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Just thinking out loud.. If folks are doing a clean room rewrite of Adobe {Photoshop, et al}, MS Office, Fusion CAD etc, why don’t someone who works on filesystems do a clean room rewrite of ZFS and upstream it to the…

I just read this - https://agentic.tracebit.com/factory/ And wondered for a while that this almost exactly what we were up to when script kiddies began to probe all services/servers in order to defend, buy time, and…

I’m a hobbyist woodworker. I manually design simple things in Shapr3d with a lot of patience when I build things. I wonder in the time of LLMs if there is an effective way to accelerate the 3D model design using AI..…

Hello HN. I made this as a fun project with AI. No accounts, sign-ups, or any strings attached. The idea: Prompt your way into having AI modifying your photos in a tree-like interface. Every edit/prompt creates a leaf…

I read this from Amazon CTO’s feed. It feels to me as the kool-aid driven hype driven version of software engineering. Is it the new normal? Are people at FAANG just accepting blindly opaque overengineered software as a…

I wish to have a fully local Git workflow where Claude Opus translates my requirements into extremely detailed plan/spec broken down as implementation steps as a Markdown file, Gemini-pro picks up each task and submits…

Hello! I'm starting to think about giving my 4.5 year old a laptop computer to use at home. I've got the hardware mostly covered - Any old laptop that I wouldnt feel bad if it got physically broken. I'm probably going…

At my $job we have a lot of dashboards crafted manually over time, and now there are also alerts in several dashboards. I wish I could organise them as code, and define alerts also in code such that changing them would…

After the recent events in the last couple of days, with Red Hat essentially saying "We need/want to get paid for the curation and maintenance of the _open source_ packages that we build RHEL with", we have lost faith…

I was deciding between a Macbook Air and framework laptop. I thought one way I can justify buying a Framework over MBA(and give up stellar battery life, proper sleep/instant wakeup function etc) is if it could be had…

I'm not an ML engineer. I'm wondering if there is a project like FOLDING@HOME that would make use of the GPUs in the crowd to train an open source model as alternative to the closed models behind OpenAI's GPT-4? Asking…

I use Apple Notes as my “Note down what ever” tool. It has a lot of useful notes that I wish I could deploy as a blog. I can’t seem to find a way to export Notes in anyway other than PDFs. Does anyone have any tips for…

I have used adnauseum every now and then for a minor attempt at poisoning my profile. I wonder anyone at HN has other ideas to go about and poke fun at this data machine that tries to profile us all? Any scripts that…

I finally have the luxury of a dedicated home office room after decades of living in apartments with some corner repurposed as office.. My office is pretty much blank other than a bunch of plants and I would love to…

I moved to the Netherlands during COVID last year. I have a fully remote job and work from home 99% of the time. This combination has wrecked my social life, and I find myself sad and missing social connections and in a…

I was thinking about electric cars, and their recharging times while on the occasional road trip. The solution seemed obvious in my head, but couldn’t think of a reason why it doesn’t exist already. Say an electric car…