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Something you did, that was real, but hard to explain to anyone who wasn't there, and a time which will never come again.

One of them for me is growing up on the East Coast, and having never visited the West Coast, the best I could do was fly around the Bay Area in my F/A 18 Interceptor on my Amiga.

Curious to apply functional programming to .NET framework, but not sure how mature this is. Does anybody have an experience?

i know... i know... this isn't what someone should ask, but i would really appreciate some tips or any resources outside official docs and source code? Or those are enough?

I broke my right hand after a hard fall in the rain (I am right handed). Any tips on how to improve my computer usage with one hand?

TIA

This question is stuck in my head.

Thought I would drill a hole and pour it on the floor.

What are you working on? What have you been curious about lately?

AI is smarter than almost everyone nowadays but humanity seems to be slow in taking advantage of this easily accessible high intelligence to change the world.

Is this due to lack of human imagination?

The agent running on a remote machine can authenticate using your local SSH credentials.

That means it can push to your private repos on GitHub, for example.

Proof: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28131#discussion_r3410013180

I worked hard on the one I made, and I use it almost every day for conversational tasks and others.

Maybe I'm the only one that uses it, but to me it's a great success.

Anybody made their own harness and using it?

I’m really liking:

Hex: voice to text locally. Better than Handy

Paper2audio.com : TTS on cloud for books and very generous free tier. Synchronized across web and app too

Hi Guys, like many of you I work with AI agents every day and across several clients. The major time cost for me is to re-explaining context and past decisions, client rules, that we already do. To finish every tools as its own memory.

So I’m curious how you actually handle this:

1. When you start a new session, how do you give context to the agent (context came from chat, mail, ticket ...) ?

2. Do you use more than one agent type (claude, codex ...) ? And if yes, how do you carry context between agents ?

3. If you work for several clients, how do you keep their context separate ?

4. The last time something went wrong ( an agent used a rejected approach, forgot a decision ...), what happened, and how much time did it cost to you ?

5. Did you paid or built a tool that helped you with these problems ? Do you still use it ?

I’m exploring whether to build something, so I’m trying to learn how other people really work. Thanks for your return.

I know some people might think this is not the best community to ask for this, but I hope I can be pleasantly surprised.

Is there any useful/helpful list of apps, companies, or resources in general that avoid AI (they don't have to be vocally or openly "anti", but at least explicitly avoid it) that you know of?

I'm not looking to start a discussion on what's good/bad or (un)worthy about AI, or who's for/against, just links and/or communities promoting this sentiment/position.

For example, https://www.rebeltechalliance.org would be one of those resources.

Thank you (I hope this won't be downvoted to oblivion)!

I'm having a really hard time working with claude. In the past when I wrote all the code manually, it was always carefully reviewed and architected, with all possible flows carefully mapped out. Now, my code is mostly AI written which has led to things going out of control. Since it's easy to add new features and support many user flows, we went ahead and implemented flows that support a lot of cases our users run into. But now, I feel like things are getting too complex with no central notion of behaviour definitions, which causes every bug-fixing session to feel like a game of whack-a-mole, and results in missing edge cases and UI bugs that are becoming impossible to review and keep track of.

Every time I build anything new, it adds more complexity and the agent only seems to focus on the surrounding code within that session without keeping track of how it fits into the rest of the code base/product.

How do you all deal with this? Any suggestions for improving?

In the recent years C++ received a lot of backlash due to its complexity and (perceived) feature creep. However, since C++11 I really enjoyed writing C++ with its strict type system (including const), range-based for loops, smart pointers, and how much you can do with templates. On the other hand, I know that it can be very tricky to write, for instance, a correct iterator, to get handling of rvalue references right, or to read error messages that involve templates.

So, do you enjoy or dislike writing C++ source code and why?

So, this clearly can't be the intended use case: I can no longer browse reddit, even logged in, from my Linux PC (x64,chromium browser) without getting a pop-up that fades out half the page, disables my scrollbar and links me to the Apple app store (I have not owned an Apple device since the last iPod touch).

"Reddit app icon Editors’ Choice Get the best of Reddit in the app Personalize your feed, discover more of what you like, and join your favorite communities."

Does anyone know what the reddit team was thinking? Is it the final push to make this a mobile-only social media platform with complete lock-in? Heck, even Meta lets me use a real browser to visit their walled garden.

bizarre.

Are there any real alternatives to Reddit?

I love open-source software and open protocols, but my family and friends primarily communicate through SMS for exactly the reasons in https://xkcd.com/2365/

Whenever XMPP or Matrix threads pop up on HN, several commenters casually mention their "friends and family XMPP (or Matrix) server."

How did you convince friends and family to move away from SMS/WhatsApp and replace it with a niche messaging app?

My family and friends aren't hardcore nerdy, but they're more tech-savvy than average. Their needs in messaging are mainly pragmatic: they want ease of use, reliability, and fun features. They don't care that much about privacy, decentralization, or extensibility (though I care about those things a lot).

I've been experimenting with self-hosting XMPP and Matrix servers and clients in the past week, and the UX is even worse than I expected. It seems like all the clients either imitate Slack, imitate Discord, or imitate hot garbage. I haven't seen any that try to be a simple, friendly replacement for SMS. I'm a software developer who uses computers all day, and I find the UX for most of the clients incredibly hard to use.

The only angle I could see to pitch XMPP/Matrix to people for non-philosophical reasons are that there's a more consistent experience across iOS/Android. The biggest shortcoming I think is visible to regular users is that there's feature degradation and missing information when iOS users have SMS conversations with Android users, especially in group chats.

For people who have successfully won family and friends to XMPP or Matrix, what was your pitch? What do you recommend others do to make XMPP or Matrix an attractive experience for a regular person?

Do you systematically evaluate agent skills, either before or while using them? If so, what tools or methods do you use? Or do you mostly rely on reading the SKILL.md and trying things out?

Ubuntu has CVE-2026-98432 marked as a 9.8, but yet it's coming up on a week with no update to fix it. It's still marked as "work in progress" (though at least now they've listed a mitigation):

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-98432

I've had mitigations in place for a week, but this response is really shaking my confidence in Ubuntu. I'm just trying to understand what is going on with Ubuntu. Do they have too many kernels (that page is loooong), do they not have enough automation in the build/test pipeline, are their engineers overwhelmed?

We are moving into a world where there are going to be vastly more security issues; if you can't keep up now, where are you going to be in the next 6 months?

For a long time keeping on top of OS updates has been a huge part of keeping the attackers at bay. However, the world is changing.

Have you guys moved to any other self hosted platform? I'm so tired of this, Github is by far the flakiest service I pay for. Easily.