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evv
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Github: /ericvicenti
Email: eric at vicenti dot net
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Comment #47122319
Have you considered serving a zip bomb to this user agent?
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Comment #46978557
The tooling is totally replicated in open source. OpenCode and Letta are two notable examples, but there are surely more. I'm hacking on one in the evenings. OpenCode in particular…
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Comment #46958833
> This is how infrastructure works, and supposed to work No, infrastructure doesn't have to work this way. This is a very old-school mentality. Sign the content with a key that you…
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Comment #46772427
Dumb question: whats the difference between "low-code" and "libraries+frameworks"? Usually the point of a library or framework is to reduce the amount of code you need to write. Gi…
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Comment #46733444
Hey HN, hope you enjoy this idea! LLMs are a game-changer, but they’re only half the story: probabilistic and fuzzy. The missing half is a universal formal language: something prec…
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Comment #46587389
Your alternative is... what exactly? A unique and baroque file format for each application (see: Git)? Folders of JSON or markdown files which are slow, easily corrupted, and lack …
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Comment #46329865
Looks like it is possible if you do a normal iOS screen recording, then use your app to add the Face Cam and touches on top.
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Comment #45951541
Thanks for spawning many interesting topics. A dose of cynicism is great, in moderation! > P2P is cool if you have a desktop, but you cannot host from laptop or phone that spends m…
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Comment #45951298
The solution is to build on the traditional web. How does anybody find anything new on the web? Basically: hyperlinks! People will create links from social media. With some basic S…
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Comment #45949999
As somebody working in this "future-web" space, I see HUGE issues with the legacy web stack: - It requires a server to publish, which is expensive and difficult for regular users w…
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Comment #45845433
Utilizing p2p tech is not illegal. It is illegal to redistribute copyrighted content without authorization- and we are working to build this into the protocol so that peers will re…
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Comment #45845329
I get freaked out when I consider the future of archive.is. Thanks to the nature of the web today, it is incredibly fragile. As the co-creator of a censorship-resistant publishing …
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Comment #45835814
I'm confused how you would "build something on ChatGPT" in the first place. Does ChatGPT have an API? Of course OpenAI's GPT-5 and family are available as an API, but this is the f…
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Comment #45800509
It is honestly ridiculous that "Open WebUI" made it past the US trademark office. https://www.trademarkia.com/open-webui-99027970 If somebody forks this project, I dare you to name…
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Comment #45484290
It's funny how they mixed in proprietary models like GPT-5 and Anthropic with the "comparable U.S. models". Until they compare open-weight models, NIST is attempting a comparison b…
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Comment #45432477
Candid responses like this are an excellent way to earn good will, thank you!
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Comment #45392233
Oh, of course its Face Dev! Feels silly to link to the project without linking to the youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJsH7AdLmUA&pp=0gcJCfYJAYcqI...
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Comment #45391429
Why is auth "such a big issue" in JS? I've used a number of solutions but haven't had big issues with them.
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Comment #44512328
A few months ago I was asking myself, why is the "standard" width of a terminal 80 characters? I assumed it had to do with the screen size of some early PCs. But nope, its because …
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Comment #44346825
Developers are entitled to earn more money when they continue working. On the other hand, it is unfair how consumers have frequently needed to re-purchase products that they bought…
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Comment #43726777
They have gone with an interesting licensing solution here. I really appreciate that it is labeled as a source-available license instead of Open Source. https://defold.com/license/…