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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Year of Linux Desktop is fun with LLMs

Ask HN: Year of Linux Desktop is fun with LLMs 2 by mirekrusin | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm wondering if others are also having recently blast using Linux desktop thanks to Claude/Codex/Grok CLIs? As 20y daily Mac user, occasionally using Linux as desktop, my personal daily OS now gravitated towards Linux desktop in recent months quite a lot. I attribute it purely to LLM CLIs. Even my old 2012 Intel iMac 27" on Linux became really good and pleasant machine to use. After dusting it off and setting it up I don't want to give it away anymore. Solutions to quirks/customizations seem to be few prompts away and it's actually fun to do as well. Things like brightness on Apple Studio/iMac not working are not only solved in few minutes but solved really well (native OSD indistinguishable from system volume, perfect latency, mapped to gamma 2.2 perceptual curve etc), Magic Keyboard/macOS key bindings muscle memory which normally was painful is solved in few minutes, Steam...
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New ask Hacker News story: Is there a name for the type of comments agents add where they leak the prompt?

Is there a name for the type of comments agents add where they leak the prompt? 4 by xdennis | 1 comments on Hacker News. This is a stupid example to illustrate what I mean. Say you have this code: def create_background(width: int, height: int) -> Image: ... You tell the agent to use default values for create_background, the same as in create_screen. It changes the code to: # Now create_background params have default values, the same as create_screen in screen.py def create_background(width: int = DEFAULT_WIDTH, height: int = DEFAULT_HEIGHT) -> Image: ... The unnecessary comment is a staple of vibed code, but the tone also annoys me because it leaves behind the prompt. It words comments based on what it was asked to do, not in a timeless manner. I keep telling people in code reviews to remove unnecessary comments, and I feel I lack the vocabulary to express why this is bad.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to avoid stressing yourself because of a micromanager?

Ask HN: How to avoid stressing yourself because of a micromanager? 3 by ciwolex | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: If you had a trillion dollars, what would you do?

Ask HN: If you had a trillion dollars, what would you do? 3 by brudgers | 2 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What would you do with a trillion dollars

Ask HN: What would you do with a trillion dollars 4 by brudgers | 2 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: DigitalOcean Ending Student Credit Promotion

DigitalOcean Ending Student Credit Promotion 2 by thepotatodude | 0 comments on Hacker News. Students need compute, please consider helping the next generation.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Show your AI coded games [June 2026]

Ask HN: Show your AI coded games [June 2026] 5 by franze | 5 comments on Hacker News. They get lost in SHOWN HN too often. This thread is for them. Unfinished is ok. Just show them.
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