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Yeah they work really well. I have tried Claude opus and ChatGPT 5.5

I have been experimenting with more hand writing notes as well. What I have been finding is better retention and more focus on what is that I'm following, wether is a book or a mee…

I have been using LLMs for this and they excel and understanding my very poor calligraphy. All I do I take photos of the pages I wrote by hand, and then ask the LLM to convert thos…

Looks like it's a well thought project. I might consider it to replace my old Kobo. There are only two things I don't see in the description: 1. A dictionary 2. A flash card creati…

I recently read the book Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, a doctor. He emphasized how terminal care should focus on quality of life instead of attempting to prolong it and making it a…

I find using flashcards very stimulating, however to reach this status it took me quite some time and some trial and error. So if you're new at using flashcards don't quit just yet…

With the Temporal API will all of the browsers / nodejs etc be able to get the time right when performing operations around that time or will they need to be updated in order to no…

I also started on spacemacs but then I wanted to learn the basics of it and switched to writing my own configuration from scratch. What helped me the most is reading though the Mas…

I have been using emacs for the past couple of years. Started because I wanted to try out org mode and stayed for the extreme flexibility it offers.

as content creator this makes me not wanting to create any new content, in fact this year I slowed down a lot, probably I'm going to a complete halt.

After struggling with different webcams, including the MacBook Pro camera, I opted for this setup: - Canon RP - 50mm Canon lens - Tripod located between my two monitors All it full…

what's anti-CCP?

Asia, Australia/New Zealand are well awake and almost at the end of their working day :)

How many of us are reading this article while "at work"? Just me? I don't think so. I open HackerNews four or five times a day and I read some of the articles. Right now I am in a …

I never had the problem mentioned in the article, but for misspelled commands I trust git autocorrect: git config --global help.autocorrect 1 It will run the correct misspelled com…

I feel the other way around: I prefer serif fonts in general, however well designed websites should not have any issue with the font style chosen, as long as the basics of design a…

Human are made to interact one each other, love and enjoy life. Even if you feel alone sometimes because you might do not have someone that can understand you, you should try findi…

I used to get contracts through oDesk/UpWork as well ( https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~015eaccf9967b4f9f4 ) However the quality of the jobs I can apply for are a continuously g…

I see how a lot of people in this thread are just conservative American thinking "government is bad" and "private is good". Very open minded for HN.

This is just a "positive" aspect of the TPP so that you can say it has positive things in it. Surely it has a lot of caveats for other industries, companies/lobbies. Typically corp…

It is designed to remove power from the people and give it to the big corporations.

Giving to a private company the ability to effectively sue a government is the worst idea ever. Imagine a world with no regulations because there are damaging the business. Welcome…

Just yesterday I saw here on HN a news about what the TPP actually means for intellectual property, which should be a quite known problem here in the community. Interestingly enoug…

Where I work we decided to avoid using libraries and frameworks, because decisions taken at that level was do not give us the flexibility to deal with the problems that we face. Th…