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I recently had a mind blowing experience recently building an app with Claude for someone that suffers with autism. Their basic complaint was "I can't work with most software. I th…

Wow. The book we need should be titled something like "Of Software Teams and Cargo Cults" "... a book had washed up on the shore... 'Extreme Ownership' ... soon the tribe was worsh…

We are in the age of PWAs. I've created a few where I just host them on Github pages (no backend needed, no hosting costs). And the P in PWA has become "Personal" ... vibe coding a…

Could go nicely with https://auge.franzai.com/ ( CLI on Apple Vision frameworks ) - do the first pass locally. If needed call their API for a more detailed analysis and then _final…

Google: USD CHF … set graph to max … it’s right there but it’s a slooooow rot. Swiss Franc is generally very stable so a good yard stick for other currencies over the long term

It’s not being driven by the UK. Check out all the other countries in the West rolling out Digital ID and it’s clearly coordinated just from the timing

We need to stop using AI as an umbrella term. It’s worth remembering that LLMs can’t play chess and that the best chess models like Leela Chess Zero use deep neutral networks. Gene…

There needs to a financial equivalent to the Mythical Man Month.

What I love about the words enshitification is it’s _almost_ autological. It takes a nice crisp on syllable word like “shit” and ruins it by adding 5 extra syllables. It just doesn…

It’s worth (re)watching the 1985 movie Brazil in particular the character of Harry Tuttle, hearing engineer https://youtu.be/VRfoIyx8KfU Neither government or corporations are goin…

> Good version control habits. Feel like there's more to this point (plus the documentation). By now we've all see the inverted-U-shaped performance curve when coding with LLMs wit…

Better to talk about the Gartner Hype cycle and it's stages compare it to technologies that clearly followed that cycle such as; - Virtual Reality: big hype in the early 90s (arcad…

We need to take the focus off cost savings. None of this tech is anywhere near mature enough to replace humans yet. Far better to focus on enhancing human capabilities with agents.…

It’s fairly easy to get diarizarion working with pyannote.audio and https://huggingface.co/pyannote/speaker-diarization-3.1 with ffmpeg converting the audio first to 16kHz mono WAV…

> fails due to a service high load It seems to be suffering the HN effect right now. Earlier it was working nicely and pretty much doing everything in the background

It’s useful for getting summaries of long YouTube videos - I’m found it semi helpful for improving my Davinci Resolve skills. That said Google is screwing the pooch as usual by try…

That's exactly the question - how does a free communication app achieve a multi-billion dollar valuation despite not having ads or directly selling user data? Discord's business mo…

Have you considered supporting whisper-at - https://github.com/YuanGongND/whisper-at ? Being able to identify sounds on a timeline can be useful e.g. politicians speech and how the…

To me at 51, looking back at my own experiences, I think the things we tell ourselves work in a similar fashion to software; programming our identity. The first "programmers" are o…

Ran into this today. From doing comedy for about 7 years now, this basically correct. Although most comedians approach joke writing organically rather than with this approach

It’s sad to see HN become so full of bots. > prompt: There’s an article on Hackernews titled “Telegram will now hand over your phone number and IP if you’re a criminal suspect”. Ge…

> This is full on speculation. Speculation is a crucial part of decision-making, especially in geopolitics, where hard data is often scarce. Governments frequently act on leading i…

> Platforms like Signal can get away with this because they are properly E2E encrypted, and cannot identify illegal content. Signal isn't magically protected by proper E2E encrypti…

Same would be nice for i.redd.it