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ctkhn··on Firefox Enterprise
An earlier company I worked at had this same issue with Internet Explorer. It was after IE had been deprecated by microsoft as a browser but our IT department still had it as a downloadable application. Most of my team's on-call issues were from internal users using IE to access our site, even after we added an IE compatible popup that would tell them NOT to use IE.
ctkhn··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
Your concern about higher-ups valuing being told they are correct vs actually being correct is exactly what I saw at my last job (one of the largest companies in the states) and now at another smaller firm. It was really disheartening because I do use qwen a lot for personal stuff and claude at work, and have been able to multiply my productivity by only having to understand a ticket and then code review instead of doing all the intermediate steps, but a lot of people have let it go full self driving and just tell it "implement ticket ABC-123 and raise a PR" without checking the output at all.
ctkhn··on Passkeys are a trap
What exactly is the trap here? Most websites telling you to use google authenticator or lastpass doesn't mean there is an evil cabal out to get you!
ctkhn··on I'm sorry, but you still have to think
That's very hard to do in a work environment where you have someone above you who doesn't understand or care about this. Instead of keeping things sane so they can run smoothly, you will be seen as slowing down progress.
ctkhn··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
Thanks! Once I have some more time this winter I will take a look at using this to replace my wireguard setup.
ctkhn··on Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?
Does headscale fully replace the corporate tailscale network? I've been looking at replacing my home wireguard if I can self-host tailscale but haven't had the free time to really figure out how much privacy I can retain by using headscale.
ctkhn··on Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI
The guys that made clown issues are still using AI to make clown issues, they just look like plausible specs now that claude wrote it more thoroughly. At least pre claude I could tell that they had missed something earlier on, ask a question to clarify, and get a real answer they had to type themselves. Now most of my stories are rehashed after I raise PRs or even after these same guys approve the PR and then realize they forgot a requirement.
ctkhn··on Meta's Muse Is an Adorable Privacy and Security Dumpster Fire
That could be either lazy buyer or someone who's had a seller tell them wrong dimensions or wrong model for the item. Someone I know from college told me a couple years about how they lied to a buyer about the cheap wayfair furniture was actually part of a sample sale from a big name brand. I usually ask the seller for any info thats make or break for me, but I also reverse google image search the listing photos to make it easier for myself though.
ctkhn··on Meta's Muse Is an Adorable Privacy and Security Dumpster Fire
What extent does that happen for you? I have got very good results with self hosted qwen3.8 flash next at q4 and even with qwen3.635b on a laptop. I don't keep it running forever on every single repo, its ok to leave notes in agents.md and let it search that instead of the entire history staying in context.
ctkhn··on Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire
I see the value of the tool but I would never use it from Meta. Would need to be self hosted with a very structured framework and guardrails so that even my local model couldn't accidentally wire 50k to a Nigerian prince or whatever the latest email scam is.
ctkhn··on Best LLM for every budget, updated daily
On my 64gb m3 max qwen3.8 27b has been great for planning and then letting qwen3.6 35ba3b actually implement the planned changes.
ctkhn··on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
I wonder if that was really a 0-day or an intentional backdoor?
ctkhn··on The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities
I paid around that for a 5x10 unit in a medium sized midwestern city for a year during covid when I worked fully remote and moved back to my parents' house for a year.
ctkhn··on Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models
Gotcha, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you
ctkhn··on Show HN: How Stale Is Your AI? Release age and training cutoff for 20 models
For general purpose use this is interesting, but if I'm just using an LLM for coding, does this matter at all? I would hope something like a new java version after a model's publish date can be handled and understood by the model through tool calls and context even if it's not explicitly in the training data, the same way the LLM doesn't have my existing code or the plan to change it baked in from training.
ctkhn··on US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
If someone launched a nuke in space how would other nuclear powers react? I doubt they would assume "this is probably just an EMP and not a direct nuclear strike on our territory"
ctkhn··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
Not really relevant for public service announcements like gp is talking about. I just want a live feed of my local services updates. I get weather alerts from my city and county over text (contracted by the government through a third party platform), I would take them as a dedicated app or rss feed or anything. I'm not connecting to my friends or family through a weather alert or train delay notice
ctkhn··on Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
The problem here is you need a trustworthy government for nationalizing to make a difference. The current US admin started with DOGE and a crypto rug pull.
ctkhn··on Making Startups Powerful
Waterfall means designing and building everything before rolling it out to users. Researching a problem before you start tackling it is just general good advice. You can be more effective while moving fast and breaking things while still taking some time to know where to move and what is ok vs not ok to break.
ctkhn··on What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
It's crazy it is resold but we don't even get it for our own use. Budgeting with credit card statements would instantly become so much more useful with less effort.
ctkhn··on One woman's Tesla was remotely controlled by an abusive ex-partner
I don't think it's JUST Teslas, any car with its own cellular link is a total non starter for me after that Jeep article 10ish years ago. Give me a key fob, carplay for my music and maps, and that's all the smarts I need. Keep the heated seats.
ctkhn··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
Even Shingy called chatgpt "chat" when he went on Ed Zitron's show. It was very weird to hear from a guy who has been around tech world for such a long time even if he's non technical.
ctkhn··on Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI
Been wishing my company was doing this. We are locked in with chatgpt for chat and claude for coding. I have a 36gb m4 max laptop but I'm not allowed to run anything on it even though it would be totally free. Absolute pain.
ctkhn··on One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime
This is ridiculous. These guys need a body cam and GPS on them even for desk work.
ctkhn··on OpenAI's new device will be hockey puck-sized and cost over $300
Siri has a chatgpt link currently and is being connected to Gemini next month. What is the value of an extra piece of hardware on top of that?
ctkhn··on OpenAI's new device will be hockey puck-sized and cost over $300
I'm sorry but that is just not correct. Androids and iPhones both have a way to start chats with their ai assistant from a hardware button or even always-on listening. My airpods, sony, and even my cheapest amazon bluetooth headphones all have a button to tap or hold that allows ai voice conversation to start. Even my Sonos and not very smart JBL speakers for beach days have the option to start an ai voice conversation and most home-based smart speakers include a listen word that doesn't even require a button.
ctkhn··on OpenAI's new device will be hockey puck-sized and cost over $300
This seems like a more expensive version of the rabbit or friend ai pins. What is going to differentiate this above any of (1) my phone that can use any AI provider and I can already carry around the home, (2) a set of smart speakers that can talk to an AI provider like google home/homepod/alexa, or (3) my computer?
ctkhn··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
Some of them are right next to housing. Huntington beach has wells adjoining homes near the beach. Look up the prices of the houses if you want to really go crazy
ctkhn··on My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
Does your garmin watch not charge? If you call them and are nice they'll probably give you a heavily discounted replacement. Mine died on me randomly and they gave me a new 900 series forerunner for $125
ctkhn··on The development pipeline is a production system
I worked at a startup that was briefly a unicorn and ended up burning cash because they did exactly what you said of focusing a lot on tooling and dev environment. It was great but way over the top for what we needed. I learned a lot of good practices for myself but they've been limping along for a while and most of my former team was laid off or saw what was coming and left before it hit them.
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