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bigattichouse

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    Comment #49214795

    Is the distribution because of taking time to look/equipment? or is that actually related to the distribution (clumps in various directions).. I would guess the lines and things ar…

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    Comment #47278040

    I'm hoping the current oil-war will cause people to re-assess fossil fuel use as expense becomes untenable and we start choosing electric vehicles and renewables.. which will just …

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    Comment #46314051

    When is a heap of sand a heap of sand? The answer isn't in the heap of sand, it's in the observer. LLMs are a VERY heap-like pile of sand, and people are starting to see a mind whe…

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    Comment #44593364

    Good enough for me. I created the project because I love terminal, and wanted to make something using Claude (to learn how this tool works, strictly for personal enrichment) that s…

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    Comment #44593343

    just pushed a change so now it's: waitlock myapp & #... do stuff waitlock --done myapp

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    Comment #44592721

    Sometimes you have a cron job that takes longer than it should (but inconsistently so), and another cron job that clobbers what that cron job is doing.

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    Show HN: Linux CLI tool to provide mutex locks for long running bash ops

    Been exploring claude and spec-based coding, I think it turned out fairly successful. It's just a simple unix-style tool that gives you a single command to use in bash scripts to s…

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    Comment #44454434

    A lot of people throw around 5% efficiency for Peltiers, and it's just not true - it depends heavily on the temperature differential and current vs. IMax. You can (with care) drive…

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    Show HN: Created a script to run commands in an isolated VM for AI tool calling

    Using AI commandline tools can require allowing some scary permissions (ex: "allow model to rm -rf?"), I wanted to isolate commands using a VM that could be ephemeral (erased each …

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    Comment #42588983

    I've spent an afternoon attempting to compile and run RWKV7 locally.. and I just don't get it. lotta errors in compiling... and it's a lot. Like a lot, a lot... it's walls of versi…

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    Comment #41641537

    Good work! I've been working on a similar BF CPU (Mine's called simple mind). I'd love to see a breakdown of how each of your commands get processed.

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    Comment #41521997

    You can add a little calcium carbonate to these inks to give them a little shine and offset some of the acidity. The really neat thing about these inks is that they are soluble whe…

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    Ask HN: Shouldn't Cookie tracking request popups be converted to HTTP Headers?

    I mean, it's the same three or four possible fields over and over... can't we just set a default and pass it as a header on every request?

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    Comment #41511847

    My wife makes a fist and counts her knuckles and divots on her left hand: pinky Jan 31 divot Feb (28/29) ring March 31 divot April 30 middle May 31 divot June 30 pointer July 31 (n…

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    Show HN: I built a CPU cooler/Peltier-based Airconditioner for 48v Solar

    I've been building a Peltier with 48v solar in mind. Part of the design constraints were to create it using only commodity CPU cooling tech I could buy online, and plenty of trips …

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    Comment #39858949

    I've been fascinated by a small mention in the 1.58bit quantization article that mentioned 0.68 quantization , which I believe to mean 0,1 instead of 1.58's -1,0,1. When I read htt…

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    I've been fascinated by a small mention in the 1.58bit quantization article that mentioned 0.68 quantization , which I believe to mean 0,1 instead of 1.58's -1,0,1. When I read htt…

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