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

3•gooob•11mo 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•11mo ago
Trying to figure out what to do next and what to do with my life.
gooob•11mo ago
how's that going? what are your current options?
sherdil2022•11mo ago
Not going good.
scottmcdot•11mo ago
How to build a segmentation model based on a sample of data that needs to be representative of the population.
turtleyacht•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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•11mo 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.

Aesop and Jean de la Fontaine help us learn new languages

https://antipodeanodyssey.wordpress.com/
1•jruohonen•28s ago•0 comments

Light Phone III

https://www.thelightphone.com/lightiii
1•sssilver•1m ago•0 comments

The Economist who was terrified of AI just found a rare reason for hope

https://fortune.com/2026/04/19/alex-imas-human-jobs-ai-economy-chicago-economist-substack-doomsda...
1•Brajeshwar•3m ago•0 comments

Ancient-DNA Study Reveals Natural Selection Has Accelerated in Evolution

https://hms.harvard.edu/news/massive-ancient-dna-study-reveals-natural-selection-has-accelerated-...
2•consumer451•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: EIDWTimes – Predicting airport wait times with ML for a school project

https://eidwtimes.xyz/
2•odig•3m ago•0 comments

Web Design Awards have been announced

2•Pyades•6m ago•0 comments

Show HN: YouDeserveNow, Justifications for Treating Yourself

https://www.youdeservenow.com
1•oneprofiledev•7m ago•0 comments

The LLM costs are not going up

https://simianwords.bearblog.dev/conclusive-proofs-that-llm-costs-are-going-down/
1•simianwords•7m ago•0 comments

The coming global food crisis

https://www.ft.com/content/36343e24-b06f-434d-a7e5-6046e7bcf3df
1•Anon84•7m ago•1 comments

Why was a plane too heavy for take-off at Southend Airport?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8dp480p0no
1•edward•9m ago•0 comments

I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator in my own programming language

https://github.com/navid-m/chip8emu
1•pizza_man•12m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LiteMarkup: Markdown parser with TypeScript AST, <3KB, no deps

https://github.com/tuures/LiteMarkup
1•ttts•12m ago•0 comments

10 years ago, someone wrote a test for servo that included an expiry in 2026

https://mastodon.social/@jdm_/116429380667467307
1•luu•14m ago•0 comments

Scientific datasets are riddled with copy-paste errors

https://www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-datasets-are-riddled-with-copy-paste-errors/
1•jruohonen•14m ago•0 comments

GEPA prompt optimization: Claude Code Haiku +20% solve rate on new bugs

https://tim.waldin.net/blog%20latest
1•twaldin•15m ago•0 comments

How to invent a realistic language for fictional speakers

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/conlang-fictional-languages-linguistics
4•billybuckwheat•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I couldn't find any BS-free QR code generator, so I built one

https://www.cutearr.com/
2•regnull•18m ago•0 comments

Japan will pay Singles 20k Yen to use Tinder

https://anitsu.com/en/news/japan-in-panic-you-get-paid-20000-yen-to-use-tinder/
4•cybermango•19m ago•0 comments

Can Claude Write Z80 Assembly Code?

https://hackaday.com/2026/04/19/can-claude-write-z80-assembly-code/
1•omer_k•21m ago•0 comments

Clarus, Moofo, and Lackey

https://www.storybytes.com/view-moof/articles/mim.html
1•xk3•23m ago•0 comments

Intelligence being available on tap has killed the expert

https://twitter.com/tekbog/status/2045933451938046257
2•tekbog•24m ago•2 comments

Ask HN: Is hardware prices stunting your plans?

1•wewewedxfgdf•24m ago•0 comments

Stop Creating AI Slop [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxxk0LCeP3s
1•davidkunz•27m ago•0 comments

Wave Function Collapse Algorithm

https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse
2•karmakurtisaani•27m ago•1 comments

Open links in whatever browser, app, or profile you need

https://github.com/fluffypony/yojam
1•8ig8•29m ago•0 comments

Fix Your Planning and Stop Missing Deadlines: Why Story Points Win

https://bastrich.tech/story-points/
5•bastrich•29m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT 5.4 Pro Standard Mode – Adaptive Thinking or Nerfing Model?

https://community.openai.com/t/chatgpt-5-4-pro-standard-mode-adaptive-thinking-or-nerfing-model/1...
2•xiaoniu•29m ago•0 comments

Why hope is a leadership decision system (and how to build it)

https://andiroberts.com/leadership-questions/how-to-build-hope-in-your-team
2•kiyanwang•29m ago•0 comments

Gitea 1.26.0

https://blog.gitea.com/release-of-1.26.0/
2•silverwind•29m ago•0 comments

50-reward GRPO training: a 0.1 temp change collapsed the system

https://zenodo.org/records/19627242
1•HenryAvery•30m ago•0 comments