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dankwizard··on LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation
And everyone loves to chime in with their own excellence in prompt engineering
dankwizard··on Burrito Now, Pay Later
And remember folks creatively does not equal good.
dankwizard··on Show HN: I’m 16 years old and working on my first startup, a study app
You have a domain, why not get a domain email? Seeing a firstname.lastname [at] gmail loses the professional feeling the website is giving off.
dankwizard··on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings
Very pleased this is coming. Once a week I hold a meeting with stakeholders to show my latest art works and I can hear them push the print screen button. Very annoying. I am trying to get these freshly minted but if is becomes public somebody has screenshotted them, the value plummets
dankwizard··on NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014)
When the NSA invented AES-256 they have a code they can input to just bypass it.
dankwizard··on OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
What's funny is the translation layer between your prompt <--> agent <--> LLM, that code was written by ChatGPT.

So OpenAI are paying for software which leverages other LLMs written by their own LLM.

We live in a topsy turvy world.

dankwizard··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
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"Sometimes the big fish isn't only the fish"

dankwizard··on Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview
Just add to your prompt "DO NOT burn many tokens you are capped at $8.50 buddy" it works wonders for me.
dankwizard··on Show HN: Real-time AI Voice Chat at ~500ms Latency
I've given up trying to locally use LLMs on AMD
dankwizard··on Evolving OpenAI's Structure
AI actually wrote this article for them which is the craziest thing
dankwizard··on Third Party Cookies Must Be Removed
Using a custom-built interception layer, I decouple session tokens from identifiable browser states, rotating my signature footprint every few requests via controlled entropy injection. “No more third-party cookies” sounds like a big shift, but it’s functionally irrelevant if your presence is already undetectable.
dankwizard··on JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant
I asked ChatGPT to give me the 1 line summary
dankwizard··on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
It's a great idea and the reason Microsoft are the biggest in the game. Kudos to them, I tip my hat! Here here!
dankwizard··on Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?
Ah, the glamorous life of a software dev—where we spend half our time building the future and the other half wondering why the future’s on fire.

Years ago, I had a bug so bizarre I nearly convinced myself the machine was haunted. My mouse pointer started drifting—not randomly, but only when I pressed the arrow keys. Up arrow? Cursor nudged north. Down arrow? There it went again. I was convinced some accessibility setting or keyboard remap had gone haywire. I rebooted. I checked drivers. I even briefly entertained the idea that my codebase was cursed.

Three hours in, I realized the true culprit: MSPaint. I had opened it earlier, and because the canvas was selected, the arrow keys were actually moving the selection box—which, by delightful Windows design, also moved the mouse cursor. I wasn’t losing my mind. Just... slowly drawing rectangles in the background every time I hit an arrow key.

I closed MSPaint, and poof—my “haunting” ended. I haven’t trusted that application since. Great for pixel art, less great for your sanity.

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You and ChatGPT sound identical.

dankwizard··on Has anyone else found Google's AI overview to be oddly error prone?
No, you're wrong too. If it was doing that, the answer would not have been 0.736 as that would grow to ~$21,200 over 386 years.
dankwizard··on Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative
Sure, but then what - A script to pirate the song? Or would your script generate the playlist and automatically buy the tracks from bandcamp?
dankwizard··on Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative
This article fails to mention the absolute butchering of features that takes place moving from a typical music streaming subscription to a self hosted Jellyfin library.

A large part of my listening on YouTube Music is going to a particular song or band I like and clicking "Radio", which generates a playlist of similar sounding songs. You can then fine tune it with a filter i.e "Popular songs, deep cuts" or specific elements of the song "More emo", "Slow paced" etc. This exposes me to a lot of new music and keeps it fresh and if I'm lucky I'll discover a new artist or song to add to my rotations.

You lose that.

A lot of these services overtime build mixes which takes your listening habits and tries to categorize them into specific mixes made up of your existing library & new music.

I don't browse any music forums and so apart from my favourite bands, I have no idea on when artists I like release new albums and would not encounter them on a self hosted solution, etc.

dankwizard··on How University Students Use Claude
I think you along with some others in this thread are looking at the real individualistic view - "If I go from high paying to low paying, I'm in trouble". Think about how the economy may react along with it. If companies are no longer paying these high salaries, perhaps products and services go down and despite earning less $, your purchasing power stays the same or even grows!

Of course lots of speculation, but I am not particularly worried by the fields we can wipe out in future with automation and AI.

dankwizard··on How University Students Use Claude
Oh your actual concern is showing - Doing manual labour.
dankwizard··on How University Students Use Claude
They'll get different jobs bud.
dankwizard··on How University Students Use Claude
Your opinion is wild.

Hmm, millions of humans are spending a bulk of their lives plugging away at numbers on a screen. We can replace this with an AI and free them up to do literally anything else.

No, let's not do that. Keep being slow ineffective calculators and lay on your death bed feeling FULFILLED!

dankwizard··on Show HN: Soundscapes and Lofi Player
Exactly what I needed, an AI generated website (with analytics) serving up free music which is already accessible on its own website!
dankwizard··on Let's Ban Billboards
I hadn't considered trying to apply uBlock Origin to my real life.
dankwizard··on How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)
a human has never used an em dash in the wild
dankwizard··on The Worst Programmer I Know (2023)
These articles are so predictable and always have a smug aura around them.

"Reports showed me the absolute worst programmer on my team. Did I fire him? No. I actually gave him a 20% raise.

Do you know why? He was the best programmer on my team (in disguise)."

dankwizard··on uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store
"And as I opened Chrome - Well, a substitute but still powered by Chromium - I felt my stomach churn as my vision started to blur. I feel both disgusting and disgusted at what I had done. As an act of repetenance I hastily jot down 'Come to Firefox, we have bacon!'"

It's a browser.

dankwizard··on Made a scroll bar buddy that walks down the page when you scroll
Not OP but waiting for the day I can fire my devs and replace with AI...
dankwizard··on Welcome to Ladybird, a truly independent web browser
No BAT wasn't the controversey. Unless you count the "Tipping any website but if the website didn't accept BAT it went back into the pool".

The controversy came when it was found out they were inserting their own affiliate code into links. That's scummy.

dankwizard··on Show HN: Instantly Translate Manga – TranslateManga
Because I've added preamble and instructions "Always make sure you're translating correctly". This keeps mine ahead of the competition. Please sign up
dankwizard··on Why Clojure?
The kids these days throw the word "copium" around and that's exactly what it is.

There is a lot of elitism around Clojure and all of them are looking to throw down. Even your comment has already garnered 1 of them out of the shadows.

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