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

3•gooob•9mo 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•9mo ago
Trying to figure out what to do next and what to do with my life.
gooob•9mo ago
how's that going? what are your current options?
sherdil2022•9mo ago
Not going good.
scottmcdot•9mo ago
How to build a segmentation model based on a sample of data that needs to be representative of the population.
turtleyacht•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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•9mo 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.

Spack: A flexible package manager for HPC software

https://computing.llnl.gov/projects/spack-hpc-package-manager
1•teleforce•3m ago•0 comments

NASA is sending people to the moon in spacecraft some experts think is not safe

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/science/artemis-2-orion-capsule-heat-shield
2•ck2•3m ago•1 comments

New Patches Aim to Lower Linux Memory Use for Swap, Slightly Improve Performance

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Better-Swap-Tencent
1•XzetaU8•3m ago•0 comments

Welcome to the American Winter

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/
1•empath75•4m ago•1 comments

The Danger of a Single Capital Letter: How I Almost Ruined a Redmine Instance

https://blog.devbert.de/the-danger-of-a-single-capital-letter/
1•preezer•4m ago•0 comments

Brex and the Pros and Cons of Hubristic Fundraising

https://www.saastr.com/brex-and-the-pros-and-cons-of-hubristic-fundraising/
1•wslh•5m ago•0 comments

Qwen3-Max-Thinking

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3-max-thinking
6•vinhnx•7m ago•0 comments

Building Brains on a Computer

https://www.asimov.press/p/brains
1•mailyk•7m ago•0 comments

Is the US Supreme Court Biased Towards the Rich?

https://www.nominalnews.com/p/is-the-us-supreme-court-bias-wealthy
2•MasPL•7m ago•1 comments

Notes on German Exit Tax from Paid Tax Advisor Calls

https://wegzugsteuer.info/en
1•olieidel•8m ago•0 comments

My vibe engineering process and stack

https://aimode.substack.com/p/my-vibe-engineering-process-and-stack
1•warthog•10m ago•0 comments

What We Can't Control (2016)

https://solomon.io/what-we-cant-control/
1•samsolomon•10m ago•0 comments

Competitive Pure Functional Languages

https://blog.samibadawi.com/2026/01/competitive-pure-functional-languages.html
1•type-lambda•10m ago•0 comments

Technology is changing how we write – and how we think about writing

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00245-0
1•geox•12m ago•1 comments

Mods, when will you get on top of the constant AI slop posts?

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming
1•birdculture•14m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a tool for automated failure analysis in GitHub Actions

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/github-actions-failure-analysis
1•calebevans•16m ago•0 comments

Linear-Term: A TUI for Linear Project Management

https://github.com/tjburch/linear-term
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The Age of Impoliteness: Galateo: Or, a Treatise on Politeness (1774)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/galateo/
1•Anon84•17m ago•0 comments

Novel biosensor enables real-time tracking of iron (II) in living cells

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acssensors.5c02481
1•bookofjoe•17m ago•0 comments

Go tests probably don't need a mocking library

https://rednafi.com/go/mocking-libraries-bleh/
1•AlexeyBelov•17m ago•1 comments

Saudi Arabia ordered to pay £3M to London dissident over Pegasus spying

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/26/saudi-arabia-ordered-pay-london-dissident-pegasus-s...
2•chrisjj•19m ago•1 comments

Cop-assisted extortion of DWI arrestees in New Mexico include getting them drunk

https://reason.com/2026/01/23/cop-assisted-extortion-of-dwi-arrestees-in-new-mexico-included-gett...
23•leephillips•20m ago•1 comments

Common Sense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense
1•emmabruns•21m ago•0 comments

ICE follows starkly different playbooks in red and blue states

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/us/immigration-arrests-community-ice-invs
7•rbanffy•22m ago•3 comments

Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11s-botched-patch-tuesday-update-nigh...
15•01-_-•22m ago•4 comments

ESA Meerkat Asteroid Guard: a monitoring service for imminent impactors

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.13323
1•belter•22m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you balance clarity vs speed in communication?

1•simon-rebbins•23m ago•1 comments

OracleGPT: Thought Experiment on an AI Powered Executive

https://senteguard.com/blog/#post-7fYcaQrAcfsldmSb7zVM
2•djwide•24m ago•1 comments

An Afghan entrepreneur turned sanctions into a $60M-per-month aid platform

https://thebitgazette.com/afghanistans-quiet-crypto-breakthrough-in-aid/
3•campusninja•24m ago•0 comments

Women's skepticism toward AI: The role of risk orientation and risk exposure

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/5/1/pgaf399/8429563?login=false
3•PaulHoule•25m ago•0 comments