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cat(girl) shaped object, hardware omelas kid

"A cat is valued for companionship and its ability to kill vermin."

✧ i have friends, and my purpose is to support […]

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is this FUD?
December 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
do you know whether this "may" is actually a "shall" or not? does this differ per-OS?
December 4, 2025 at 1:07 AM
this is the most executive-brained thing i've seen this month

(to the S3 object) "hello, computer?"
December 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
new early exit pattern dropped
December 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
my solution to the nightmare that is "SPI modes"
December 2, 2025 at 1:57 AM
thinking about how much of bad cat behavior is just "the cat probably grew up alone _and_ nobody had the knowledge and wisdom to tell it off in a way it can understand"

housecats are fully capable of understanding that their claws hurt you, and equally […]

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December 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
also none of this is "much" anyway. you literally can't see the HN traffic in git-pages %cpu
December 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"a page on grebedoc got featured on hn" (i think it's @issotm's recent blog post)
December 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
this is an incredibly funny sentence

"the thin films are fairly thin"

well what else would they be, robert? thick? if they were thick they'd be called thick films!!
November 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
just look at this beautiful documentation
November 30, 2025 at 5:04 AM
one of these days they'll invent optimizing compilers
November 30, 2025 at 4:07 AM
i installed tailscale on my oscilloscope
November 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
that's over half a kilowatt of charger holy shit
November 29, 2025 at 10:19 PM
# grub-install /dev/shark0
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 AM
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 AM
chat, should i clear out my emotional support ccache? i think i last did it a year ago
November 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
fess up, which one of you sunk 400 Mbps of traffic from grebedoc at exactly 21:37
November 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
somebody should tell rstudio developers about the <style> tag
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
black friday impulse purchase
November 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
oh, no, i'm wrong: all of this traffic had cached responses. i think the cause was something different, like running out of CPU time due to having to decompress them or something like that
November 22, 2025 at 9:34 AM
bots have finally knocked a grebedoc runner offline (one bar per 10s, so this was 71 uncached req/s at its peak)
November 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
@fasterthanlime did you crash lib.rs
November 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
what is going on with URLs
November 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
it's negative day at forgejo
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
what do you mean "minus eight commits since this release"
November 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM