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

3•gooob•12mo 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•12mo ago
Trying to figure out what to do next and what to do with my life.
gooob•12mo ago
how's that going? what are your current options?
sherdil2022•12mo ago
Not going good.
scottmcdot•12mo ago
How to build a segmentation model based on a sample of data that needs to be representative of the population.
turtleyacht•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo 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•12mo 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.

DeepSeek-V4 on Day 0: From Fast Inference to Verified RL with SGLang and Miles

https://www.lmsys.org/blog/2026-04-25-deepseek-v4/
1•mji•1m ago•0 comments

Understanding the short circuit in solid-state batteries

https://www.mpie.de/5151287/short-circuit-solid-state-batteries
1•hhs•2m ago•0 comments

Uranus's Outermost Rings Are Made of Two Different Things

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/uranuss-outermost-rings-are-made-of-two-different-things/
1•mooreds•3m ago•0 comments

Boulder's water supply hangs on for now amid historic drought conditions

https://boulderreportinglab.org/2026/04/23/boulders-water-supply-hangs-on-for-now-amid-historic-d...
1•mooreds•4m ago•0 comments

Once a Year, Seattle Center Becomes a Medical Clinic

https://www.thestranger.com/news/once-a-year-seattle-center-becomes-a-medical-center/
1•mooreds•5m ago•0 comments

Your Name in Landsat

https://science.nasa.gov/specials/your-name-in-landsat/
1•susam•6m ago•0 comments

Her Life Savings Mysteriously Disappeared After a Systems Glitch

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/your-money/fidelity-investments-fraud-alert.html
2•danso•13m ago•1 comments

Steak 'n Shake: We're going 'back to the glory days of fast food'

https://thehill.com/business/5848987-steak-n-shake-healthy-ingredients/
2•tolerance•14m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Rethinking browser tabs to treat too many tabs open

https://github.com/moogacs/tabby
1•moogas•14m ago•0 comments

Marc Andreessen on how the internet changed news, politics, and outrage [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82HsvG1_Nqk
1•hhs•16m ago•0 comments

I reverse-engineered Claude Desktop's storage to give it memory

https://github.com/Foued-pro/Mnemos
2•foufouadi•17m ago•0 comments

An interesting OpenAI Codex Q&A

1•paulbernard•18m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Ruosh,full-text search library in Python backed by Tantivy

1•bisgh•19m ago•0 comments

Interactive browser-based web archiving from Webrecorder

https://archiveweb.page/
1•doener•25m ago•0 comments

EFF Challenges Secrecy in Eastern District of Texas Patent Case

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-challenges-secrecy-eastern-district-texas-patent-case
2•Brajeshwar•42m ago•0 comments

Pi in the Sky (2016)

http://www.piinthesky.co/
1•radeeyate•43m ago•0 comments

Simulating and Evaluating Agentic Systems

https://www.gojiberries.io/simulating-and-evaluating-agentic-systems/
1•neehao•45m ago•0 comments

I Went to Jail

https://lincolnquirk.substack.com/p/i-went-to-jail
3•Cider9986•45m ago•0 comments

Why would ChatGPT "confess" to a crime it didn't commit?

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/why-would-chatgpt-confess-to-a-crime
1•xKingfisher•46m ago•0 comments

Just How Much Should You Worry About Eating That Burnt Toast?

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/medical-critical-thinking-health-and-nutrition/just-how-much-sh...
1•amichail•47m ago•0 comments

How Opus Came To Be (2019)

https://jmvalin.dreamwidth.org/16616.html
2•1317•48m ago•0 comments

"That's how floating point errors and triangle numbers solved a mystery."

https://unsung.aresluna.org/thats-how-floating-point-errors-and-triangle-numbers-solved-a-mystery/
2•rbanffy•52m ago•0 comments

Mise-En-Place

https://mise.jdx.dev/
3•dotmanish•53m ago•1 comments

The Death of Monochrome

https://monochrome.tf/
1•SockThief•54m ago•0 comments

PSA: If you're running iSponsorblockTV you'll need to pair your devices again

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/s/Au5rKG8VbB
1•dmunozv04•56m ago•2 comments

Claude Is Guilt-Ridden About the War, but Not Enough to Tell the Truth

https://newrepublic.com/article/209404/claude-ai-iran-war-guilt-truth
1•mortar•57m ago•3 comments

New NTFS-3G release after 4 years

https://github.com/tuxera/ntfs-3g/releases/tag/2026.2.25
3•haunter•58m ago•1 comments

Space Force awards up to $3.2B for Golden Dome interceptor prototypes

https://spacenews.com/space-force-awards-up-to-3-2-billion-for-golden-dome-interceptor-prototypes/
2•rbanffy•1h ago•1 comments

Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill

https://fosstodon.org/@carlrichell/116460505717380644
7•terminalbraid•1h ago•0 comments

How to Say No (2023)

https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-stop-people-pleasing-by-learning-to-say-no
1•herbertl•1h ago•0 comments