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cirrus3··on Please Use AI
Lost me when it was framed as a binary decision.
cirrus3··on Hackers gained unauthorized access to Trezor's server infrastructure
During the attack window, malicious firmware versions were distributed to users who updated their devices. This compromised firmware contained vulnerabilities that allowed unauthorized access to device functions. We have confirmed that approximately 74,00 devices received the affected firmware before our security team isolated the compromised systems.
cirrus3··on Show HN: HCB Mobile – financial app built by 17 y/o, processing $6M/month
What is this page of transactions for? https://hcb.hackclub.com/hq/transactions

I get that you want to be "open", but is everyone involved in these transactions ok with them being shared? Even if they are, this doesn't seem like a good idea security wise. I see partial account numbers and other IDs/numbers that I assume you'd prefer not be public, regardless of how insensitive they may seem now.

EXPENSIFY, INC. VALIDATION XXXXXX5987 THE HACK FOUNDATION +$0.89

FRONTING $10,000 TO CHRIS WALKER FOR GITHUB GRANTS MADE FROM PERSONAL ACCOUNT -$10,000.00

CHECK TO LACHLAN CAMPBELL +$800.00

Transfer to Emma's Earnings -$1,923.08

cirrus3··on Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
This isn't the first time an article is also marketing. Besides, what is wrong with marketing something via a use case article? This is a fairly tame example of it and I found it an interesting and useful read, knowing full well it was also marketing.
cirrus3··on Aerocart cargo gliders
> how much does it decrease the fuel economy of the towing plane

Probably a lot, but I'd assume it is by less than the fuel that 1-2x more planes would use, otherwise there wouldn't be a point to doing this.

cirrus3··on FLUX.1-Krea and the Rise of Opinionated Models
I did a lot of testing with Krea. The results were certainly very different than flux-dev, less "ai-like" in some ways and the details were way better, but very soft and bit washed out and more ai-like in other ways.

I did a 50% mix of flux-dev-krea and flux-dev and it is my new favorite base model.

cirrus3··on Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn
Firefox on a mac, totally hijacked my back button.
cirrus3··on An update to our pricing
Anything the requires me to use a different IDE is a non-starter for me.

I can imagine it is a lot easier to develop these things as a custom version of VSCode instead of plugins/extensions for a handful of the popular existing IDEs, but is that really a good long term plan? Is the future going to be littered with a bunch of one-off custom IDEs? Does anyone want that future?

cirrus3··on Why AI is still dumb and not scary at all (pt. 1)
> Hot take: if your job can be partially or wholly eliminated by AI, that’s a GOOD THING. If your job has patterns that predictable or labor that routine, AI automation is a GOOD THING.

The article never says why this is good. It just states it then moves on.

> As a whole, I’m sure it’ll give birth to entirely new systems we haven’t even conceived of yet and, one can hope, free up that time and energy towards more meaningful or creative pursuits.

The people's who job it takes probably don't give af about the patterns of their job, or creative pursuits they can do while unemployed. They are probably just trying to pay their bills and feed their kids.

cirrus3··on Jeep owners fed up with in-car pop-up ads
I think they meant "stable" as in the demand for the product isn't easily going away anytime soon.
cirrus3··on Avoid the Nightmare Bicycle
> one of the worst misconceptions in product design is that a microwave needs to have a button for every thing you could possibly cook

"Worst" is a stretch. Not to mention these often actually do more than just power and time. For example detecting humidity and/or varying power over time.

> You can just have a time (and power) button. People will figure out how to cook stuff.

You could, but people don't always want to figure it out, especially when they are hungry.

This would have been a better article if the takeaway wasn't basically "people are smart, make them learn the underlying structure".

I think good design is recognizing when and how to either expose the structure or paper over it, all while making it pleasant to interact with for all users at either end of the spectrum of willingness to learn it.

For a bike, it pays off to learn. For other things maybe not so much. Combining these two very different cases and then making a blanket statement that "Good designs expose systematic structure" doesn't land well.

cirrus3··on Avoid the Nightmare Bicycle
I think the microwave ones are useful even if they are just presets for time and power.

With a new bike, you can get a feel very quickly for what "5th gear" works well for and experiment with it and get immediate feedback and try other options pretty much no downside.

With a microwave, I don't necessarily want that level fine grain control. I probably just want to eat and not ruin my food and I certainly don't want to spend time running experiments. Having a preset at least gets you in the ballpark.

cirrus3··on Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video]
I've tried to watch Louis many times.. can't do it. He is just so whiny and annoying, it is really off putting to what might be otherwise interesting topics.
cirrus3··on Navigating a Broken Dev Culture
200k/yr revenue? Like others have said - basically they can't afford to do the things you want to do. All the things you want to do take time to make run smoothly and divert dev attention for a while, and it seems there is no time for that. It all may help in the long-run and actually help generate more revenue, but that won't matter if they go under in the meantime.

If you don't like that yolo culture, move on... you are not likely to change it.

cirrus3··on Apple Debuts iPhone 16e
I'm pretty sure it isn't even that complicated. Reviewers just open it up and just look at the battery.

The exact mAh is only secret until the first non-Apple person who wants to know gets one.

cirrus3··on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code
^ this. If a junior dev is legitimately interested in software development and how things work, they will use these tools for more than just completing their tasks and a paycheck and will eventually stand out above their peers who don't.

If the author is suggesting that more junior devs today than in the past are only interested getting tasks done and the paycheck, then this really has nothing to do with AI.

cirrus3··on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code
I can't really speak to the impact on junior devs since I haven't worked with any since the start of AI dev tools so this comment is kind of off topic.

Totally agree that should be treated as learning tool just as much "give me something that works" tool. If Junior devs are not taking advantage of that side of it instinctively out of their own curiosity and interest, well, maybe they were never going to be good developers in the first place even without AI.

What I can say is that for me as a as senior dev with 22 years experience who has been using using these tools daily for about a year now, it has been a huge win with no downsides.

I am so much more efficient at unblocking myself and others with all the minor "how do I do X in Y" and "what is causing this error" type questions. I know exactly what I want to do, how to ask it, but only partially what the answer should be... and AI takes away the tedious part of bridging that knowledge gap for me.

Maybe even more significantly, I have learned new things at a much faster rate. When AI suggests solutions I am often exposed to different ways to do things I already knew, features I didn't know existed, etc. I feel good that I found a solution to my problem, but often I feel even better having learned something along the way that wasn't even the original goal and it didn't really take any extra dedicated effort.

The best part is that is has made side projects a lot more fun and I stick with them a lot longer because I get something working sooner and spend less time fighting problems. I also find myself taking on new types of projects that are outside my comfort and experience zone.

cirrus3··on Does Your Code Pass the Turkey Test? (2008)
Why are you using the Calendar API in Java? It is full of issues like this.
cirrus3··on Agile Is Dead
Same. I agree with most of what is said, but this is terrible way to deliver it.
cirrus3··on Marine pilot loses command after ejecting from F-35B that kept flying
The technical reason was “for loss of trust and confidence in his ability to execute the responsibilities of his command” which is not related to him following the book or if the book is right or wrong.

Which makes sense. It was subjective and that is ok.

“As a commander you serve at the pleasure of the commandant,” Del Pizzo said. “It was an absolute privilege to have the opportunity to lead the Marines, sailors and civilians of VMX-1.”

also

“he made the decision to relieve the commanding officer of [VMX-1], due to the unique mission of VMX-1.”

cirrus3··on A blind but elusive critter that was presumed extinct is rediscovered
Isn't "but" a strange word to use in the title?

Like it implies most other blind critters are not elusive.

cirrus3··on ReiserFS and the Art and Artist Problem
I subscribe to this podcast - it is EXCELLENT and I highly recommend everyone do that same.

This one was a very interesting episode and made better since I had never heard the story before.

cirrus3··on ReiserFS and the Art and Artist Problem
At least Linus didn't murder his wife.
cirrus3··on New better alterative to XML, JSON and YAML
I dislike this very much.
cirrus3··on Ask HN: What would you preserve if the internet were to go down tomorrow?
If you need the Special Operations Medic manual, the podcasts and LLMs might not be so relevant ;)
cirrus3··on Make America Date Again
this. OP skipped a lot of factors in his calculation.
cirrus3··on I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
That is going to be confusing, good luck ;)
cirrus3··on Is My Blue Your Blue?
"For you Turquoise is green" isn't an interesting result. There is a line at which a color isn't one of two options, it is another well-defined color.

It is a neat site, but I guess I don't understand the point of this is.

Another version with vehicles could say "To you a Van is a Truck", and you would get some results on how many people classify a Van as a Car or a Truck... but the question is flawed to begin with, and thus so are the "results".

cirrus3··on OpenSSH Backdoors
David Fiala CEO & Founder at Teclada Inc | Former Google Security Leader | Supercomputing PhD

https://www.linkedin.com/company/teclada?trk=public_profile_...

cirrus3··on Where Are Large Language Models for Code Generation on GitHub?
Yea, this paper is useless if that is the starting point.
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