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by bobbiechen 5mo ago
Surely the prevalence of this saying contributes to the jailbreak's effectiveness.
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Laws of UX(lawsofux.com)
346 points by bobbiechen 5mo ago|60 comments
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by bobbiechen 5mo ago
I called this last year: https://digitalseams.com/blog/the-ai-lifestyle-subsidy-is-go... . I see it as no different from the previous generation of consumer startups burning money - as Derek Thompson wrote, > ...if
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by bobbiechen 6mo ago
It's an interesting concept but unfortunately I think the comment is actually AI slop so there's no real story behind it. Check the account history.
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by bobbiechen 6mo ago
If I understand correctly, threat model here seems to be to protect against accidental issues that would impact performance, but doesn't cover malicious actor. For example, Sketchy Provider tells you they are running the latest and gre
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The Gypsy document editor: celebrating 50 years(digitalseams.com)
4 points by bobbiechen 6mo ago|0 comments
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by bobbiechen 6mo ago
I love how many interviews Larry Tesler did (he passed away in 2020), he was so influential and it's interesting to see what that looks like from the inside. Gypsy (that first modeless editor) recently turned 50 years old and I wrote a
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by bobbiechen 6mo ago
I was agreeing with you! Though I can see how I came on a little strong there.
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by bobbiechen 6mo ago
It's interesting how many people I know who jump instantly from hobby to thinking about hustling, Etsy, Patreon, fame, etc. and the thought that they'll never be good enough to go pro is a real barrier. You don't need to mone
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by bobbiechen 6mo ago
Enterprise userscripts? Very neat, though I wonder if typical enterprise security policies would allow for this.
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by bobbiechen 6mo ago
What LLM tool are you using to write this comment? It must have been really good to lift the stress of _10 years_ of never commenting? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated
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Lighter, Not Faster(digitalseams.com)
2 points by bobbiechen 6mo ago|3 comments
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There is no escape from Ashby's law (2020)(surfingcomplexity.blog)
3 points by bobbiechen 6mo ago|0 comments
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by bobbiechen 6mo ago
This article is a great example of "strong + weak = weak". I only made it to the interesting stuff because of Carreyou's name, otherwise I would have stopped. The email timing and lack of email metadata were also strong, in m
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Clashes of Tech and the US Government(digitalseams.com)
3 points by bobbiechen 6mo ago|0 comments
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by bobbiechen 6mo ago
I'm a big fan of Merlin and learning more about its development changed my perspective on software development! I wrote about that here: https://digitalseams.com/blog/what-birdsong-and-backends-can...
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by bobbiechen 6mo ago
I heard an anecdote that Qwen Coder works better when prompted in Korean - haven't tested it for myself though.
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Tools and Toolmaking(unsung.aresluna.org)
2 points by bobbiechen 6mo ago|0 comments
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PostalForm lets agents place a real print-and-mail order for their owner(postalform.com)
3 points by bobbiechen 6mo ago|0 comments
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by bobbiechen 7mo ago
I'm sure it's planned. To miss out on the Warren Buffet sale is to miss out on additional revenue on zero COGS, and it's against the goal of individualized pricing to squeeze out all consumer surplus. I recently wrote about t
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by bobbiechen 7mo ago
This is an extension of running untrusted code, except AI agents are basically interpreting everything -> prompt injection. I'm surprised we haven't _already_ seen a major personal incident as early adopters tend to be less cau
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Okmain: Pick an OK main colour of an image(dgroshev.com)
1 points by bobbiechen 7mo ago|0 comments
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by bobbiechen 7mo ago
Agreed. When I was working on TEEs/confidential computing, just about everyone agreed that FHE was conceptually attractive (trust the math instead of trusting a hardware vendor) but the overhead of FHE was so insanely high. Think 1000x
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Electrical upgrades for our Winnebago Solis camper van(jamesxli.com)
2 points by bobbiechen 7mo ago|1 comments
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by bobbiechen 7mo ago
> your bank (hopefully) doesn't check with some central database the government controls before issuing you an account. Hmm... the OFAC SDN and other sanctions lists? Politically exposed persons lists? These are very standard KYC&#x
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by bobbiechen 7mo ago
>I’m going to tell you about how I took a job building software to kill people. >But don’t get distracted by that; I didn’t know at the time. Caleb Hearth: "Don't Get Distracted" https://calebhearth.com/
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by bobbiechen 7mo ago
Not sure if it's top 3, but I use Monica https://www.monicahq.com/ which does advertise itself as a personal CRM. I certainly underutilize its features but things like birthday reminders + a place for a few notes (wher
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Assorted links: clashes of tech and the US government(digitalseams.com)
1 points by bobbiechen 7mo ago|0 comments
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"Just a little detail that wouldn't sell anything"(unsung.aresluna.org)
127 points by bobbiechen 8mo ago|24 comments
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by bobbiechen 8mo ago
Being first matters :') I wrote a font for these, which does use the triangle-5 and the vertical layout: https://bobbiec.github.io/cistercian-font.html (recent discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com&#

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