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This is very close to my workflow but you forgot one important step: - Suggest a better approach that makes the AI say, “That’s much simpler. And you’re right. My original plan was…

New macOS is bloatware that makes your computer slower

Obvious move is to modify GDPR to not be so obtuse.

The most frustrating thing about the cookie banner is that the solution was always obvious: just use the DNT setting on your browser (Do Not Track). It already existed. However, po…

Can an AI slop plugin effectively make AI less sloppy?

Have a strong feeling that Anthropic solicited the ban from Lutnick as part of their, “so powerful it’s a national security threat” marketing campaign. Pretty evident as they kicke…

Obligatory git joke. Git gets easier once you understand branches are homeomorphic endofunctors mapping submanifolds of a Hilbert space https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.co…

SillyTavern folks have been perfecting the unslop solutions for years now. Gotta be a way to draw from their progress.

I am curious about the false positives and why you would need a tool for this rather than just a clever prompt for an LLM.

Afaik many benchmark tools have a way to run until the 95% confidence interval is reached. Might be a good addition to this project.

Can confirm — they got me paying $100/mo this way. Also I think it’s well known that OpenAI is the much less expensive option (in tokens and $$). For the same $20 you get a lot mor…

And it's Howard Lutnick... the guy who lived next door to Epstein and magically wasn't at work on 9/11.

The entire arc reads as a marketing stunt rather than a legitimate national security threat. Maybe Anthropic asked the US for this action to be taken. edit: > Commerce Secretary Ho…

The US fundamentally wants the oil to flow globally. Its secondary blockade of the Strait seems to be driven by optics and PR rather than strategic value.

Recently published https://hngram.com/ It’s an n-gram viewer for Hacker News comment data. Still working on daily data updates, etc but it’s live!

My first three stumbles were: - https://halupedia.com/07-hitlerwasrighthitlerwasrighthitlerw... - https://halupedia.com/0-0-fuck-ai - https://halupedia.com/67

Is the conjecture not trivially sound at an intuition level? It's surprising that this proof was difficult.

I would rename "the dark forest" to "the interesting horizon"

> To see Sid use his motivation and resources to solve his own problem is the core message (IMHO) of the hacker community. Hacking is about exploration beyond the known, and iterat…

Like the evergreen comic, "How would you like this wrapped?" by John Janik For decades policymakers have been trying to sell us the same surveillance state they accuse their advers…

Fool me once...

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A lot of vim users use comma as the leader key so this is probably natural for a lot of folks. Also seems convenient to be able to type , to autocomplete over your custom commands,…

Incredible popular software lore here. Calibre and Kitty are two of my favorite pieces of software in the world.