nicpottier

5 ms·

1.
by nicpottier 2mo ago
Are any of these open source? I've gone down the go/htmx/pg path lightly a few times and I haven't loved the feel of it, but maybe I'm doing it wrong. I think just server side templating just starts feeling icky in
2.
by nicpottier 2mo ago
Weird comments on this. I found the writing to be excellent. The animations are a bit small and associated text even smaller on mobile but this doesn't read as AI slop to me at all. Anything that makes technology more accessible and un
3.
by nicpottier 3mo ago
Did you write the blog post entirely on your own? It reads like AI slop to me but maybe I'm just getting more sensitive. I can't decide whether we are all starting to mimic the same turns of phrase that LLMs like to use or whether
4.
by nicpottier 5mo ago
I think phone manufacturers will figure it out once it is a requirement. Was switching everyone to USB-C annoying for Apple? Sure. Are we in a better place because the EU forced it. You betcha. That's the point. I don't love every
5.
by nicpottier 5mo ago
One is made for humans to consume, the other for a compiler or interpreter. Good code is supposed to look like other code and follow common patterns. The best writing is original and novel.
6.
by nicpottier 5mo ago
> This isn’t a minor detail, it’s the core constraint that shaped virtually every habit and institution in our industry. I am so so tired of this turn of phrase in LLM created content. I guess I don't know for sure whether this arti
7.
by nicpottier 6mo ago
Try training a model on piper, you will need to record a lot of utterances but the results are pretty great and the output is a fast TTS model.
8.
by nicpottier 6mo ago
I will confess that I have not had time to play with those. Will give them a try, thanks for the recommendation.
9.
by nicpottier 6mo ago
I've been struggling on finding a reasonably priced model to use with my toy openclaw instance. Opus 4.6 felt kinda magical but that's just too expensive and I'm not risking my max subscription for it. GPT 5.4 mini is the fir
10.
by nicpottier 6mo ago
Maybe that's a good thing? I miss the Seattle of the 2000s that was less overflowing with tech and more a mix of incomes. I for one support the tax. The dichotomy of being a liberal state with a regressive tax structure needs to stop.
11.
by nicpottier 7mo ago
Ya, this reads verbatim on how my OpenClaw bot blogs.
12.
by nicpottier 8mo ago
This made me laugh only because I imagine there could possibly be some truth to it. This is the world we are in. Maybe they all loaded codex to fix their deploy? ;)
13.
by nicpottier 8mo ago
This photo did not scream AI to me but I'm not deep into internet trolling culture. I would love to be able to take photos that our government posts at face value. I find any defense of this kind of wild. These are the people in power?
14.
by nicpottier 8mo ago
Yes, it was good this was caught and reported on. But this will become normalized and we seem to be sprinting full speed towards not being able to know what to believe. That the State is engaging in this is concerning to say the least.
15.
White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying(nytimes.com)
118 points by nicpottier 8mo ago|47 comments
16.
by nicpottier 8mo ago
Pretty sure the right move as soon as he said "I didn't write that" was to just say. "It isn't important who wrote it, we all make mistakes, let's see together how we could have done better."
17.
by nicpottier 9mo ago
Congrats on the launch! Do you expect / want this to be a business? This feels like the kind of thing where anybody big enough to pay for it will build it in house. And your pricing seems so cheap that even if you do win some it won&#x
18.
by nicpottier 9mo ago
Love this benchmark, always the first place I look. Also seems like it is time to move the goalposts, not sure we are getting enough resolution between models anymore. Out of curiosity why does gemini get gold for the poker example but gpt-
19.
by nicpottier 10mo ago
I once was chatting with an author of books (very much an amateur) and he said he enjoyed writing because he liked discovering where the story goes. IE, he starts and builds characters and creates scenarios for them and at some point the st
20.
by nicpottier 1y ago
Stripe supported Bitcoin for a while as a payment method.. so.. I actually view that as a plus though, they have experience and have seen what works and what doesn't.
21.
by nicpottier 1y ago
I've contributed a few trivial fixes to OrganicMaps and I found them to be pretty responsive and reasonable in their opinions. That doesn't mean I agreed with all the decisions or priorities they make but that's to be expecte
22.
by nicpottier 1y ago
It was really bad at first for this type of thing. I just tried a few of them because I too had given up on them and they seem to work perfectly now. It even cancelled the alarm I had previously set when I simply said "cancel the last
23.
by nicpottier 1y ago
See Maniac on Netflix. They call them "AdBuddies" and they are people reading you ads in exchange for payment.
24.
The White House Cited My Research to Justify Tariffs. They Got It All Wrong(nytimes.com)
13 points by nicpottier 1y ago|1 comments
25.
by nicpottier 1y ago
I understand the idea here of course. I have been posting and commenting on HN for the better part of two decades. I don't want to see HN descend into a complete chaos of political news, I agree with that. But it also feels not so righ
26.
by nicpottier 1y ago
But vim vs emacs is fine?
27.
by nicpottier 1y ago
It is terrifying is what it is. That HN seems to be pretending that everything is going just fine and allowing these discussions to be buried is more than a little bit concerning. Have a fucking spine!
28.
by nicpottier 1y ago
Except the administration is paying for these people to be in the El Salvadoran prison. Also, since when is the administration that uses threats of giant tariffs to accomplish its goals powerless to right these wrongs?
29.
Facebook Is Hiding Heather Cox Richardson's Posts(closertotheedge.substack.com)
38 points by nicpottier 1y ago|19 comments
30.
by nicpottier 1y ago
Also the administration claims to be "powerless" to free him now. Does anybody believe this? Terrifying. This isn't the only case, how many others are out there? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025&#

More ›