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sitkackon MS Paint Adds Freeform Rotation (2026)

why u just programming directly into a hn text box?

sounds like ur on a roll. i'd like for a command list along with a persistent data structure so i could retweak and reddit someone's project, parametrically

sitkackon MS Paint Adds Freeform Rotation (2026)

every time you do an update large enough they do the welcome to mac and try and turn all that shit back on.

sitkackon Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder block wall

It is supernatural to write code by hand, so yeah?

sitkackon Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic

Yeah, a pressure relief clause and it should fire visibly.

sitkackon Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal

Over what time horizon? Before, during or after Trumps 3rd term?

sitkackon Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen

    --norms-taboos-off

sitkackon Apple Pass Designer

These small operators are increasing their usage of the Technical Abomination Solutions, the simple QR code ticket is on the way out

sitkackon Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal

Seeing as the pentagon has no issue with volunteering for extra judicial murder, it is not off the table. at all.

sitkackon Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal

A big enough bomb and it can be fixed in place.

sitkackon Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges

Contrapositive in this usage is a fancy word for, "my logic is flawed"

No, if you are already making bad decisions, you are going to make more. I never argued that good engineering means the idea was good.

sitkackon The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy

The ads show they are out of ideas and with everything enshitifying, and a duopoly, they don't need to serve customers. just be slightly less shitty than google.

This puts them at existential risk of disruption, because it will build huge unseen pressure for customers to flee.

We saw this with Opus 4.7 - 5, losing folks to Sol when it came out. But Anthropic delivered with 5.5

sitkackon The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy

> Cocaine and pot are horrible

citation needed

sitkackon Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons

You are doing it right now by naming the event after the victim, not the perpetrator. Call it the OpenAI attack on HF.

sitkackon Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second

I don't even notice the LLM speed or latency. I think we are as far apart in technique as it gets.

What is your workflow?

sitkackon Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges

Funny that so many people in this thread are arguing that a bad idea should also be engineered well. It was already a bad idea, so no it won't be. They are a package deal.

sitkackon Spymarks, not Watermarks

When someone else controls distribution, they also control the spark, each request could serve up a different payload. So innocuous images could encode ids, tracking receivers as well as originators.

sitkackon Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone

I would score this as an own goal.

sitkackon Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees

You can't compare if you don't know the cost, if you can't compare it is hard for the invisible hand to price the market.

Price transparency makes more efficient markets.

sitkackon I am often wrong

That isn't typically how abstraction is tallied. The ceo doesn't say they use 15k employees, or the programmer uses 30B transistors. Or the director uses 120 workers. You enumerate what you actually interact with.

sitkackon I am often wrong

That isn't humanly possible, you will blow out your neurotransmitters and not be able to think. Only being semi serious, but we can't make that many decisions a day.

sitkackon Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

Tics, tropes are worn out predictable plot devices

sitkackon Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: Faster LLM Inference with llama.cpp

why do use ai to write your posts ?

sitkackon Amiga clarifies Commodore rights and the future of AmigaOS

You come off bitter for no reason.

sitkackon After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted

Which is why Taiwan is safe until china can produce domestically because their power comes from exports.

China is not going to sabotage themselves like that.

sitkackon It's getting harder to focus every day

The number one goal in a functioning democracy should be to have the highest possible education rate.

sitkackon New rental trend? A $200 'work-from-home fee' tacked on to Bay Area lease