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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.

FDA committee votes 8-6 to make BPC-157 legal. What the evidence review said.

https://www.empirical.health/blog/bpc-157-fda-review/
1•brandonb•1m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Store Shows Years of App History After a Clean Windows 10 Install

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1ndwuvg/microsoft_store_shows_years_of_app_history_after/
1•pregnenolone•2m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT medical advice brought man 'to brink of death', lawsuit alleges

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwylp3nxp5yo
2•dijksterhuis•3m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Jik – a language with region-based memory management that compiles to C

https://github.com/jik-lang/jik
1•scorched_soy•8m ago•0 comments

Podcast Apps: A Framework for Dying Slowly with Dignity

https://www.uncommonapps.nyc/p/podcast-apps-a-framework-for-dying
1•dabluck•9m ago•0 comments

A distillation primer and why banning it would not halt progress of Chinese LLMs

https://twitter.com/peterjliu/status/2080360381462007898
2•peterjliu•9m ago•0 comments

Rotation Key Census, July 2026

https://rob.leaflet.pub/3mr7vhdonuk2i
1•speckx•10m ago•0 comments

Air conditioning torn from UK homes under net zero clampdown

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/air-conditioning-torn-homes-under-171119380.html
1•pudgywalsh•12m ago•0 comments

From Evaluation to Guardrails: What We Brought to ACM FAccT 2026

https://blog.mozilla.ai/from-evaluation-to-guardrails-what-we-brought-to-acm-facct-2026/
3•royapakzad•15m ago•0 comments

Wt – C++ Web Toolkit

https://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt
2•LorenDB•17m ago•0 comments

Explore distributed inference and training with MLX [video]

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2026/233/
1•pulkitsh1234•18m ago•0 comments

Building on ATProto

https://lukekanies.com/writing/building-on-atproto/
13•speckx•20m ago•1 comments

Snappable nRF52820 debugger integrated into nRF54L15 development board

https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/07/23/icy-electronics-nrf54l15-discovery-devboard-integrates-a-...
1•whiteblossom•21m ago•0 comments

Engineer Away the Slop

https://ghuntley.com/slop/
2•hasheddan•21m ago•0 comments

I used to ignore prediction markets. Then I learned people bet on wildfires

https://www.hcn.org/articles/i-used-to-ignore-prediction-markets-then-i-learned-people-were-betti...
2•cdrnsf•22m ago•0 comments

Why does DOS include "get interrupt vector" and "set interrupt vector" syscalls?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/32747/why-does-dos-include-get-interrupt-vecto...
3•SeenNotHeard•24m ago•0 comments

The Topology of Depression: A System Dynamics View of My Depression and Recovery

https://tomatovillain.substack.com/p/the-topology-of-depression
1•tom-villani•25m ago•0 comments

Microsoft 365 a.k.a. Microsoft Copilot a.k.a. Office 365 has jumped off a cliff

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116970532818392929
4•d1ss0nanz•25m ago•0 comments

Model Context Protocol prepares to break with its stateful past

https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/07/23/model-context-protocol-prepares-to-break-with-its-s...
3•rndsignals•26m ago•0 comments

My coding font and how I made it

https://github.com/ericfortis/camelana
2•efortis•27m ago•0 comments

AMD's 256-core Epyc 9996 'Venice' claims up to a 3.4x jump over Intel Xeon

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amds-256-core-epyc-9996-venice-claims-up-to-a-3-4...
5•rndsignals•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SafeMediaKit – blur/report UI for Apple's on-device nudity detection

https://github.com/SardorbekR/SafeMediaKit
1•sardor_rakhimov•30m ago•0 comments

I built a tool that tells who tried your startup idea, and how they died

https://dejaview.bsct.so/
5•aminkhorrami•30m ago•3 comments

Open Trading Surface

https://pauljbernard.github.io/open-trading-surface/
2•paulbernard•31m ago•0 comments

Private Credit Ditches 'Semi-Liquid' Term After Redemption Wave

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-23/private-credit-ditches-semi-liquid-term-after-...
1•petethomas•31m ago•0 comments

A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements

https://pme.uchicago.edu/news-events/news/cleaner-route-purifying-rare-earth-elements
4•MarcoDewey•31m ago•0 comments

Geekbench 7

https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2026/07/geekbench-7/
8•ilreb•32m ago•2 comments

Smoother scrolling: How we halved scroll jank in Chrome on Android

https://blog.google/chromium/smoother-scrolling-how-we-halved-scroll-jank-in-chrome-on-android/
1•xnx•34m ago•1 comments

Importing a front end JavaScript library without a build system

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/23/without-a-build-system/
1•ulrischa•34m ago•0 comments

Why Sony Can't Bring Back Its Classic Walkman Models

https://obsoletesony.substack.com/p/why-sony-cant-bring-back-classic-walkman
8•speckx•36m ago•1 comments