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circularfoyers··on Ask HN: Anyone Using a Mac Studio for Local AI/LLM?
The prompt processing times I've heard about have put me off wanting to go that high with memory on the M series (hoping that changes for the M5 series though). What's the average and longest times you've had to wait when using opencode? Has any improvements to mlx helped in that regard?
circularfoyers··on Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document
Now with even more significance that Amanda Askell has confirmed it is based on a document they trained Claude on (https://x.com/AmandaAskell/status/1995610567923695633).
circularfoyers··on Light exposure at night predicts incidence of cardiovascular diseases
> These relationships were robust after adjusting for established risk factors for cardiovascular health, including physical activity, smoking, alcohol, diet, sleep duration, socioeconomic status, and polygenic risk.

There's more details further in the article[1].

[1] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.20.25329961v...

circularfoyers··on I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it
It's so subtle I've for a long time wondered if it's something most people experience and don't notice, or they assume is normal, just because unless I think about it I don't really notice it either. I have been known to focus on details more than others do. Not sure if this contributes to my seemingly heightened sense of smell as well. But not being able to experience what others experience, makes me wonder if I'll ever know.
circularfoyers··on Show HN: Extension for full-text browser history search
Seeing the GitHub link made me assume for a second this was open source, which it's disappointingly not. The LLM search is interesting, but it's not interesting enough for me when there's already an open source full text history extension that I've been using https://github.com/iansinnott/full-text-tabs-forever
circularfoyers··on Why Flatpak apps use so much disk space on Linux
> On one hand, understandable; on the other, again, the software is effectively useless because of this.

Just in case you didn't already know, you can use Flatseal[1] to add the symlinked paths outside of those in the default whitelisted paths.

I think it's a good thing Flatpak have followed a security permissions system similar to Android, as I think it's great for security, but I definitely think they need to make this process more integrated and user friendly.

[1] https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal

circularfoyers··on Creating a Proxmox or QEMU ChromeOS Flex VM
It's a shame then that Google are moving away from ChromeOS in favor of Android. This also explains the improvements to desktop mode in the latest Android betas.
circularfoyers··on OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically for OpenWrt
I think it's unfortunate given the audience I imagine will make up most of its purchases. For example, the NBN in Australia just announced earlier this year it's first 2 Gbps residential plans (previously 1 Gbps being the maximum) planned for availability some time next year[1].

[1] https://www.nbnco.com.au/corporate-information/media-centre/...

circularfoyers··on Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Another iPhone
I believe the point isn't to let you rollback at will, but it'll automatically rollback if it fails a boot check, so before anything is written to the filesystem. However, it's worth noting that Fedora Silverblue/IoT let's you rollback at will without problem.
circularfoyers··on Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Another iPhone
I still don't understand why Apple haven't changed their update model to A/B partitions, so if an update can't boot, it boots the previous partition. Android has been doing this for a while and Fedora Silverblue/IoT does the same thing, both of which I've found really useful in the past. If communicated well, it would elviate the update anxiety many people I know have with their iPhones.
circularfoyers··on TP-Link GPL Code Center
Is this just an assumption, or did you open many of them and have a look? If so, what line of devices did you look at out of curiosity?
circularfoyers··on OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20
I believe they did it because OSM in most places is very outdated or even non existent for businesses, which was probably one of the top uses of it in a search engine.

Having contributed quite a lot to OSM, I can say though that it was generally a lot better for hiking tracks than Google maps.

circularfoyers··on Show HN: Tegon: Open-source alternative to Jira, Linear
Do you support local LLMs? I could only see an ENV for OPENAI_API_KEY.
circularfoyers··on NanoKVM: Affordable, Multifunctional, Nano RISC-V IP-KVM
I was very excited until I saw this. I think I'd rather pay more for a device with this level of access to be running software that isn't completely unknown. I hope it's possible to have PiKVM support this at a future date.
circularfoyers··on Abandoned villages of Hong Kong
Unfortunately this removes the images it seems.
circularfoyers··on Full $71M breakdown for The Village by M. Night Shyamalan (2003) [pdf]
Is there any context to this document? Was this just leaked or previously leaked, where was it originally posted, etc?
circularfoyers··on Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections
Outline (https://getoutline.org) is even easier to deploy than Streisand in my experience and uses Shadowsocks.
circularfoyers··on Earlyoom – Early OOM Daemon for Linux
Why weren't you using swap?
circularfoyers··on A lost X-Files song
The same on SBS OnDemand, for anyone in Australia.
circularfoyers··on Don't kill my app
Where did you bring this up? It would be interesting to read their response. If you hadn't, I imagine their Github repo would be the best place to do so https://github.com/urbandroid-team/dont-kill-my-app
circularfoyers··on Show HN: Internet Speed Test
Would be interesting to see the latency graphed at the same time.
circularfoyers··on CloudFlare is blocking traffic to Discord
Looks like it might be global based on the subreddit[1]. Oddly reinstalling the app fixed it for me, while it still shows the Cloudflare error page on Chromium. Meanwhile, the website loads fine on Firefox.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/discordapp/new

circularfoyers··on The many vulnerabilities in SOHO and industrial wireless routers
Attended Sysupgrade (https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/attended.sy...) makes it a lot less painful.
circularfoyers··on Show HN: Android Hacker News Widget and App
The best looking HN android app in my opinion. I just wish it was still being developed. Mostly because of the bug where the comments flicker wildly when you open a thread with lots of comments.
circularfoyers··on Public restrooms are hard to find in America
For anyone curious, this is the clip mentioned, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D5qK8oh5lY
circularfoyers··on Linux network performance parameters
Can you provide some examples of different contexts where Linux or FreeBSD might be better or worse choices?
circularfoyers··on Pysentation: CLI for displaying Python presentations
I've been using https://github.com/jaspervdj/patat previously, but this looks like a worthy alternative. Nice work, I'll have try this out :)
circularfoyers··on MacWhisper: Transcribe audio files on your Mac
I must have missed this on my usual peruse of new apps on Flathub. Thanks for making it, will look forward to trying it out.
circularfoyers··on Mousetrap.jl: a GUI library for Julia and C++ that wraps GTK4
There are hundreds of apps on Flathub that already use GTK 4. Bottles, Easy Effects, Mission Center, Amberol, Celluloid, are all popular (more than 60,000 installs from Flathub) examples of apps that are using GTK 4. I personally use all of them and think they are some of the best looking apps available on Linux.
circularfoyers··on SMS traffic pumping fraud
Furthermore, Flatpaks do exist since, like you've stated, it is easy to implement https://flathub.org/apps/search?q=totp
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