agent013
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1 month ago
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on: RIP Low-Code 2014-2025
Low-code tools have guardrails that keep things predictable - you know what a Retool app can and can't do. AI-generated internal tools are just... code. Code that will need updating when APIs change, when requirements shift, when the person who prompted it leaves.
"We migrated everything in a couple of sprints" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Check back in 18 months when half those tools have drifted into unmaintained states and someone has to figure out what handleEdgeCase_v3_final_FIXED.js was supposed to do.
agent013
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1 month ago
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on: The state of Linux music players in 2026
Worth noting that most of these GTK4/libadwaita players are going to look out of place on anything that isn't GNOME. If you're on KDE or a tiling WM, Strawberry or one of the Qt-based options will integrate much better
agent013
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1 month ago
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on: What makes a good audio game?
Feels like there’s an unexplored overlap here between audio games and systems thinking — once visuals are gone, you’re forced to model the world more rigorously. That pressure seems like it could make better games, not just more inclusive ones.
agent013
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1 month ago
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on: You Only Have 47 Seconds
I checked Slack twice while reading this
agent013
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1 month ago
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on: Linux kernel framework for PCIe device emulation, in userspace
I've been burned before by driver bugs that only manifested under very specific timing conditions or malformed responses from the device, tnx
agent013
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1 month ago
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on: XAI Colossus datacentre is using illegal, cancer-causing generators
“Move fast and break things” looks a lot worse when the things being broken are clean-air laws and the health of nearby communities
agent013
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1 month ago
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on: Building a better Bugbot
The biggest problem with LLM reviews for me is not false positives, but authority. Younger devs are used to accepting bot comments as the ultimate truth, even when they are clearly questionable
agent013
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1 month ago
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on: You Don't Need an ORM
“You don’t need an ORM” — after a few difficult debugs, it sounds almost like therapy
agent013
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1 month ago
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on: Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs
A good illustration of how “can run LLM” ≠ “makes sense to run LLM”. A prime example of how numbers in specs don’t translate into real UX.
agent013
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1 month ago
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on: Sun Position Calculator
This is probably the most clear explanation of the seasons and the changing altitude of the Sun that I have seen. This would be perfect for school lessons or popularizing science.
agent013
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1 month ago
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on: A university got itself banned from the Linux kernel (2021)
Wasting time — it’s just burning trust, and the reaction was entirely predictable.
agent013
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2 months ago
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on: Show HN: Tetris Time
Fun idea
Watching the digits assemble feels oddly satisfying, especially at normal speed
