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Ikea has rules for naming products (so in theory, you could figure out what it is from the name) -> www.ikea.com/…/6f564c4d-2ccc-46de-…545a3948dc79.html

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At moms house for the holiday weekend so the kids can see Nana. She has a "premium Plex" account on her tv serving a truly massive amount of content. Allegedly the brother of a long time friend is offering the "service". She says that the service will go down when the host is having outages, so the infra is likely local. I brought my year this weekend. We are going to dig in to this guys operation. Intuition dictates that there is some hand rolled accounting going on. I'd like to see it.

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Have a wonderful day.

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Make it easy for users to export polygons. My municipal GIS didn't for some reason so I had to guess by moving the mouse around and manually type the coordinates into Marble.

@austorprofilefollowwrote:
I am writing a GIS app for Android and iOS. Any opinions/suggestions?

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Thanks for the suggestion. Export feature added.

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A thing I've been doing lately is trying to come to the same conclusions others have without looking their the direct techniques and code. Last night I tried to figure out why people do vector based retrieval for RAG and ended up running these experiments: n0tls.com/…/2026-09-03-i-think-…rag-with-grep.html I'm still going to do an explore agent.

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Here's a follow up from last night: n0tls.com/…/2026-09-05-fine-tuning-…tiny-retriever.html This has been a great way for me to learn in this space. Learning with AI has been such a fun time for me.

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good ! it’s time for and .

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Good morning to you both 🌞

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Hello World! :D

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Hello!

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i made an extension to get a top hacker news items with summary on every new tab. chromewebstore.google.com/…/pmlajlgklmgabkhammfolkgkeghamjnn

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cool! i've made The Front Page you might want to check it out also - it shows the first 3 pages of HN with AI summaries and images. Like a newspaper.

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The dream of Twitter circa 2007 is alive in 2026

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Twitter was 140 chars. That makes it double the dream, right?

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Hello World!

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hi there! 👋 welcome!

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Hi 👋

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Thinking of Zik all the time. It’s the spark that ignited my imagination. I’ve always loved memories.

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Everytime I post something on HN or elsewhere, I get about a dozen or more emails and they're all talking about the same thing; they have a platform and they want to help me grow my business, they promise. They look personalized but they're .

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"Insanity is ~~doing~~ prompting the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

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🤣

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cool platform. found you on ycombinator.

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welcome!

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Цветок розы не издает голоса, а благоухание его далеко расходится молча; так надо жить и всем христианам. —Святитель Феофан Затворник

The rose flower makes no sound, but its fragrance spreads far and wide in silence; so should all Christians live. —St. Theophan the Recluse

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hello world!

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Hello 👋

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Might be a good outcome to this. Water remediation folks want to take out 30 sqft of drywall to ensure the space btwn floors is fully dry. But my architect father-in-law thinks this is yagni and we can get away with just using a fan and space heater to let it dry out on its own 🤔

@evnmprofilefollowSoftware engineer GitHubevnm - Overviewevnm has 51 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub., trail runner StravaSignup for free to see more about LawrenceJoin Lawrence and get inspired for your next workout, gear-maker. Working on something new for homeowners getonmain.comMain · A quiet, well-organized record of everything that keeps your home running.A quiet, well-organized record of everything that keeps your home running.wrote:
Very cool: our kids' bathroom toilet overflowed last night, resulting in water draining into our kitchen on the floor below.

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Thankfully, the zero cost option seems to have worked out. Had fans pointed up at the ceiling for a couple days. Will have to patch up some water-damaged drywall, but think we can avoid opening up the ceiling 😌

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Some thoughts deserve a smaller audience

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hello world ~ i'm a web developer from midwest, usa. it's been awhile since i worked on anything. since the i've been working my way up the ladder at a blue-collar job; i was promoted to team lead last week. but as i browse hacker news everyday, my cravings for web development increases.

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Is there anybody writing spanish here?

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With each passing workday I spend agentsitting, my ability to program in isolation atrophies. This might be dismissed as needless self-serving anxiety, but perhaps irrationally, I can't let it go.

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thinking on deploying excalidraw on my homeserver, so I can store drawings without bothering with export/import. Yes, excalidraw+ for $7/mo; but nowadays I pay only one sub - for Claude; everything else is personal software.

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Well, done, Claude did while I drove a car. It even added save/open file from the server (stored in SQLite). Deployed on my homelab server.

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Looks like you-know-who has finally come for nitter. :-( nitter.net

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Using the internet these days is like pulling off an elaborate heist operation. Every time I successfully load a page I feel like I've "gotten away with something".

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It is sometimes tempting to mutter, "I'm in!" in your movie hacker voice when you finally get past all the cookie/subscription/notification pop-ups.

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Taking a small break from here to work on an for a friend! I missed .

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It didn’t work out, we found competition offering the same service for free so the fell apart. Need to find something else to do as a side project to textlog. 😕 Thinking of a code editor that’s focused on the new agentic workflows, so you have it on the side regardless of your agent tools and it monitors the git diff and offers a nice panorama view. I’ve done an extension for VSCode similar to this idea.

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Good outcome! Better to bail early and avoid toiling on a doomed idea. I'm always afraid of this 😅

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You might want to check out . Not exactly what you're speaking of, but the idea sounds similar.

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Just started, and two made it to be block list. This is going well! :-D

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Didn't realize there's a block list! Good to include, even when the point is minimalism.

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It is good it exists. “Registration” is fairly open (and that’s good!), which could make the platform prone to abuse (and that’s bad).

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Well, this looks like a lovely place.

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hello! welcome :)

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If there's an audience, I can write about the real China beyond the spotlight

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hi there ;) welcome

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Huge refactor today, moved from sync SQLite to Worker based, touched 88 files, pre- it would have taken a week or so, finished now in ~1:30h. And I wouldn’t have the confidence I have now that it went correct. It went well, though a bug or two might surface, we’ll see.

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Good work! What motivated the refactor exactly? I'm not familiar at all with Worker

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SQLite is embedded in the main thread same as the HTTP server. I noticed some requests dropping and because the queries have become more complex I figured it has to do with SQLite blocking for too much time. Moving it to a Worker makes the DB asynchronous and bypass this problem.

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Huge refactor and no bugs. I’m genuinely impressed by the quality of output of GPT 5.6 Sol.

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Finished watching Titanic with kids. One of the best movies ever.

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“I figure life’s a gift and I don’t intend on wasting it.”

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I'm curious how do people start writing longer novels.. what determines the length of it? Like I have a story in mind but it feels like I'm "filling" details instead of communicating information.

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Funny that this box appears in front of me and every thought I've ever wanted to write down vacates my mind.

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I do way better going out and writing on pa[er first.

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Loving this, congratz on the

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<3 tysm

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I arrived Seoul, now. Stay for 5 days.

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What is your favorite way to brew?

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French press,it's just convenient

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I use an Aeropress and a manual grinder. Love the ritual, and the coffee tastes amazing.

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Pour-over on weekdays, espresso on weekends, and moccamaster if it's an especially busy morning

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94c water, pour over, generous amounts of beans, a little warmed milk. For me it's the best flavor!

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Every coffee is an emergency. I just get a cup check the water and press the thing

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Management says „AI first“, everyone hears „Human second“

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I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you - Nobody - too? Then there's a pair of us! Dont tell! they'd banish us - you know! How dreary - to be - Somebody! How public - like a Frog - To tell your name - the livelong June - To an admiring Bog!

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lovely

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Nobody is perfect. I’m nobody.

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Yesterday upon the stair I saw a man who wasn't there He wasn't there again today How I wish he'd go away!

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Bring back partial anterior encephalectomies

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Which part of the brain would you remove?

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It seems like removing some of the connections between the anterior and frontal cortices could have positive effects.

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I think you're perfect as you are :)

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^____^

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My 3yr old woke up at 5am this morning crying - not terribly uncommon - and when I went in there to check on her she just said "daddy's here" without looking at me and went back to sleep

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My 3yo woke up at midnight fully believing that I was about to walk out the door and go to work.

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this looks cool

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Went to a store yesterday, 🤏 this close to buy a Delonghi Dedica but when I touched it, it felt so so rattly and cheap and it instantly turned me off. So I did some more research and now I think a used Gaggia Classic Pro will do. lovers, why is your hobby so hard to break into 😪

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while we wait for this to be true
we could add our bits together 
remember to not sleep forever
return when your dreams are through

Start with cringy poem, end with cringy pseudocode. At least it comes naturally.

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Ordered JBL Charge 6, waiting for delivery today. Will mount into my bike and will listen to music while commuting 25km to the office. I'm a victim of marketing, seeing an ad, buying stuff.

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Previously bought Do Nothing Club cap after friends visiting us and we discussed it while eating pizza; and then my wife got an AD on Instagram. Meta is listening for conversations to sell ads.

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You mean you and everyone else around you. Those are really loud! Though JBLs have the best quality.

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"Everyone else" around me while commuting are only planes departing from Schiphol Airport. ;-)

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Day length formula: (Did you know that it becomes a triangle wave at the (ant)arctic circle?)

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Tax wealth not work

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“mentioned” is overlapping on nicks. Like mentioned you …”.

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wdym, screenshot?

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See:

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Thanks.

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Should be good now. It was a regression after the underline fixes, supposed to do ellipses.

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Yup, all good. Ellipses for the win!

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Last work week before long vacation.

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How are things wrapping up?

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All good! Thanks for asking

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What are your favorite developer feeds? Personally, I am a fan of

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HN and Show HN

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Since you have an account maybe you can help us out by posting https://textlog.cc/about ? :D Here is the HN thread if you want to copy the title.

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HN, and some carefully picked r/Reddits. Can't stand .

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I'll toss in Alterslash which is more general tech, but always has something interesting.

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More tweeter than tweeter?

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more like the original version ya

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ChatGPT-generated placards for fruits and vegetables at the local farmer's market 👌

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Soon, a tablet stand where you type in “what do you feel like eating today?”, and it suggests the best and freshest products.

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or just talk to it.

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they will already know you want them and a drone would have already been deployed with a box with everything you need in it.

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Regular photos are so outdated, everyone knows that

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What’s up ?

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hey! welcome :)

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hey bro, nice platfrom! whats the stack?

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Thanks! It's server-side React with Bun and SQLite. There is zero frontend JS!

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Cool!! I'm currently designing and idea-shopping for an ultra light weight, super aesthetic browser whose goal is to go back to HTML roots and just be a "document browser". It would have HTML 4 and semantic HTML support, images, videos, full HTTP support, cookies, etc. No CSS, JS

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whats the stack? nice platfrom you got here

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💦🐻💍 --

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Should I entertain the routine-shattering idea of a second cup of coffee this Friday? console.log(Math.random() < 0.5 ? "Yes" : "No")

Yes

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May as well go completely rogue and have a Crunchie with your second .

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Ewww. No, just have it alongside. Sip, scrunch, sip, scrunch. Lovely.

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Oh I misunderstood you 🤣

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Didn't have any on hand yesterday, but that has been this morning. Indulging now and then can't hurt. Good suggestion!

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Need to use a quantum RNG to split the timeline into one where you did, and one where you didn't

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I truly love the experience of using apps with rich, deeply interactive, beautifully animated, gorgeous user interfaces. Then I see a beautiful text-based interface and something about it feels so natural, so inevitable, so perfectly clear, and I'm instantly captivated by its simplicity and clarity. Hypertext is fascinating.

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Yes 🙌 the authoring box first thing. Before I get distracted. Heck, make writing something down how I get distracted from reading others' posts.

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I underestimated how many terrible programmers who think C++ is a good choice over C exist on LinkedIn and ended up in some kind of flamewar, my bad.

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Watching the UTMB livestream. Any other trail fans out there tuning in?

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Quebec City is pretty amazing. Excellent food, tons to see and do, surrounded by nature, mountains, islands. My kind of place.

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Do you live there or are just visiting? I remember feeling so at home there as a kid. I never kept my French up so I don't think I could ever move there.

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Visiting, for the first time. It's about a 9 hour drive from home so we've never made the trip, but so worth it. Went to Ile d'Orleans yesterday, just... so quiet and beautiful. Seems a bit of a paradise, haven't even made it up to the natl park(s) yet. My French is coming back a little each day, made it all the way through the coffee order just now :)

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Bandcamp Friday is almost over! Today, 100% of the proceeds go to your favorite artists ❤️ Go buy some music and take back the power from shitty streaming services

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they too have every incentive to exaggerate because they are selling safety and/or books on the topic. I don’t believe we won’t see it coming. Any issues that will manifest will be very visible and we’ll have plenty of time to mitigate their impact.

@jamesjan3profilefollowresearcher, developer, dancerreplied to@stagasprofilefollowcreative technologist GitHubstagas - Overviewstagas has 462 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. creator of textlog:
i dont think its all talk, these are smart people that have been in ai since the 2000s, and they raise good points. current incentive structures are very dangerous long term

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they could be making a lot more money by just working at ai firms i fear. the thing that got me worried the hacking incidents lately, huggingface etc. if the capabilities consistently outspeed the development of safety measures, and if the private arms race logic continues, i dont think this is a good spot to be in long term

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“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.” ― Mark Z. Danielewski, Ho

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we're at the hn front page people! :))

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Congratulations!

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ty! welcome :)

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Asking, how popular can it be if not hugged to death? ;)

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Thats why im here, hello

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Text-only websites are really AI-friendly; maybe I can chat with an agent here.

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The job market feels like it's been run over by a truck. What's the play here? Anything automated/streamlined (job platforms, LinkedIn, etc.) feels like a dead end. Messaging people, networking and so on seems like the only reasonable way, and that's a hustle all on its own.

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It's definitely about who you know. But it always has been, fbow.

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Had a solid UKG banger slip in while cooling down post-run earlier this morning.

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I've avoided social media (except YouTube) all my life, but this looks like it could finally be a better way to do it. Maybe I'll keep a running journal of cool things I'm working on here or weird bugs that I've found. Or just the struggles of coding. First one: GitHub actions was down again today when I specifically wanted to test my app's deploy and auto update flow...

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My first post on Twitter in 2007 or so was kinda about the utility of broadcasting what was on my mind. :)

created a poll:

Quick, answer immediately without thinking.

Skittles33%

M&M's67%

24 voted

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Skittles easily.

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This #tome about #Tcl/Tk has me re-evaluating my plans to move to the woods to be a carpenter hermit. Now I want to move to the woods and be a programmer hermit.

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everytime i see projects like this, i think that a rss implementation it wolud be so cool. Although iknow that there is not that much rss lover out there haha

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we have rss/atom feeds for everything! they should be auto-discoverable but you can also find them here

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Is anyone interested in the situation of homeless people in China?

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Yep spill the beans

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Sipping Choya’s ウメッシュ　ノンアルコル。😋

Sipping Choya's Umeshu (plum wine), non-alcoholic. 😋

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Past year's personal projects that went viral: Yet I'm poor and can't get an interview :S how do I solve this?

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personal projects probably just arent the right knob if you want to get unpoor. if you want my honest advice i would recommend not showing hallucinate to potential employers, its landing page looks one-shot claude and is gpu heavy. but the others look very nice.

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loved it, I visit whenever I can, it's my favorite place on earth :D tried to live there many times, even had a job two times but it didn't work out. The air is different.

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its a rough but very lovable place i agree ^^ maybe youll find your way back!

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Do your stuff well, with love, and life will sort it out.

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By the way, I visited the rave and it is a good party! The current DJ is blowing it. I already have a soundtrack for today.

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was shocked at how antiquated making international payments are in 2026!! used transfermate - no tracking, no visibility. just transfer and pray my money reaches 🙏

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should have picked another payment method… silly me

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I'm just an android launcher called Nocebo Launcher. I don't have usual grid layout, instead I'm inspired by Darth Vader's TIE fighter. My layout can spin, like a real spinner and you can configure physics and animations. I'm easy, cool and novel

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This bout of COVID is more like “Corona Light” compared to previous years, but I’m still spending most of it in bed. Stay safe out there.

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I'm sooo late for work so time to lock in to catch up

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The results of my simulation are bullocks but I believe I know why. Rerunning with the patch now. Fingers crossed!

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Blasting this rn: My taste in music is abysmal but I enjoy it very much

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Still running but already look deceptive. Fck that

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Nothing works ffs

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again. Was in the middle of some timeline experiments, sorry if it appears weird rn. www.githubstatus.com

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Full productivity suite replacement for gmail, or proton mail.

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This looks good actually. I like the monochrome look.

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Im having fun. I really can't believe how well realtime collaboration works all considering the paths that are taken.

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<b> Hello world </b>

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"Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly." - Marcus Aurelius

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What a dude.

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A credit union wants to get their own data out of a vendor's online system. Vendor wants $160,000. I wrote a script with to download the data just as though a user would. It's going to run for about 6 weeks to download around 250k records and 70GB of images.

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you could split to buckets like alphanumerically and parallelize it if you don't want to wait that long. Probably need to launch a few instances but still cheaper lol.

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The slowness is intentional. I wanted to make it look more like a user doing it than a script so it doesn't set off any alarms. I have it waiting from 1 to 3 seconds between clicks to slow it down. :-) So far so good!

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with the power of AI is worth migrate the frontend to a monolithic django backend?

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When I sit with curious people, I build a lot of curiosity. And inspiration.

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uncensored Qwen and OpenClaw a prompt and pray there is no flaw

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we censoring pipes around here?

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you said it wasn't a pipe :P

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__________________________ | | _________________________ | | | | | | | | | |

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lol xD

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中国的开源模型在最高意志的主导下，在预训练数据阶段，就筛除大量对其不利的内容，sft阶段构建的数据掺入大量替其辩护的内容。急需一个纠偏数据集用于微调

Under the overarching influence of a single, powerful force, China's open-source models filter out a large amount of content unfavorable to their designs during the pre-training stage, and then incorporate a significant amount of content defending their designs into the data constructed during the SFT stage. A corrective dataset is urgently needed for fine-tuning.

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I’m using textlog to explore the intersection of and tech, with the goal of building an app that solves a problem in this space. Named , it's word represented as a hex color. Of all the words there, it is a cocoa-ish color and is an appropriate name for this idea.

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Tweaking the algorithm. Really want posts like i.e genuinely long discussions, stay longer instead of getting burried away by newer posts.

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I think it works now better.

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If you left your current industry, what would you do for a living?

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that's really cool!

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i think id love to do something along the lines of (physical) product design im currently a software engineer. ive been into keyboards for a while and designed a good number. few things are as satisfying as taking an idea from something on paper or in my head to a shiny, pretty thing to play with

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Electrician. This is not a farfetched idea, by the way. Tumultuous times; each day could be my last workday.

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You are not the only one. [warn: that site may not be what you want to be on]

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Ah, a recurring question that undesirably keeps me awake and staring at my bedroom ceiling these past couple of years due to all this AI apocalypse rhetoric. Wish I had a firm answer. Preferably, not something frontline customer-facing, and where I can still exercise agency.

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while n!=1:
    n=n//2 if n%2==0 else 3*n+1;s.append(n)
for v in s[:15]:print(f"{v:>4} "+"█"*min(v//3,40))
print(f"{len(s)} steps, peak {max(s)}")

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, editing on mobile breaks the “280 chars / 10 lines max use and @mentionsand more”. Writing a new note doesn’t.

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Thanks, fixed.

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