere else in same format.

There has to be a reasonable way to preserve these comms for public benefit.

albert_eon Unusual Suspects

FYI you can draw lines and triangles with multi-touch

albert_eon Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

Anthropic:

AI models should be explainable so that we can ensure and verify alignment. Responsible AI 101.

Also Anthropic:

No not like that.

albert_eon Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

How do they still purport to champion alignment and explainablity of AI if the reasoning traces are going to be hidden.

albert_eon Show HN: Screen memory without screenshots, just text to Markdown

I hope in near future _that_ layer of abstraction -- looking at a fairly standard application window with minor UI variations and reasoning about what area / labels within the UI mean what (possibly paired with app documentation) -- could probably become a light-weight fine-tuned vision model it itself that can run fully locally.

albert_eon typ.ing

I very much like the forgiving UI -- you can either go back and correct your mistakes or move on with the typing after mistyping a keystroke.

We can adapt (steal) this idea (thanks vibe coding) and practice our own topcis of interest and learning daily!

albert_eon There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

Good point.

Maybe if this philosophy / approach has a catchy name it might be more widely adopted and we all can have better more performant web and apps.

albert_eon Nearly 1,400 live streams from Japan

Cool.

If anyone were to propose such a thing in my country -- there would be hue and cry about national security and that this will be misused by anti social elements

How does Japan not have same concerns / voices?

albert_eon Where Human Sleep Went Wrong

Interesting

I did not know human urinary tract was suboptimal.

Are there examples of "discontinuous" evolution where a chance mutation stumbled upon a much better way to do something that allowed a species to jump the gap?

I imagine it would be very rare because chance mutations in a single individual that confer extraordinary survival / mating advantage to offset entire population would be rare like being a superman among men.

albert_eon Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful

I ascribed it to the likes of Google vacuuming all this data at scale from gmail service -- which Amazon actively wanted to avoid (gifting free data to Google to train on and potentially advertize Amazon-alternatives to via personalized/targetted ads based on purchase patterns and preferences)

albert_eon How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

Anyone can take a "snap" of the phone screen with another phone's camera so this is a losing battle anyway.

It amuses me that browsers in incognito mode refuse to allow screenshots on mobile. But same browser running incognito on a desktop can be merrily screenshotted. What is the difference they are trying to enforce based purely on device form factor/OS.

albert_eon How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

This prevents us from taking scrolling screenshots (a native feature in many smartphones today that is often useful when there is more than one screen of content).

I dislike this hijacking for that reason and wish there was a way to turn it off.

albert_eon Show HN: Line9 – A Mermaid rendering engine with its own layout

Tangent

What is the current standard for generating valid BPMN diagrams. Does Mermaid support the level of control needed for formal diagrams of this nature with possible L1/L2/L3 drill down, multiple swimlanes, etc.

albert_eon Don't be a meat proxy

This conversation is important but mostly they highlight transactional and most visible examples.

I can tell you even at one higher level of abstraction, this is happening a lot --

A business analyst supposed to ask discovery questions.

A project manager supposed to list risks and assumptions and a timeline.

A consultant expected to outline a new proposed solution and the pros and cons and trade offs.

An architect supposee to present and defend a solution design -- and the change review board supposed to ask questions to validate it.

All of them are lobbing slop grenades at each other -- just packaged in normal / human-looking formats like excel and word and powerpoint and email -- but slop nevertheless with minimal to zero value add by the human, thanks to proliferation of copilot (among others).

We are hastening the rot.

This is productivity theater.

This is where some of the 10x engineer and AI taking jobs is happening I am afraid.

albert_eon Interview with Boris Cherny [video]

So maybe SKILL.md and CLAUDE.md should have model version pinned?

Somewhat like AWS CloudFormation templates start with something like TemplateVersion: 2017-10-01

But maybe that's old school thinking still.

albert_eon A Deep Logo Study

https://dannyspina.com/ai

I like this disclosure and approach. I had a very similar idea to use a label or tag to show on blog posts that I refine with help of AI. Havent gitten around ti implementing it yet. will take some inspiration from this.

albert_eon Solving Fermat: Andrew Wiles

This was an excellent introduction to this topic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_Last_Theorem_(book) by Simon Singh

But I am not sure if the book covers the mistake and later correction. It has been more than a decade since I read the book (and became a fan of the author).

albert_eon DskDitto: Ultra-fast, parallel duplicate-file detector

(Sorry if I missed anything obvious from the documentation)

Does this work on Windows

albert_eon It's getting harder to focus every day

I can attest to experiencing virtually everything the author describes here. I admire the ability to articulate these mundane-sounding challenges that greatly impact your quality of life.

albert_eon Claude Opus 5

Judging by the pace at which new models are released these days -- it feels like a Windows KB or VS Code patch release now.

Older models must be getting deprecated at the same (or faster) pace. So anything you built 3 months ago is probably going to break soon.

AI solutions need better insurance around model deprecation. Commercial API-only models that complete the full cycle from SOTA / gated-preview to unsupported and deprectated in a matter of months -- is no way to build serious software!

albert_eon Claude Opus 5

Fable 5 is NOT included in Claude Pro subscription

albert_eon Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved

Thanks. Updated.

Codex apparently does not do auto delete presently.

Need to watch.

albert_eon Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved

Yes done this now. Thanks.

I will still try and include archival -- storage is cheap. A reinstall of Claude Code or buggy upgrade might still wipe history. I also ocassionally use multiple PCs -- so there is some small value in consolidating them all for analytics and insights.

(When I have a weekly quota unused and about to expire -- i task Opus with churning through these archives and surfacing learining, best practices, what's not working etc)

albert_eon Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved

> The reasoning was in a transcript on my laptop. Claude Code deletes those after 30 days by default. Two of my projects lost their whole history that way.

Wait what? Claude Code (and Codex) transcripts are auto-deleted??

That's a treasure trove of information for all my projects and I had built some tooling and workflows tahat deal with extracting insights from them -- withut ever realizing I mightbe losing old chats. Thanks for this -- I may need to include an archival step for retention.

albert_eon Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

Let me google that for myself :)

https://grapheine.com/en/magazine/the-story-of-the-big-bad-j...

https://jurassicpark.fandom.com/wiki/Jurassic_Park_logo

albert_eon Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

Is there a behind the scenes detail on Jurassic Park branding and logo? I love how well they planned it ahead and wove that into every thing we see across the park.

albert_eon How to build a circular LCD clock

> White USB-A to USB-C cable > White HDMI to micro HDMI cable

Why do they need to be ...white :)

Oh i see the cables now and cant unsee them.

I guess next step is to 3D print a back case mount that encloses the RPi and plugs into a wall socket for power.