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not really, vectorising text/books is old school ML by this point.

at least to me that seems the same as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word2vec for e.g.

ewidaron Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI

could be, I guess we'll see.

but even that, if done correctly, is quite impressive. It sure sounds very useful given the number of papers out there.

ewidaron The world is heating up, and policies are not helping

Not a hit piece on AC, rather about how non coordinated a thorough policy change can have adversarial effect.

Also, yes AC is essential, but it is on track to consuming so much electricity that is has to be pushed in the right direction to not become a new problem replacing the old.

ewidaron Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?

In startups with less than 50 people (and I am being generous on the number), everyone talks to everyone all the time, so there is no need for these moments to extract key info to fix/improve situations, identify topics to push, ...

But once the company is just large enough, there is no way you're going to interact with everyone in a meaningful manner (n^2 relationships and all that), and the simplest solution is intermediaries and 1-1s.

[also, being sarcastic is unhelpful.]

ewidaron GitHub just suspended GitHub-actions[bot]

Seeing the same on our side, and now no github action is even getting picked up in our repo.

ewidaron Three Inverse Laws of AI

To me this rule is not necessarily something each individual must do on their own, but rather an objective for systems and societies.

In this frame the outcome is more: Companies providing chatbots should not encourage anthropomorphism by giving cute names, making them witty, using human like pictures, ...

ewidaron Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones

It's not about the cyclists wearing ANC headsets (which is already prohibited at least in Euro countries), but about pedestrians wearing them. Another problem altogether.

ewidaron Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents

I think you should just explain that part more clearly: why would they want you to host git repos on their behalf.

ewidaron Push events into a running session with channels

What these 'channels' do is essentially why I was running a nanoclaw at work: triggering a claude code based on events and getting feedback/review/analysis which nicely closes the loop with other agents.

Not sure why it has to be an mcp, but will be trying this out asap.

ewidaron Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP

One thing that I currently find useful on MCPs is granular access control.

Not all services provide good token definition or access control, and often have API Key + CLI combo which can be quite dangerous in some cases.

With an MCP even these bad interfaces can be fixed up on my side.

ewidaron Obsidian Sync now has a headless client

Do you have a good starting point or explanation to share about using obsidian for a team, where we all change/sync files?

ewidaron .Beat Swatch Internet Time

same here, this is just moving to switzerland as the base time.

https://www.swatch.com/en-ch/internet-time.html https://beats.wiki/0

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Probably because it's the first day.

ewidaron A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

I guess it depends what appeal to you.

As an example finding myself in a similar 80% situation, over the last few months I built

- a personal website with my projects and poems

- an app to rework recipes in a format I like from any source (text, video,...)

- a 3d visual version of a project my nephew did for work

- a gym class finder in my area with filters the websites don't provide

- a football data game

- working on a saas for work so typical saas stuff

I was never that productive on personal projects, so this is great for me.

Also the coding part of these projects was not very appealing to me, only the output, so it fits well with AI using.

In the meanwhile I did Advent of Code as usual for the fun of code. Different objectives.

ewidaron Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows

That's not meaningful, it all depends on what content is shared on the respective platforms.

ewidaron Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

Not sure you can "cancel" github reactions of other users

ewidaron Using Python for Scripting

Sure but the sub question here was about packages.

If you are installing packages, then starting with installing uv should be fine.

ewidaron Idempotency keys for exactly-once processing

Not trying to be snarly, but you should read the article and come back to discuss. This specific point is adressdd.

ewidaron Advent of Code 2025

Online chess competitions actually spend quite a lot on preventing cheating, and even then it's a common talking point.

ewidaron Why Strong Consistency?

I am not an expert, but from the examples in the article I think the author is looking for a bit more than read-your-writes.

E.g. They mention reading a list of attachements and want to ensure they get all currently created attachements, which includes the ones created by other processes.

So they want to have "read-all-writes" or something like that.

ewidaron When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”

I am not sure any of the points you raised change anything to the OP's point, do they?

Op was taking about changing the rule to something more intuitive, in such case it would s'en natural that decimal numbers are used.

ewidaron I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C

To non Americans, and given the current political climate imposed by the American government, no it's not very different.

ewidaron Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos

That would be whoever owns the private key, no?

It's similar to any other private/public key scheme: it just serves to prove the signature was generated by the owner (here whoever owns the location at which the video is taken).

But I guess you could imagine multiple flickering patterns per location, with each pattern being owned by a different entity (an NGO + a governement + a private company for example), in essence doing a multi-sig of the video.

ewidaron Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos

While it does not seem enough to guarantee authenticity, this scheme does seem like it would prevent creating a video from scratch pretending to be taken at a protected location without having express knowledge of the key or the flickering at that moment in time.

Definitely interesting for critical event and locations, but quite niche.

ewidaron DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service

I respect that, but I am curious, what DNS do you use?

ewidaron DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service

Depending how it's implemented it can still be privacy focused (not keeping logs, tracking usage...).

No idea if that's the case, but the two are not necessarily incompatible.

ewidaron DNS4EU, an EU-based DNS resolution service

Apparently there is an unfiltered option, we'll see what it looks like.

But why the negativity for a project that has value in diversifying a core component of the Internet backbone, and that is completely optional?

ewidaron You can choose tools that make you happy

And of course there is always only one tool that solves any given job.

ewidaron iOS Kindle app now has a ‘get book’ button after changes to App Store rules

They mean that if apple wins the appeal, the in-app new purchase flow will be removed but users will likely not leave the apple ecosystem

ewidaron Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

https://recipit.me

I was tired of all the ads, and the poor formating on recipe websites.

So I made a website to import food recipes from any location (text, YouTube, file...).

It has been fun so far! I tried importing from fb/ig by using a meta app but it has been a horrible experience so I scrapped that ^^