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kinlanon I spent an evening on a fictitious web

It's not Chrome hallucinating, it's the websim that is generating the content.

The obit seemed mostly lifted from this.

kinlanon Qub – a framework for building websites with QBasic

GORILLA.BAS, no?

That being said, exactly the same here. My first program that was ever used by anyone other than me was a National Lottery number picker for my grandad :) saved him 20 minutes a week...

kinlanon Game Informer shutting down after 33 years

I hope so, I'm seeing fewer and fewer stores stocking Edge magazine directly.

kinlanon Chrome is adding `window.ai` – a Gemini Nano AI model right inside the browser

It's a very experimental API and that's why it's only behind a flag and not available to the general web for people to use. We will be taking these through the standards process (e.g the higher level translate API - https://github.com/WICG/translation-api)

kinlanon Chrome is adding `window.ai` – a Gemini Nano AI model right inside the browser

Fwiw, this is a very experimental API and we're not really promoting this as we know the API shape will have to change. It's only available by enabling a flag so we're working with a lot of developers via the preview program (link below)

Overview: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/built-in

Sign-up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZXeiwj9KO9jMctffH...

kinlanon An unusual prehistoric monument made up of three interlocking circles

It's clearly a picture of a mouse with a missing front leg.

kinlanon Parakeet: A Tiny LLM

Very good. Here's a cracker.

kinlanon Jurassic Systems

I only just realised after reading this comment that Nedry is an anagram of Nerdy.

kinlanon We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution

Hmm - that shouldn't have been the case, but I can speak to the team to see what might have happened. Thanks for diving in to this.

kinlanon We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution

> Were the deadlines, feature freezes, and project reshuffling imposed on you from above, or were they your decisions?

They were my decisions based on all the data I had, including launching with what we had.

re: "Resuming the transition to Manifest V3" this was posted on the old infrastructure and should have been in your RSS feeds up until late last week when our migration happened - so for just under a month... I can check more to make sure what I am saying is correct, but the migration only happened last week.

kinlanon We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution

We don't do Christmas bonuses...

kinlanon We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution

Sorry - it was business speak, it's certainly words that we use internally, the intent was to say we are working on adding RSS back to the site.

kinlanon We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution

There's lots of reasons some of which I can't go into details about, but there are some that I can:

There is a freeze to the new infrastructure's product features until after the new year and we needed to get this in before then (we can land feed support without a product feature change)

The people I have working on the older infrastructure will be on new projects for our team in the new year.

kinlanon We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution

Heh. Very apropos (it's been in there for a while).

kinlanon We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution

Hey all, I lead the team that runs this site.

We moved our site to a different infrastructure that doesn't support the automatic generation of RSS feeds.

I'm painfully aware that this isn't the best solution right now. I needed our team to hit a deadline for migrating all the content to the new system, and then manage cleanup of known missing functionality after.

We are working on making sure this lands asap.

Paul

kinlanon HoneyPot – I Made a Text Field Only Bots Use – Heres What Happened

Good comment, but I'm only replying to guess your name.

Colin? Michelle?

kinlanon Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years

Hello from North Wales.

kinlanon Why AutoGPT engineers ditched vector databases

Unfortunately I've not. For the tasks that I've used these types of tools on I found ChatGPT's "Advanced Data Analysis" mode significantly more useful.

kinlanon Project IDX: An experiment to improve full-stack, multiplatform app development

Fuck y'all, all y'all?

kinlanon Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

Appreciate you both. :)

kinlanon Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?

Now they're room temperature at ambient pressure.

kinlanon X, the moonshot factory

Zzz

kinlanon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://paul.kinlan.me/

kinlanon Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings

Huh. Where did he say that? WebView is Chromium and it's updated alongside Chrome updates. There are differences because of the process model in apps and some APIs aren't available...

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/androi....

kinlanon It looks like GPT-4-32k is rolling out

Yeah. It's weird, I've signed up when it came up and....nothing. :(

kinlanon Ask HN: How do you plan on making money with Open AI API?

While I like the idea, it feels like it defeats the point of the question.

How likely is it a person will know what open ai is, be willing to set up billing and then also pay you separately?

kinlanon What are some interesting uses of WebUSB you have come across?

We track some interesting examples here too https://developer.chrome.com/blog/fugu-showcase/?api=webusb

kinlanon Use Bookmarklets on Chrome on Android (2020)

Pretty much

kinlanon Use Bookmarklets on Chrome on Android (2020)

This is the worry a lot of people have. The only real saving grace is that copying in JS to the address bar doesn't execute the code, and it's a bit of a pain to get bookmarklets bookmarked.