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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.

Gatwick Airport left without running water at both terminals

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdew2dnxlzzo
1•bookofjoe•2m ago•0 comments

This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)

https://andys.blog/this-july-i-was-fired-from-simple-ai/
1•andytratt•2m ago•0 comments

Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/26/age-of-decadence-pleasure-ai
1•n1b0m•2m ago•0 comments

Ask HN:Anyone know a good AI slop detection service.

2•boveyking•8m ago•0 comments

Climate change is now threatening a pillar of childhood: summer break

https://www.npr.org/2026/07/26/nx-s1-5900911/wildfire-smoke-fires-camp-minnesota
3•geox•10m ago•0 comments

Van freed after two years trapped in automated car park (2025)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20z46p0p6jo
1•starkparker•10m ago•0 comments

Malicious sites use JavaScript to build malware in browser memory

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-sites-use-javascript-to-build-malware-in...
2•Brajeshwar•11m ago•0 comments

Roast My Startup (thebuildnation.com)

1•Guru_Raj•12m ago•0 comments

Agent Harness Design for Claude

https://claude.com/blog/harnessing-claudes-intelligence
1•ankitg12•12m ago•0 comments

Are we all programmers now? We Replaced the Build Layer, Not the Runtime

https://ibrahimcesar.cloud/blog/we-replaced-the-build-layer-not-the-runtime/
1•ibrahimcesar•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cookbook AI – turn scattered recipe files into a print-ready cookbook

https://cookbookai.io/index.html
2•bookletaitcv1re•19m ago•0 comments

Make an Origami Circuit Board

https://spectrum.ieee.org/origami-circuit-boards
4•ohjeez•21m ago•0 comments

Terminal-native music and video player

https://github.com/dangerous-person/dopogoto-terminal-player
2•jimsojim•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: CheapSecurity – Lightweight, Self-Hosted CCTV for Linux SBCs

https://github.com/gmrandazzo/CheapSecurity
5•zeldone•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A client side PDF and article reader backed by Google Drive

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2•northfield27•23m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is an in-page speed reader useful?

2•jvbotelho•23m ago•2 comments

We Are Not Special (2021)

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/we-are-not-special/
3•birdculture•24m ago•0 comments

Design Is Compromise

https://stephango.com/design-is-compromise
9•ankitg12•26m ago•0 comments

Who's afraid of open source AI?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siy0744Ykys
2•frag•27m ago•0 comments

Tools and Rituals for Reflecting

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2•ankitg12•28m ago•0 comments

DROS-VEP – A <1μs C-ABI binary circuit breaker for AI agents

https://github.com/Top-Celestial-Company-Ltd/DROS-VEP-lite
3•dros_jimmy•31m ago•0 comments

Car Plows into Crowd at Berlin Pride Event in Suspected Terror Attack

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/world/europe/berlin-car-attack.html
3•whack•32m ago•3 comments

What Sam Altman will tell the White House this week

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/26/sam-altman-openai-trump-white-house-visit?mrfcid=202607266a5afa4...
3•flurly•36m ago•0 comments

Iran calls Ukraine's strikes on Iranian vessels 'hostile and criminal'

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/26/ukraine-strikes-iranian-vessels-tehran-accuses-kyiv-of-hostile-ac...
3•MilnerRoute•37m ago•0 comments

Why Los Angeles Stopped Repaving Its Streets

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3•toomanyrichies•38m ago•0 comments

108 PRs in eight days: Accidentally discovering loop engineering

https://brittany-ellich.offprint.app/a/3mrjj34puva23-108-prs-in-eight-days-accidentally-discoveri...
1•overcommitted•38m ago•0 comments

Canada must prepare for bigger wildfires, every summer – forever

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/our-smoke-filled-future-how-canada-must-prepare-for-bigger-wi...
3•Teever•41m ago•2 comments

AI agents are eating the Web, growing by 8,000% and rewiring business models

https://fortune.com/2026/07/23/dead-internet-theory-bots-agents-majority-web-traffic/
3•CharlesW•46m ago•0 comments

A Love Letter to Object Orientation

https://blog.mempko.com/a-love-letter-to-object-orientation/
1•mempko•48m ago•1 comments

The Question Is the Hard Part

https://seriousmountain.substack.com/p/the-question-is-the-hard-part
1•mc-serious•48m ago•0 comments