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I'm apparently from the very small faction of users who's been running `--dangerously-skip-permissions` in every instance of Claude for the last year. It's almost a reflex to me. F…

This poor soul. There are few protocols I hate implementing more than WebRTC. Getting a simple client going means you need to quickly acclimate to SDP, TURN/STUN, ice-candidates, o…

This time: curl -I https://hckrnews.com curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: certificate has expired More details here: https://curl.se/docs/sslcerts.html Last time: https://news.yc…

I'll take a contrarian view here. Disclaimer: I'm interpreting "safe" as in "usability". I've been driving Ubuntu for years for gaming purposes, and it's come a long way. Most driv…

He is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.

Amazing that this post went up ~20 minutes after the cert expired Issued On: Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 11:26:21 AM Expires On: Monday, July 7, 2025 at 11:26:20 AM

What the author touches on with before and after "declarative thinking" is largely applicable to all Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) workflows, and not just signals. They are 100% cor…

I have aphantasia, and today I learned that I also have SDAM. There are benefits. For example, I find that I have no issue forgiving people. It's more work for me to harbor a grudg…

What is it about React that you hate? React has been the near defacto framework for frontend development for a decade now [1]. Like it or not, it's not going away anytime soon. [1]…

The Australian and the USA's immigration system are substantially different in terms of underlying values. The Australian system assigns points based on skill and merit. The US has…

I think the author has a point with one-way doors slowing down the adoption of distributed systems. The best way to build two way doors is to push for industry adoption of a partic…

You're describing the parallelized web-scraper that they pointed to their own internal site? Yeah that was fun. Too bad everyone got the same question.

Link warning, this site a rather quite aggressive fishing scam. The Google Ad displays that the link will resolve to "www.nytimes.com", however it instead redirects to a [spam fish…