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_boffin_··on US tech giants' hidden AI debt swells 90% to $3.2T in 6 months
This is just false. Their search business is still growing, just not as fast as before.

You have a nice slogan, but doesn’t hold up

_boffin_··on Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3
> Safari prevents websites from detecting when Adaptive Dark Mode has been applied. JavaScript that queries CSS colors will get the original authored colors, not the transformed ones. Any images drawn into canvas render in their original form.

So… the browser is now intentionally lying now. Ain’t that great.

_boffin_··on Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
This is straight black magic. llama 70b, let’s see what we can push you to
_boffin_··on Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack
These need to have an audit trail. Making it centralized is an addition, no?
_boffin_··on ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging
As a Pro user, am not a fan of this.
_boffin_··on Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model
Just looked and we're burning around ~3%, but that's across everything / everyone.
_boffin_··on Is my data used for model training?
You can disable their datadog telemetry?
_boffin_··on OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud
Microsoft has had ZDR for inference since pretty much the beginning. Just needed to fill out a form and get approved.
_boffin_··on Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?
A gun manufacturer directly hires a company to test their new line of 9mm handguns. The company that was hired, they go back to their office and pops off a few rounds. They go through the drywall and hit someone. The gun manufacturer could def face charges in this situation.

Edit: your analogy is wrong just due to Irregular being hired by them rather than just being a customer of them

_boffin_··on Bluegraph – Explore NOAA buoy data, rebuilt in 3D from measured spectra
i'm sorry, but oh shit, we can now play battleship against aliens!

Edit: i do love the pages and what you've done w/ the data. What was the hardest part about making it?

_boffin_··on Grok 4.7
Does not work for Claude, at least for me and I put it as the system prompt
_boffin_··on Introducing System One Models and Jev
Any relation / inspiration to GLiClass?
_boffin_··on Tell HN: iOS 27 does not allow Apple Intelligence to be disabled
i really thought "Apple Intelligence" is the addition of data into Knowledge.db, but i guess not.
_boffin_··on OUI-1: world's first model for Generative UI
> The problem with that is that it only works with simple, least interactive UIs.

I believe that's incorrect. you can define the architecture to be able to provide data based on information from the frontend and the components just need to define a query and data structure or something -- will have a prototype soon

_boffin_··on OUI-1: world's first model for Generative UI
Oh... amazing. just had a vision of being able to be in a meeting and talk through an User Interface design / review, while in a zoom meeting or whatever.

...i like.

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- Design system / Component lib

- Live view of what components, tokens, other things... on the left side of the screen.

- You're in the meeting and talking while talking and transcribing and doing the full duplex voice. You say, "Find what tables and customizations we have available" and the list starts to filter to tables and customizations.

- "Let's add that table to the page; left side; 3/4 width of page. Headers should be static for vertical scroll, ..."

- The table is added to the page.

- "Nah, i don't like it. Let's change that table component to have larger headers..."

yes, i like--let's see what Astra Pro pops out with.

_boffin_··on Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default
One thing I’ve done is a few books and check what branch / work tree user is on. Allows for more fidelity than even this. Works quite well.

I just wish they allow for getting inside subscription pricing vs outside subscription pricing easier

_boffin_··on Training AI to Paint with Code
I think this actually might be one of the best ways to train people to use AI. I can see this honing people's prompting abilities and expressiveness, along with constraints and desired outcome.

Wild the possibilities

_boffin_··on How Complex Systems Fail (1998)
Did love Team of Teams. Need to check out the other
_boffin_··on My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality
One thing I don’t get with a lot of these agents.md and other skills are… why not throw as much mechanical checks and other stuff at the repo to constrain as you want instead of asking a non-deterministic agent (squishy or non-squishy) to maintain it.

With the mechanical routes, we get checks, failures, and so much more. A bit wild to me.

Make an agent operate within defined constraints and yell at it when it doesn’t.

_boffin_··on Show HN: ThoughtDAG – An editable context graph for LLM conversations
Nice. seems like this converges on something i built called https://Tangents.chat, specifically the "Context complier", which can be seen here (https://tangents.chat/demo) (click Context in the top right after entering the demo).

Looking forward to looking more at ThoughtDAG.

Visual: https://i.ibb.co/NRHSFrg/tangents-context-complier.png

_boffin_··on Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing
Thanks! I don’t know if ALL markdown is going to be implemented or not yet, but not out of consideration.

Question: anything that caught your eye in regards to this project?

_boffin_··on Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing
Found out about 45 min ago about pretty much the lack of mobile creature comforts.

Working on mobile clients right now. Will push improvements tonight.

_boffin_··on Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing
How so?
_boffin_··on Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing
Here you go: https://brostoffed.github.io/writemark/demo/
_boffin_··on Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing
Doesn’t need to be built by node. It’s standalone.
_boffin_··on Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing
Dependency-free means zero runtime dependencies, not no dev tools. Could have explained that better.
_boffin_··on NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
Did this while on a run for the past few days. The thing / interaction model I’ve been waiting for is here finally.
_boffin_··on Show HN: StyleSeed – a design-rules engine so AI agents stop building generic UI
I'm liking the idea of the project, but you're spending too many tokens on critic prompts for things that should be deterministic.
_boffin_··on Linear is always a lagging indicator
> any issue tracking tool that is used instead as a visibility tool by higher-ups to get a view into what their organization is doing is also lagging

I completely agree! There's so much additional information strewn throughout the organization that allows for a much more vibrant picture of what's going on

_boffin_··on Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?
Graph based code generation where code doesn’t reside in files in the typical sense. On insertion, modification, and deletion, constraints are checked / ran to see if the change is valid and can be done or not.
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