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I've decided that the main thing I'm building is my own mental model. You can take notes, create docs, put graphs and websites together, but unless I'm just trying to generate some…

It's not a tactical failure of the US; it's a strategic one. The US operates a tremendously powerful military, but that doesn't change the fact that the war with Iran was a tremend…

Apple is on the side of privacy if it serves their marketing. Which is why they would rather build and normalize CLIENT SIDE CONTENT SCANNING so they can continue to market iCloud …

Yeah at 120hz each frame is 8ms. So you're only missing a single frame around 30% of the time. I certainly want my latency as low as I can get it. But I'm pretty skeptical that any…

Current top 5 played games on the Steam Deck are: Slay the Spire 2, The Binding of Isaac, Dave the Diver, Stardew Valley, and Baldur's Gate 3. BG3 is the only one you can consider …

Arcan is such a fascinating project that I've never quite managed to get my head around.

That was my experience a couple months ago, and until someone shows me real evidence of something valuable they've made with it, I'm not wasting my time on this stuff again.

Authenticity requires vulnerability and that's not something Apple can do.

I use Opencode, both directly and through Discord via a little bridge called Kimaki. https://github.com/remorses/kimaki

GLM 5.1 was the model that made me feel like the Chinese models had truly caught up. I cancelled my Claude Max subscription and genuinely have not missed it at all. Some people see…

I've found GLM 5.1 to be extremely good, as long as you keep the context under 100k or so. But I do agree; the actual service is rough. It's often unusable during peak hours. I ima…

I can't find an announcement on this, but here's the archived subscription page from a couple days ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20260410092340/https://z.ai/subs... The Max plan…

Even if this is largely due to a change in how PCs in China are being counted, it's still amazing to watch Linux usage continue to climb like this. It's really the only opposing fo…

This feels like an existential threat to HN, and to the general concept of anonymous online discourse. Trust in the platform is foundational, and without it the whole thing falls d…

The side effect of trying to enforce this kind of sensitivity is that you make certain things taboo to talk about. And this is a good example of something that should be easy for s…

Pretty much every software engineer I've talked to sees it more or less like you do, with some amount of variance on exactly where you draw the line of "this is where the value pro…

I think in the context of business communication; yeah a lot of people are doing that. Which, to be honest, I don't think it the worst thing ever. Most corporate communication is s…

I played with it extensively for three days. I think there are a few things it does that people are finding interesting: 1. It has a lot of files that it loads into it's context fo…

I like how Xcode installs a bunch of gigantic, multi-gigabyte artifacts for like ios runtimes or whatever, fills up the hard drive, can't update because it's out of space, and then…

I've been using it for the past couple days. Like most AI products right now, it is both incredible and incredibly stupid. Virtually everything I've tried (starting with just getti…

I've recently switched to OpenCode and found it to be far better. Plus GML 4.7 is free at the moment, so for now it's a great no-cost setup.