core-utility

I see this directly. I'm an engineer but part of that is doing non-engineer work like making powerpoints, whitepapers, and generic work that's necessary but that I would delegate to someone else if I were high enough on the totem pole.

AI gives me the ability to do that stuff faster so I can focus more on the 20% and the quality of what I'm doing, not the nuance of formatting a document.

If you're a small/FOSS project, it's not worth the time overhead to set up and maintain and troubleshoot.

If you're a large project, companies generally get more value paying for SaaS and letting devs do dev, rather than troubleshooting Jenkins for the billionth time.

The real value self-host brings is somewhere in the middle, where you need paid-level features with 0 fiat (and can pay in time instead).

I have a noninformed thought on this... I think a lot of these issues are actually because they're not on modern Cloud yet.

I think GitHub was rolling everything themselves when Microsoft bought them. Ever since, MS has been working to strategically shift to Azure but that's a difficult and careful process that takes time.

In the meantime, the AI boom hit and usage went through the roof, crippling aging non-scaled infrastructure that hasn't had a chance to be modernized yet.

A lot of issues might very well be "we broke something while migrating", but I think a lot are also simply capacity issues on legacy.

But just a month ago everyone in the discussion about freedom.gov was saying that Europe doesn't restrict internet!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47067270

Also, vibe coding has really become a skill in itself. Does it allow the average non-programmer to go to production easily (and likely have bugs/flaws)? Yes. But as someone who used to be a programmer and just fell out of skill with all of it, I've found that what I do still have is a keen sniff test for good vs bad, and can guide the direction and architecture with proper planning.

Garbage in, garbage out still applies.

Couldn't this be true in the other direction as well? Anecdotally I see developers putting a lot more scrutiny into vibe coded PRs, while AI code tends to be highly commented (by the AI) and potentially easier to read.

I've seen way more human comments of "I don't know what this does but if I remove it everything breaks" in systems.

I started on the Pro plan a week ago and was already contemplating jumping to Max. When I hit a limit yesterday I upgraded to Max and hit a limit again before seeing the news of the changed usage limit.

For what it's worth, everything seems fixed today.

The biggest benefit I see so far is the integration of ChatGPT into Siri to answer questions for me while I'm driving instead of giving me "I'm sorry, I can't show you that while driving"

I definitely thought about it but that seemed a bit too crackable

I named my IoT Wireless SSID to 418. Thought I was clever, even if nobody else understands it.

You don't need to deal with the hassle of your own email server for this. Just buy a domain and use Fastmail, Protonmail, or any other service you trust.

Devil's advocate, if Tesla camps on eBay listings for used Teslas for sale and places bids they have no intention of following through on for the sole purpose of driving others to bid higher and keeping the brand value high, this would be seen as manipulative by the end-buyers (though at the end of the day, they did ultimately bid and agree to the price they won at)

This will probably get a lot of hate, but for most of my questions where I'm looking for a simple answer on something, I just use ChatGPT. Gives me the answer much more hassle-free than a search engine would.

They're not deciding what software we install, did you read the article? The bill would require ByteDance (TikTok's parent company) to stop sending all this user data to China where it is ultimately used by the CCP. I'd argue that this bill doesn't go far enough, and companies of a certain size should be required to home US citizen data in the US, where it's subject to our laws and regulations.

This is missing the core of the bill. The bill isn't a ban of TikTok, the bill is a cease and desist of sending user data to China. It gives ByteDance the option to do so, but since that would defeat their entire purpose for existing they see it as a "total ban" on TikTok and that's what they're telling their addicted teenage audience.

How this made it to #12 on HN is baffling. Slow day I guess

Looked at it and debated leaving Spark Mail but the price throws me off, and the lack of IMAP support to still be able to receive my junk Gmail is a deal breaker.

I have these to get wired connection from my rack to my home office, to add in a WAP and wire my desk computers. They've worked solidly and I get great throughput. I'm not a gamer so I can't speak to latency but I'd imagine if the tradeoff was this or wifi, this would still be a more desirable option.

I'm self-limited to 1G because what supports 2.5G these days? Not my equipment.

That power bank serves a niche for me I've been searching a while for. I have a sound (white noise) machine I use for sleep, but it's pretty susceptible to brown outs or dirty power and that's pretty jarring. It's powered by USB, and I've never been able to find a UPS that meets:

- Small

- Cheap (I wouldn't consider $99 cheap, but it's better)

- Seamless switch between power and battery

I've thrown a small battery pack on before but the battery wouldn't charge and serve at the same time.

And the fix would be to remove yourself ~30ft from the source (though BLE might have even less range). The pump itself wasn't "disabled", the dude's Android phone (or dedicated Android device for this) was temporarily glitched while in range.

I also love having the Apple Pay and automatic SMS OTP integration. Those got me to start using Safari again from FF, and the only thing I'm really missing is uBlock Origin (Adguard is doing okay in its place)

Sounds like they're living rent-free in your life.

I hate this with a passion. I can be out somewhere, knowing that there's likely a McDonald's nearby. I zoom in to my location, type in McDonald's, and it zooms out to a 25 mile radius to show me every single McDonald's in the area including the one 0.1 miles away (that I then have to zoom all the way back into to get)

> almost flawless experiences from amazon shopping

In my opinion its too fuzzy, which is usually the opposite problem I have with website searches (e.g. searching a news site for keywords of an article I know exits, but it's taking me too literally)

If I search for "iPhone 14 Pro case", I don't want to see cases for iPhone 15 __, or non-pro models. I've (to my own fault) bought way too many of the wrong product because I search for a specific model and don't read the title before ordering, only to realize that Amazon didn't give me exactly what I typed in.

Not 3D printed. 2 metal barrels and some wood from a hardware store. I guess those should be "firearm parts" in New York

Only illegal in certain states, not federally

A 3D printed gun can be a ghost gun, but a ghost gun is not inherently 3D printed (99%+ aren't)

"Enabled by default" would make more sense, and imply that it could be disabled.

You mean the first biggest cost, if you don't account for the actual first biggest cost. /s

This is true of buy-once software too. You used to pay a significantly higher cost for FCP, Adobe, Office, etc......