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rob··on Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
It's also the name of a CMS from PBS that's been used for years:

https://docs.pbs.org/space/B3/4751362/Bento+3.0

rob··on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
That's very true.
rob··on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
Good idea; I'll make sure we have all random ?date=1970-01-01, ?date=1970-01-02, all the way to ?date=2026-07-22 URLs cached, even the ones that are 404s but the crawlers still try anyways. Thank you!
rob··on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
Agreed; we have a Linode VPS for some small WordPress websites and it was grinding to a halt after an AI crawler started iterating through every possible date in "The Events Calendar"’s URL structure, sequentially scraping calendar pages all the way back to like 1970. I'm sure that's partially my fault for not putting it behind Cloudflare or anything though.
rob··on Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people
You don't have to change it just because one person complained. I personally like the "copy and paste curl command" to install something and I'm sure many others do as well. It's very convenient, and I can inspect the file myself if I'm that paranoid about it.
rob··on Advertise in ChatGPT
Being an early adopter to something like this as an advertiser can probably make you a lot of money.

Reminds me back in 2006 when we were running MySpace layout websites and making almost $100,000 a month from Google and Yahoo ads as teenagers.

rob··on What's the deal with all the random weekly quota resets for agents lately?
I have a subscription. If I don't have anything to do at the moment I don't use it. I don't think I need to set a timer every five hours and come up with tasks to do just to use my subscription. Seems like odd behavior?

I also have a Netflix subscription. I watch a couple of things on it and stop. I don't think to myself I need to maximize my subscription so let me watch movies all the time and wake up at 2 AM to make sure the next movie starts.

rob··on Towards a harness that can do anything
What's with this "harness" word people have been trying to adopt lately? Are we all going rock climbing?
rob··on Cloudflare Drop
Sure ya do buddy, me too.
rob··on Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives
People are going to copy GitHub the way people copied Facebook… how is "Threads" doing again?
rob··on Workers Cache
There has to be some sort of "/humanize-text" skill they can pass the output to before publishing.
rob··on Elevated error rate across multiple models
Getting consistent "API Error: 500 Internal server error" messages in Claude Code right now (10:20 AM EST)
rob··on Migrate from OpenClaw
"Teknium" was also defending things on X like a Polymarket skill being pre-installed and stuff.

Seems like both projects are a bit unprofessional in terms of leaders. Hermes just tries to sound more authoritative with the "Nous Research" name and fancy site, etc.

rob··on Migrate from OpenClaw
Does Hermes still come bundled with a Polymarket skill enabled by default?

https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/reference/skills-...

rob··on DeepSeek Introduces Vision
Yep, here's the v2 and v3:

https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2

https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3

It's almost instant on my new M5 Max w/ 36GB of memory, but I used both with Handy on my previous 2019 Intel Mac w/ 16GB memory and was completely surprised at just how fast it was for being on-device! Not instant, but only a couple seconds.

rob··on DeepSeek Introduces Vision
You have to enable "Experimental Features" under "Advanced."

This is the prompt I use (it's probably overkill and can be condensed):

https://pastebin.com/raw/RUVAqLCU

rob··on DeepSeek Introduces Vision
I hardly type at all now. I use Handy (free) with Parakeet and use its post-LLM processing feature with a custom prompt tailored towards coding, so I can say things like "Have it go to slash remote dash control" and it'll output "/remote-control". Converts brackets, etc.

Everything is almost instant, it's insanely fast, and lets me work on multiple different agents/windows at the same time fast with cmux.

I use the same thing to talk to people on Slack, iMessage, etc now when I'm working from home instead of typing.

I also can help articulate my thoughts better when I'm thinking them literally out loud instead of just sitting silent and typing them on a computer for hours.

It's just something that you need to try and get used to because I also thought it was something I wouldn't like at first.

rob··on Claude Fable 5: mid-tier results on coding tasks
Unless you're coming up with a deterministic set of criteria for evaluating these bugs and issues, every single model is going to keep telling you it finds new things and to fix them.

I'm sure you said the same "find mistakes please" thing to Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 when you were using $previous_amazing_latest_model, and they also found and fixed them.

Once the next "Fable"-type model comes out I'm sure it's going to find even more mistakes that the "special" Fable made.

You're using these models to make mistakes and then using upgraded versions of them to find their previous mistakes and fix them, until a new version comes along that can magically fix even more mistakes their previous versions made. There's no end to it.

rob··on Claude Fable 5
I think it's a clever thing he did to basically guarantee he continues to get major traffic to his blog here every time a model is released, especially since he's taking sponsorships with a static banner at the top of every page now. I think he's trying to go the Daring Fireball route.
rob··on The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
What would need to happen for it to be considered an AI problem to you?
rob··on I am retiring from tech to live offline
Nothing like retiring with only 3 years worth of savings and no plan on what to do after that.
rob··on Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests
You think a Microsoft chatbot from 2016 is destroying GitHub?
rob··on Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)
You were a doubter… as in you thought it was normal to sit inside your house the entire day (or for over 12 hours) without going outside at all? Or what?
rob··on Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage
YC seems a bit different from I remember it back in 2007 when I first joined. They're pushing things like "GStack" now.

https://youtu.be/wkv2ifxPpF8?si=OHXgW92T_aZUbwpA

rob··on Bun support is now limited and deprecated

   --js-runtimes [deno|node|bun|quickjs]
rob··on Was my $48K GPU server worth it?
Seems like they just want to play PewDiePie after making tons of money from their salaried job and have a bunch of spare time now.
rob··on Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD
I've switched to Debian (and since Ubuntu) for my server needs but I remember being obsessed in the mid 2000s with FreeBSD when I was younger. I would spend more time configuring and setting them up than doing anything actually useful on them.

It used to be hard to find dedicated servers or VPSs with any of the BSDs, I think I settled on Panix.com or something?

Before that I remember some company called 15MinuteServers (NAC?) out of NJ I think that offered them. Just kind of rambling down memory lane at this point though.

rob··on An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
No it's not. Where do you come up with this? Just because you searched the phrase on Google and there's a single result for it on a wiki? Who do you know that's using this expression regularly?
rob··on Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?
I do this via Dokploy on a hosted Linode VPS and absolutely love it. Super easy to set up and maintain for tons of little side projects that don't require tons of resources.

Seems like an ad for whatever "Distr" is though; I haven't run into any of these issues with Dokploy and everything's been running fine for months.

rob··on Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS
https://openfreemap.org
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