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by vesche 3mo ago
It was an intentional, near-archaic throwback even at the time HN was founded. Paul Graham has written about it, you can probably still find his blog written about it 20 years ago.
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by vesche 3mo ago
No one has used the word “hacker” with this esoteric / old school context in over 30 years.
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by vesche 3mo ago
This is awesome! It would be neato if you could export and reload your save file, I clear my browser data a lot.
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by vesche 3mo ago
Three moments stick out to me. 1) When I used ChatGPT for the very first time. I still remember, I asked it: “Write an advertisement to convince people to visit the North Pole.” It rapidly returned a witty, accurate, multi-paragraph text of
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by vesche 8mo ago
Been using this for a few years, works like a charm: https://rectangleapp.com/
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by vesche 11mo ago
Relevant: https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2025/07/05/are-w...
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by vesche 11mo ago
Curious if Meta will ever recoup its investment into VR/AR? A quick Google search indicates Meta has invested north of $100 billion into this tech. The public just doesn't seem that interested in VR/AR. A very small percentag
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by vesche 1y ago
I bought a zfold 7 about a month ago, it has been without a doubt the coolest new device I have purchased in many years. It's unbelievably thin, if you use it in normal phone mode you can't even tell that it's a fold. I have
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by vesche 1y ago
Python's random.shuffle also uses Fisher-Yates
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by vesche 2y ago
I was using urxvt for about 10 years and then I switched to alacritty about 5 years ago. Have had the best experience with alacritty- runs on all my systems, super fast, config is great. That being said, I’m gonna give ghostty a well-deserv
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by vesche 2y ago
I imagine most of us here likely follow well-known conventional kitchen wisdom: don’t use metal utensils on non-stick pans, wash your hands after handling raw meat, etc. And I suppose I can add, generally avoid black plastic kitchen gear to
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by vesche 2y ago
I also quit Spotify about 6 months ago and went back to Pandora. I’ve been super happy with that decision. Spotify kept me in a weird bubble of sorts always playing the same songs and artists. When I went back to Pandora I rediscovered that
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by vesche 2y ago
You’d be surprised. Repo mirroring systems, continual cloud backups, sysadmins/engineers cloning every repo of an org, 3rd party tools regularly inspecting repos, etc. The best option is for the organization themselves to monitor their
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by vesche 3y ago
I'm personally agnostic on whether or not we're in a simulation. However, some say the "Double-slit experiment" is perhaps proof we are in some sort of simulation. Particularly the part where particles/waves behave
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by vesche 3y ago
I think fear-mongering about nuclear power risks is really unfortunate. The rewards far outweigh the risks. Sure, we could live in a world where we could tell everyone to stop using so much damn energy- but that's not our reality. Ther
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by vesche 3y ago
It's clear that nuclear power is superior to gas, coal, wind, solar, etc. However... nuclear power plants are expensive build, they take a very long time to build, and many countries are in the process of retiring their infrastructure
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by vesche 4y ago
Very fun, although I don't really feel like it takes much skill. Seems to be a chill puzzle experience and doesn't scratch the same brain itch as something like a Rubik's cube or Loopover ( https://loopover.xyz&#x2F
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by vesche 4y ago
Thorn - https://www.thorn.org/
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by vesche 4y ago
I miss old school 2D MMORPGs. I'd love something with: - beautiful & detailed pixel art (like Stardew, Hyper Light Drifter, Owlboy) - many, amazing non-combat skills (like a tale in the desert, osrs) - large community with many wor
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by vesche 4y ago
https://flutter.dev/showcase
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by vesche 4y ago
I like this post a lot and respect the jump. However... Replit? I needed a browser IDE for some work about ~4 years ago and used their product briefly before switching to Cloud9 (now owned by Amazon). Nowadays, GitHub has Codespaces which i
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by vesche 4y ago
I agree. I'm glad that they're optional. One of the main reasons to use Python is to prioritize development speed over performance AND to prioritize read/write-ability over hand jamming mundane syntax. I understand why some w
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by vesche 4y ago
Thanks for sharing this. It took me less than an hour to complete and I thought it was pretty fun. These sort of interview challenges that involve rapidly diving into a foreign codebase are really great, but it has to be done correctly. I o
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by vesche 4y ago
I came here to post this, and look it's rightfully already present here. This book completely changed how I think about consciousness and existence.
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by vesche 4y ago
Thanks for being vague, I just started The Way of Kings last week. I've read Elantris and the first Mistborn trilogy from Sanderson. I'm roughly half way into this first book of The Stormlight Archive and I've already come to
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by vesche 5y ago
Lichess is amazing and I use it every day. Completely free, no ads, and runs 100% on donations. They publish their costs, it takes ~420K a year to keep Lichess running and the primary developer of Lichess takes home about ~56K a year. http
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by vesche 5y ago
I have tried a various many different types of mobile games on Android and have only ever held onto two mobile game apps: Lichess and Wordiest. Every other gaming app I have briefly tried (before uninstalling) has had one of these dark patt
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by vesche 5y ago
https://old.reddit.com/
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by vesche 5y ago
I just bought my ~55 year old mother an HP laptop. It was completely strange how difficult it was to install Chrome on Windows 11. I couldn't run the MSI installer for Chrome and found out that by default the OS was in something called
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by vesche 5y ago
One option would be to not run vscode locally: https://github.com/features/codespaces

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