Is there a linux distribution that comes with mac keybindings and make it easy for someone with muscle memory to use both?

There's https://kinto.sh/ you can install on any distro. For visual similarity, GNOME is already quite Mac-ish, but there are distros like elementaryOS that go further by e.g. moving window controls to the left side.

Do you use Twilio for statphone? Or SIP? I want to build a telephony app, but the economics don't work out with Twilio.

The economics don’t work for StatPhone either but I figured if it has value, I can find other ways to make money or bring down costs.

Thank you - I figured Google Voice provides basic multiple rings facility. What are the extra things that you provide on top of that?

I actually don't know if Google Voice has that capability unless you hack it by having each phone logged into the same account.

The biggest benefit for me with StatPhone is the incoming callerID is the StatPhone number. So even if the kid's school is calling from a random number, on your phone it shows the StatPhone number and you know its a call pertains to your child.

Also grouped escalation, so if my father calls in an emergency, the kids get called first and then the in laws and our uncle.

Do you point claude code to this? The orchestration seems to be very important.

I ran the Qwen3 Coder 30B through LM Studio and with OpenCode(Instead of Claude code). Did decent on M4 Max 32GB. https://www.tommyjepsen.com/blog/run-llm-locally-for-coding

The 9B models are not useful for coding outside of very simple requests.

Qwen3.5 is confusing a lot of newcomers because it is very confident in the answers it gives. It can also regurgitate solutions to common test requests like “make a flappy bird clone” which misleads users into thinking it’s genetically smart.

Using the Qwen3.5 models for longer tasks and inspecting the output is a little more disappointing. They’re cool for something I can run locally but I don’t agree with all of the claims about being Sonnet-level quality (including previous Sonnet versions) in my experience with the larger models. The 9B model is not going to be close to Sonnet in any way.

I loaded Qwen into LM Studio and then ran Oh My Pi. It automatically picked up the LM Studio API server. For some reason the 35B A3B model had issues with Oh My Pi's ability to pass a thinking parameter which caused it to crash. 27B did not have that issue for me but it's much slower.

Here's how I got the 35B model to work: https://gist.github.com/danthedaniel/c1542c65469fb1caafabe13...

The 35B model is still pretty slow on my machine but it's cool to see it working.

I’ve tried it on Claude code, Found it to be fairly crap. It got stuck in a loop doing the wrong thing and would not be talked out of it. I’ve found this bug that would stop it compiling right after compiling it, that sort of thing.

Also seemed to ignore fairly simple instructions in CLAUDE.md about building and running tests.

I use Claude Code for agentic coding but it is better to use qwen3-coder in that case.

It qwen3-coder is better for code generation and editing, strong at multi-file agentic tasks, and is purpose-built for coding workflows.

In contrast, qwen3.5 is more capable at general reasoning, better at planning and architecture decisions, good balance of coding and thinking.

Would love to know more -- what software do you use?

Not just for hack club - but transactions for another organization that is using their software is public. https://hcb.hackclub.com/reboot/transactions?page=13

Not sure if all the organizations using their software know this.

Does anyone know if Musk's robotics/AI business is under Tesla? What prevents him from launching the robots under a new company? Is there any protection for Tesla investors against these kind of things?

Well, if you follow his adventures a bit, it's quite obvious that there is absolutely nothing preventing him from that.

2 years ago, while claiming that Tesla is the leader in AI, he launched a private ... AI company (xAI), for which he took Tesla GPU chips, and now he tries to make Tesla ... invest in said company, at a valuation (>B100$) that could only be compared to something like Dogecoin.

All of this, with your and my retirement money, since the stock is in the S&P.

The high salaries commanded by FAANG engineers right out of college motivated a lot of students to take up computer science as a major and this led to a massive oversupply. It might take a few years to cool.

https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/computer-science-major...

"Between 2018 and 2023, the number of students majoring in computer and information science jumped from about 444,000 to 628,000."

Around 40% of MIT graduates are now in CS https://alum.mit.edu/slice/conversation-new-computing-dean-a...

Further, COVID has reduced a lot of friction for remote work, so now there is also global competition for these jobs.

MIT graduates are not going to be struggling for anything, much less for new grad jobs. They're among the most privileged humans to exist on earth by nature of their degree and admission.

I appreciate your point, and don't necessarily disagree. However, I think it is rough out there even for ivy graduates.

We have an intern from an Ivy (not MIT) that isn't getting an offer simply because my company doesn't want to hire in the US right now. They are great to work with, knowledgeable, but have no future here. They have been shopping around, and a lot of people on the team have been trying to find a place for them to go in their network, but no one is biting.

Corollary: if MIT graduates are struggling to find jobs, the market conditions must be really bad for graduates.

I challenge the premise. They’re doing fine. They’re getting $600k a year to work at OpenAI and HRT

Or working at cable companies watching for alien timing signals.

This kind of "nothing can happen to this group because they have these advantages" line of thinking has causation backwards. They are privileged because they historically haven't struggled. The privilege doesn't preclude struggle, the privilege results from lack of struggle in the past. Times change.

I wouldn't be so sure.

What’s the details here? Seems like they’re getting the same elite jobs as always and think of people like me as insects/“NPCs” that have no merit?

they should eat lazily applied adjectives!

There might be advantages to increasing the amount of hardware and low level courses in the curriculum. But, I am pretty sure that is not the primary reason for young graduates not being to find jobs.

It is for us in the cybersecurity space and the fabless design space (eg. RISC-V SoC). My portfolio companies have moved all hiring to Israel, CEE, and India as a result.

The only people we might consider hiring in the US are veterans from cyber related MOSes because they come with the right learning mindset and have enough practical skills to ramp up if there are skill deficiencies.

Use contexts app.

Is there a way to do this kind of design->critique->implement without switching tools? Like an end-to-end solution that consults multiple LLMs?

Claude code with Zen MCP. Kiro, but you don’t get a second LLM opinion.