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by jbstack 17d ago
There's definitely appeal in key-driven window managers in general. Projects like i3 and Niri are popular. But you can get that with any Linux distro (albeit not many have it set up that way by default). You don't generally choos
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by jbstack 17d ago
As someone who uses Signal and WhatsApp, I would be extremely happy if those companies blocked access in my jurisdiction if such laws are implemented. In fact, if they agreed to insert backdoor access I would never trust them again, even if
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by jbstack 17d ago
With all the current concerns about rogue and mis-aligned AI, and about how we've made essentially zero progress on making sure that AI is safe and trustworthy, NOW you want to put backdoors in encryption algorithms? We should be doi
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by jbstack 20d ago
I do something similar. I have a base NixOS image in Incus, with whatever tools apply to every project (e.g. Git, OpenCode) already installed. When I work on a project, I spin up a VM instance, use nix shell to add any project-specific tool
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by jbstack 20d ago
> Permits Obtained by your AI agent, granted by another AI agent. > Materials, trucks, equipment etc. Ordered by your AI agent, delivered by a self-driving truck or drone, loaded/unloaded by robots to/from the warehouse&#x2F
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by jbstack 20d ago
> Xephyr Given that X11 is becoming more and more obsolete over time, what's the Wayland option?
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by jbstack 20d ago
There's a lot of middle ground between doom-scrolling type content and a 10 hour block of non-stop immersion. It doesn't have to be one or the other.
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by jbstack 20d ago
Many factories in China now already have 90% of their work being done by robots. Is it really so hard to imagine that we reach a point where they can be prompted?
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by jbstack 20d ago
You're assuming a handover happens in a single definable moment. More realistically it will be one small decision making power at a time, so that at any given moment it never really feels like control is being given up. Boiled frog.
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by jbstack 20d ago
> in Germany people are reluctant to give their IBAN to others Are they worried people might send them money without their permission?
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by jbstack 20d ago
Doesn't matter if you aren't asking the type of questions where hallucinations are relevant e.g. you're seeking pure reasoning rather than factual information.
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by jbstack 20d ago
> I thought the supreme court said the tariffs are illegal without congressional approval The ruling wasn't as generalised as that. What it said was that the president doesn't have the authority to impose tariffs under the prov
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by jbstack 21d ago
You want both. The harness and the sandbox do different things. The harness says "You have access to tool X, Y, and Z, but not A, B, C". The sandbox says "If you try to use X to access a forbidden resource, I'll prevent
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by jbstack 24d ago
> Moreover I am not sure it is even good advice? I think it is. He isn't saying to learn how to train a LLM so that you can go on to train LLMs. He's saying to learn it so that you gain a deep understanding of how LLMs work. Or
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by jbstack 24d ago
I think this is the only sensible way to work with agents, if you care about code quality and reliability but still want the benefits of AI. There seem to be three camps that people more or less fall into: (a) AI is terrible/bad/e
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by jbstack 24d ago
You've selectively quoted the article. The full quote (emphasis added): "When Moore’s Law slowed in the mid-2000s ( specifically, single-threaded performance stagnated ), we suddenly had to think about parallelization, architectur
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by jbstack 24d ago
In my case, it's not so much that I find it childish, it's that I find it incredibly distracting which means I can't focus as easily on the content. Instead of "oh, now I understand how that equation works" I catc
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by jbstack 24d ago
I don't think you can make blanket statements. Consider: 1. Teacher 1 speaks at 100 words per minute. 2. Teacher 2 speaks at 50 words per minute, for the exact same content as Teacher 1. You're not really losing anything by playin
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by jbstack 24d ago
Repeating a sentence twice in a row during an explanation, is not spaced repetition at all. Spaced repetition means testing recall at increasing intervals, usually starting 1 day apart. "Paris is the capital of France. Paris is the
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by jbstack 24d ago
I disagree with this. Unlike training models (which requires huge compute), harness development is available to anyone with an editor and ideas. That means that solo devs and small startups can still make meaningful progress. Also, having o
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by jbstack 24d ago
I've not tried it myself, but I consistently hear good things about Math Academy. It uses a knowledge graph so that it knows whether you've satisfied prerequisites for a topic, and it adapts itself to your level. I've never t
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by jbstack 24d ago
There's a difference between pacing (good), and repetitive speech (bad). Between pacing and repetitive speech.
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by jbstack 24d ago
Side note, but much as I like Khan Academy overall, I've always struggled with Sal's slow and repetitive speaking style in the videos. "Now you add the five ... [pause] ... add the five ... add the five to the seven ... to th
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by jbstack 24d ago
I find it difficult to understand people who are wildly skeptical about LLMs leading to AGI (assuming we can even agree on what that means). Consider: - They can already reason better than many humans and are still improving all the time -
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by jbstack 25d ago
> one thing is pretty clear: the act of familiarizing yourself with a language no longer matters I completely disagree with this statement as a premise to the article. Sure, if you have zero care about whether the agent's work is re
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by jbstack 26d ago
Actually the main thing I want is to be able to use my phone however I like, and install whatever I want, without Google telling me whether I have their permission to do so or not.
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by jbstack 26d ago
> My partner got the Moto G Stylus 2025 after we swore off Samsung last year. I've been wanting to get away from Samsung for years, but keep coming back because of the s-pen. I've yet to find another manufacturer that makes a d
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by jbstack 26d ago
> Did you read it all the way to the end? It's coherent ... I prefer my articles to be coherent without having to wade through pages worth of irrelevant material.
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by jbstack 26d ago
Except there was nothing "cool" about them. Vibe-coding ugly looking GUIs with slop-code backends is not interesting or impressive in 2026. Literally anyone can do it, and I'm pretty sure 90% of HN readers are aware that it&#
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by jbstack 26d ago
I found most of the article completely unreadable. I was actually beginning to wonder if the HN post had linked to the wrong article, as it had nothing to do with TUIs until the very end. It was just a long list of "look at this slop c

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