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polynomial··on I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery
NFC inlays are paper thin (~0.06mm) and cards are typically 0.2mm (Bicyle) to 0.30mm (M:TG).

We can use NFC tools to write an URI pointing at an audio file link using NDEF.

I believe Android will play the audio file when you tap the card on the your phone. (Apple will need you to confirm in a popup.)

polynomial··on Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at
So much for Difference and Repetition.
polynomial··on Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at
Evals don't fix this.
polynomial··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
Insisting on having a SPF (single point of failure) for... reasons.
polynomial··on How to be a leader when the vibes are off
So basically, leadership is coping? No thanks.
polynomial··on Show HN: AI Code Detector – detect AI-generated code with 95% accuracy
Sure there is.
polynomial··on DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware
The article says the victim used 2fa. How did the attacker know their 2fa in order to send them a fake 2fa request?
polynomial··on DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware
Serious question, how did the attacking site (npmjs.help) know the victim's 2fa? ie. How did they know what phone number to send the 2fa request to?
polynomial··on Claude for Chrome
Do you have any citations for various estimates? This is super interesting to me.
polynomial··on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
Photoshop was hella fun, turned out that programming paid more. And now AI pays much more.
polynomial··on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
"Realism is overrated." /s
polynomial··on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
I still feel like most humans would fail, haha.
polynomial··on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
Or was that just marketing?
polynomial··on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
Asking the important questions.
polynomial··on Why was Apache Kafka created?
Why was it named that is also a question.
polynomial··on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City
New startup idea just dropped.
polynomial··on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City
We don't go after moving violations anymore (in NYC) because the driver might have a bad reaction. True story.
polynomial··on Why LLMs can't really build software
Imagine if you had to do this with an actual team member.
polynomial··on Lack of intent is what makes reading LLM-generated text exhausting
Apparently they have made HUGE breakthroughs in Online Bin Packing.

Extremely Bullish.

polynomial··on Lack of intent is what makes reading LLM-generated text exhausting
He might be a murderer, many such cases.
polynomial··on Meta's Vision for Superintelligence
What phase of the AOL lifecycle is Meta currently in? (Seriously asking.)
polynomial··on My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)
At first I read this as "My 2.5 year old can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now"
polynomial··on Facts don't change minds, structure does
Persevered through the article and comments in hopes someone would point this out.
polynomial··on Death by AI
"There seems to be some confusion" could literally be Google AI's official slogan.
polynomial··on AWS launches Kiro, its Cursor clone
> learning new key bindings

Why are they shipping them with different key bindings? Seems like the opposite of what you do to encourage product adoption.

polynomial··on Show HN: TokenDagger – A tokenizer faster than OpenAI's Tiktoken
Just to note that Tiktoken is still the tokenizer behind the GPT-4x series, it just uses a different token model. (Post only says GPT-3, implying they were using something else for subsequent iterations.)
polynomial··on IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
It's a popular opinion these days, all the cool kids are doing it
polynomial··on Claude 4
I thought best guesses were that Claude's system prompt ran to tens of thousands of tokens, with figures like 30,000 tokens being bandied about.

But the documentation page linked here doesn't bear that out. In fact the Claude 3.7 system prompt on this page clocks in at significantly less than 4,000 tokens.

polynomial··on OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
Is that really supposed to be Zuck with an older version of himself??
polynomial··on OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive
let me know when you're doing a standup set and I'll be there.
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