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by big_toast 8mo ago
ya, thank you, I recognize the history! The extension just seemed isolated from another identity. So I was wondering the thinking. I wish chrome let you scope the manifest/permissions on the user side more.
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by big_toast 8mo ago
I wonder how you think about trusting oj-hn as a vendor? The extension looks great. I sympathize with the desire to release programs/code anonymously or semi-anonymously on the internet. I noticed you don't particularly tie the ex
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by big_toast 8mo ago
I started a golang TUI last summer with Codex Web/Cloud because it felt more like a closed loop. It was able to manage pretty well end to end. Every additional complexity hop probably increases the attrition rate for successful develop
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by big_toast 8mo ago
Wow cool. I have not heard of Mondo 2000 reading hn for almost 20 years. And did not realize Boing Boing was so old. Makes me wonder what else existed. My family had a bunch of "Dr. Dobb’s Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodo
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by big_toast 8mo ago
There was a small network of AI-intellectualism (and rationality) that grew highly relevant when AI took off post chatgpt. It feels adjacent to Tyler Cowen's network + tpot + hn/lesswrong. (I can't remember if Tyler specifica
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by big_toast 8mo ago
Thank you! I think this fits the bill. I'll check back in on it periodically now. I love the double decker bus sale notification and the moquette doormats. It feels like it's straddling the content farm/blog well. BrandoElFol
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by big_toast 8mo ago
Definitely not a bot or ai touched at all or ESL. And reading the comment as I wrote it, it definitely read oddly to me too! Maybe I’ve accidentally created a mini dododo land here with the comment.. I take a little offense to the low conte
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by big_toast 8mo ago
Soranews24 is one of the best websites on the internet! So weird and looks like spam but it's not. This Dododo Land is so weird. Seems like Meow Wolf or Museum of Ice Cream but featuring little things that bother people instead of crea
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by big_toast 9mo ago
They say elsewhere that it’s part of a series of reveals. The ev powertrain last October, this, and the exterior in May.
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by big_toast 9mo ago
I asked for this last week in an hn comment and people were pretty negative about it in the replies. But I’m happy with position and will cancel my ChatGPT and push my family towards Claude for most things. This taste effect is what I think
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by big_toast 9mo ago
I think I used to believe something like this. But I spent two decades living in this context and changed my mind. There can be beautiful and effective expressions of culture and resistance that don’t tear down the commons people are trying
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by big_toast 9mo ago
Yes, I thought OP was going that direction from the title. I keep reading posts hoping someone has found the solution but there's always a tradeoff. I think it's important enough that maybe apple will announce something at WWDC. T
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by big_toast 9mo ago
Not sure if you're referring to me, or making a more general comment. I'd listen to someone who has managed to not see an ad or pay for a subscription in 20 years. Sounds pretty impressive. Me, I've seen a lot of ads and happ
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by big_toast 9mo ago
Apple's ad revenue is ~5% of company revenue? It seems like the split could be a lot higher. They might have to give up something for that though.
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by big_toast 9mo ago
Oh. I do pay since basically the day they offered it. It's not a matter that they should care. No ads is a point of product differentiation. One among many. But in some sense ads are a natural resource curse that pervade the whole comp
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by big_toast 9mo ago
I largely agree with you on the relative scales. But I definitely notice a pretty significant portion of the academic CS community are beginning to materialize on bluesky. You can probably start with Nathan Lambert (natolambert) or Jeremy H
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by big_toast 9mo ago
I hope Anthropic or someone pulls an Apple and has the taste to say no to ads. Maybe it will just be Apple. (Even their resistance is slowly fading..) We don't need to jam ads into every orifice. I hope there's more value to be ha
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by big_toast 9mo ago
On bsky, like a few AI/tech things (simonw, dan abramov, jeff dean, ethan mollick etc, and the people in their replies). Then use discover and this 'for you' feed - https://bsky.app/profile/spacecowboy17.
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by big_toast 9mo ago
Machine learning is slowly happening on bluesky. It would just take one lab defecting. And maybe hosting some better feed algorithm technology.
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by big_toast 9mo ago
The AI/tech ecosystem on twitter/x really generates a lot of interesting posts still. The discover algorithm is really good at surfacing adjacent content (sim clusters?). Bluesky occasionally gets a boost of posts but then dies of
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by big_toast 9mo ago
Can people bring higher effort posts to this discussion so that this thread doesn't get pulled like the others? Is there a specific product line that this app is using? What FOIA laws are applicable to its use? What kind of data does t
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by big_toast 10mo ago
"The value got extracted, but compensation isn't flowing back. That bothers me, and it deserves a broader policy conversation. What I keep coming back to is this: AI commoditizes anything you can fully specify. [...] So where
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by big_toast 10mo ago
Isn't that generally the case, convenience? 20% to 50% extra in price to handle edge cases and unknown unknowns seems pretty cheap. That's like, $100/month to $200/month for a lot of extra flexibility in the US. As someo
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by big_toast 10mo ago
non corrupted github link: https://github.com/freeman-jiang/bikemap.nyc Cool visualization. Do you find the OSRM shortest path routes probable for bikes? Not living in NYC, I expected pretty different paths. Say the &q
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by big_toast 10mo ago
Is there a reason wrong data isn't considered more broadly in its context as still valuable? Shouldn't the model effectively 1. learn to complete the incorrect thing and 2. learn the context that it's correct and incorrect? I
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by big_toast 10mo ago
Additionally there is a concert series that's quite good and other merchandise.
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by big_toast 10mo ago
I've had no trouble using corded headphones with my iphones (either via an adapter or e.g. the $20 usb-c earpods). In fact, it seems like people using corded headphones is a news cycle[1] every 6 months. [1]: https://www.theg
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News Hacker – HN Interpretations in Chinese(newshacker.me)
1 points by big_toast 10mo ago|1 comments
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by big_toast 10mo ago
Neat tool someone made to help themselves follow hn. Haven't even seen an english take on this yet. Someone replying[1] to Andrej Karpathy's hn autograding[2] tweet said they used LLMs to help Chinese speakers follow hacker news.
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by big_toast 11mo ago
If you were a student in 2025, is CS193P (looks swiftUI rendering heavy) still the hands-on foundation for the next-big-tinkerer or would it look more like building around affordances of AI? (or something else).

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