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Transformanshen··on A Health Update
What a story, it touched me to the depths of my soul I read it with great hope for a positive outcome Thanks for sharing
Transformanshen··on We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970
I don't know, for me the idea of handing over the reins of humanity to artificial intelligence still sounds dubious
Transformanshen··on Best way to get SMS verification codes without using your own number?
get another phone number for such codes
Transformanshen··on I built a programming language that LLMs can't use
> Creativity is mostly recombination of things already seen. Doesn't this apply to any creative work produced by humans?
Transformanshen··on DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests
Actually that sounds quite logical
Transformanshen··on Ask HN: What to Build in the AI Era?
LLMs don't solve all the world's problems. There is still so much left to create. Look closely at your own needs and the needs of those around you, and you will find ideas there.
Transformanshen··on The baffling intelligence of a single cell (2024)
Is a single cell, storing state in the form of chemical modifications and using it to compare "now" with "a few seconds ago," the same computational primitive that a neuron uses, only slower and simpler? Curious
Transformanshen··on A Modern Web App in C
That's cool
Transformanshen··on What did Google do to its Linux terminal on Pixel phones
Mandatory permissions for microphone use and access to nearby devices? That sounds questionable; I wonder how that’s justified.
Transformanshen··on Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio
That’s interesting. However, with charts, reducing the amount of ink can sometimes compromise readability.
Transformanshen··on Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx
This is what I needed, but I didn't know it
Transformanshen··on Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?
I think so too
Transformanshen··on Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
It hasn't been released yet, and local versions aren't always convenient
Transformanshen··on Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)
That may well be the case, but such a long period still seems extraordinary
Transformanshen··on Best of British Design
In this bracket my choice invariably comes down to the Spitfire versus the Mini, and I always favor the Spitfire, as the Mini reminds me of the terrible parking
Transformanshen··on Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream
Honestly the DNS trick in this post is neat but I'm not setting up dnsmasq just to share my screen. This is the kind of thing where Sony could just let you stream to anything and they don't, and it's annoying
Transformanshen··on The current balance of power in open models
DeepSeek and Qwen set a floor American open-weight models can't match without subsidy or a different cost structure, and that price/performance ratio drives adoption more than benchmarks.
Transformanshen··on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
The fatalism is understandable, but "no one can keep a database safe" isn't quite right. Some organizations do a better job than others.All in all, of course, the best way to keep information secret is to keep it only in your own head, all other methods are less reliable
Transformanshen··on The first new cat species discovered in 100 years
It always surprises me when people discover new animal species. These little kittens look very cute.
Transformanshen··on Show HN: Laser Graffiti
Cool project
Transformanshen··on A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]
Wow, that's interesting. It's a good start, and it would be interesting to see how the project develops.
Transformanshen··on You probably own this 7-Eleven (and that's why it looks so sad)
I tend to agree with you
Transformanshen··on Ask HN: How many of you juggle multiple agent sessions at the same time?
I sometimes keep 4-5 active sessions going plus a couple waiting in the queue. Can't say it's always convenient. I don't know about others but I sometimes forget which session is doing what and end up getting confused.
Transformanshen··on Identifying fake cosmetics using AI
This was not quite the way I expected to use AI
Transformanshen··on What Is a Syslog Server?
The article is not bad, but a little outdated. Syslog is a database that will not go anywhere, because a lot of equipment and software still send logs this way. But in 2026, building the entire infrastructure around it is already strange.
Transformanshen··on Moon (2024)
Honestly, I wouldn't call it plagiarism. You're using the prompt for personal purposes, to better understand the material. If you were copying his text and passing it off as your own, then yeah, that would be not cool. But using his approach with interactive visualizations as a source of inspiration for your own learning materials is fine. If you ever decide to put it out in the open, just mention that you took inspiration from his style and include a link to his work.
Transformanshen··on LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines
Interesting breakdown of a hypothetical attack. The complexity of modern inference engines and the rush to develop them do create some attack surface. But overall it reads more like a "what if" thought experiment. Splitting the GPU and parser is technically doable, but in practice it's trickier, large models run on clusters where the boundaries between components get blurry so defending against this kind of thing would probably require some serious rethinking of the whole architecture I think.
Transformanshen··on People of ACM – Russ Cox
Solid interview but honestly a bit boilerplate in parts. The bit about "program death" and Naur's theory is gold though, even worth re-reading every few years. His take on AI feels a bit cautious though. I think he's underestimating how fast tactical tornadoes are gonna become the default just because managers love seeing shit get done fast, even if it's messy...
Transformanshen··on I ran Photoshop on a £0.60 computer chip
It's funny how we're all chasing power, and yet here's a 60-cent chip emulating a Mac that people actually got work done on. Not hating on modern devices, they're awesome and all. But it's still interesting.

Also, kinda want to order a RP2350 board now too, but I know I'll probably end up having zero time to do anything with it and it'll just sit in a drawer somewhere...

Transformanshen··on Low-Tech Ceramic Water Filter
61 factories in 39 countries is impressive. But I'm always curious about the real world failure rate. How many of these filters get installed and then crack, or clog, or just get used as flower pots?
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