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tezza
9mo ago
Wait… tailscale connection to your own network, and unsupervised sysadmin from an oracle that hallucinates and bases its decisions on blog post aggregates? p0wnland. this will have script kiddies rubbing their hands
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9mo ago
You’re not alone. I do a small blog reviewing LLMs and have detailed comparisons that go beyond personal anecdotes. Gemini struggles in many usecases. Everyone has to find what works for them and the switching cost and evaluation cost are v
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9mo ago
this is truly bizarre. It’s as if they’ve never heard of Maslow‘s Hierarchy of Needs before and further did they don’t know Self Actualizing is right at the very top. Without that key stone on the top the human being is still a wanting anim
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9mo ago
and with types, it makes it easier for rounds of agents to pick up mistakes at compile time, statically. linting and sanity checking untyped languages only goes so far. I've not seen LLM's one shot perl style regexes. and javascri
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9mo ago
Yeah, it needs a steady hand on the tiller. However throw together improvements of 70%, -15%, 95%, 99%, -7% across all the steps and overall you're way ahead. SimonW's approach of having a suite of dynamic tools (agents) grind out
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9mo ago
Had a nightmare getting a holiday only e-sim in Australia Couldn’t set up easily because no wifi then I just simply could not cancel the damn thing… It required being in Australia, and like the article needed a SMS code and the support was
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9mo ago
Yeah… even in the Web interface if you crack open Developer Tools and look at the json, the timestamps are all there, available in the data model. Those values are simply not displayed to the end user. I was looking to write a browser exten
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9mo ago
There are remote team video games like (mine) https://epicwin.team . Slightly different approach, each plays in their browser/phone and there is no “main display”. And my games are cooperative. DM if interested. I’m releasi
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10mo ago
While this topic is here Also see specialisms WITHIN Autism that are different to the mainstream Autism The one I know most about is PDA: Pathological Demand Avoidance [1] PDA presents differently and needs very different strategies to main
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11mo ago
Qwen won the latest models round last month… https://generative-ai.review/2025/09/september-2025-image-ge... (non-pro Nano Banana)
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11mo ago
If you’re interested in side by side analysis of carious image gen tools, i review them: https://generative-ai.review/2025/09/september-2025-image-ge...
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11mo ago
Main problem for me is that the quality tails off on chats and you need to start afresh I worry that the garbage at the end will become part of the memory. How many of your chats do you end… “that was rubbish/incorrect, i’m starting a
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1y ago
Plugging away with reviews of Genrative AI tech with detailed comparisons. I announced the launch on HN a while ago, thought I’d use this month’s for a status update. I just took Qwen-Image and Google’s image AIs for a spin and I keep a sid
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this happened to my mother-in-law, where she was the crasher. in North London there is a large Turkish centre that hosts Turkish weddings. She was invited to a wedding there. Traditionally, the bride and groom stand in the centre of the roo
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1y ago
“Where is the shovelware?”… It’s Coming! Changing domain to writing and images and video you can see LinkedIn is awash with everyone generating everything by LLMs. The posting cadence has quickened too as people shout louder to raise their
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1y ago
MS Windows has excellent multi window management with Alt Tab Win Tab etc. Far superior to others. I have all my terminals with distinct icons and background colours to tell them apart. The operating system (Windows) does the heavy lifting.
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1y ago
Add to the list: https://x.com/rowancheung - Rowan Cheung: “Daily” updates and insider access
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1y ago
Short answer: Not yet Longer answer: It can do an okay job if you prompt it certain specific ways. I write a blog https://generative-ai.review and some of my posts walk through the exact prompts I used and the output is there fo
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1y ago
Q: Has anyone on HN built anything meaningful with Lovable/Bolt? Something that works as intended? I’ve tried several proof of concepts with Bolt and every time just get into a doom loop where there is a cycle of breakage, each ‘fix’ r
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1y ago
Simon’s blog is high-signal, low-noise deep dives. The very opposite of blog spam
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1y ago
Thoughts all the way down?
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1y ago
I’m working on a review website for Generative AI. Targeted at people who want to use GenAI to build stuff. e.g.: Following up on one of my HN comments on OpenAI ImageGen gpt-image-1 quality : Side by side comparison of more challenging pr
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1y ago
Now that really would be Kafka-esque
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1y ago
For the curious I generated the same prompt for each of the quality types. ‘Auto’, ‘low’, ‘medium’, ‘high’. Prompt: “a cute dog hugs a cute cat” https://x.com/terrylurie/status/1915161141489136095 I also then show
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Precisely. The tools often hallucinate: including in its instructions higher up even before your prompt portion. Also the behind the scenes stuff not show to the user during reasoning. You see binary failures all the time when doing functio
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2y ago
cool, that would work too. my preference is leading separators so the separators are all in a visual column. being in a visual column allows the eye to discount the separators easily. typically names are different lengths and the commas are
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> I would fire and forget any developer who tried to pull that stunt. A tad bit harsh there? it is a trade off. clarity and ease during design time versus slightly uglier but still consistent code as a work around. miniscule energy overh
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it is a trade-off reordering, insertions and deletions much easier within the IDE as you’re manipulating lines as a whole. focus maintained while you are in the zone or tired is the biggest gain at the cost of slightly uglier code and a min
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2y ago
as mentioned elsewhere, i personally introduce a pad element to get fire and forget consistency SELECT 1 as pad , a , b
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I do this as well. on top i often do a pad entry so that the elements are all on their own line SELECT 1 as pad , a , b then i can reorder lines trivially without stopping to re-comma the endpoints or maintain which special e
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