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mcs_··on Goodbye to Sora
I’ve never tried it, do you think I’m missing something? If yes, what has it brought into your life? Was it just entertainment?
mcs_··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)
Personality protocol for a chatbots platform. How to share personalities among different layers and components. At the end of the day is customization and parametrization of LLM instructions, however an interesting topic to explore.
mcs_··on AI Nutrition Fact Labels
Am I the only one associating this with actual Nutrition labelling?
mcs_··on Midjourney Showcase
Seems like girls are the preferred ones to show the human beauty. Wonder why.
mcs_··on I don't need your query language
I agree with many points, however, it depends on the abstraction that you need and the abstraction depends on the architecture you are adopting.

For example, if you are doing DDD and your repository implementation is about SQL, adding another layer of abstraction is not worth. But if your design is less sophisticated, or you are in an early stage of the project, you may find appealing to use that abstraction.

mcs_··on Prompt engineering vs. blind prompting
Prompt's engineer only exists if they can measure the efficiency of their inputs.

How to measure the effectiveness of a given prompt seems to me a big deal now.

mcs_··on We need a more sophisticated debate about AI
If we replace AI with books, television, radio and streaming content is this still applying?
mcs_··on Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
chatgpt via Azure is certificable though?

What a win for Microsoft if they can expose openAI as a usable solution...

mcs_··on The Next Button
That could be the output of big company's Next Button, after downloading Q2 report...
mcs_··on Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?
Cloud computing keeps growing.

Home servers, powered by low cost hardware, may become a real thing.

mcs_··on This isn't over-complicated, it's just complicated
I know we are scratching semantic here, but

> Complex problems exist...

Complex is an attribute for the solution, the problem could be solvable or not.

mcs_··on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)
Excalidraw (paid edition) Autopilot
mcs_··on Programmers should plan for lower pay (2019)
> we don't understand why programmers are paid so well

Isn't it for the high demand?

mcs_··on Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16
I suspect many of us can tell more about IT horror-stories in the banking industry. There is simply no way to make agile software in such a gigantic and obsolete environment. And yes... doesn't matter if you do micro-front architecture now... it is still obsolete.
mcs_··on Google Cloud (Europe-west2) is experiencing downtime
If everyone here in the south follows this advice., Finland will sink
mcs_··on We lost 54k GitHub stars
Hi team,

You got my star back. Good luck.

mcs_··on I'm tired of Google's business products
You got me...
mcs_··on I'm tired of Google's business products
> their search engine is still the best, sorry haters

Naming or using the "hater" word in the sentence does not make us in the right side of the story.

Considering users of other search engines as Haters does not sound right.

You think is the best, fine. Recently today, in this network, there is an analysis about it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31020229

mcs_··on You may not need Cloudflare Tunnel. Linux is fine
Primarily for storage at this point. I run some CI/CD on my local network, and the artefacts produced by the building process are massive. Paying for that is not worth it.
mcs_··on Ferrari owner Exor wants to build the Italian Y Combinator
it seems like they are building it in the Netherlands
mcs_··on Show HN: Tracking free, FOSS, URL shortener
Hi there, Marco and David here,

This project has started as a joke, still is, but as we got some feedback from our entourage, we love to share it with you.

As a free toy, the service will remain up and running in our infrastructure (what we use for our main project). There are some ideas like setting expiration date, creating a namespace and storing a bit of data.

Thanks for your time

mcs_··on Poop.is – A Crappy Link Shortener
We love poop.is, so we decided to poop more https://poop.is/meagerly-meager
mcs_··on Using email wrong
Disclaimer, 26 years using emails.

What I love about emails is that no ads are pushed into it, one of the few places where you can read information without Javascript and decide when and if to load external content.

I think innovations should be welcome, but they should have their own name and avoid considering a legacy system wrong by default.

Reinvent the wheel is hard,however I hope to see something great in the future (gpg for everyone for example).

mcs_··on Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox
Congratulations on the release!!!

Do you support/plan to support personal certificates or PGP somehow? It will be fantastic to bring those functionalities to the mainstream.

mcs_··on Tell HN: I let my 6-year-old daughter design my website
Very impressive. Congrats to you both. It is an excellent idea, and it would be nice to see a lot more inspired by this. Thanks for sharing.
mcs_··on Buy things, not experiences
I decided to buy a motorcycle.

I quickly realized I wanted to learn more about how to drive.

I went to a top-rated school for motorcycles just to make sure I could take experience from the best.

I came back and bought a better motorcycle, I decide to participate in my local championship in which I end up in third place.

I sold the Ducati.

I decided to buy a company.

I quickly realized I want to learn more about how to sell products.

...

So, I guess my life is a continuous oscillation between ignorance and satisfaction.

mcs_··on Teaching how to code is broken
> Most of the world's work seems to get done > Consult your own memory?

For sure, I can use my personal truth to answer my question. Still, vague information, including the entire working population, has been mentioned. I was genuinely interested in seeing the source, nothing else, but thanks.

mcs_··on Teaching how to code is broken
> Most of the world's work seems to get done by people who don't appear particularly enthused.

Interesting! Can you share some sources to get deeper here? Until now, I thought apathy wasn't a sign of productivity.

mcs_··on New in Git: switch and restore
Funny!

I've been using the alias `gk='git checktout'` for years now.

Git has been my first terminal-oriented versioning control system. I've used TFS and other but never focused on the action name, just the icons.

Checkout branch/hash/file seems more potent than two different commands.

mcs_··on A Look into CBL-Mariner, Microsoft’s Internal Linux Distribution
I use Linux everyday with an apple keyboard. The way we train our mussle memory and how it becomes our reality is fascinating.
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