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elestor··on Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
1) None, I use freellmapi https://github.com/tashfeenahmed/freellmapi

2) No

3) Oh my pi in bwrap sandbox, used to use Opencode

4) No

5) No

elestor··on Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
I highly recommend to diversify. Donate a smaller amount to a bunch of different charities.
elestor··on Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
I used to use it, but it would use a lot of CPU and hurt battery life, is the idea that you self host on a different machine?
elestor··on Discovery Loop
you can have many many small groups
elestor··on The End of an Era
It’s a common idiom
elestor··on KOReader
EXTREMELY confusing UI, but when you get used to it, nothing really comes close in terms of customisability and features.

Seriously, takes ages to find specific settings for the first few times.

elestor··on Learning to code is still worthwhile
Everybody should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think

- Steve Jobs

elestor··on Programmers need to start meditating
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elestor··on An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
I think about this kind of stuff more than twice a day, it's so cool not knowing where humanity will be in the future
elestor··on Changing how we develop Ladybird
I'm on your side, but don't you think 'grotesquely immoral and unethical' is a bit of an exhaggeration? It's just software.
elestor··on Googlebook
This honestly seems so stupid. Why?
elestor··on LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer
I don’t like AI slop as much as the next guy, but that part doesn’t seem so bad? Sounds like something anyone could write.
elestor··on The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ
Well that was a difficult read. Sure, it is a problem. But the author seemed so snobby about his music taste. Not very likeable.
elestor··on Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web
What do you mean by churn in this context?
elestor··on Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse
Noita is also procedural, but not static, although I'm not sure if that's what you're talking about.
elestor··on Switch to Claude without starting over
I don't have the option for this. In the UK. Anyone else?
elestor··on 3D guy to bypass age verification
Not mine, just thought it was funny
elestor··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
Yeah their naming is bad. I've always knew it because of how long the types of poems are but most people don't know poems.
elestor··on Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video
I know right? I'm into both things tech and hip hop, didn't expect them to collide
elestor··on We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
I am getting a wordpress error so used this: https://web.archive.org/web/20260114073704/https://blog.meta...
elestor··on enclose.horse
Say that again
elestor··on A website to destroy all websites
I viewed it on desktop, I still think it looks pretty good. Not efficient in the way it displays content, but still beautiful.
elestor··on A website to destroy all websites
I did the opposite, I opened the website before looking at the comments and thought it was like a beautiful art gallery too. Then I read the top comment, and thought 'What are they talking about??'. Had a complete opposite feeling.
elestor··on Non-Zero-Sum Games
Where do you find the RSS feed? I can't see a link to it anywhere
elestor··on Tell HN: Merry Christmas
How do you even know ANY of that??
elestor··on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI
An AI-generated thank you letter is not a real thank you letter. I myself am quite bullish on AI in that I think in the long term, much longer term than tech bros seem to think, it will be very revolutionary, but if more people like him have the balls to show awful things are, then the bubble will pop sooner and have less of a negative impact because if we just let these companies grow bigger and bigger without doing actually profitable things, the whole economy will go to shit even more.

I've never been able to get the whole idea that the code is being 'stolen' by these models, though, since from my perspective at least, it is just like getting someone to read loads of code and learn to code in that way.

The harm AI is doing to the planet is done by many other things too. Things that don't have to harm the planet. The fact our energy isn't all renewable is a failing of our society and a result of greed from oil companies. We could easily have the infrastructure to sustainably support this increase in energy demand, but that's less profitable for the oil companies. This doesn't detract from the fact that AI's energy consumption is harming the planet, but at least it can be accounted for by building nuclear reactors for example, which (I may just be falling for marketing here) lots of AI companies are doing.

elestor··on Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
I can second the Apollo thing. I think it might just be a natural name to give something, because when I was a kid I was working on a voice assistant thing instead of touching grass (never finished it) and called it Apollo. This was probably my first project.
elestor··on Thin desires are eating life
It's not ChatGPT, try paste it into any AI detector.
elestor··on The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt
Of course pictures of gay people doesn't encourage being gay, but being gay is fine. Being a pedophile is not fine. If there is even a small chance that something will cause someone to be a pedophile, it's best to minimize it. We aren't talking about pictures of pedophiles, we are talking about what is, in essence, child pornography. Maybe 'encourages pedophilia' is not a thorough enough way to phrase it, but a 'dormant' pedophile is much more likely to become an 'active' one if they are consuming excessive amounts of media related to their interests.
elestor··on The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt
I know what you mean, but do you not agree that if someone is, let's say, on the point of becoming a pedophile, discovers such media, it will become more and more of what they think about, and what one thinks about determines their actions.
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