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Show HN: License Detector – the fastest, most accurate license detection tool(github.com)
4 points by eggbrain 17d ago|0 comments
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by eggbrain 26d ago
I've stopped waiting for sites to do what I want in terms of features and functionality -- their incentives and mine very rarely align. I think the solution here eventually will be a search engine that lives on your personal computer (
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by eggbrain 1mo ago
Note -- if you do this, watch out for requesting access to "all tlds". They send you two emails per TLD -- one for your pending state, and one for your approved/rejected state. I suddenly had 1k+ emails flooding into my inbox
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by eggbrain 1mo ago
This is actually where I see software going in the short term -- cloud moving to local. A few years ago, if you wanted translation, you'd use Google Translate. If you wanted to search the web, you'd use Google search. But for a fe
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by eggbrain 2mo ago
You may need to select a smaller model, but an M4 with 16GB ram should work!
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by eggbrain 2mo ago
DHH was not the point of my comment (in fact, I said if the author had focused on him they'd have more of a point), so this unfortunately feels needlessly attackative.
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by eggbrain 2mo ago
This post does not feel like it was made in good faith. The general premise ends up being: - Matz is nice -> DHH / Tobias are "not nice" -> Ruby is doomed (because of two not nice people, also perhaps because of AI) I t
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Show HN: Writekin – fine-tune a local LLM on your own writing, on your Mac(github.com)
6 points by eggbrain 2mo ago|3 comments
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by eggbrain 2mo ago
About the same thing I saw. I kept having to increase my bid every day, and even at $4 CPC basically saw nothing converting. As you said, it's also really hard to get visibility: metrics are poor, and targeting seems more like a whim&#
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by eggbrain 2mo ago
> Can you imagine a venue refusing entry to former clients 2% of the time just because they’ve “improved their experience”? On the flipside, if a client enters enough venues that refuse entry to them because of something the client can f
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by eggbrain 3mo ago
Gauntlet AI I believe is correlated originally with Lambda School (YC S17). YC founders I believe are able to post job postings on Hacker News, although this might stretch the definition a bit...
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by eggbrain 3mo ago
I feel we need a "proof of work by human" for emails. Something that could be signed that attests that someone took the time to write the email, not just sent a template / used AI to auto-generate a personal looking email, et
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by eggbrain 3mo ago
For those of us on subscription plans: * From today through June 22, Fable 5 is included on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans at no extra cost. * On June 23, we’ll remove Fable 5 from those plans. Using it after that will requ
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by eggbrain 4mo ago
> [...] People do not realise how much of a toll it takes on you if you actually care about the environment, exploited workers, theft from the people who can least afford it, the impact on people's cognitive skills, the centralisati
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by eggbrain 4mo ago
> [...] With organized criminals, you can't actually see what the abuse is 'worth' to them. Even without collecting events, you can calculate what the abuse is worth to you , even if the math ends up being fuzzier. At t
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by eggbrain 4mo ago
To the end platform, what's the difference? Mitigation techniques largely remain the same, in that you make it more time / energy / money than what the end result of their abuse is worth. The platform cares about stopping the
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by eggbrain 4mo ago
There will always be a subset of users whose goal is to not use your service, but to arbitrage your service into the maximum value for themselves. For example -- let's say you offer $100 in free AWS credits by signing up to your platfo
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by eggbrain 4mo ago
The value of human interaction cannot be overstated -- and the writer did a beautiful job outlining how AI isolates us. But there are also hidden difficulties in human interaction that AI helps ameliorate. - My doctor friend does not wantin
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by eggbrain 4mo ago
Normally, I separate the download filename (what the server / person chose to call the file) from my own organization system file name. So if I download or get sent "Book.pdf", I'll rename it to how I'll remember it
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by eggbrain 4mo ago
> Stripe (their payment process) will handle adult content payments. It puts the account into the high risk category due to the high rate of fraud in those categories. Stripe _says_ they will handle these type of payments, but more often
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by eggbrain 4mo ago
Lately I've been building Aho ( https://aho.com ) -- an API for verifying age, credentials, and identity using cryptographic proof from digital wallets instead of document inspection. For context, I built out Playboy's a
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by eggbrain 6mo ago
There are two opposite answers here, and I feel like I could argue either one: 1) Humans were never held accountable, really Outside of a few regulated industries, the worst that happens to an engineer who pushes negligent code is that they
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by eggbrain 6mo ago
Your comment seems to imply AI is currently at a junior developer's level -- 12 months ago I would have agreed (like I mentioned in my parent comment, both near the end and about the "latter" team I was a part of), but it&#x
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by eggbrain 6mo ago
I find people over-rotate on whether we should be reviewing AI-produced code. "What if bad code gets into production!" some programmers gasp, as if they themselves have never pushed bad code, or had coworkers do the same. I'v
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by eggbrain 7mo ago
Many of today's news websites (tech or otherwise) cashed in their goodwill / reputation / page rank to sell ads. The first shoe dropped when news websites realized they weren't generating content fast enough. Hard, in de
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by eggbrain 7mo ago
I'm curious -- are there any stories of projects that launched on Hacker News, Hacker News loved it, and it ended up _also_ being a big success? E.g. we have stories like Dropbox where HN seemed to be dismissive only to be proven wrong
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by eggbrain 11mo ago
If we assume token providers are becoming more and more of a commodity service these days, it seems telling that OpenAI specifically decided to claw out consumer hardware. Perhaps their big bet is that their partnership with Jony Ive will c
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by eggbrain 11mo ago
I’m glad someone called this out. “Let’s just use vanilla rails” — sure, except basically every version of rails for the past 5 years has decided to completely change how they do JS. So many gems are also still built on sprockets — even whe
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by eggbrain 1y ago
Another potential self-selection bias -- if people know they are signing up to have a conversation with a stranger, perhaps they are already predisposed to be more "pleasant" in conversations, vs a potential curmudgeon who doesn&#
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by eggbrain 1y ago
There's also the magnitude of a negative interaction as well to consider. If I have 99 great interactions with someone, but one REALLY bad interaction (they insult me deeply, or say something irredeemable), that can also sour the whole

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