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tanepiper

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tanepiper··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
I was in New York for a conference 4 years ago, I was discussing with someone a previous project I had worked on in the UK that was a tool for companies to forecast certain risk scenarios "...you know like a building flooding or blowing up"

There were suddenly a lot of unhappy faces looking at me. I guess some folks are still a bit sensitive about that...

tanepiper··on 'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut
Sorry to tell you but Bugonia is a remake of a Korean movie "Save the Green Planet"
tanepiper··on The Website Specification
I actually thought about this a couple of weeks back that for agents - going backwards actually makes sites more capable - WAP would even be more appropriate. The ultimate irony though is that making websites MORE accessible makes them more agent friendly - the last decade of SPAs is what makes things harder.
tanepiper··on Claude Opus 4.8
Yep, until 1st June 4.6 is still x1 on Copilot, but will jump up quite a bit in coat - 4.7 was already highly priced, and the output was frankly terrible.

It still seems trying to build general models is mostly cost prohibitive - the frontier model provider and resellers are repricing in such a way the return on investment is dropping as developers and users become more cautious of burning their limits.

I'm still of the opinion that models like 4.6 don't need to be improved on - rather they need to be better integrated with more domain specific models in agentic flows.

tanepiper··on Sam Altman: I was wrong, AI unlikely to lead to jobs apocalypse
https://x.com/dril/status/134787490526658561
tanepiper··on Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch
Yep, hate it. Also I have a threejs MCP server that starts up when my IDE does.

Can't disable it now in Anti-gravity because the menu has been completely removed.

tanepiper··on We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot
So AI AMP....
tanepiper··on Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy
Reading this, it sounds very like what Ingvar Kamprad did with IKEA - although the structure is slightly different, the intent feels the same.

I work at Inter IKEA, which is actually a franchisor - the structure is a family run foundation sitting at the top, below the group that owns the concept and value chain, then the retailer licence to hold a franchise (https://www.inter.ikea.com/en/this-is-inter-ikea-group/the-i...)

tanepiper··on A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
Basically medical science too. My wife was able to diagnose her own anemia that the doctors kept missing, and has since been able to have iron infusions.

The human doctors kept ignoring the signals, kept putting it down to 'diet' and 'exercise' (even though she does plenty of both)

tanepiper··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
7 years ago we got a Polish Hunting Spaniel, and did our first trip to Poland. Since then we've been back several times, and each time you really see the different - new and upgraded road, city buildings being renovated into new housing and commercial areas - also noticed the costs going up too.

But also you start to notice that definitely a lot of people who left Poland are coming back, and with that skills and new economic opportunities.

tanepiper··on I won a championship that doesn't exist
I think this is something we'll start to see which is something like a Mandela-Effect, but from LLM results. When we had deterministic search - everyone could see the same result, but now using LLMs knowledge becomes a training and seeding issue. Two people can confidently be given completely different information, so in both cases perceived as true.
tanepiper··on Alarms Sound over 'Technofascist' Palantir Manifesto
If this wasn't a tech CEO, we'd probably be looking at an active shooter/bomber situation
tanepiper··on Rick Dangerous
Played this and Rick Dangerous 2 a lot on the Amiga 500, fun game.
tanepiper··on The risk of AI isn't making us lazy, but making "lazy" look productive
I think the risk is this; when non-technical users who've never shipped software in their life can dictate to a machine and get "instant results" it going to bring back managers not understanding that you don't just ship code. Especially these days where one bad dependency can mean downtime or worse.
tanepiper··on Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro
We travelled Peru by bus for the majority of our trip (only at the end taking the plane from Cusco to Lima at the end). Amazing way to see the country
tanepiper··on TypeScript 6.0 RC
FWIW I tried it with the VSCode preview in two monorepos we have - one frontend and one backend GraphQL servers with complex types - absolutely no issues (except one breaking change in tsconfig with baseUrl being removed) and fast compile times.
tanepiper··on Show HN: Million Dollar Deeds – Own permanent digital land
1M Pixel was at least art

Second Life - at least you can play around virtually in that 'real estate'

This? Just seems like you get a jpeg.

tanepiper··on Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse linked to the 'end of modernity'
Stop giving this man air to talk absolute bullshit
tanepiper··on The Man with No Brains
Yesterday I had a pivotal moment where I realised - I've allowed myself to become lobotomised by relying too much on AI agents. I wrote about it - maybe others are feeling like this too?
tanepiper··on Trump Filter Chrome Extension
Reminds me of the extension I released 16 years ago to remove James Corden from the web https://thenextweb.com/news/shaved-bieber-becomes-a-meme-rem...
tanepiper··on The 3D Software Rendering Technology of 1998's Thief: The Dark Project (2019)
In 1999/2000 I worked on my own Thief levels using the dromed editor - it was both really fun to work with, and utterly frustrating - in a time before open source engines - there were so many small annoying bugs in the editor that would cause it to crash, so you SAVED often and even learned to version files as it was easy to screw up.

But the geometry that could be created was stunning - from courtyards to cathedrals, levels allowed clever use of light and shadow.

tanepiper··on Scott Adams has died
Well... Scott Adams was on Art Bell Coast to Coast AM a few times, so that tracks.
tanepiper··on It's hard to justify Tahoe icons
I'm still on Sequoia, almost 100% of the reason is how bad OSX26 looks. There's absolutely nothing compelling me to update right now
tanepiper··on Ask HN: What open-source side projects are you working on in 2025?
https://teskooano.space - mostly it's just a learning exercise in building a 3D engine and simulation, but also has a lot of work around custom UI - the source is available on GitHub.
tanepiper··on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
His one technical skill is building PowerPoint decks...
tanepiper··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
Why? It's his website, he can put what he likes on it. Your rational is...?
tanepiper··on Commoning open-source versus growth-hacking open-source
This is something that actually drives me a way from using "a thing" - that some team post something "open source" - but in reality it's a product and there's a pricing tab on the website.

I think we've overloaded the term for sure. I'd prefer honesty - "hey we have a new product/service/platform! We've opened up our customer tooling source code and made it free and available for anyone to contribute too"

To me releasing open-source to specifically try get people to sign up to a paid product is a sales tool.

tanepiper··on Show HN: Built a tool for devs to create high-quality app icons
Looks like the SSL is incorrectly deployed as I'm getting a net::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID that is refusing any access
tanepiper··on If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books?
Yes? At least this is what I've found. The only major social media account I have now is my Mastodon account. Not using X/BlueSky/Threads - I find I have more time to myself - my book count this last year has gone from near-zero to at least one book a month now.
tanepiper··on The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law
Damn, I did not have "Ashton Kutcher destroys European liberty" on my bingo card
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