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kwerk··on Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML
Discovered this quite by accident. My cofounder and I were building a pdf editor and I’d analyzed 1,400 PDFs to see where our editor broke. I asked Claude to make an explainer of the process and it popped out an html with a working interactive pdf renderer.
kwerk··on Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML
Or just ask Claude to find a connector to share html
kwerk··on Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI
Thank you. And thank you for your kindness in these threads. It’s appreciated by the people who aren’t commenting as much
kwerk··on Thing about "agentic" AIs is that nobody is thinking of consequences downstream
It’s costly signaling, we value what we perceive has cost. Driving the perceived cost to zero will plummet the value.
kwerk··on Jevons Paradox: A Personal Perspective
opportunity cost comes to mind
kwerk··on Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think
I just want an algo where I set the reward function instead of “dwell time and view ads”
kwerk··on Are LLMs able to notice the “gorilla in the data”?
I pasted your comment into mistral small latest, google, gpt 4o and gpt 4o with search. They all have a different answe, only the last gave a real episode but it said 11001001 in season 1. It said episode 15, it’s actually 14. But even that seems wrong.

Are they censored from showing this cautionary tale?? Hah.

kwerk··on A transformer supply crisis bottlenecks energy projects
And an energy shortage bottlenecking Transformer projects
kwerk··on Ribbonfarm Is Retiring
He’s talking about blogs in general
kwerk··on Plasmo – A framework for building modern Chrome extensions
I love Plasmo
kwerk··on Smart devices a privacy nightmare, Amazon Alexa, Google Home worst offenders
Weird how Apple is neither mentioned in the article or (the first dozen) comments here.
kwerk··on Show HN: We open sourced our entire text-to-SQL product
Will it work with GraphQL?
kwerk··on We are moving to General Availability
Congrats! Happy supabase user here
kwerk··on DBRX: A new open LLM
I have two 3090s and it runs fine with `ollama run mixtral`. Although OP definitely meant mistral with the 7B note
kwerk··on Pimp Your Board Games
yes, the query is tricky but "glass round tiles" is pretty good" https://www.ebay.com/itm/255167139808
kwerk··on Pimp Your Board Games
Thanks! It’s been a quality of life improvement
kwerk··on Pimp Your Board Games
I like this idea. I ordered assorted mini dice as travel counters and 6mm cubes for action tracking
kwerk··on Pimp Your Board Games
You’re popular on Reddit! I just wish you had Lord of the Rings LCG :)
kwerk··on Pimp Your Board Games
I made custom glass tokens [0] for Lord of the Rings card game and I’ll never play a premium game with plain cardboard again.

I used a guide from Board Game Geek to make the glass token [1]

Using jewelers resin to upgrade cardboard tokens is another option: https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/s/xwPU4jmUcS

[0]glass tokens: https://ibb.co/X5gJ604

[1] glass tokens guide: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2087285/diy-glass-tokens-qu...

kwerk··on Weaveworks is shutting down
I think they meant to say "double digit revenue growth"
kwerk··on System76 Thelio Major Powered by AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series Performance
I use Pop OS on a custom build and have a similar “just works”. Looking at S76 hardware for my next upgrade now.
kwerk··on What I learned selling my company
Great validation. What (maybe more nuanced) insights would you add?
kwerk··on Mixtral 8x7B: A sparse Mixture of Experts language model
I use 2x 3090, no nvlink though. I’d read it doesn’t help that much but not well read on any improvement.
kwerk··on StreamDiffusion: A pipeline-level solution for real-time interactive generation
Thanks for sharing.
kwerk··on The largest money-printing UI element ever made
The one I’ve seen lately is when I type a correct domain, but the autocomplete appends “ login” so I get taken to a search result with links that are not what I wanted!
kwerk··on Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android
Seems like the local implementation may be durable, but the system for backend polling (BPN) they built appears to ping Apple servers server side. I imagine that creates a block of homogeneous traffic for Apple to spot.
kwerk··on Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android
Curious how the BPN service presents to Apple.
kwerk··on Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android
The referenced technical write up is fascinating[0]

I wonder how well this architecture (including privacy preservation) would work for LinkedIn messaging?

Specifically the BPN service since that seems to come from a data center IP and more likely for Apple / others to have a choke point.

[0] https://blog.beeper.com/p/721485af-aad0-4962-b418-eea9bc1e8f...

kwerk··on HubSpot Acquires Clearbit
one of the co-founders (former CMO > COO > interim CEO) Matt Sornson came back to be CEO.
kwerk··on Show HN: A virtual office for remote work
back in 2013 I was the only remote employee at a Series A startup. We used an app called Perch on ipads that had similar conventions (it was a tap send your audio / video and the other side could tap to send theirs, etc). This seems like the supercharged version. I wouldnt have made it at that startup without Perch, sadly defunct. glad to see this.
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