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jcwayne··on Claude: System Prompts
Interesting that this is all written in the third person. I've only ever seen prompts written in second person. I'm going to have to experiment with that.
jcwayne··on Show HN: HookVerify – Webhook delivery visibility for production systems
Thank you for actually showing a base price for an enterprise tier.
jcwayne··on Meta outage
The sparklines on Downdetector's homepage can't be compared to each other. Spikes that look similar can actually have a difference of several orders of magnitude. Only meta's services have truly large spikes.
jcwayne··on Show HN: Quickwit – OSS Alternative to Elasticsearch, Splunk, Datadog
I find presenting this as an open source alternative to commercial solutions a little disingenuous when any commercial use of it also requires a paid license. Like many other cases it seems like the AGPL is functioning more as a trial license.
jcwayne··on A Beginner's Guide to eBPF
The parody here is so perfect, they even created the technology they don't bother to define.
jcwayne··on Low Earth Orbit Visualization
Thank you for this. While the visualization is useful/interesting, it frustrates me how often similar visuals are used in news stories about space junk. Yes, it's a problem, but using visuals like this without proper explanation misrepresents it terribly.
jcwayne··on How the SQLite virtual machine works
I'm curious how many companies building for >1M concurrent users have even a tenth of that in reality.
jcwayne··on Show HN: Extensible OSS Retool Alternative
I'm sure it's not a popular opinion, but I consider AGPL to be more source-available trialware than OSS. Even for strictly internal tooling, I hesitate to use AGPL licensed code.
jcwayne··on Show HN: DataStation – App to easily query, script, and visualize data
Overall, this looks great. My only concern the the project file being a SQLite db. I'd really like to have something to (usefully) put in version control.
jcwayne··on Show HN: Pxl.to – A serverless link shortener with no limits and no downtime
> It's largely free

Looks like it's $30/mo for a useful plan.

jcwayne··on Show HN: HomeSheet – easy-to-use home inventory software
The ability to add location and an Alexa skill to allow me to ask Alexa where my foo is would be great.
jcwayne··on Show HN: Tempchan – Throwaway Discussion Boards
Would be nice if there were a way to differentiate all of the anonymous users. Personally I like Google's random animal name approach.
jcwayne··on How to programmatically find out if computer is on
Seems like a reasonable compiler would inline the most likely implementation as 1. So, while technically undefined, it's safe to assume that it will 'return' 1 regardless of the actual on/off state of the computer.
jcwayne··on MoviePass settles FTC allegations that they limited usage, exposed user data
Add in a startup fee and it would be a gym membership.
jcwayne··on Show HN: ArcaneVM – A Fully Homomorphically Encrypted Brainfuck Virtual Machine
The level of evil here is inspiring.
jcwayne··on Flu has disappeared worldwide during the Covid pandemic
I prefer "walking petri dish".
jcwayne··on John Cleese Sells the Brooklyn Bridge as an NFT
"It's NFTs all the way down."
jcwayne··on Show HN: NudeNet – Nudity classification and exposed part detection in images
I don't think it would take much to get funding and political support with exactly that pitch.
jcwayne··on U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
It seems that what they've ruled is not that the treaty must be honored, but that only the federal government gets to decide not to honor it. Absent a specific decision to that effect, the treaty is still in force which limits the state's authority.
jcwayne··on Show HN: Reclaim – an adaptive calendar app that plans time for your routines
I'd love to see todoist integration. The "find me 4 hours to do this" feature looks like a natural fit for this. Also, any plans for a public API?
jcwayne··on Oppose the Earn IT Act
With failure to pay eventually landing you in jail.
jcwayne··on Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)
This seems to be a common problem with web-based business applications. Little, if any, consideration seems to be give to user efficiency. I consider that a critical part of UX, but I seem to be in the minority.
jcwayne··on I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
IANAL (anywhere), but when you sponsor someone you're listed as a sponsor. I'd say that social credit has some intrinsic value.
jcwayne··on Zoom Falsely Claims Its Group Video Can Be End-to-End Encrypted
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like they're misusing the term in the same way that Apple does with iMessage.
jcwayne··on Datadog S-1
And more difficult to continue to secure funding for companies that have yet to make a profit.
jcwayne··on Show HN: Retool Templates – Custom internal tools with drag-and-drop components
Please clarify the definition of 'user' for billing purposes. Specifically, do end-users (with no edit permissions) count?
jcwayne··on Hospital checklists are meant to save lives, so why do they often fail?
"Hey there Mr. Smith, I'm Dr. Brown. I'm going to be doing blah, blah, medical stuff, right here on your left abdomen." ... "Well that's the right spot doc, but I'm Mr. Jones."
jcwayne··on Show HN: Visual Drag and Drop Designer for AWS Lambda
This looks great and I could definitely see using it, but I'd like to know more about the company before providing credit card info and potentially using this tool for sensitive data.
jcwayne··on Show HN: Chitter – An inbox for your users
Some explanation/example of what this does would be helpful.
jcwayne··on Google – My Activity
Looks like they've removed the summary statistics in favor of a timeline. Still, it's nice to have it all searchable in one place. It also provides a nice place to check that I have all of the handy features turned on.
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