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by CharlesW 5mo ago
TFA actually says the developer couldn't figure out how to do this with native APIs, not that they're slower: "But I still cannot make a simple thing work properly: a chat with Markdown & the ability to select a whole mes
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by CharlesW 5mo ago
They did last year. I can understand why you're confused, since it came in the form of the radically-improved `TextEditor`. https://wwdcnotes.com/documentation/wwdcnotes/wwdc25-280-cod...
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by CharlesW 5mo ago
> Try to build a ui where you need non-trivial and non-standard behavior and SwiftUI will fail. I think this may be a misundertstanding of what SwiftUI is. SwiftUI makes it convenient to create apps that look and behave in a way that a
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by CharlesW 5mo ago
Understood. If you need a guinea pig for that, please reach out! (see HN profile)
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by CharlesW 5mo ago
For me, AI made tech interesting again.
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by CharlesW 5mo ago
You scrobble to record your listens, and then based on your listening history, there are many ways (in scrobblers and services that integrate with them) to get recommendations. Example: https://resources.onestowatch.com/how-
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by CharlesW 5mo ago
Tonight I'll be adding support for this in an app (Poppy.fm) that already supports both Last.fm and ListenBrainz. Apologies if I missed this, but am I understanding correctly that users must get a Rocksky API key? (In other words, th
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by CharlesW 5mo ago
Tip: Emailing the moderation team at hn@ycombinator.com is more effective (and more welcome, I believe) than invoking @dang in comments. They and the rest of the team are preturnaturally responsive.
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by CharlesW 5mo ago
Generally, software engineers already have little to no understanding of the code that's actually being executed. We're so used to high- and higher-level abstractions like C, Go, Python, and JavaScript that we forget that we'
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by CharlesW 5mo ago
For me (64GB Apple Silicon), it recommended a year-old Llama model as "best for coding". That's a terrible first impression.
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The Morse Code Hack That Made an AI Agent Spend $200k [video](youtube.com)
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What were scanners like in the 80s? – 1988 IBM PageScanner 3119 [video](youtube.com)
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How Rockstar fit an entire city into PlayStation 2 memory [video](youtube.com)
2 points by CharlesW 5mo ago|0 comments
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by CharlesW 5mo ago
Shoot, I'm just now realizing that iZotope has also been a dead-company-walking for a couple years.
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by CharlesW 6mo ago
> I would abandon Plex completely, but I still haven't found a capable app to remotely stream the 2.5TB of music on my Synology. If you use iOS, I'm beta-testing an iOS 26+ Plexamp alternative with ~500 Plex users which suppo
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by CharlesW 6mo ago
> …Google could trivially make it work with GrapheneOS (which is more secure than any other Android OS on the market) but they won't. But if Google did support third-party attestation, would the GrapheneOS Foundation be happy? Mos
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by CharlesW 6mo ago
The thread is a bit vague. Am I understanding correctly that GrapheneOS Foundation's objection isn't to attestation per se, but that they can't participate in Google-controlled attestation APIs? In other words, although Graph
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The Hidden Reason Screwdriver Handles Look Like This [video](youtube.com)
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Superintelligent Retrieval Agent: The Next Frontier of Information Retrieval(arxiv.org)
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by CharlesW 6mo ago
> Whenever an agent is planning there are often architecture and product choices that it asks humans to make. None of this intent is captured in the code or comments. It must be in order to have an effective AI-assisted software engi
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by CharlesW 6mo ago
That war was lost in the 2010s, around the same time as the vertical video war.
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Claude Code's creator is sick of the phrase 'vibe coding.'(businessinsider.com)
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Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video](youtube.com)
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by CharlesW 6mo ago
> No, not strange, selective enforcement is what's strange. It's not strange at all, and in fact it's unavoidble. Rules and laws have always been enforced with discretion because of external considerations like limited r
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by CharlesW 6mo ago
It's just a play on the phrase "no code". Maybe you can help me out: I still have no idea what val.town is. I guess it's an alternative to Cloudflare Workers?
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'Microshifting' puts a new spin on 9-to-5 schedules(apnews.com)
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by CharlesW 6mo ago
LM Studio's tagline is literally "local AI on your computer" and has commensurate benefits, as do similar choices like Unsloth Studio and Ollama's desktop app. The differentiators you have planned sound like they'll
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by CharlesW 6mo ago
LM Studio (for example) is free, can you pitch me on your USP vs. it?
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by CharlesW 6mo ago
> Why are you still using Github? Stars. Grifters have discovered vibe-coding and the ability to buy GitHub stars, followers, etc. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=buy+GitHub+stars&ia=web
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by CharlesW 6mo ago
This kind of "overprompting" is one technique that even the best skills/agents use to compensate for under-invocation, which happens when more demure advisory language tends to be rationalized away by LLMs. It shouldn't

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