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webprofusion··on MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code
The key takeaway from this is that drama loving dinosaurs live among us. Moving on.
webprofusion··on Can Claude Fly a Plane?
"Can I Get Claude to Fly A Plane" isn't the same thing. Interesting though, would be a good test for different models but it relies on the test harness being good enough that a human could also use the same info to achieve the required outcome. e.g. if latency of input/output is too slow then nobody could do it.
webprofusion··on Show HN: boringBar – a taskbar-style dock replacement for macOS
You want me to pay for your UI coding subscription?
webprofusion··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
My first thought was does VS Code Insiders use it (or anything it relies on, or do any extensions etc). Made me think.
webprofusion··on TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool
Ha, well proof that AI let's you build anything you can imagine. Wait till I show you Remote Desktop, one day macOS and Linux will catch up.
webprofusion··on How much of HN is AI?
For a HN front page article this is light on content. Should have used AI.
webprofusion··on PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel
I've used similar with SQL Server Management Studio (GH copilot) and it's pretty useful for database work and gnarly queries.

This is great, but I'd prefer to see a refit of their UI first, it's currently a bit slow and looks prehistoric.

webprofusion··on Why can't you tune your guitar? (2019)
The most surprising thing is that everyone here is an expert on true temperament. Who would have guessed.
webprofusion··on Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons
I'm guessing the music will be much like this one (more about fun than having the best actual songs) but didn't know there was a track with both Chris Poland and Marty Friedman: https://open.spotify.com/track/7yDb6NVzvuUVuvLyTSfDhz?si=0c5...
webprofusion··on Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons
It's Rad. It doesn't even have to be good, it just has to exist.
webprofusion··on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp
My 2c : automatically disliking something because a computer did part of it is at best lazy, at worst wrong, but it should be up to individuals what they do and don't like. I get that they just want to have a ban-hammer to punish bots with, that's understandable.
webprofusion··on AI generated music barred from Bandcamp
So where's the line? - if I use computer generated drums is that banned? Lots of tunes use computers for drums - if I use computer generated vocals is that different? Lots of vocals are heavily processed an have been for decades. Some have been computer generated.
webprofusion··on Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig
Nice but 2008 called and want their git web UI back. I can't take anything "modern" seriously if it seems firmly archaic, my problem I get it.
webprofusion··on Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
No my job is sitting eating this here donuts.
webprofusion··on Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video]
This is fire.
webprofusion··on Launch HN: Propolis (YC X25) – Browser agents that QA your web app autonomously
This is a great idea and definitely useful, in particular this would make sense if it can take the build artifacts of recent github action builds and test them comprehensively, particularly to green-light a release. You can already pretty much do this using the standard agent tools and a set of test prompts so anything that makes it easier and repeatable is good.

The pricing sounds quite enterprisey, the risk there is that people will tend towards building their own.

webprofusion··on Severe performance penalty found in VSCode rendering loop
Looks interesting.

I see they also contributed a fix to the OnlyFans notification robot. Clearly doing the important work that the internet needs.

webprofusion··on Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
Context is important for stuff like this, I've served 350M requests (with db interaction) for $49 via cloudflare before, but it all depends what you're trying to do.

Abstracted infrastructure like Kubernetes is expensive by default, so design has an impact.

webprofusion··on CSS for Styling a Markdown Post
I think I probably used this one https://github.com/sindresorhus/github-markdown-css
webprofusion··on The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
Ok but what happened after that. It's been years with no word.
webprofusion··on Ken Parker, famed luthier, has died
Brilliant designer and luthier.
webprofusion··on Show HN: Autism Simulator
I'll be honest, it feels a bit whiney. Many of us in tech are somewhere on the spectrum, but owning your problems is the first step to handling them and this doesn't feel like that, it feels more like blaming the diagnosis.
webprofusion··on Irrlicht Engine – a cross-platform realtime 3D engine
Godot is currently used as the 3D engine in the Tesla in-car UI, possibly also in their apps (?). It's cross platform and open source and has a pretty vibrant dev community.
webprofusion··on Why our website looks like an operating system
It looks awesome but I clicked several bits and pieces and still have no idea what they do or what their product is.
webprofusion··on Clankers Die on Christmas
Spelling mistake in first line, should have used AI.
webprofusion··on Proposal: AI Content Disclosure Header
Hack: only present this header to AI crawlers, so they don't index your content, lol.
webprofusion··on Buypass discontinues issuance of TLS/SSL certificates
For those looking to migrate, Let's Encrypt and Google Trust Services are my current favorite picks. ZeroSSL is ok but their ACME API status has been patchy recently and I'm a little worried about them.
webprofusion··on Buypass discontinues issuance of TLS/SSL certificates
For info, here is a list of some of the current ACME enabled CAs, not counting the purely commercial/enterprise gang: https://acmeclients.com/certificate-authorities/
webprofusion··on Mirage 2 – Generative World Engine
Actually it said 45mins wait but only took a couple of minutes. Very cool, enormous input lag etc but definitely awesome.
webprofusion··on Mirage 2 – Generative World Engine
Will be really cool when they are ready to handle traffic.
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