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Torn

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About Torn

Engineering leader living in Australia

My opinions and comments here are my own, and do not reflect the companies and people I work with

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    Comment #49230442

    Hmm no there's no little evidence to support the body getting used to external melatonin and not making its own in response

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    Comment #49133620

    On the plus side, LLM slop like this in readmes are a great indicator that you can just close the tab and carry on with life - nothing of value lost

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    Comment #49020474

    +1. I think there's an interesting idea here but an AI slop writeup on an AI slop website is very tiring

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    Comment #48974921

    I think it's a bit different in this case. There are plenty of modern synthesisers, from Korg and others This is intended to be a faithful recreation of a classic synth, for collec…

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    Comment #48759862

    This is awful, but why is this on hacker news

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    Comment #48755767

    > Now an international team, led by Flinders University, have found that in a small number of people, the immune system can accidentally confuse a normal adenovirus protein with a …

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    Comment #48216656

    This is a really great watch from Benn Jordan on the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo Some wild things happening with those, and infrasound. Colossus is shown 4 mi…

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    Comment #48059695

    Canvas is not Canva. Is this a bot reply

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    Comment #47830945

    Interesting - Claude immediately refuses API Error: Claude Code is unable to respond to this request, which appears to violate our Usage Policy (https://www.anthropic.com/legal/aup…

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    Comment #47803028

    Hopefully not a security incident

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    Comment #47392518

    Tbh I find self-documenting CLIs (e.g. with a `--help` flag, and printing correct usage examples when LLMs make things up) plus a skill that's auto invoked to be pretty reliable. C…

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    Comment #47392417

    https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli and https://agent-browser.dev/

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    Comment #47392410

    Mostly, yes: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli

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    Comment #47392403

    I personally found playwright-cli, and agent-browser which wraps playwright, both more token-efficient than using the raw mcp. Odd that this article from Dec 2025 has been posted t…

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    Comment #45884259

    Disney 100% has access to colorists and best in class colour grading software. It must have been a business (cost cutting) decision?

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    Comment #45855810

    Could your processing work in a webview? i.e. webgl or webasm or similar and you communicate with it via postMessage. Something like Polygen might help with the scaffolding, but I …

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    Comment #45843385

    You'd think spotify as a mature company would have had obligations to report this stuff!

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    Comment #45767982

    I've had good experience contacting canva support in the past who've checked things with engineering teams, you should be able to contact them about their new affinity sign-in

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    Comment #45767928

    Is enshittification truly inevitable? Perhaps, but as an occasional affinity user this is good news and I don't see a reason to spell doom just yet

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    Comment #45767879

    I imagine enough folks will pay for the Canva account subscription to upsell - and then it's also a funnel into Canva Plus it directly attacks Adobe's moat if a solid desktop app c…

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    Comment #44981196

    Yeah as someone who uses Claude code daily this feels like hype and marketing CLAUDE.md and working memory only goes so far — it never religiously follows them and does not truly '…

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    Comment #44315406

    Great writeup. There are other scaling axes of course, around data (even synthetic data) and improving AI generation at the 'software' layer (smarter design / training efficiencies…

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    Comment #43770176

    We are 100% going to get 'hey remember when LLMs were pure and not explicitly (or more dangerously: subtly) recommending things' nostalgia in years to come. There are parallels to …

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    Comment #42926657

    It to be a viable currency? Not a speculative asset?

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    Comment #40231770

    Siri is nowhere near an AI assistant or even a decent AI query bot. It mostly does simple commands and for the rest kicks you to web search results. Apple surely understand the opp…