EGreg

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by EGreg 1y ago
I mean, is 4chan better than those image boards? or worse? how about 8chan
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by EGreg 1y ago
Anyone made a real-time-strategy engine for tiled games on mobile?
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by EGreg 1y ago
Can someone please reimplement something like Warcraft 2 on a mobile web device? It would be a hit, I’m telling you. Even from 1995. Some people are still playing it 30 years later, obsessively. And myth ii by Bungie is a classic too
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by EGreg 1y ago
Not only that, but his @grok bot is now completely unhinged too (the public version) spewing an even more polarized version of his exact views without any ability to consider new information: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by EGreg 1y ago
I actually don’t look forward to this period. I have always been for open source software and distributism — until AI. Because if there’s one thing worse than governments having nuclear weapons, it’s everyone having them. It would be chaos.
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by EGreg 1y ago
Actually, the US didn’t have a famine, it had the opposite. Automation like combines and tractors obviated the need for oxen and farmhands to plow and reap manually. The farmers competed in a race to the bottom (depleting the soil and causi
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by EGreg 1y ago
But why do we need to avoid https at all? You can easily have CA-signed certificates and have DNS server resolve the local ourfreewifi.com domain. It’s your domain, you can even set up DNSSEC and it will be fine.
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by EGreg 1y ago
What are you talking about? You can easily build the captive portals by setting up a custom DNS server, and HTTPS has nothing to do with it! In fact, local networks have been doing this very thing for years now. Apple even supports Detectin
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by EGreg 1y ago
This is what things should be like chatting programs and end-to-end encryption. But in every case by the way, we kinda trust the makers of this software. They can easily ship backdoors to specific users. Same with crypto wallets etc.
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by EGreg 1y ago
AI fan (type 1 -- AI made a big breakthrough) meets AI defender (type 2 -- AI has not fundamentally changed anything that was already a problem). Defenders are supposed to defend against attacks on AI, but here it misfired, so the conversat
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by EGreg 1y ago
Do you have the opposite of aphantasia? How do you generate words ultimately?
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by EGreg 1y ago
I like the control I have over what tokens are sent, I have no idea what the IDE sends. And also how would I share convos like I did here?
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by EGreg 1y ago
I thought I'd share with HN how my development workday looks, by showing my chats with ChatGPT. Maybe this will inspire some people, or give them reference into what various other people are doing. (This is also what I'd want to l
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Show HN: I use ChatGPT these days to develop new features quickly(chatgpt.com)
3 points by EGreg 1y ago|3 comments
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by EGreg 1y ago
One would think that machines and automation would be the perfect thing to catch bugs. We already do that on many levels -- compilers, linters, pre-commit hooks etc. Well, AI can just red-team and create new tests. The great thing about red
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by EGreg 1y ago
As a result, a new psychological loop forms: Every moment I don't spend prompting, I'm falling behind. The system insidiously guilts you for not leveraging it constantly. Allowing AI to sit there, just waiting, feels like a waste
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by EGreg 1y ago
Our trusted computing base should be small, built from open-source, and not under the control of one company. But sadly, here we are. How do we know GMail can't steal your bank account info and Chrome can't steal ... everything fr
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by EGreg 1y ago
"Once the URL is shared with others, the owner loses the ability to assert access control over the video." That reminds me of Stallman's apocryphal story about favoring a password instead of ACLs, and why GNU doesn't hav
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by EGreg 1y ago
I feel completely the opposite way. When you speak or do anything, you focus on what you’re going do next. Your next action. And at that moment you are relying on your recent memory, and things you have put in place while doing the overall
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In Systems Design, Perfection Is the Enemy of the Good Enough(magarshak.com)
3 points by EGreg 1y ago|0 comments
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by EGreg 1y ago
What about asking whether it should be a row database (sqlite) or column database (duckdb)... for a data lake or analytics prefer columns? / read heavy what would a row based db be better for? OLTP / write heavy?
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Grok has become an Elon clone spewing dense jargon and never conceding points(twitter.com)
7 points by EGreg 1y ago|5 comments
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by EGreg 1y ago
If they want to make a proposal, they should have httpc://sha-256;... URLS which are essentially constant ones, same as SRI but for top-level domains. Then we can really have security on the Web! Audit companies (even anonymous on
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by EGreg 1y ago
I recently also wrote a streaming JSON parser in PHP. In case anyone is interested, I would love to get your feedback. It’s designed to work independently or with the rest of our system. https://github.com/Qbix/Platform
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by EGreg 1y ago
Take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/225ovy/okws_ok... This was years ago (20 years ago?)
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by EGreg 1y ago
I tried to warn people two years ago but back then it got mostly dismissed and the post later got flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34564031 But this is going to be one of the biggest shifts in our lifetime. I m
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Digital ID is almost here for everyone in every country(youtube.com)
2 points by EGreg 1y ago|2 comments
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by EGreg 1y ago
Those are rookie numbers. Time to pump up those numbers… we publish this every year or so: https://qbix.com/blog/
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by EGreg 1y ago
You mean like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QereR0CViMY :)
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by EGreg 1y ago
Seriously, why is this always the first comment on HN? The formula never fails: 1. Criticism of anything related to AI 2. Comment: "I don't see how this is any different than phenomenon X that came before it". I have seen t

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