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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.

What do AI based layoffs say about their ability to scale?

https://www.elliotcsmith.com/what-do-ai-based-layoffs-say-about-tam/
1•smitec•1m ago•0 comments

How many of us are evaling our skills?

https://github.com/BintzGavin/apastra
2•GavinBintz•1m ago•0 comments

Attacking your competitors online is dumb

https://posthog.com/blog/why-attacking-competitors-is-dumb
1•herbertl•5m ago•0 comments

Reality emerges: What is the Universe made of?

https://aeon.co/essays/why-reality-is-more-than-the-sum-of-its-particles
2•herbertl•8m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Are we observing the death of social networks?

2•fullstacking•9m ago•0 comments

thoughts on Gen AI's frontier of individuality

2•audreyfei•10m ago•0 comments

US trade court rules against Trump's 10% global tariffs

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-trade-court-rules-against-trumps-10-global-tariff-2026-05-07/
3•JumpCrisscross•11m ago•0 comments

Marc Andreessen Egg Game

https://marc-egg.eieio.games/
3•HotGarbage•12m ago•0 comments

Structured Procrastination

https://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
3•biscuits1•12m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What will happen as AI costs increase?

2•MetaWhirledPeas•15m ago•0 comments

David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth

https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2026/david-attenboroughs-100-years-on-planet-earth
2•smusamashah•15m ago•0 comments

cuda-oxide: a custom rustc backend for compiling GPU kernels in pure Rust

https://github.com/NVlabs/cuda-oxide
2•matt_d•16m ago•0 comments

Anthropic donates Petri open-source alignment tool

https://www.anthropic.com/research/donating-open-source-petri
2•dragonstyle•16m ago•0 comments

Qualcomm Hexagon V81 HMX Programmer's Reference Manual [pdf]

https://docs.qualcomm.com/doc/80-N2040-62/80-N2040-62_REV_AA_Qualcomm_Hexagon_V81_HMX_Programmers...
2•my123•20m ago•0 comments

Agent readability for the web (lightspeed benchmark for agents)

https://a14y.dev/
2•ghuntley•22m ago•0 comments

UK has wealthy Europe's '3rd-highest' rate of young adults not in work or study

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/apr/28/uk-has-wealthy-europes-third-highest-rate-of-18-to-...
2•PaulHoule•23m ago•0 comments

Cloudflare lays off 1,100 employees (~20% of workforce)

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/cloudflare-announces-first-quarter-2026-2015007...
14•gcr•24m ago•4 comments

Please Delete Your Repository

https://www.threads.com/@origsaeny/post/DYCBoN4CqOc
2•zane__chen•27m ago•0 comments

To the Surprise of No One, Cops Are Using ALPR Cameras to Stalk Their Exes

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/05/07/to-the-surprise-of-no-one-cops-are-using-alpr-cameras-to-stal...
3•cdrnsf•29m ago•0 comments

Ozempic Is Killing Off Weight Loss Surgeries. That's a Problem

https://gizmodo.com/ozempic-might-be-killing-off-weight-loss-surgeries-thats-a-problem-2000754277
2•paulpauper•29m ago•0 comments

Larql: Run attention locally, FFN on another machine

https://github.com/chrishayuk/larql
2•modinfo•32m ago•0 comments

Better than I thought FREE IQ Test

https://myiq.fyi/r/uf38d26
2•SteveChurch•33m ago•0 comments

The Perverse Tyranny of a Perfect Transcript

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/harvard-grade-inflation-gpa/687074/
2•paulpauper•33m ago•0 comments

Free AI UK car shopping advice

https://regadvisor.co.uk/
2•buttertoast•33m ago•1 comments

Cloudflare to cut 20% jobs, quarterly revenue forecast falls short

https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/cloudflare-cut-over-1100-jobs-2026-05-07/
6•symisc_devel•34m ago•3 comments

AI #167: The Prior Restraint Era Begins

https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-167-the-prior-restraint-era-begins
2•paulpauper•35m ago•0 comments

A case study with Aeneas and jxl-rs

https://jonathan.protzenko.fr/2026/05/05/jxl-rs.html
3•matt_d•36m ago•0 comments

Top universities hit after Canvas breach

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/top-universities-among-victims-named-in-canvas-data-breach...
6•JustSkyfall•38m ago•0 comments

Brandolini's Law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
2•nvahalik•38m ago•0 comments

Sleep polysomnography predicts 130 health conditions, including CVD

https://www.empirical.health/blog/your-sleep-could-predict-your-next-cardiovascular-event/
3•brandonb•39m ago•0 comments