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Ask HN: What are you currently trying to figure out?

3•gooob•1y ago
i'm trying to figure out why elden ring started stuttering and freezing during gameplay recently, and why the windows operating system has so many little dumb things wrong with it.

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sherdil2022•1y ago
Trying to figure out what to do next and what to do with my life.
gooob•1y ago
how's that going? what are your current options?
sherdil2022•1y ago
Not going good.
scottmcdot•1y ago
How to build a segmentation model based on a sample of data that needs to be representative of the population.
turtleyacht•1y ago
Trying to figure a workaround in ksh for space-delimited filenames:

  for f in $(ls "/mnt/dir"); do
    cp -v "$f" /elsewhere
  done
Because -R doesn't handle retries when cp(1) errors out intermittently (USB MTP to phone). I don't remember it being this hard in bash, or Android just is like this. Hopefully can figure it out without going to perl or C. Maybe dump(8).

Even though 54 GB partition created, it only takes up 22 GB or so. Either missing a lot of files or FFS compacts it well.

turtleyacht•1y ago
Pipe and read per line:

  ls /mnt/dir | while read line; do
    cp -v "$line" /elsewhere
    # substitute with something fancy
    # [ $? -eq 0 ] || cp -v "$line" /elsewhere
  done
nailer•1y ago
If there’s transmission errors, I would recommend using rsync rather than cp. that will keep transferring and running checksums until everything matches.
turtleyacht•1y ago
Thank-you. After installing openrsync(1) (and rsync), files transferred for a bit but failed and dumped core with error 138 (bus error). Maybe a quirk with OpenBSD 7.6, or interaction between simple-mtpfs and the fusefs mount.

In the meantime, after a few retries, the failures are written to a log for a second sweep.

MD5 check helps skip extra copying, but it's overall much slower. It seems okay for a long-running batch job; maybe something we can return to after getting the pictures to display.

The pattern is like

  cp ... || \
    { sleep 2; cp ... ; } || \
    ... || \
    ... || echo "$file" >> retry.log
Not the best way. It has failed before all four times. Going to let it run overnight to see if it completes.
arthurcolle•1y ago
navigating personal 'unemployment' while obsessively hoarding whatever money I can to run experiments / train, finetune models to leverage RL and environment-building in order to use computers, learn tasks, learn from each other, and scale to managing companies (simple, SaaS at first, and eventually, potentially to real-world operations downstream task sets)
nailer•1y ago
I arrived tired to a pre wedding photo shoot this morning, my prospective wife yelled at me, and cancelled the shoot. I walked out because I don’t like people yelling at me. So I am trying to figure out whether I still want to marry her.

Show HN: Humor Arena – Which frontier model is funniest?

https://laugh.so/benchmark/
1•killiandunne1•1m ago•0 comments

Linux Processes: Threads and Concurrency

https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/linux-processes-threads-concurrency-3302b677
1•birdculture•3m ago•0 comments

Banks to offload $15B of debt for Anthropic data centre backed by Google

https://www.ft.com/content/c492ce6b-483b-4196-8f2a-9bd1afda92d3
1•petethomas•5m ago•0 comments

N.A.D.D. – Nerd Attention Deficiency Disorder

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/nadd/
1•gurjeet•7m ago•0 comments

Jeff Dean Leaves Google

https://twitter.com/i/status/2085083442669318443
1•meander_water•11m ago•0 comments

What's so hard about continuous learning?

https://www.seangoedecke.com/continuous-learning/
1•gfysfm•13m ago•0 comments

Antigravity 2.5

https://antigravity.google/changelog
3•satvikpendem•14m ago•0 comments

The Dreamers and I, a lovely film about a hacker house

https://www.pbs.org/show/the-dreamers-and-i/
1•jorgen123•15m ago•1 comments

The End of Software

https://evanjconrad.com/posts/end-of-software
2•bobstax•17m ago•0 comments

Frontier Lab Employee Open Letter Calls for Being Able to Pace the Frontier

https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/07/29/frontier-lab-employee-open-letter-calls-for-being-able-to...
1•gmays•18m ago•0 comments

Towards Domain-Specific Compaction

https://lexifina.com/blog/towards-domain-specific-compaction
1•alansaber•19m ago•0 comments

Gmail is killing the "Send as" feature

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/17101213?hl=en
1•wkndfn•19m ago•0 comments

The Handbook to Understand Your Nerd Partner

https://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-nerd-handbook/
2•gurjeet•20m ago•0 comments

2ndhand EV leasing fast lane: More UK drivers explore ways to cut motoring costs

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/04/secondhand-ev-leasing-growth-uk-drivers-cut-petr...
1•bookofjoe•22m ago•0 comments

Data shows just how hard Tesla's Cybertruck has flopped

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6•petethomas•25m ago•0 comments

Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch own startups

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/jeff-dean-and-other-top-ai-researchers-are-leaving-google-to-la...
1•rndsignals•28m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: How to turn Claude Code into an effective software engineer

1•physix•31m ago•1 comments

The Green War: Fighting to Save South Africa's Stolen Succulents

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4•_djo_•32m ago•0 comments

Human-inspired time-series health eval with adaptive multi-modal electronic skin

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeg5606
1•joebig•35m ago•0 comments

The Impossible Journey to Get an Apple Developer Account: Part 2

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3•dioko•36m ago•0 comments

Jonathan Blow – How to Program Independent Games [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjDsP5n2kSM
1•jonl247•38m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Should the word 'inflaiton' be replaced with 'devaluation'?

1•dfps•42m ago•1 comments

Feds Continue with Plan to Save Spotted Owls by Killing Nearly 500k Other Owls

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2•Bender•45m ago•1 comments

Samsung and Mousterian move ahead with floating datacenter for Texas

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1•Bender•46m ago•0 comments

ROI of $100 Claude Code Subscription

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2•benjiro29•53m ago•1 comments

Passive investing fueled a bull market – and could bring it down

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1•rzk•1h ago•1 comments

God Does Not Play Dice. We Built Software That Does

https://quodeq.ai/blog/god-does-not-play-dice/
3•quodeq•1h ago•0 comments

Seen Dating App Waitlist

https://tryseen.ca
1•Beaudelaire•1h ago•0 comments

AutoTheme-utility that automatically shifts your CSS styles based on time

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@omid2007hope/autotheme
1•omid2007hope•1h ago•0 comments

Iran threatens to hit Gulf states if US launches new strikes

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-threatens-hit-gulf-states-if-us-launches-new-strik...
12•mapping365•1h ago•6 comments