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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.

When Managers Cover Their Posteriors: Making Decisions the Market Wants to See

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2555842
1•rustoo•29s ago•0 comments

MCP Spine – Middleware proxy that cuts LLM tool token usage by 61%

https://github.com/Donnyb369/mcp-spine
1•Mxwell369•3m ago•0 comments

Gallup poll: GenZ AI adoption steady but skepticism on the rise

https://web.archive.org/web/20260410202758/https://news.gallup.com/poll/708224/gen-adoption-stead...
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•8m ago•1 comments

You should be able to SEE what your agents are doing. I created the solution

https://www.tarsy.dev/
1•leddo•9m ago•0 comments

Kids Are Discovering the Joys–and Pains–Of the Landline

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/kids-are-discovering-the-joysand-painsof-the-landline-f703d505
1•impish9208•9m ago•1 comments

Show HN: When Clocks Drift Apart

https://animeshchouhan.com/time/
1•animeshchouhan•9m ago•0 comments

We reverse-engineered Claude Code's billing system to fix overage charges

https://github.com/askalf/dario
1•askalf•11m ago•0 comments

Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS

https://www.v68k.org/advanced-mac-substitute/
1•zdw•13m ago•0 comments

What Is Hypernormalization?

https://adbusters.org/articles-coded/what-is-hypernormalization
1•burnt-resistor•14m ago•0 comments

Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part I: Finding Carthaginians

https://acoup.blog/2026/04/10/collections-raising-carthaginian-armies-part-i-finding-carthaginians/
1•gostsamo•14m ago•0 comments

Don't Be Evil

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/11/obvious-terrible-ideas/
2•hn_acker•15m ago•0 comments

Preparing for My Own Funeral

https://chrisaustem.substack.com/p/preparing-for-my-own-funeral
1•putzdown•19m ago•0 comments

What tools do you use to visualize algorithms?

1•rjn32s•20m ago•0 comments

EU should regulate Big Tech, not banning kids from social media, Estonia says

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-should-stand-up-to-big-tech-instead-of-imposing-social-med...
2•donohoe•23m ago•0 comments

The Structure of the Puma Computer System [pdf]

https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/SETL/setl/doc/Grishman-Structure_of_Puma-1978.pdf
3•rbanffy•26m ago•0 comments

We replaced user accounts with Lightning payments for identity

https://blog.satsrail.com/payment-as-identity/
3•keymaker_p•27m ago•2 comments

Native Raspberry Pi 3B version of the Oberon System 3

https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem3Native/releases/tag/2026-04-10
3•HotGarbage•27m ago•0 comments

The Romance of the Gas Station Sign

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/gas-prices-sign-driving/686759/
2•fortran77•27m ago•0 comments

False Memory Syndrome Foundation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Memory_Syndrome_Foundation
3•irthomasthomas•28m ago•0 comments

Online "Phreak Box" (Enhanced Blue Box)

https://phreaknet.org/bluebox/
3•bookofjoe•28m ago•0 comments

Hart Research March 8, 2024 opinion poll for NBC News: people hate AI

https://web.archive.org/web/20260310175721if_/https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/27777984/nbc...
3•1vuio0pswjnm7•28m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Audit the browser for malicious extensions removed from Chrome Store

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/malext-sentry/bpohikihiogjgmebpnbgnloipjaddibe
2•toborrm9•29m ago•0 comments

Bulldog: A compiler for VLIW architectures [pdf]

https://www.cs.yale.edu/publications/techreports/tr364.pdf
5•rbanffy•30m ago•1 comments

Eagle Press alt software pyPowered to WordPress

https://github.com/CaptainFantasticVibeCoder/EaglePress
2•eagle10ne•32m ago•0 comments

The Lean Programming Language and Theorem Prover

https://leodemoura.github.io/static/etaps2026/
2•azhenley•32m ago•0 comments

Breathing life into my 13 year old Nexus 7 with Codex

https://opuslabs.substack.com/p/breathing-life-into-my-13-year-old
4•opuslabs•33m ago•0 comments

Tor Browser on Android leaks IP in desktop mode

4•shchess•33m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Animated ASCII art in pure SVG

https://github.com/syi0808/asciianimesvg
1•syi0808•35m ago•2 comments

Iran's Other Front: The War over the Internet

https://warontherocks.com/2026/04/irans-other-front-the-war-over-the-internet/
2•thinkingemote•35m ago•1 comments

The Obscure Relation of Appropriateness

https://vincentcarchidi.substack.com/p/the-obscure-relation-of-appropriateness
1•darccio•36m ago•0 comments