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someguyiguess··on Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service
When people's income depends on them forgetting... they tend to become amnesiacs.
someguyiguess··on Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance
> "Everyone is convinced that the other side is evil and cannot be trusted..."

And the scary part is that they're both apparently correct.

someguyiguess··on Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance
The problem is that those cameras aren't being put in areas where crime occurs in order to keep citizens safe. They are being put on busy streets to prevent people's ability to travel without being tracked.
someguyiguess··on Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies
No. It does not say that. You added that meaning.
someguyiguess··on Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?
To be fair, college CS programs have always been decades behind in my experience. Maybe schools like Stanford and MIT are different but the majority of CS programs are not teaching tech that is actually used in the business world.
someguyiguess··on Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software
I absolutely DO NOT want software that completely disappears. No thanks.
someguyiguess··on Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act
I probably don't have all the info on the various laws across the US and EU that are being pushed, but I'm confused why Linux distros don't just update their licensing and add a notice on the installation screen that it is illegal to run their OS in places where these laws exist?

Heck, Linus Torvalds should just add an amendment to the next release of the Linux Kernel that makes it illegal to use in any jurisdiction that requires age verification laws.

This would obviously cause such a massive disruption (especially in California) that the age laws would have to be rolled back immediately.

This seems like a no-brainer to me but I am admittedly ignorant on this situation. I'm sure there's a good reason why this isn't happening if anyone cares to explain.

someguyiguess··on Kimi Claw
I feel the same way. I fail to see what is useful about it or what problem it solves.
someguyiguess··on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
And ironically, it has also gotten far less pretty. Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger was beautiful. Tahoe is flat and generic looking.
someguyiguess··on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
Oh yes. Alt+right click + drag. How intuitive. (not)
someguyiguess··on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
This has to be sarcasm. Either that or you have never used KDE or Gnome even once in your life. No DE for Linux is anywhere near as polished as the DE in Mac OS. You have to spend hours customizing KDE or CFCE to get them to function even halfway near what an average user would expect. Gnome is okay but so bloated and even more opinionated than MacOS or Windows.
someguyiguess··on Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode
Same experience. The 2009 version of Eclipse was more stable than modern XCode. And that’s saying something.
someguyiguess··on Claude Sonnet 5 Is Imminent – and It Could Be a Generation Ahead of Google
What about when the farmer and the carpenter are replaced by machines?
someguyiguess··on Claude Sonnet 5 Is Imminent – and It Could Be a Generation Ahead of Google
It will have to eventually. If the current rate of technological advancement continues, it is only a matter of time before every job will be automated. What would we do then if there is no UBI?
someguyiguess··on Claude Sonnet 5 Is Imminent – and It Could Be a Generation Ahead of Google
You guys still have jobs???
someguyiguess··on Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
Gastown also had a supervisor “mayor”. How is this one different?
someguyiguess··on Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
I don’t get it. You can do that with the Claude app or ChatGPT too. What’s the value add?

Edit: oh I see. It’s local. So privacy. Quite a good value add actually.

someguyiguess··on Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
The further I scroll the more validated I feel for having the very same reaction.
someguyiguess··on Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
Ok I’m glad I’m not the only one wondering this. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt that there is some reason for doing it this way but I almost wonder if it isn’t just because it’s being built with Claude.
someguyiguess··on Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
Also React?? One of the slowest rendering front-end libraries? Why not use something … I don’t know … faster / more efficient?
someguyiguess··on Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
Interesting. On first glance that seems over engineered. I wonder what the reason is for doing it that way?
someguyiguess··on Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
What OS? Does this happen randomly, after long sessions, after context compression? Do you have any plugins / mcp servers running?

I used to have this same issue almost every session that lasted longer than 30 minutes. It seemed to be related to Claude having issues with large context windows.

It stopped happening maybe a month ago but then I had it happen again last week.

I realized it was due to a third-party mcp server. I uninstalled it and haven’t had that issue since. Might be worth looking into.

someguyiguess··on AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals
The problem is that Agents.md is only read on initial load. Once context grows too large the agent will not reload the md file and loses / forgets the info from Agents.md.
someguyiguess··on Show HN: Pinecone Explorer – Desktop GUI for the Pinecone vector database
Why does the example image have 2 ID columns with the same content?
someguyiguess··on Show HN: Rails UI
None of this is hard to create from scratch honestly.
someguyiguess··on Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code
This is exactly what I was going to say. I used eclipse in college when learning Java. Back then it was bloated, slow, had really bad UX, and would occasionally crash for no reason I could ascertain (I was just doing basic school projects. Linked lists, binary search trees, etc...)

VS Code, although it is starting to go get a bit bloated, has always been extremely responsive and snappy. Yeah I've had it crash, but I was never surprised that it crashed. (e.g. opening enormous files, running several instances at once with tons of tabs open, long debugging sessions, etc...)

But now I use NeoVim so none of that matters...

someguyiguess··on Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor
Why? Just out of curiosity. Is it that you don’t need that much low end for the media you’re usually playing through your monitors or do the 8030Cs have enough low end to eliminate the need for a separate woofer?

I’ve been debating getting genelecs for a few years now but the price jump from something like JBLs or Yamahas is so huge that I can’t justify it. At least not on my current budget.

someguyiguess··on Notion AI: Unpatched data exfiltration
Sorry for the late reply. The migration was really easy actually. I used the official migration plugin. There were a few things it couldn’t transfer over though (voice transcription notes)
someguyiguess··on OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor
I am one of them! Been wanting to try it out for a while but my only available machine is an MBP
someguyiguess··on Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?
I feel this pain! It feels like in the world of LLMs there is a new acronym to learn every day!

For the curious RAG = Retrieval Augmented Generation. From wikipedia: RAG enables large language models (LLMs) to retrieve and incorporate new information from external data sources

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