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bschwarzon Show HN: Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out

    and needs no system prompt

A human would write "and doesn't need a system prompt."

bschwarzon Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today

Interesting wording:

  [...] that will make it feel like you’re getting more from Claude

bschwarzon Don't put your name to bot-written content

Are you sure the intent is still yours after going through that process?

bschwarzon Ask HN: Alternative Careers in the Age of AI

Has safety tech progressed enough to avoid permanent vision damage by now?

bschwarzon EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids

Imagine the pressure on Instagram and Tiktok to serve better content if they were forced to pick out, say, 100 short videos per person per day. And not just for kids, adults need a break from this addiction machine as well.

bschwarzon Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025)

Bears and wolves were indeed "removed" from parts of Europe by humans.

bschwarzon Ask HN: When might we not have to do laundry or fold clothes or cook

Well, except for water https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/01/1166800

bschwarzon Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s

Adults should be protected from these predatory services as well.

bschwarzon An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story

Regulations are written in blood and it will take a bit for vibe coding to cause enough problems.

bschwarzon Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS

Small issue: Can't do cmd+a in the search bar and I'd like it more if the hitbox for the "start menu" extended fully to the edges.

bschwarzon Claude Code is locking people out for hours

That's the VC playbook.

bschwarzon German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function

If they have to support something that most everybody has they will soon stop supporting alternatives that are not required by law. What then?

bschwarzon Arno's Engram Keyboard Layouts

The Svalboard with just the old default QWERTY based layout was enough to save my hands after having tried pretty much every ergonomic keyboard out there. I'll never get tired of recommending this keyboard!

bschwarzon Global warming has accelerated significantly

China is also replacing old, inefficient coal power plants with new ones.

bschwarzon We installed a single turnstile to feel secure

Considering caning often creates scars I don't see how it avoids permanent injury.

bschwarzon Back end where you just define schema, access policy, and functions

I don't think Elixir's Ash is too far off: https://ash-hq.org

bschwarzon AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton

Please check your links, 3/7 don't work and it's the most interesting ones.

bschwarzon Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

I would say the main thing that got people to switch to Discord was the fact that voice chat was free, paid for by VC money.

bschwarzon What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent

The only moat in all of this is capital.

bschwarzon Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

Patient compliance is notoriously fickle, especially when it comes to changing one's lifestyle (diet).

bschwarzon Finding and fixing Ghostty's largest memory leak

How little guidance can you give Claude Code to a) find and b) fix this memory leak? Summoning @simonw

bschwarzon Claude Code CLI was broken

Was it Steve Yegge who introduced "but is it good? [yes]"? I can't find the first instance of this.

bschwarzon HPV vaccination reduces oncogenic HPV16/18 prevalence from 16% to <1% in Denmark

HPV is also responsible for very unsightly genital warts. I'd think people would want to avoid that if possible.

bschwarzon Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy

Be sure to not take strengthlevel.com too seriously.

bschwarzon Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach

The skill set required to reach leadership positions does not necessarily match the skill set of a good leader.

bschwarzon Show HN: Aidlab – Health Data for Devs

Very commendable approach!

Are you using Movesense as the chest movement sensor per chance? I've been looking into breathing rate lately, but haven't made the jump just yet.

bschwarzon Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Amazon.de customer service has consistently been much better than anything else in Germany, so it's probably not the law.

bschwarzon Bundler Belongs to the Ruby Community

> DHH and Lutke don’t have the community’s best interests at heart.

How does this manifest?

bschwarzon Germicidal UV could make airborne diseases as rare as those carried by water

This moderate amount of UV is enough to accelerate skin aging which is why we wear sunscreen.