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pinum commented on Please do not A/B test my workflow   backnotprop.com/blog/do-n... · Posted by u/ramoz
pinum · 2 days ago
Here’s the original article which was much more informative and interesting:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260314105751/https://backnotpr...

Can’t believe HN has become so afraid of generic probably-unenforceable “plz don’t reverse engineer” EULAs. We deserve to know what these tools are doing.

I’ve seen poor results from plan mode recently too and this explains a lot.

pinum commented on LLM Writing Tropes.md   tropes.fyi/tropes-md... · Posted by u/walterbell
joshvm · 8 days ago
No mention of Claude/ChatGPT's favourite new word genuine and friends? They also like using real and honest when giving advice. Far as I can tell this is a new-ish change.

> Honestly? We should address X first. It's a genuine issue and we've found a real bug here.

Honorable mention: "no <thing you told me not to do>". I guess this helps reassure adherence to the prompt? I see that one all the time in vibe coded PRs.

pinum · 8 days ago
Similarly, "X that actually works"
pinum commented on Qwen3.5 122B and 35B models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers   venturebeat.com/technolog... · Posted by u/lostmsu
lostmsu · 15 days ago
Not exactly, but pretty close: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/capabilities/coding?mod...

Somewhere between Haiku 4.5 and Sonnet 4.5

pinum · 15 days ago
Looks much closer to Haiku than Sonnet.

Maybe "Qwen3.5 122B offers Haiku 4.5 performance on local computers" would be a more realistic and defensible claim.

pinum commented on Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires   thehftguy.com/2026/01/22/... · Posted by u/user5994461
davkan · 2 months ago
No need for fiber for 1.6 gigabit, Cat5e can do 10GbE over short distances, 2.5GbE over longer distances.
pinum · 2 months ago
The other advantage of fibre is subtlety if you can't (or don't want to) run it through walls. 0.9mm diameter and light enough to attach it with occasional dots of glue instead of needing cable clips.
pinum commented on Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires   thehftguy.com/2026/01/22/... · Posted by u/user5994461
vdm · 2 months ago
pinum · 2 months ago
I can second this 0.9mm transparent stuff, I've run it successfully and it's very subtle.

Depending on the media converter pair you're using, you probably want UPC instead of APC. I also found that the cheapest generic bidi media converters tend to be SC, so I want with a 30m pre-terminated SC/UPC cable. Total cost (cable plus media converters) was about £30.

Alternatively, you can order a custom 30+m white 0.9mm cable from FS: https://www.fs.com/uk/products/12285.html Lead time is fairly long.

pinum commented on Can I start using Wayland in 2026?   michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/secure
glimshe · 2 months ago
Note to people on this thread: the impression the discussions give is that Linux isn't ready for prime time desktop use. I thought Wayland was the latest and greatest, but folks here report issues and even refuse to ever use it.

Windows and Mac Os, for all their faults, are unquestionably ready to use in 2026. If you are a Linux on desktop advocate, read the comments and see why so many are still hesitating.

pinum · 2 months ago
Anecdotally, everything works flawlessly on my work machine: Optiplex Micro, Intel iGPU, Fedora KDE 43, 4K 32" primary monitor at 125% scale, 1440p 27" secondary monitor at 100%. No issues with Wayland or with anything else.

Everything actually feels significantly more solid/stable/reliable than modern Windows does. I can install updates at my own pace and without worrying that they'll add an advert for Candy Crush to my start menu.

I also run Bazzite-deck on an old AMD APU minipc as a light gaming HTPC. Again, it's a much better experience than my past attempts to run Windows on an HTPC.

As with everything, the people having issues will naturally be heard louder than the people who just use it daily without issues.

pinum commented on Claude Sonnet 4.5   anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/adocomplete
cryptoz · 6 months ago
I've really got to refactor my side project which I tailored to just use OpenAI API calls. I think the Anthropic APIs are a bit different so I just never put in the energy to support the changes. I think I remember reading that there are tools to simpify this kind of work, to support multiple LLM APIs? I'm sure I could do it manually but how do you all support multiple API providers that have some differences in the API design?
pinum · 6 months ago
I use LiteLLM as a proxy.
pinum commented on Enlisting in the Fight Against Link Rot   jszym.com/blog/archiving_... · Posted by u/jszymborski
gkoberger · 7 months ago
I'm against link rot and I hate how Google doesn't maintain old projects. But this is one shutdown I 100% agree with.

Having an official Google domain that anyone can hijack is dangerous, given that many people's main internet identity is GMail (aka their Google account). I know anyone can create an offshoot (goooogle.org, etc), but Google was using goo.gl too.

It was easy to redirect a goo.gl to a Google login page (which is on a real Google domain), and trick people into authorizing access to their account.

I consider myself savvy, and I got a pretty convincing one recently. The email looked legit, and the link was a goo.gl link that ultimately landed me on a legitimate Google login page. It didn't trick me, but it did take me a few minutes to figure out how it wasn't legit.

NOTE: This article is kinda misleading. They already stopped letting people add new links in 2019. And now, they're only removing "inactive" links, AKA links that had no activity since 2024. If you visit a link right now, it will be kept. Here's more info: https://blog.google/technology/developers/googl-link-shorten...

pinum · 7 months ago
Instead of shutting down completely, why not this:

For goo.gl links that were created by google, continue redirecting them as normal. For others, show a warning page explaining to the user that the link wasn't created (or vouched for) by google. If they press an "agree" button, still don't show a clickable link, but instead show it as plain text to be copied.

pinum commented on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1B web users   pressgazette.co.uk/market... · Posted by u/thm
pinum · 8 months ago
>The greatest proportion of users who self-activated a hard ad-blocker found out about it through advertising (34%)
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pinum · 10 months ago
This seems to just be a description of the normal, desired, advertised functionality of the watch.

u/pinum

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