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dankwizard··on Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store
I went the opposite and deleted Claude and replaced it with OpenAI - The money the US Military will bring in is going to elevate ChatGPT to levels the others cannot match
dankwizard··on Micropayments as a reality check for news sites
I would leave something about the article but I can't get over the horrendous layout of this website. Why is the article using only 20-30% of the horizontal space?

Why is the left pane similar posts wrapping after 2 or 3 words?

Shocking. I'd pay $1.00 to load this article and have it look decent.

dankwizard··on Show HN: A private FIRE calculator suite that runs in the browser
Holy LLM!
dankwizard··on Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app
Just do what we all do to dodge this, have the Account management and purchasing abilities sit inside an embedded browser window that opens up from a button push in the app. Yes it adds a little barrier but with Apple Pay it is a very small barrier and the juice is worth the squeeze.
dankwizard··on TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin
Not sure why poeple don't just put the phone down? We really are the most sheltered gentle generation. Oh no, this app is taking up my time, we need to BAN IT.
dankwizard··on ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
I get your sentiment but a lot of people on this forum forget that a lot of us are just working for the paycheck - I don't owe my company anything.

Do I know the code base like the back of my hand? Nope. Can I confidently talk to how certain functions work? Not a chance.

Can I deploy what the business wants? Yep. Can I throw error logs into LLMs and work out the cause of issues? Mostly.

I get some of you may want to go above and beyond for your company and truly create something beautiful but then guess what - That codebase is theirs. They aren't your family. Get paid and move on

dankwizard··on ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files
Me, my team, and colleagues also in software dev are all vibe coding. It's so much faster.
dankwizard··on Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
Depends on your definition of works. I've shipped several subscription apps to iPhones/Androids that between them have thousands of users. Is the code good? Probably not. Are there glitches? You bet. But getting them onto the app store took less than a day's work and good money is coming in.
dankwizard··on Show HN: I'm tired of my LLM bullshitting. So I fixed it
I was sick of my AI hallucinating, so I added in the system prompts "Do not hallucinate". Just a quick glimpse into my prompt engineering mind
dankwizard··on eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update
Sure,

I listed the item as $185.00 + $10.00 shipping.

Order total = $195.00

- Transaction fees = $32.44

- Postage label = $14.65

Postage I can understand.

dankwizard··on eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update
Tried selling on eBay as a regular Joe lately? Item sold for roughly $190 and I lost $45 in fees - I didn't even have a premium ad or pay for any of the boosting.

No wonder Facebook marketplace has destroyed them

dankwizard··on Are arrays functions?
No - An array is a data structure that stores pre-calculated values in memory, whereas a function is executable logic that computes a result only when it is called.
dankwizard··on High-speed train collision in Spain kills at least 39
Unusual for a train though.

We already know Americans can't drive but with trains like... how do you mess up a straight line?

dankwizard··on Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy
I don't understand why people are upset. How do you monetize free users? Ads. What other websites do this? All of them. Not controversial. Not an issue.

Ads are what gets me property and news flash, they aren't going away.

dankwizard··on Magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-Firefox-clean
You do realise using this would earn you a felony, right?
dankwizard··on Ask HN: Has anyone built payment flows inside AI voice calls?
Yes,

Our IVR was replaced with an AI virtual agent that is a combination of answering questions but mostly sending calls to the right place.

If it is something like updating payment details or paying an invoice, they are transferred out of AI into a typical architect IVR flow (secured, no dtmf tones etc) and request their details in the specific order.

There is no way we would get sign off to feed customer credit card information into any AI model.

dankwizard··on I came back from Cursor to VS Code
Thanks for the update - Really wishing all devs would post when they switch IDEs and turn not only their workflow but whole entire paradigm on its head!
dankwizard··on Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted
Thank god, the sooner we start to appreciate the wide spread adoption of AI the sooner we can start being more productive.

A TV is the perfect place to introduce AI in terms of giving me content I should actually enjoy, and answering any questions I may have about what I'm watching. Kudos to LG for being the first.

dankwizard··on GPT-5.2
I've been using tools like ProxLLM which just slam these AI models via proxy everytime a free tier limit is hit and it works great.
dankwizard··on [dead]
I got that too. And I'm getting Cloudflare blocked messages trying to access Notion.so - Another CF outage? O.o
dankwizard··on PWA Browser Scorecards
Because they'd rather wrap it in Electron and farm system telemetry at that point.
dankwizard··on Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020)
Same company, different focus
dankwizard··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
Wouldn't be an autism thread without all the self diagnosers coming out to throw in their two cents.
dankwizard··on Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image
Yeah but you're now filling up Hackernews threads with advertising, so.... same evil?
dankwizard··on Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank
Cell phones are a crutch. Us real hikers/backpackers/outdoorians don't need such hand holding as "doing it on easy mode". You look danger in the face and call for help, I look danger in in the face and I say "you ready?". We are not the same.
dankwizard··on Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync
I bet the fact it is omitted and "lost", it was probably something like g00gle or googIe.
dankwizard··on Paid $2400 to Cloudflare, support refuses to help
Weird how support suddenly answers questions when the tickets become public.
dankwizard··on Lost $300 due to an API key leak from "vibe coding" – Learn from my mistake
Kind of a nothing burger post.

I uploaded my API key to a public repository

I learned not to do this.

Never upload your API key to a public repository.

Ok.

dankwizard··on DOOMscrolling: The Game
thank god our jobs are safe
dankwizard··on iPhone Air
I don't know what to tell you - I don't want to brag about my eyesight, but it's pretty good - No matter what angle, no matter what phone, the crease is visible. What would I have to gain lying about this? I could say the same thing - Stop trying to copium your purchase?

The tech isn't there yet.

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