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I’ve been using LLMs to create readable rewrites of RFCs and specs that interest me. It is not precise enough for implementation use, but it has increased my understanding of the u…

The website explicitly states a lack of networking. Any interest in pursuing that in a future version? I have a Pocket 8086 - I would love to give this a try next weekend.

“URLs are bad” sometimes does feel like an underhanded way to say “stay in our app at all times”.

I need to tell my IRC friends ASAP.

The only solution is to ban all open source models and create a certification process under the auspices of OpenAI. /s

Live demo has a lot of lag and redirects to a login page

Invitation-only is the future of online communities. Lobsters still has a pulse because you need to know someone to get in and it’s a bad look if you invite annoying people.

Social media companies became so obsessed about maximizing ROI on short form video content that they stopped being a platform to share with friends and turned into Temu Youtube. Yo…

It will work for documents and the most simple TODO apps. It actually will not work for anything useful. There are a number of security policies in place explicitly to prevent thin…

You have clearly never actually tried that.

I was going to mention Microsoft Active Desktop in the original comment, but I didn’t want HN to know how old I am.

Desktop operating systems should be able to run zipped web apps the way Electron apps run today. It ought to just be part of the OS.

I wish someone would build something like hiring.cafe but for DRM free digital content. One search query => uniform search results with direct link to purchase page on relevant mar…

Some will never know the thrill of downloading a mislabeled MP3 that introduces you to a new genre or thinking that Daft Punk actually released a track called “Vietnam”.