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comboy··on MacBook Neo
I can open iphone on my macbook? Wish I had it working on my macbook pro, because I was supposed to be able to do that a long time ago (I'm in EU).
comboy··on A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation
Get list of your inputs mixed with generated ones and ask some model to tell you which ones are yours.

Other than that the approach in general is weak, most people likely generate lots of noise themselves. It's just about that one time you asked about X.

comboy··on What Claude Code chooses
What kind of tools do you have on your mind specifically? My experience is that LLM can create me a decent dev tool that I wouldn't ever bother making so nice myself.
comboy··on “Car Wash” test with 53 models
The Internet has became a big mafia game.
comboy··on “Car Wash” test with 53 models
Now do a set of queries and try to deduce by statistics which model are you seeing through Rapidata ;)
comboy··on Terminals should generate the 256-color palette
I don't know any GUI that beats tmux work portability.

Of course everything depends on exact nature of the work, but personally I would gladly leave text based interfaces behind, it's just that there's nothing better.

comboy··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
Yeah, I think the company that opens up a bit of the black box and open sources it, making it easy for people to customize it, will win many customers. People will already live within micro-ecosystems before other companies can follow.

Currently everybody is trying to use the same swiss army knife, but some use it for carving wood and some are trying to make some sushi. It seems obvious that it's gonna lead to disappointment for some.

Models are become a commodity and what they build around them seem to be the main part of the product. It needs some API.

comboy··on Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB
I'd call that cheating but the size and capability is impressive nonetheless.
comboy··on ai;dr
This argument works against any new thing. Yes it is totally different than the thing that happened before and perhaps something that has never happened before, I don't deny that at all.

Perception of new things stays relatively constant over the years though.

comboy··on ai;dr
yeah the idea is not new at all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=557191

I can't believe etherpad lost this item...

edit: oh, I found the one I was looking for: https://byronm.com/13sentences.html

comboy··on ai;dr
There there, remember when all images were hand painted? (me neither)

And I know it's different, but I'm surprised the overall sentiment is so pessimistic on HN. So maybe we will communicate through yet another black box on top of hundreds of existing ones already. But probably mostly when seeking specific information and wanting to get it efficiently. Yes this one is different, it makes human contact over text much more difficult, but the big part of all of this was happening already for years and now it's just widely available.

When posting on HN you don't see the other person typing like using talk command on unix, but it is still meaningful.

Ideally we would like to preserve what we have untouched and only have new stuff as an option but it's never been like this. Did we all enjoy win 3.11? I mean it was interesting.. but clicking.. so inefficient (and of course there are tons of people who will likely scream from their GUIs that it still is and windows sucks, I'd gladly join, but we have our keyboard bindings, other operating systems, and get by somehow)

comboy··on ai;dr
> https://seeitwritten.com

Fun, I'd make playback speed something like 5x or whatever feels appropriate, I think nobody truly wants to watch those at 1x.

comboy··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Well since you have these IDs, for national security (AML, criminals and whatnot), we will need you to keep them if our endpoint says so, here's the endpoint

    https://.gov/print?text=true
comboy··on AirPods Pro 4 Could Feature Cameras to 'See Around You'
I'm assuming it's more about building 3d map of surroundings and modeling reverb based on that.
comboy··on Google staff call for firm to cut ties with ICE
I think it's kind of past the point of wondering what somebody can and cannot do according to the law? There used to be the constitution and stuff.
comboy··on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe
I've been wondering about that yesterday quite a bit, I've came to the conclusion that a big part is kind of anti-China sentiment on HN. I think the discussion would be quite different if we were talking about instagram reels/youtube shorts.

Plus there seem to be not many users, most crowd here gets dopamine elsewhere (like coding), tiktok seems to be mostly associated with brain-rot and not learning and diving into new topics.

comboy··on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe
Sincerely want to understand it, now that there's more comments it seems I'm not the only one but in minority. Currently most interesting dimension to me is how big part of HN is effectively against open access to information and supporting censorship but of course within this discussion context that's me misrepresenting those people who only want to save lives.

Suriously though, decent part of posters probably were around when WWW was effectively born. Tell me it was not addictive and not full of harmful content. I'm pretty happy it was not banned despite, unlike TV, providing personalized information that you were seeking.

comboy··on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe
OK, but is it a problem if you get recommended repos on github? What I mean that perhaps it's not the good recommendation algorithm that is the problem? It seems like banning tcp/ip because porn is bad.

In China for example (IIRC) below 18 you cannot use these apps past some hour and not above some time limit per day. That seems far from correct solution but seems better than banning it outright and seems to be addressing most concerns.

Personalized content is crucial for functioning information platforms. Imagine if usenet had a single group only. The information sea is vast and the ways to browse and access it seem to only be diminishing. Relaying solely on LLMs outputs does not seem like a safe bet. We've been living off black boxes outputs since altavista, but it's nice to at least have many different black boxes to chose from.

(HN is very much a FYP, it's just that.we like similar stuff)

comboy··on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe
People do get addicted to bikes. Not even questionable. But of course that's not a charitable interpretation, and on that - yes I don't think personalized content is comparable to heroin. What is so evil about personalized content?

I'm sincerely trying to understand. Your whole argument here is based on the premise that TV is OK because it's not personalized.

comboy··on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe
I'm too late but I'm surprised HN crowd treats tiktok as some weaponized addiction machine. Youtube used to have a working recommendation system and it was usable too. Is it really bad to give me woodworking and learning chinese videos if that's what I'm interested in at the moment? If somebody is not interested in anything specific and just want to zone out, is it really different if he scrolls through tiktok or watches the same thing put into longer videos on TV or some other site? I see zero rational argument being made here. Should we ban bikes if they are the most efficient transportation mode in given area because people get addicted to them?
comboy··on Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
$20? These networks do not try to hide your location and triangulating known frequencies is trivial.
comboy··on Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System
better stay out of biography books
comboy··on Claude's new constitution
Is there so far any official/semi-official info about products placement in current generation of LLMs? I mean even for coding agents there's tons of services it can recommend and can be proficient in using (thanks to deliberate training).
comboy··on The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing
I'm also learning a language and decided to use that as a pretext to see what I can get out of agents without coding[1].

It all depends on your goals but I've had similar thoughts and I decided I'm just making opinionated tool for myself that I'm perfectly fine with never making public. Since deciding on such path I think I actually moved closer to something that may be useful to others (but I'm still staying on that path for now).

I don't know any online tool which would provide me which mine does, and frankly the reality nowadays seems that it could take me more to find one if it existed (testing along all those which does not quite fit, which I did), than creating a version custom tailored for myself. It's... interesting times.

1. https://imgur.com/a/73sBI7G

comboy··on The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing
Just opened it, interesting idea but there was not much to go on after I got the feedback for my description. On it's own I think it's not enough to hook somebody in, but could be useful as part of a bigger learning tool. And it clearly supports way more languages than Spanish so you were selling yourself short with these titles I think.
comboy··on The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns
Here's a pattern I noticed - you notice some pattern that is working (let's say planning or TODO management) - if the pattern is indeed solid then it gets integrated into the black box and your agent starts doing that internally. At which point your abstraction on top becomes defective because agents get confused about planning the planning.

So with the top performers I think what's most effective is just stating clearly what the end result you want to be (with maybe some hints for verification of results which is just clarifying the intent more)

comboy··on Kraków, Poland in top 5 worst air quality worldwide
I've been living there for 15years and it's the reason I've moved away. Frankly I love the city enough that I would sabotage my health for it. Not my kids health though. Asthma related problems in kids are widespreada and of course bad air quality is related to tons of other negative consequences.

I wonder though how do they compute the number (is it average across points measured in the city?). Because within city borders air quality varies wildly. There are some regions where it is actually pretty good.

comboy··on Google: Don't make "bite-sized" content for LLMs
Aronud 2004 they very likely had something along these lines already in place, probably just running it on a small subset suggested by clever heuristics.

Of course when you start taking the browser apart you can heavily optimize such process.

At some point you could even get so frustrated with existing APIs..

comboy··on Side-by-side comparison of how AI models answer moral dilemmas
Some of these questions are like "did you stop murdering kittens in you basement yes/no" but still results are very interesting.
comboy··on ChatGPT Health
I also don't know. Additional point to consider: vast majority of doctors have no clue about Bayes theorem.
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