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fouc··on Claude's writing style has me on edge
> I hear Claude’s voice in a house, I hear Claude’s voice with a mouse.

The new schizophrenia.

fouc··on Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
For agentic workflows like tool use, editing codebases, multi-turn debugging?
fouc··on What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis
I think there's a bit of a caveat there, because that basically means eating reasonably high calorie food in sufficient quantities that starts violating the "healthy food" definition.
fouc··on Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
Breaking even in less than a year? What's the math on that?
fouc··on Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
Damn, that's awesome. I suddenly feel like replicating their setup and seeing how it goes.
fouc··on Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark
I looked at that link and was unable to find any blocks that matched the 4 images? "Replicate Room Folders" and all
fouc··on Slate EV truck starts at $24,950
I think you meant 80k not 800k, $0.12 * 80,000 = $9,600
fouc··on QSOE: QNX-inspired OS with dual-kernel architecture
I wonder if we couldn't just use LLMs to completely reverse engineer a QNX 4.25 demo image into usable source code. Possibly translate it directly into rust code.

Bun had it easier in many ways, given that they're based on a well-documented public API surface & have the node.js test suite etc.

In the case of QNX I'm guessing it might help to find a way to intercept the message passing of running QNX instances in order to use it as a test harness while reverse engineering all the components.

fouc··on QSOE: QNX-inspired OS with dual-kernel architecture
I HATE how modern & locked down the web is now, feels like we need to fork the internet. I want an internet that doesn't assume you're always online. I want an internet that is accessible and useful even even if you only connected a few times a day, or especially even if you were on a spacecraft a light-hour away.
fouc··on Vulnerability reports are not special anymore
why would anyone accept bounty money to have a chance of being arrested?
fouc··on British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
I always get up with the light so I think 4am would be too unreasonable. Especially if most cafes remain closed for hours still. 5am is tolerable.

As for winter, an extra hour of dark doesn't feel like a huge deal. When I commuted in the winter it was often happening around 6am while still dark anyways.

I have a feeling people's morning habits will change a bit to compensate for the darker mornings though. So I think it'll work out in the end.

Where do you expect the premature deaths to come from? Rush hour traffic in the dark?

fouc··on Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers
fork and rename the https://github.com/linuxwacom/wacom-hid-descriptors project, strip all wacom references. then share w/ the other tablet brands. problem solved.
fouc··on Alan Greenspan has died
Mostly I just know Alan Greenspan for being a disciple of Ayn Rand back in the 1950s/60s. Though the Objectivists didn't like his work at the federal reserve. In 2008 he admits to being shocked that banks weren't rationally selfish.
fouc··on Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day
Strengthening the arch is definitely the way to go. Hiking is probably the ultimate way to do it, but walking is good too.

I've had plantar fascitis a couple of times before (decade apart) and I've found that it can be resolved within 3 weeks.

The trick that worked for me is to regularly stretch the foot / arch after a few minutes into a walk when the foot is warmed up. If I do that consistently near the beginning of every walk, the pain quickly fades away and the problem resolves itself.

I think hiking over technical-ish terrain, like stumbling over tree roots and rocks that hit the arch would provide the same action of stretching of the bottom of the feet.

fouc··on 'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots
Vehicles have been far too dominant in city planning, it's probably time to re-prioritize, make it look more like Netherlands or some other European countries perhaps.

I suggest a priority order somewhat like:

pedestrians > bicyclists > delivery bots > vehicles

currently in America I suppose it probably looks more like this currently:

vehicles > delivery bots > pedestrians.

fouc··on Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
> take-home essay assignments

Typically there's not a whole lot of homework prior to Grade 7 anyways.

Homework levels between elementary school and start of junior might look something like this:

    Division I / early elementary - no formal assignments should be made, though 5–10 minutes of systematic study or reading was recommended.

    Division II / upper elementary - formal homework could be assigned at the teacher’s discretion, but generally should be reading or study-type work and not exceed about 20 minutes.

    Starting from junior high - students are expected to study one-half to one hour per school night.
fouc··on How to setup a local coding agent on macOS
what? you're saying both MLX and MTP have been slower for your mac?
fouc··on Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
I'm annoyed at how short the eulogy is, impressively annoying beam of light shining through the text, making it hard to read. hats off to Fable!
fouc··on Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?
"Apple is now focused on its rival to Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2027, and a “display-equipped AR/XR smart glasses device powered by optical waveguides” in 2029, Kuo says."

seems like basically Vision Pro is going to become Vision XR. All roads lead to Rome.

fouc··on Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)
the fun thing is to realize we were actually p-zombies all along, hallucinating that we have qualia.
fouc··on A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life
jinx! looks like we answered a 5 hour old question at the same time ha!
fouc··on A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life
Doubtful, the screen is still the same, same amount of light is getting projected, same amount of graphics calculations is still happening. If there's any impact it's probably quite low, maybe less than 0.0001%
fouc··on Show HN: HelixDB – A graph database built on object storage
where is puppygraph's source code?
fouc··on Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?
is that 4-7 hours with the Quest 3 mostly for working or entertainment?
fouc··on FrontierCode
I'm a bit disappointed that Opus 4.6 wasn't in this because the tokenizer changed quite a bit from 4.7 onward. I was so annoyed by 4.7 that I've been forcing 4.6 ever since. I've been annoyed by 4.8 a bit too, so I haven't felt the urge to move on.
fouc··on Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M
tribalism, Us vs. Them, racism, patriotism/nationalism, etc all seem closely related.

In terms of social life, and romantic life, it's interesting how heavily we rely on shared/common background, which tends to cause this clustering effect.

fouc··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
I think it would be reasonable to consider moving a company making large changes like that into some kind of probationary state, and automatically adjust the weights it has in the index as a result.
fouc··on Chuwi Minibook X
gotta have dock hiding & menu bar hiding & compact toolbar/tab settings for browser. only 80-90px of wasted height. The rest is web view. I can't think of any website I frequent having that fixed-position header either, so I'm gucci.
fouc··on I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC
What's interesting about the older post is that all the sentences are long, compared to the current datacenter GPU post which contains lots of short sentences.

But yeah, probably feels sucky to have your style analyzed for AI writing. FWIW, the datacenter GPU post was great! I went to look at the ebay postings.

fouc··on I put a datacenter GPU in my gaming PC
Sorry for the false positive! It's interesting that multiple people thought that line was AI generated.

I think for me it was mainly the superlative "genuinely surprising" that made me wonder.

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