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by sho_hn 17d ago
This is a fantastic idea!
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by sho_hn 18d ago
Thank you!
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by sho_hn 18d ago
Which ones are you missing? Perhaps I can solve the mystery :-)
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by sho_hn 18d ago
> Have you written about this at all? I'll be giving a (short, somewhat shallow) talk about this and some other things at this year's Akademy, about "Taking KDE to the Pyramids". > Curious if you've played aro
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by sho_hn 18d ago
Interesting how the first beat of the curiously-low-bitrate, kinda-ugly video presentation was admitting that the agent's highest priority is to get me to buy more stuff through its store front. It's certainly honest. Is this mark
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by sho_hn 18d ago
Yes.
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Artificial – Official Teaser Trailer (2026) [video](youtube.com)
4 points by sho_hn 18d ago|0 comments
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by sho_hn 18d ago
I use this one a lot: https://store.mesanet.com/index.php?route=product/product&pr... Last month I reverse-engineered a 25 years old embedded system that controls a ground-penetrating radar, which isn't commer
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by sho_hn 19d ago
> Ladybird seems to have received a nice boost in momentum in the past two years. I'm still very interested in the project and look forward to each monthly update, and I can empathize (though not agree) with the reasoning, but somet
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by sho_hn 19d ago
This is also a big reason for e.g. the Wirecard fiasco in Germany: Everyone, especially the politicians, really wanted a fin tech blue chip out of dot-de and wanted desperately to believe. That said, Holmes being a woman is also why we&#x27
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by sho_hn 19d ago
The basic concept has been there probably for 100s of years - you can go to the stuff the thinkers Mary Shelley was inspired by with Frankenstein , and you'll find similar ideas about feedback loops in science development. I'm ta
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by sho_hn 19d ago
Our KDE development motto (and a contrast explained in our HIG) is "Simple by default, powerful when needed". It's nice to see someone re-state it so naturally and eloquently in the wild!
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by sho_hn 20d ago
Aside from this positive example, during dark and cynical hours I do ponder if the aggregate behavior of humanity is really much above that of slime mold though, just exhausting resources until collapse. It'd be interesting if super-hu
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by sho_hn 20d ago
One of my favorite things to do with these blog posts is to imagine an Alien Museum on the Remains of Humanity, and wonder what the little text flyouts and commentary on the screenshot of this one might say. Some ideas: "Despite a nuan
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by sho_hn 20d ago
I actually think a goal of the current crop of OpenAI posts is expressely to reset the spectrum by normalizing the concept of RSI as something normal and safe to pursue. The message is running through all of them. It's a mix of marketi
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by sho_hn 22d ago
That's fine, but they've also always been objectively wrong :-)
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by sho_hn 22d ago
"Being a person in all of its aspects" isn't the same as "generally intelligent". The latter is at best subset of the former, and it's also easy to imagine a system that is more generally intelligent than human
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by sho_hn 26d ago
I highly doubt the current crop of Asahi people would take money from DHH.
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by sho_hn 26d ago
HN is generally attracted to "success", not integrity.
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by sho_hn 26d ago
It's especially weird considering DHH is heavily disliked by much of the Linux community for his political beliefs, and association with him is heavily frowned upon. Over at KDE, we've seen some criticism for taking sponsorship mo
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by sho_hn 26d ago
There's a similar anecdote Gillian Anderson recently revealed during an interview on the X-Files , saying Chris Carter had an OCD-like habit to write dialog to conform to certain text layout preferences (no widows[1]) in the script, w
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by sho_hn 27d ago
It's strange that anyone's still thinking there's "still time until we have to act". Is this really the average view out there?
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by sho_hn 29d ago
:-) Well, I used to live and work in South Korea for many years, so both DE and the US are about equally oldschool in my book :)
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by sho_hn 29d ago
Yep.
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by sho_hn 29d ago
> In europe you just send money to their IBAN or they send you a link You can, but at least in Germany people are reluctant to give their IBAN to others and prefer one degree of separation, so PayPal is still very common for transfers be
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by sho_hn 29d ago
> For some reason PayPal is still quite big in Germany; about 28% of online revenue in 2025. Many Germans don't have credit cards (I don't), so PayPal is pretty convenient as it can withdraw directly from a SEPA account and ena
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by sho_hn 29d ago
> online is dead too, no app uses paypal PayPal is the payment method I use for Google Pay, so pretty much everything goes through it. (I don't have a credit card, which is common where I live.)
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by sho_hn 29d ago
Curious to hear from someone who watches this space. What makes them dead? It's still the only consistently supported thing I encounter online. I'm aware things like Wero are poised to shake things up, but still have no real idea
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by sho_hn 1mo ago
Excellent point, and I agree. Much of the benefit I saw was from working within a like-minded, smart team, not going it alone. And also specifically working on software with a real user audience to learn what providing value to them actuall
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by sho_hn 1mo ago
Anecdotally, I think it's great advice. I contributed to a browser engine around that age (KHTML, which later became WebKit and Blink), and while I don't work in browsers right now, much of that knowledge, mindset and of course th

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