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huydotnet··on 4.3M Browsers Infected: Inside ShadyPanda's 7-Year Malware Campaign
That's my first thought, but it would still be helpful to have a list of names, since many people has switched browsers many times in the past, or used many different devices personally.
huydotnet··on Paged Out
It's freaking awesome to see AI models (handwriting OCR) being distributed by printed out on a magazine page.
huydotnet··on 4.3M Browsers Infected: Inside ShadyPanda's 7-Year Malware Campaign
I came to the article hoping to see the list of affected extensions, so I can check if I ever installed any of them. All I get was a list of extension ID at the very bottom of the post. Is this some sort of security practice to not promoting malicious packages or something?
huydotnet··on Kodak ran a nuclear device in its basement for decades
Disappointing, for a second I thought I have found a solution to power my 8x5090 homelab.
huydotnet··on Show HN: HUD-like live annotation and sketching app for macOS
You can connect your iPad to mac via the charger cable and use it as an external monitor. Apple Pencil works too.
huydotnet··on Show HN: Diagram as code tool with draggable customizations
Wonderful! I have been wanting something like this for a really long time!
huydotnet··on Show HN: I'm making an open-source platform for learning Japanese
Most of the apps to learn Japanese/Chinese seems to focus on the reading part, where it will present a word, and ask the user if they remember the meaning/pronounciation.

I find that I learn much faster (and remember a word for longer) when I focus on writing, instead of just... look. And writing is something most apps just skip. Some apps do show the animation of the stroke orders, but I think the user needs to be proactively write it down somewhere to remember it better.

huydotnet··on Fed up with macOS – it downloaded 47 GB of 4K 240FPS screensavers. Asahi FTW
Not Asahi but I recently revived a 10-year-old MacBook Pro (MBP 2015) that had been sitting in my closet for many years by installing Fedora on it. To my surprise, it's fast and sleek, just like a brand new computer. All of the drivers worked!

The laptop now serves as a desktop when I'm at home and as an SSH server when I'm at work. And my 5-year-old M1 MacBook is now sitting in the closet, waiting for its turn in the next 10 years.

huydotnet··on Cursor CLI
and access to Cursor's background agent on the web as well, like ChatGPT Codex. So to this point, I'm regret cancelling my Cursor subscription already
huydotnet··on π0.5: A VLA with open-world generalization
Amazing! On a fun note, I believe if a human kid were cleaning up the spill and threw the sponge into the sink like that, the kid would be in trouble. XD
huydotnet··on Viral ChatGPT trend is doing 'reverse location search' from photos
I gave it this picture https://i.imgur.com/HyfVxiD.jpeg

At first, it's unsure, but also mention that there are a lot of riverside cafes in Southeast Asia that have this view. Then I said it was in Vietnam, and it was immediately concluded that this was taken at the Han River in Da Nang city, which was correct.

I can see that there is some actual analysis skill here. I'm not 100% convinced, but I'm still impressed.

huydotnet··on Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-dlp
I built the same thing a few years back [0], and used the YouTube API for searching. It was fun on the building part.

For hosting, though, I picked Heroku, and they kept removing my deployment because I downloaded ytdlp on it! I ended up deploying it on my own server to make it work.

[0]: https://github.com/huytd/xaudio

huydotnet··on Using o3-mini and Claude to create a 3D game in 2 days
I know it was kind of a norm in game dev. I was never brave (or talented) enough to compete in a game jam, let alone finish anything like that though :D
huydotnet··on Official DeepSeek R1 Now on Ollama
Looking at the R1 paper, if the benchmark are correct, even the 1.5b and 7b models are outperforming Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and you can run these models on a 8-16GB macbook, that's insane...
huydotnet··on Ask HN: What do you use LLMs for in your work/hobbies?
I usually use LLM to help brainstorming ideas or finding issues/concern in my code, sometimes when I start out a new project, it can help provide me a starting point of the architecture [0] too (spoiler: the link below is a blog post about my product, I built it to solve my own need but I thought it might be useful to share).

[0]: https://docs.chatuml.com/blog/build-your-own-startup-with-ch...

huydotnet··on Building Effective "Agents"
they probably use their own designers. jk. the arrows looks a lot like Figma/Figjam.
huydotnet··on A gist to create bookmark in your Markdown file with Gemini
I created this script for my workflow (Raycast, Obsidian, bookmarks in a single markdown file, ...), but at its core, it's just a script to edit a markdown file to append a link with an automatically generated summary. So I think it's worth sharing here.
huydotnet··on Ask HN: Platform for 11 year old to create video games?
My kiddo want to make game on Nintendo Switch, which is almost impossible at this time, but I recently found Fuze 4 (https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/fuze4-nintendo-sw...) that allows him to do exactly that. Quite happy with Fuze's workflow. We can even connect an external keyboard so he can type on it.
huydotnet··on Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?
wow, LLM that can do handwriting? How? woudl you mind explain more about this? is there any specific model that support this?
huydotnet··on Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?
Huge fan of BoltAI here! It scratch a huge itch for me, a chat with AI program that allows me to use my own API key, with web search support. Not many apps out there supports this!
huydotnet··on China's 'Wukong' Hit Sells 10M Copies in Three Days
There are many factors here. Two of the most obvious things that I can think of are: almost all Asian kids from the '80s, '90s, and 2000s grew up watching or reading Journey to the West (see how people react to Celestial Symphony OST), the movie was shown on TV every summer. And it's being marketed as China's first AAA title. These things get a lot of people interested.
huydotnet··on A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar (2021)
The post was 2021 but the pain is still true for today. Also, does anyone know how to turn off AC just for the passenger side? Even when I’m driving alone, I still have both sides on.
huydotnet··on Agricultural drones are transforming rice farming in the Mekong River delta
In Hoi An, locals are known for their English fluency since more than 10 years ago, when I came back there last year, I was blown away by so many locals speak Korean just as fluent.
huydotnet··on Show HN: Codel – Autonomous Open Source AI Developer Agent
“OpenAI do all the work” is a very wrong claim in this case.

It’s true that most of the complexity are solved by using LLM, but it’s not everything. There are still a good amount of work needed to be done if you want to build an agent (or even an AI wrapper, if you’re implying it).

huydotnet··on Monodraw
Awesome tool! Also, for the web version, my friend made an alternative written in Kotlin https://github.com/tuanchauict/MonoSketch

I also have a half baked version in Rust too https://github.com/huytd/ascii-d

huydotnet··on Fly.io has GPUs now
Is there any write up on how Fly.io run your infrastructure? The "not data center" fact makes me interested a little bit.
huydotnet··on Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?
I built a diagram generator in PlantUML format: https://chatuml.com

Also, hello HN! If you are interested, use this promo code for 50% off your first purchase ;)

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huydotnet··on Why flying insects gather at artificial light
The dorsum to the light fact is interesting. And now, watching some random moth to the light vids on Youtube makes more sense to me [1].

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhNpOsTUqzA

huydotnet··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
Over $500/mo but still nowhere near my goal ($5k/mo). Started as a tool I built for myself to brainstorm and convert ideas into diagrams. Still need to invest more time on SEO and writing. It's just hard to find time to do all that stuff :P

https://chatuml.com

huydotnet··on Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?
I wrote an open source clone of a mini game back in 2015 when it was just released. Mostly use HTML5 canvas and websocket. Not really optimized so the server would start lagging and every player are moving like they’re teleporting every ticks.

Also moved to the US at that time, searching for a job for months after that. Finally, one company was using the same tech stack got interested and we had a good talk about it during the interview, and they offered me the job.

I was close to give up my dream of working as a programmer until that point (you know, when you moved to a new country, with a family to support, you can’t just do interview forever, the most possible option for me at that time was to work at a restaurant or something like that).

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