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cevnon Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?

I rly like construction site one. Spotting the lil red bird became a game for us.

cevnon Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)

You know what OS doesn’t handle the notch? OSX. It happily throws the system tray icons right back there, with an obscure work around to bring them back. Software quality at Apple these days…

cevnon Reasons not to become famous (2020)

Ha, well I figured if I was going to die a lot, may as well be having a fresh experience. I play primarily Wizard and my favorite part is, I don't have to carry 100 daggers, and quarterstaff seems actually useful.

Like you said, that feeling of seeing a totally unknown level is a real rush. Now I am downloading and trying UnNethack :)

cevnon Reasons not to become famous (2020)

I was a big fan of NH until 3.6, now it is too difficult so I switched to Evilhack which has been a breath of fresh air.

cevnon TikTok Deal Is the Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse

None of those ideas you listed were legit. But it would take much longer to refute than it did to simply list them off

cevnon Elevated errors across many models

The 529 is coming from inside the house?!

cevnon String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof

Can't black holes explain Dark Energy? Supposedly there was an experiment showing Black Holes are growing faster than expected. If this is because they are tied to the expansion of the universe (univ. expands -> mass grows), and that tie goes both ways (mass grows -> universe expands), boom, dark energy. I also think that inside the black holes they have their own universes which are expanding (and that we're probably inside one too). If this expansion exerts a pressure on the event horizon which transfers out, it still lines up.

cevnon Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation

I was ready to be mad in the comments, now I'm mad but in the other direction.

cevnon Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020)

Apex being 20 explains so much about that game. Half the time I would be firing right on target and watch my shots go thru

cevnon Claude Code 2.0

I had a lot of fun making 'tools' like this, but once I settled into a complicated problem (networking in a multiplayer game), it has become frustrating to watch Claude give back control to me without accomplishing anything, over and over again. I think I need to start using the SDK in order to force it to its job.

cevnon US High school students' scores fall in reading and math

Wow, I spent 90% of my free time as a kid in the school library. Reading this hurts. At least they are protecting them from using their brain

cevnon Knuth on ChatGPT (2023)

Try using it to do stuff with dnf (fedora). It makes hallucination after hallucination for one of most commonly used package managers. I would say for linux stuff I've asked 30 or so questions with 0% success rate.

cevnon Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops

Lol. I'm unplugging and re plugging my HDMI display for like 3 years now. Thanks Apple for being so stupid that you can't even get external displays to work properly

cevnon Speeding up my ZSH shell

Fish school represent

cevnon A toy RTOS inside Super Mario Bros. using emulator save states

Umm, that's brilliant. Is this technique employed in all modern emulators or a recent thing?

cevnon The cryptography behind passkeys

I switched last month and it is basically the exact same flow except.. you don't have to pay due to self hosting.

cevnon What’s new in Swift 6.2

Lmao!! Thank you for that laugh.

cevnon Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit

I think Starcraft has it as Sunken Colony so..

cevnon What’s new in Swift 6.2

I have a good bug right now. My wife bought a Macbook Air. I use High DPI and she does not. It is impossible to switch between users in this situation, one of the core functionalities of the computer is just broken. Makes me wonder if anyone at Apple uses these computers..

cevnon Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no

Thank you, I was just wondering about this one.

cevnon Uncovering the mechanics of The Games: Winter Challenge

I loaded this up recently on Genesis and it actually blew my mind how smooth the animations were for the 'parkour', to find out it was all mo-capped and faithfully recreated into pixels. I had no idea people were doing this in the 80's.

cevnon A look at Firefox forks

Perfect.. the real hacks always in the comments!

cevnon Tesla Recalls over 376K Vehicles

Did you read the second line? "Tesla put out an over-the-air software update for the issue"

cevnon TikTok tells staff impacted by wildfires to use sick hours if they can't work

> Additionally, after the story was published, TikTok enabled a feature that now alerts everyone in a company-wide Lark channel — a Slack competitor from TikTok parent ByteDance — when a screenshot is taken.)

Luckily their employees don't have phones.

cevnon Ghostty 1.0

It took me all of 30 seconds to get the Lua config to compile from copy pasting the documentation..

cevnon Firenvim – Turn the browser into a Neovim client

Some website breaks the browser sandbox and gains access to your local neovim instance.. RCE

cevnon 'I'm running a Mud so I can learn C programming ' (1993)

Is that a wheel of time MUD? I feel like I missed out on something amazing…

cevnon Seer: A GUI front end to GDB for Linux

In Jetbrains you can also do a Conditional breakpoint to active only if i=100 or something.

cevnon Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux

Nice, another game I can uninstall..

cevnon Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence

Same here. Crazy how common this is but maybe not because of the incentive structures.