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slipheen

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About slipheen

Just another HN reader. :)

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    Comment #49127868

    I love this so much! This is such a cool hack, just for the sake of it. Amazing hacking and amazing art! In the preso, she has said the full size output is on the website- can anyo…

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    Comment #48214886

    I read the GitHub repo, but still don't quite understand- What exactly is the advantage of doing this vs just running a prompt in my existing coding agent? I don't understand why t…

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    Comment #48154044

    I'm not defending them or this behaviour but it sounds to me like they may think the message/threat this sends to silence future criticism from other people, outweighs the immediat…

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    Comment #48126497

    I'm not sure I understand the intention here- One of the technical things I don't really understand, is that it is not that hard to have an agent use tmux/etc to type into Claude c…

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    Comment #48091075

    If you haven't seen it, there was a new season of connections made in 2023 as well. https://www.space.com/connections-with-james-burke-docuserie...

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    Comment #47360582

    I think for kids in particular, it's important to remember that the educational discount brings it down to US 500. That's not exactly nothing but that's a pretty reasonable amount …

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    Comment #47313396

    I certainly do not want to try to talk you into this particular phone – but just in the general case so you know, it's pretty easy to get physical Sims that you can download an eSI…

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    Comment #47114788

    I didn't deep dive into this, but just for context and comparison, here are some other tools which are building TikTok like tools on Bluesky- https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/01/here…

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    Comment #46854782

    I don't know much about how windows software is packaged, but I find that a solid majority of desktop software I use is in flatpack and server software in OCI images

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    Comment #46854770

    I'm trying not to get nerdsniped, but in the realm of subjective pragmatics, I personally find `allowlisting` to be drastically more clear.

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    Comment #46607299

    Does it say anywhere which model it’s using? I see references to vLLM in the GitHub but not which actual model (Llama, Mistral, etc.) or if they have a custom fine tune, or you giv…

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    Comment #46274914

    I agree that a lot of plastic recycling is greenwashing from the manufacturing industry. I've seen the statistics, and we need to take dramatic steps in order to reduce the amount …

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    Comment #46162753

    Historically Starlink roam let you pause/suspend the service and restart it when you need- In August they changed their plans so you’d need to cancel and re-subscribe.

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    Comment #46128773

    What a beautiful bit of hacking! This is awesome, and made my day to see :) It sounded -much- better than I would have guessed!

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    Comment #45982221

    Like so many things, it depends- How quickly do you need to be able to restore? Is it commercial or homelab? The most cost-effective option by far would be to put a NAS device some…

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    Comment #45946862

    Because the technical aspect of building the software like is the most fun and nerd–sniping, but perhaps the least important part in the process of building an audience and encoura…

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    Comment #45508662

    Just one point of view- but I have used both a decent amount and I drastically prefer CarPlay. The native apps are … fine? Again, it’s just my particular perspective, but I really …

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    Comment #45335904

    The big one for me is moving packages to snap. You can work around it, but that defeats the whole “works out of the box” aspect

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    Comment #45142878

    One thing your comment it made me think of that I would find really useful as a future, if you did want to use a LLM as part of a browser- I’d love for it to be able to read a give…

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    Comment #45142829

    Thanks! I’m glad to see that that’s something that works for you, and I think I understand what you’re using it for more even if it’s not something I would do. Personally - No way.…

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    Comment #45142729

    Great point - Firefox container tabs and the “temporary containers” are essential to me and my workflow. It makes it so trivial to be logged into multiple AWS accounts or isolate s…

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    Comment #45142664

    One thing that I do think AI would genuinely be useful at, is a smarter “reader mode”. I don’t want it to summarize the page. I don’t want it to do the reading for me. But if it us…

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    Comment #45142616

    I am not the original poster, but I have a hard time understanding how this is useful to anyone. I have tried these sort of tools before and never see the point – if it is somethin…

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    Comment #45129979

    I did not realize they had ever offered this. I suppose that may be related to why it's shutting down. One potential alternative might be to investigate https://tailscale.com/mullv…

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    Comment #45056722

    It has been reported that IBM made a deal with Microsoft in part because the chairman of IBM was friends with Bill Gates’s mother. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/05/how-bill-gates-mo…