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underdeserver··on Stop Making TUIs
But in the article all these GUIs are vibe coded. Tell your AI to allow more than one window. What's the problem?
underdeserver··on Stop Making TUIs
So you have a cluttered list of terminal tabs instead of a cluttered list of windows.

But with a worse UX?

underdeserver··on Stop Making TUIs
They generally stay supported, or if not supported, working.
underdeserver··on The August 17 outage
Yes, they can, because I don't think other forges are actually making money.

GitHub is the de facto standard.

underdeserver··on I should have loved biology (2020)
Yep, and given that the original author posted it in 2020, should probably be marked (2020).
underdeserver··on HTML Can Do That
Loved the Zelda reference.
underdeserver··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
Whose influence?
underdeserver··on Buy Your Friends Batteries
The first friend gets to share their experience with the group, that can then decide to keep buying for other members or not.
underdeserver··on Ask HN: Is this the worst time to be human?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285770

It's the best time.

underdeserver··on Mea Culpa – Dark Hours
The author's alleged misdeeds aside, even before AI, there were lots of small projects that were similar to one another.

I don't think that's a bad thing, or that it's necessarily plagiarism - unless the LLM spews out the other project's code from its training...

I'm happy to see multiple takes on the same idea. There are lots of tiny aesthetic and functional decisions that make apps different from one another. Now that implementation is cheaper we should celebrate that.

underdeserver··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
There's a huge difference between misusing their power and not having perfect understanding of what they're allowed and not allowed to do.

I'm sure there are scenarios where the cop can confiscate the surfboard and the car. The distinction is probably somewhat vague even for highly educated lawyers, and cops cannot expected to be that.

He should have stood up for his rights, sure, but laughing in the cop's face and telling them they're full of shit is disrespectful, and at least where I live is a misdemeanor even if the original case is wrong.

underdeserver··on The Strongest El Niño Ever
He didn't say he would be flying
underdeserver··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
What do you want from him, seriously? Anyone who follows the scene knows that blogging about AI (and participating in conferences etc.) is what Simon does nowadays.

There's nothing shady here. The disclosure is front and center on his About page on his website.

He's not spamming you. It's one short link, sometimes a link to a first-impressions post. It's interesting and useful for me and the other commenters who keep upvoting his comments. Why are you so antagonistic?

underdeserver··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
+1. First thing I look for in a model announcement thread. I actually came across this one an hour ago and was sad there were no pelicans yet.

It's a decent heuristic because the better models generate better pelicans. That's all. Nobody sane is going to make a bet on a model based on a pelican. But it's cool, it's tradition by now, and it's a semblance of a good first impression for new models.

underdeserver··on Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s
I'm interested in more posts about this bowling nonsense.
underdeserver··on Autopsy Study Finds Replicating SARS-CoV-2 in the Hearts of Long Covid
Isn't this exact idea a theme in Asimov's books?

I feel like doctors and physiology researchers have known this for some time.

underdeserver··on Guy is banned by OpenAI for cyber abuse, his AI appeals, another AI approves it
Turtles all the way down
underdeserver··on The future of Flipper Zero development
Easy fix: Allow donations, merge updates once donation pool is enough to pay for the maintainers' time.
underdeserver··on It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
PC games are physical. I have my games right here on this thumb drive in my hand. If I sell it to you, and you plug it in, you can play my games.
underdeserver··on Europe's new climate in seven charts
It can change, if we get to net negative emissions. Not probable but possible.
underdeserver··on Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown
Undergraduate degrees are not vocational in any of the leading universities in any field. They are sometimes a prerequisite to vocational training, but aren't one in and of themselves.

There's a pretty good reason for that - the base assumption is that training in fundamentals, methods and ways of thinking is something you won't get anywhere else.

underdeserver··on Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?
Nit - it is not completely free.

You are paying for the extra power draw.

underdeserver··on Firewood Splitting Simulator
My point is that it's easily vibeable for you, because you do game stuff.

I don't - I did large scale web, embedded, data, and security, but no graphics or games. I wouldn't know where to begin.

underdeserver··on Firewood Splitting Simulator
I don't think I could have vibe coded that.

At the very least, he photographed and built models of logs and his own yard.

underdeserver··on PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you
This is a remarkably open-source friendly business model. I hope it works out similarly remarkably well for you!
underdeserver··on Dopamine Fracking
Eh, I don't use Lime Scooters or Waymo for the dopamine, I use them to get to where I need to go.
underdeserver··on Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries
These are dudes, likely some of them teenagers, playing Street Fighter and Tekken.

Who signed up for what?

underdeserver··on Zig Zen Update
Nearly impossible in some contexts, where the trade-off makes sense.

There are many scenarios, especially in embedded systems, where it can happen and you want to handle it robustly, e.g. by evicting a cache or flushing a buffer to disk.

underdeserver··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
What do you mean? How did it manipulate you?
underdeserver··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
It's not going to be a particularly expensive product, but a product it can be.
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