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colesantiagoon Apple is killing its Support Community forum next week

I could never get my issue resolved by an Apple Engineer via the support forums anyway.

So doesn’t affect me after they shut this down.

colesantiagoon Ask HN: What tech companies do you think have a good moral compass?

How can you think a heavily VC backed company has a moral compass?

You realise that Oxide will most likely IPO and be a accountable to Wall St.

Delusional.

colesantiagoon It's Time to Ditch Chrome

Is that realistic?

colesantiagoon CSS-Tricks has a new owner

Don't do ads.

colesantiagoon PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP

Is this PDF engine vibe-coded and derived from reading the MuPDF source code? (Written from C to Rust) I see some slight references to MuPDF in certain places.

If it is you should disclose it and the license should be AGPLv3 instead of Apache.

colesantiagoon Drone warfare is evolving faster than armies can adapt

The ones currently at war unfortunately.

colesantiagoon A farewell to Arc browser

Support and donate regularly to OSS or vibe code your own!

Unless of course you're Stripe (which is VC funded) we still need an OSS version of Stripe.

colesantiagoon A farewell to Arc browser

Nope, Most people want services for free and now with vibe coding you can make your own.

Not sustainable for anyone wanting to charge for software.

colesantiagoon A farewell to Arc browser

> Never trust a product that takes VC funding.

There are almost no startups today that can survive if VC funding did not exist, even more so now that AI and LLMs exists.

Might as well not use any of them if they are funded by VCs or angel investors.

And if not, how should they be funded?

Donations? Not sustainable.

colesantiagoon 'I've applied for 300 jobs. My 25 years' experience is worthless'

There will be more net new jobs out there thanks AI creating abundance.

Universal Basic (and High) Income will most likely ease this transition.

colesantiagoon SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID

Or you could just use Secretive. https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive

colesantiagoon OpenBSD 8.0

And so it begins.

SlopenBSD.

Disappointing OpenBSD is and all of software is descending into slop.

Don't care if it is satire or not.

colesantiagoon Beginning of the Ende: A community fork of Deno

So how will this 'Ende' be financially supported?

Wouldn't those who used Deno just go to Bun instead of Deno?

How can this ever be or last long or twice as longer than Deno?

colesantiagoon I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories

Paying for something that has been scraped, trained on hundreds of billions of lines of code (mixed up GPL and other licenses) and being resold back to you is trickle down?

colesantiagoon I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories

The LLM can maintain it now.

colesantiagoon Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models

Timestral is free and open weights.

No need to pay for proprietary TimeGPT.

colesantiagoon Linux 7.3

Why yes, it is "slop" and Linus introduced a bug based on what the LLM produced.

He didn't even review the code. [0] Someone else did.

[0] https://lwn.net/ml/all/as6vBoWQGglxXxb0@thinkstation/

This is what happens when you use LLMs and this is far more irresponsible of Linus because he is vibe coding C code in the kernel.

colesantiagoon Linux 7.3

The rate at which AI introduces bugs is higher than human ones about 2x more bugs than humans.

Human slop is equally as bad, but this is not what Linus chose in this case, he chose to accept the higher risk of almost 2x as much more bugs using LLMs which lead to the introduction of LLM slop.

I don't care if it is Linus or anyone else, slop is slop human or not, with LLMs it is far worse.

colesantiagoon Linux 7.3

no.

slop is slop.

colesantiagoon Ask HN: Why people keep posting AI-generated projects around the Internet?

Because the field of software is destroyed and full of slop by making it more and more and more accessible to more people.

This isn't inherently bad but it is much harder to see what is worth paying attention to.

We have done this to ourselves (as software engineers and those who work with code) because of FOSS.

The value of software completely has gone to zero.

colesantiagoon The First Candid

> I did but not all HN readers can.

Assuming HN is full of employees of technology companies and industries around the world.

Are you saying to me that the average software engineer can't afford $5 a month to a publication?

colesantiagoon Google models no longer Zero Data Retention on Openrouter

It is still a scam.

colesantiagoon Show HN: Risphai – picks the AI model, tools and prompt for each request

Is this open source?

I much would use this if this was open source and free than pay for it.

colesantiagoon Librepaper – Free Collaborative Platform for HTML, LaTeX, Typst, MD, Quarto

> CLAUDE.md

> AGENTS.md

I'm sorry but this is complete slop.

And why does one need to create an account to use it?

colesantiagoon The First Candid

Why not pay for it then?

colesantiagoon Ask HN: Should I use Claude Code to create a replacement Apple IIGS ROM?

There is no need to ask for permission.

Just do it!

Someone will find it interesting.

colesantiagoon Google models no longer Zero Data Retention on Openrouter

Zero Data Retention is a scam.

They most likely privately store your data anyway, it is probably just a placebo to get you to use OR.

I mean really? Google and Zero Data Retention?

colesantiagoon How to make my business survives it's first 5 years?

Make a good business.

colesantiagoon Show HN: Kitaphone – Call mobile phones and landlines directly from the browser

Imagine automated call centres using this!

Fantastic!

colesantiagoon Clean room Adobe/Microsoft forks are rapidly improving

So glad the end of software subscriptions is finally coning to an end.

100% free and open source software abundance is truly for everyone!