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We see something that works, and then we understand it

https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/04/we-see-something-that-works-and-then-we-understand-it/
1•ibobev•2m ago•0 comments

How to Find Time to Do Science

https://chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com/p/how-to-find-time-to-do-science
1•surprisetalk•2m ago•0 comments

Structured Iteration

https://thecppway.com/posts/structured_iteration/
1•ibobev•2m ago•0 comments

Why Sell Lifetime Plans, in a Default Subscription World?

https://pketh.org/lifetime-plans.html
1•surprisetalk•2m ago•0 comments

Tyrannicide: Five Lessons for Luigi's Critics

https://illwill.com/tyrannicide
1•surprisetalk•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Every 5x6 Nonogram

https://puzzarium.com/every-5x6-nonogram
1•okayestjoel•3m ago•0 comments

Struggling Towards an Algebraic Theory of Music

https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/algebraic-music/index.html
1•ibobev•3m ago•0 comments

Software Gets a New Layer

https://www.wreflection.com/p/software-gets-a-new-layer
1•surprisetalk•3m ago•0 comments

Table Tennis Scoreboard

https://willempennings.nl/table-tennis-scoreboard/
1•saeedesmaili•3m ago•0 comments

Genesis Mission: America's Strategic Shift in AI for Science

https://www.hpcwire.com/2025/12/01/genesis-mission-americas-strategic-shift-in-ai-for-science/
1•danzheng•4m ago•0 comments

AMD CEO Lisa Su Says Concerns About an AI Bubble Are Overblown

https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-event-lisa-su-amd/
1•HelloUsername•5m ago•0 comments

Medieval volcano may have indirectly sparked Europe's Black Death

https://www.science.org/content/article/medieval-volcano-may-have-indirectly-sparked-europe-s-bla...
1•bikenaga•5m ago•0 comments

Accused DC pipe bomber told FBI he believed the 2020 election was stolen

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/politics/accused-pipe-bomber-made-statements
1•ceejayoz•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Torial – Explainer videos that generate in 20 seconds

https://trytorial.com
1•bames_jond•5m ago•0 comments

The Age of Disclosure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Disclosure
1•l___l•5m ago•0 comments

Famous Historical Places in the USA Worth Visiting

https://capstanmallnews.blogspot.com/2025/12/%20Historical%20Places.html
1•jahangir540•6m ago•0 comments

A Geothermal Company Wants to Use New Technology to Heat an Old German Town

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-geothermal-company-wants-to-use-new-technology-to-heat-an-old-germ...
2•n00bskoolbus•6m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Why not make intelligence attractive, *literally*, in online dating?

1•amichail•9m ago•0 comments

Building with Cursor (Public)

https://cursorai.notion.site/Building-with-Cursor-public-273da74ef0458051bf22e86a1a0a5c7d
2•gmays•10m ago•0 comments

Animating SVGs with LLMs

https://scosman.net/blog/animating_svgs_with_llms
1•scosman•10m ago•0 comments

A Beddel Agent Would Have Prevented the 100k Filevine File Leak

https://substack.com/inbox/post/180789077
1•mesenga•11m ago•0 comments

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System [pdf]

https://donellameadows.org/wp-content/userfiles/Leverage_Points.pdf
1•belter•11m ago•0 comments

Algorithms Interviews: Theory vs. Practice

https://danluu.com/algorithms-interviews/
1•b-man•11m ago•0 comments

Understanding GPU Burnout in Unreal Editor for Fortnite

https://mandeepbhutani.com/blogs/uefn_gpu_burnout
2•deliveryboyman•13m ago•0 comments

The state of the Rust dependency ecosystem

https://00f.net/2025/10/17/state-of-the-rust-ecosystem/
1•PaulHoule•14m ago•0 comments

How to Tell Time on Mars

https://www.popsci.com/science/how-time-works-on-mars/
2•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

18,000 dinosaur tracks discovered along ancient Bolivian coastline

https://www.livescience.com/animals/dinosaurs/18-000-dinosaur-tracks-discovered-along-ancient-bol...
1•Brajeshwar•14m ago•0 comments

Why Now? Netflix Co-CEOs Explain $83B Warner Bros. Deal Logic and Changes Ahead

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-ceos-outline-warner-bros-deal-ho...
1•andsoitis•14m ago•1 comments

The Push to Rebuild Society Around Ecosystems

https://www.noemamag.com/inside-the-push-to-rebuild-society-around-ecosystems/
2•Brajeshwar•14m ago•1 comments

Jolla Phone Pre-Order

https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder
8•jhoho•14m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

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

3•gooob•7mo 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.

Comments

sherdil2022•7mo ago
Trying to figure out what to do next and what to do with my life.
gooob•7mo ago
how's that going? what are your current options?
sherdil2022•7mo ago
Not going good.
scottmcdot•7mo ago
How to build a segmentation model based on a sample of data that needs to be representative of the population.
turtleyacht•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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•7mo 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.