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I guess an oxidized relay isn't the worst thing in the world

@entropic-emma.bsky.social Look familiar? 🥴

I really hate tabs but I like go. Why did the universe do this to me?

Logan was murdered by Colonel Mustard in the parlor room with an undocumented breaking change

I wish the iOS app would preseve my drafts. It's a really big nice-to-have. For someone who is trying to balance real-world relationships with fleeting thoughts it's sort of vital.

Three strikes to the floor is flat platinum. Someone has to use this.

does anyone else feel like their text messages are just turning into their email inbox?

It's so odd how you can sense someone's (or a pet's) presence, even in another room, despite not being able to hear them breathing or moving. It's almost some other level. You mostly notice their absence when they're gone. You can tell you're physically alone. This is a roommate skeet.

Wrote an article about math I use to design and develop interactive experiences for AR/VR. I tried to focus on the practical aspects of it and keep it as simple as possible. Hope you will find it helpful! medium.com/@olegfrolov/... #uiprogramming #3dmath #spatialdesign #xr #interactiondesign

It's also a perfect case of bare discrimination. Fencing can often be co-ed. Your opponent's appearance is obscured. Size confers no meaningful advantage. It only changes strategy. Many women's champions are very short. See this completely unrelated article as proof!

I've decided I want a cupboard full of those indestructible diner mugs. I think it would bring me comfort.

I've been reading so much trash panda language code lately that it feels good to look at TS again.

I wonder if we could measurably determine how comma splices affect prompt accuracy... 🤦🏻‍♀️ Maybe if I had just studied pure math I wouldn't be plagued by these thoughts

Sometimes I drum CTRL+C followed by CTRL+L compulsively

Has anyone else had trouble with videos refusing to play on iOS 26? It's been like this for a couple weeks. I get the grayscale play button with a slash through it. Seems pretty universal across media types.

If you really want a laugh try to get an LLM to write strudel.cc beats for you. It won't work, but it's hilarious

After three rounds of the agent failing at using the test tool with 128, then 256, and finally 512mb... The LLM chose 4GB. This is some future we live in.

Now I have to write a PDS implementation... @hailey.at Why do you do this to me?

I nominate the Grifted Age as the historical title of this time period.

Wow, the quality difference 🤩 I can't remember who, but long ago I saw someone do side-by-side comparisons where they uploaded an image to various platforms, then copied the uploaded output and uploaded it to other platforms to demonstrate the effect of repeated, varied compression. Truly metal. 🤘

You know what? PHP actually has a lot of wonderful parts. You just have to crawl through the darkness before you find them. I'm not sure how redeeming that is. It's such a weird language.

Remember, considerate clips everyone

I guess I can add defending the NYT to my list of "things I was sure I wasn't going to do in 2025"

Many comments on this article are suggesting the NYT is irresponsible for publishing this. These people are fools so desensitized to the failure of our leaders that they'll blame the journalists when we're standing among the rubble.

No one wants to tap album art and instantly have the middle of a song start playing. No one wants to explore music by skipping through the middle of tracks. Satan is running product development at Spotify.

When you've had a long stressful week, nodding off to an Attenborough nature doc on a saturday night can be like a spa day 🧖‍♀️

it just hit me how hilarious it is that the Renaissance of the age verification laws on the Internet was destined to coincide with the age of vibe coded applications

So traumatized by anyone who says "You're absolutely right!" right now. #iykyk

I'm never making fun of my parent's generation for losing their minds over Clippy again.

AI tools have really shown me how much work I actually do through their relative ineffectiveness for certain tasks. Thanks, I guess.

I'm really amused by the fact that synthetic rubber monomers can be cis or trans in their attachment to polymer chains

Shader code is hard... (Screenshot of the iOS 26 camera app from the dev beta)

The more things I've made, the less I've been interested in publicly criticizing the things that other people make, because once you make a few things you start to understand what a miracle it is that anything gets made at all

Blessed are parents who show their children classic films without any pretense or spoilers

plight of the modern coder

anyways i dont use playlists i listen to albums like a real epic person

So-so news? Home alone on a Friday night. Good news? At least I implemented polling correctly on the first try.

This might be the CSS equivalent of the quote from the Replicant at the end of Blade Runner.

I've watched Claude one-shot multi-file state management using relatively obscure libraries in JS with ease and then burn thousands of tokens trying to layout something as trivial as an alternating timeline grid.

For anyone wondering, the main reason you see Tailwind in system prompts is because next token prediction of CSS is garbage, and it should be obvious why. CSS is not strictly contextually structured. Even appending the HTML doesn't always help. CSS makes up the majority of my net loss time with LLMs

Obligatory "back in my day" story is that when I was a kid in rural Kentucky I had to borrow internet from my neighbor so I could download these ISOs (which I think I may have had to build) at 250KB/s. It was excruciating. Thank god for bittorrent because resumability was everything.

Proof that I make excellent life decisions is impulsively deciding to install arch on a system late at night when I have to commute to DTLA tomorrow

Only on HN will you find someone presented with terrible ramifications go, "It'll be interesting to see what happens" despite having immediate access to direct knowledge illustrating some catastrophic consequences under similar past circumstances. The lack of critical thinking boggles the mind.

Ask me how many bs are in rhubarb

I have achieved the impossible. I survived a rave in open-toed shoes. Look on ye mighty and despair.

I feel this way about the right Discord communities

Stayed up late last night messing with download/upload streaming in fetch. Fetch response streaming is a cross-browser joy. But turns out that five years on, there's still no support for x-browser upload streaming due to lack of the Fetch/Request "duplex" parameter caniuse.com/mdn-api_requ...

Gilded age has me in absolute shock.