whatarethembits

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by whatarethembits 5mo ago
Because I want to spend less time online. Consuming things like comments gives my brain a false sense of social participation. It uses up my limited "social participation budget", with nothing to show for it. Often I reach for com
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by whatarethembits 5mo ago
I'm hoping that something like this can condense a 1000+ comments thread to couple of paragraphs at most.
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by whatarethembits 5mo ago
That is exactly what I want. A boring but factual summary of useful nuggets from the mountain of shite that is ALL of social media. For example, on any given day, reddit/X/Bluesky/HN only has a couple of paragraphs worth of s
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by whatarethembits 5mo ago
Kinda looking forward to something like this, as it has the potential to remove empty junk calories from the internet, hopefully leading to SIGNIFICANTLY less use of today's popular platforms. My wish list: - Eliminate ALL clickbait ti
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by whatarethembits 6mo ago
These would be more helpful if it were illustrated with a real example/session transcript. Virtually none of these workflows move past vague descriptions; not sure if I should read more into that.
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by whatarethembits 6mo ago
Do you mean Claude Code? If so, that's what I use(d) primarily for development, and Claude Desktop for general chats. My issue with Opus was that, every time I start a new task in Plan mode, it'd use 50k - 100k tokens and that&#x2
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Ask HN: What's the latest concensus on OpenAI vs. Anthropic $20/month tier?
13 points by whatarethembits 6mo ago|15 comments
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by whatarethembits 8mo ago
Almost everything described in the post, amounts to a few hours in total in a given year to do "manually". I agree, there isn't compelling value (yet). What's puzzling to me is that there's little consideration of w
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by whatarethembits 8mo ago
Yeah, the fact that Europe hasn't been able to develop another OS in the last few months/years is proof that nothing can change. Stop trying and wasting time; any effort in this direction is futile.
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by whatarethembits 8mo ago
The landscape has completely shifted now; now more than ever, there's a real need for Europe to pivot from relying too much on an adversary.
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by whatarethembits 11mo ago
I’m in the market for buying two new fridges for our new house; this post reminded me to filter out Samsung immediately. I LOATHE ads.
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by whatarethembits 1y ago
> We'll keep support for MV2 extensions for as long as possible I can maybe overlook it being based on chromium, but I don't want to migrate to a new browser and have to migrate again when uBlock Origin stops working ev
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by whatarethembits 1y ago
...worse overall experience... Worse how? RAM, SSD and main board can be upgraded as an when needed, which is the point. I like Framework's aesthetics more than MacBook already, and like the little customisablity (i.e bezel, mi
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by whatarethembits 1y ago
I don't own a Framework (yet), as I don't believe its the right product for me at this stage. I can't afford to get caught out without battery when out and about. What attracts me is: • Easy (self) repairs, especially OEM bat
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by whatarethembits 1y ago
Battery life is the only thing stopping me from getting out of the Apple ecosystem. As soon as a viable Linux laptop with "enough" battery life becomes available, I'll make the switch. At that point there's nothing on Ap
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by whatarethembits 1y ago
This is disappointing from DHH. He tends to carry a lot of criticism online, and based on my exposure to his ideas in long form media, I tend to agree with him more than not. However, in his linked post on this issue, it strikes me as being
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by whatarethembits 1y ago
If this leads to lower quality videos, due to change in incentives, for certain segments, then I would consider it a WIN for users. For the portion of users for whom the lower quality is not palatable, they will get their time back to spend
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by whatarethembits 1y ago
Rhetorical: What does it say about America that a large portion of its citizens (assuming OPs feelings are not unique) fear being a victim of genocide? Can't say I've met anyone from any other "developed" nation who shar
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by whatarethembits 1y ago
I generally recognise utility of AI, but on this particular point, it has been a net negative if I were to add up the time I wasted by believing a summarised answer, got some length further on given task only to find that the answer was wro
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by whatarethembits 1y ago
I can’t read any text on homepage with iOS Safari as first few characters/words of each sentence is cut off. Text justification is different on different pages. Vertical spacing and images are uneven across the site. FAQ accordion anim
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by whatarethembits 1y ago
I'm curious where this ends up going. Personally I think its a mistake; at least at "team" level. One of the most valuable things about a software or framework dictating how things are done is to give a group of people a comm
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by whatarethembits 1y ago
Its early days. Agree with your point that the "vision" of the future laid out by tech people doesn't have much of a chance of becoming (accepted) reality, because its necessarily a reflection of their own inner world, largel
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by whatarethembits 1y ago
With (most) note taking systems, you’re supposed to periodically “clean house/review”, which among other things, avoids the problem you’re describing. I don’t do it often myself tbf.
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by whatarethembits 1y ago
Honestly, its mind boggling. Am I the worst prompter ever? I have three python files (~4k LOC total) that I wanted to refactor with help from Claude 4 (Opus and Sonnet) and I followed Reed Harper's LLM workflow...the results are shocki
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by whatarethembits 1y ago
This issue doesn't get enough attention; apart from the obvious implications on bad UX, I find myself losing interest in a project after realising its broken in so many subtle and non-subtle ways due to the underlying tech. I, like man
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by whatarethembits 2y ago
Interested in something similar. Would love to keep a log of locations, especially when travelling, but don’t want Google to be tracking this. A local solution would be awesome.
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Ask HN: Apple like integration between iPhone/Android and Linux
7 points by whatarethembits 2y ago|10 comments
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by whatarethembits 2y ago
What hardware are you running this on? I’m interested in trying out local models for programming, and need some pointers on hardware
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by whatarethembits 2y ago
I find that making design decisions about the class/feature you’re writing or how data is going to flow through your little corner of the software scratches similar itch to “big picture” architecture. What sucks is standups, deadlines,
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by whatarethembits 2y ago
As someone who’s done this for a small project recently; it’s not comparable. The mental overhead and application complexity is significantly lower with htmx. Yes I’d get a better ecosystem and more features with a front end, but do I reall

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