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theusus··on Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
My ass, latest gen is actually more open to criticism. Old gen people used to be bullies and dogmatic. I call your story bullshit.
theusus··on Job loss and cortisone mania
To buy more time until I get a good offer.
theusus··on Job loss and cortisone mania
It was my last day at a company that was wrongfully firing me. I fought ruthlessly. In the morning I was fit and fine. By night I had a 104 F fever. It is astonishing how psychological issues significantly affect physical health.
theusus··on Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)
Lifting heavy in the morning uplifted my mood. Gave mental energy for the rest of the day. I took small nap after it but that’s it.
theusus··on Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)
Waking up at 6 AM and doing workout did wonders to my mental health.
theusus··on Logic for Programmers
The problem I see with the book is copy editing. It is self published on lean pub, which I have seen has poor copy editing.
theusus··on Back to Kagi
Kagi for me is same as Google. But Brave is a bit different plus it uses its own indexes
theusus··on The state of building user interfaces in Rust
I missed saying “mature”
theusus··on The state of building user interfaces in Rust
I tried to find a ELM style framework in Rust. And I couldn't find it in Rust and chose F# Fabulous instead.
theusus··on Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
IME Claude has been a bit inferior. But, yeah, the marketing is just great.
theusus··on I Miss Terry Pratchett
Yep, pangram says it is 100% AI generated.
theusus··on Vivaldi 8.0
For me on Windows. It hangs a lot. Thus I uninstalled.
theusus··on Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
Still they are maintained by those developers. I cannot spend my time developing extensions. I'd rather do that in Rust.
theusus··on Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust
I absolutely like this. Pi becomes sluggish after installing a couple of extensions. I myself was trying to port Pi to Rust but it was consuming too much tokens.

Is there any API like Pi so that I can create extensions.

theusus··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2026)
Working on a native non JS Http client similar to Insomnia.
theusus··on I am worried about Bun
Indeed it is
theusus··on I am worried about Bun
Bun is basically a wrapper over JSCore. I don't think it's that big of a feat. Furthermore they are heavily invested in vendor specific APIs which I think is not good.
theusus··on Uber Torches 2026 AI Budget on Claude Code in Four Months
It's GPT 5.5 and it still can't do exactly the same thing I want. So, I think companies should call AI a lost cause.
theusus··on Claude Opus 4.7
Do we have any performance benchmark with token length? Now that the context size is 1 M. I would want to know if I can exhaust all of that or should I clear earlier?
theusus··on Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)
Why would I pay for a pwa with some elements blocked?
theusus··on Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell
I do use powershell but it doesn’t provide auto complete for commands. I repeat I don’t want history. I want commands or args suggestions. Just like zsh auto complete
theusus··on Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell
All I want is auto complete for the commands on Windows. And none provides
theusus··on Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice
Mice mice mice. Tell me when you test on humans
theusus··on Helix: A post-modern text editor
Using agents to edit code. And Helix doesn’t support live update of files. This is the reason it’s not my first choice.
theusus··on Ape Coding [fiction]
AI can produce thousands of line of code. But that’s not the goal.
theusus··on MCP server that reduces Claude Code context consumption by 98%
How is this different than RAG?
theusus··on LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio"
It doesn’t
theusus··on The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]
Wasn’t he fired by MS?
theusus··on ManusAI Joins Meta
I used trial of Manus and it was in no way better than GPT. And they are using publicly available models only.
theusus··on Learn computer graphics from scratch and for free
This material is best one you can find out there. You can always report typos.
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