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by mmahemoff 4d ago
“Make it nicer” will lead to unpredictable and controversial changes, likely to clash with the project owner’s vision. The owner would be better off using the LLM as a collaborator, if anything, to decide where to take the design. However,
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by mmahemoff 7d ago
I still use a 13 Pro Max for travel. Incredible longevity. The only downside is it requires a battery pack to last a full day but those are slim and compact now. I intend to replace the battery soon since it still has 2-3 years left as a ba
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by mmahemoff 7d ago
The good news is Apple made a more practical dual-screen device than most previous attempts. The “big square” UI was awkward for both reading and video. Apple not only made it rectangular but kept it in the magic aspect ratio that’s able to
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by mmahemoff 8d ago
Gell-Mann Amnesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect As tech became more pervasive in the past couple of decades, it became commonplace for pundits to spout nonsense on the topic. Those takes should
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by mmahemoff 10d ago
> I've heard PMs saying: "this was a user-submitted bug", meaning you better fix this ASAP. There are certainly developers with a practice of triaging and action user-submitted reports, but unfortunately it’s opaque to the
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by mmahemoff 10d ago
“Only a minority of people think of reporting bugs and, if they do think of it, they often fail to do so either because they think it’s too time-consuming or that they might end up looking silly.” Most people don’t directly use open source,
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by mmahemoff 11d ago
Visitor’s Sunday or owner’s Sunday? It seems to be the former as the stated purpose suggests a PSA function and less about reducing owner’s burden in maintaining uptime. If that’s the case, you could consider using pre-render JavaScript to
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by mmahemoff 14d ago
Dwarkesh subsequently interviewed one of the authors, published yesterday. https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/ajeya-cotra
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by mmahemoff 26d ago
I can see how the title is misleading, but I would have been shocked if it was internal Meta jargon. Execs at all the big tech companies nowadays have a culture of avoiding slogans that could be deemed overly aggressive. Even “Move fast an
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by mmahemoff 1mo ago
Wayback shows #6 as "By 2010, more than 50 percent of books sold worldwide will be printed on demand at the point of sale in the form of library-quality paperbacks." It was removed early 2011. Is this what happens when they can&#x
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by mmahemoff 3mo ago
Aphantasia doesn’t preclude having dreams or internal dialogue/thought.
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by mmahemoff 3mo ago
Great idea for any kind of ambient display. Could use it to CI or server stats.
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by mmahemoff 3mo ago
Why now though? Based on the sharp decline since 2022 (according to Ferris’s numbers), s/books/chatbots seems like the Occam’s Razor explanation here.
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by mmahemoff 4mo ago
> The linked hacks blog https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardenin...
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by mmahemoff 5mo ago
Claude's vim bindings don't support ESC mapping, unfortunately for muscle memory. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/25306
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by mmahemoff 7mo ago
Nice work but please consider fixing the cursor styling. It doesn't change to `pointer` when hovering over the books, which is what you'd expect as they are clickable. Then, when you click on a book to open the modal, the cursor d
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by mmahemoff 7mo ago
Sure, if the bot is actually committing fraud, but there's perfectly valid use cases that don't involve fraud, e.g., buying groceries, booking travel. And some banks provide APIs, so it's allowed for a bot to use them. Howeve
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by mmahemoff 8mo ago
There's also a massive selection bias when the cohort is early adopters. Another thing about early users is they are also longer-term users (assuming they are still on the platform) and have seen the platform evolve, which gives them a
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by mmahemoff 8mo ago
Giving access to "my bank account", which I take to mean one's primary account, feels like high risk for relatively low upside. It's easy to open a new bank (or pseudo-bank) account, so you can isolate the spend and set
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by mmahemoff 8mo ago
I’ve tried many e-readers since early Kindle but I keep coming back to two fundamental problems with e-ink, both relevant to education. First, extremely cumbersome and error-prone to type compared to swipe-typing on a soft keyboard. Even hi
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by mmahemoff 8mo ago
The current top HN post is for moltbook.com seven hours ago, this present thread being just below it and posted two hours hence We conclude this week has been a prosperous one for domain name registrars (even if we set aside all the new dom
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by mmahemoff 9mo ago
Very cool idea since ffmpeg is one of those tools that has a few common tasks but most users would need to look up the syntax every time to implement them (or make an alias). In line with the ease of use motivation, you might consider suppo
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by mmahemoff 1y ago
Correct. Fortunately a number of streaming services are available in many regions nowadays, e.g., Netflix, Apple TV, Disney, HBO Max or whatever it’s called now. The content may vary between regions though, e.g., you open Netflix in another
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by mmahemoff 1y ago
Yes and combine with a travel router so you don’t have to endure logging into a wifi portal with a soft keyboard on the TV, if the stick OS even allows it. Then having to repeat the process daily due to expiration times, or as soon as you r
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by mmahemoff 1y ago
> of course 1/2 of the appeal is just the accent Deflating is the moment when Arnie's autobiography audio switches from his own voice to a random American-accent narrator. (After chapter 1 or so?) I guess time-constrained celeb
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by mmahemoff 1y ago
A major advantage of pure models is testability. If your conception of a "model" is perversely a user-facing widget, congratulations, you'll need to write UI tests that simulate button presses and other such user actions, and
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by mmahemoff 1y ago
Or do ZZZZZZZZZZ
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by mmahemoff 1y ago
This is especially true for sleep since we can be pretty good at incorporating external sounds into our dreams. It's been shown in controlled experiments. Seems likely that certain noises are generically easier to integrate into dreams
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by mmahemoff 1y ago
I wish someone could solve the problem at the receiver end, i.e., invent noise-cancelling headphones/earplugs that actually cancel noise as effectively as eye-masks cancel light. In addition to sleep needs, the world has gotten noisier
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by mmahemoff 1y ago
I think you'll still hear any relevant alarms. Earplugs are better than nothing, but really aren't fabulous at blocking noise the way eye-masks are. For hearing-impaired people, there are alarms based on flashing and vibration whi

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