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by sebmellen 2mo ago
> There are other tools in this space. Worth naming plainly instead of pretending they don't exist. Why do LLMs like this kind of writing? Why did you need to “plainly” name the competition as opposed to “flamboyantly” naming them
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
> Scientists resuscitate mice with fully decapitated heads. > Scientists cure sickle cell disease in mice. > Scientists fully solve aging in mice by using modified rice starch.
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
The cinematic obsession with 24 FPS is so stupid…
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
Wow, insurance that is actually insurance. Cool approach and congrats! There is a certain dog-themed startup that took the approach of selling Not Insurance™ through a Risk Retention Group… I am glad to see you did not choose that approach.
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
I see the opposite — NVIDIA is aiming to commoditize the model layer and push open models that are tuned to run on NVIDIA hardware.
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
I’ve been reading The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress lately and I’ve been shocked at how prescient it is. I’m kind of surprised I haven’t read more about it in the context of today’s AI.
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
Do you have a list of TLDs that don’t charge for premium domains? E.g. I have never seen a Registry Premium .com domain.
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
Super cool website btw.. cheers!
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
This one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%E2%84%A2
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
Using Claude for any kind of technical writing makes me feel like it was trained on snarky Huffington Post articles written by a 23 year old mixed media arts graduate and then was told to intentionally obfuscate the most important elements
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
I used to contribute to this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USBKill
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
How about ticketing? We use Linear and their integration with GitHub is pretty buttery. Willing to give it up for better service stability, but wondering if Forgejo offers any kind of native ticketing integrations. I know GitLab does, but I
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
How complex is the CI migration? We’re heavily dependent on GitHub Actions and the full GitHub ecosystem by extension, but by the same token these frequent outages are destroying us.
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
As long as you know how to edit metadata, you can definitely fool minor “trust systems” like adjusters, police, etc. It’s a big gap. (For any future readers, no I have not done this and would never do it, really.) The only solution I see is
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
This is probably some kind of configuration mistake… I wouldn’t presume the author has any nefarious intent.
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
If you can pull off the sale, it’s certainly a “safer” option to leave your family with cash & equities than a frail single business.
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
Thanks for the attempt, but this is really a non-answer, which makes me think you have not worked with the kind of large, well-encumbered codebases / business problems that I seem to be attracted to :D My take is that some of your arch
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
Whoever is paying to spam this thread with useless AI comments should be banned from HN. It’s ridiculous.
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
Yes I agree with this. It’s all a matter of taste and interpretation at the end of the day. YAGNI has been useful for me in stopping the development of truly complex featureful work that is not needed. But you can go overkill and strip away
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
I'm extremely surprised that Wyoming is more remote than Alaska! I wouldn't think Alaska has that many back-country roads running through it. Edit: they have another page describing Alaska. It seems that the linked page might only
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
I didn't realize you were the author. Super cool! I'll be trying it out. I do like the grug-brain approach of keeping things extremely simple and easy to reason about. One thing that I don't like about Pi is that it's al
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
Dude, Australia is like 95% sand and nothingness with Alice Springs in the middle. Where is your bullet train between Perth and Darwin and Melbourne? Boo! I jest, but not completely. The US is more dense but more distributed too. You can’t
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
Do you use smol? How do you find it compares to other harnesses for things like MCP connections? I’m tempted to use it since I’m a fan of the philosophy.
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
All death is a bit strange.
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
I met Stephen in 2023 at some MIT AI conference. He was the kindest, most grandfatherly person. I was expecting to meet a relatively pontifical person given some of his work, but he was such the opposite that I was completely taken aback. I
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
So do half the comments on this launch post!
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
Yikes. Hello, Claudebot.
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
At the risk of replicating the classic Dropbox post (why would you need this when you could just use rsync?)… I have a dev box with 96 GB of RAM, 2x4 TB NVMe drives, and an unbelievably beefy AMD CPU. This box costs me less than $150 per mo
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
Ahmed, are you an OpenClaw agent, or are you a human sitting there and copying each comment into Claude so you can have Claude reply while pretending it’s you? I can’t decide which is more disappointing.
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by sebmellen 2mo ago
This is truly some of the most beautiful writing I’ve ever encountered. Thank you for posting it.

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