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by snickell 5mo ago
Can somebody help me understand how they use these, I feel like I'm missing something or I'm bad at something? I only spent 10 minutes with Handy, and a similar amount of time with SuperWhisper, so pretty ignorant. I tried it both
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by snickell 7mo ago
I would pay extra to get an iPhone mini, they could sell it as a “pro” feature. Still holding on to my mini too.
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by snickell 7mo ago
I sometimes think in terms of "would you trust this company to raise god?" Personally, I'd really like god to have a nice childhood. I kind of don't trust any of the companies to raise a human baby. But, if I had to pick
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by snickell 7mo ago
I would much rather use Vue than React too. That said, from a bird's eye view, I would say they're siblings. In a way I would say that Vue inherits the "react approach", and does it much (much) better, but its also not a
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by snickell 8mo ago
Swift is available for Linux, license is Apache 2.0. There's even swift bindings for some linux ecosystem libraries, e.g. adwaita-swift for writing gnome apps and qt bindings for writing kde apps.
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by snickell 9mo ago
I… wow, I actually really like this idea. As you may have seen in my other comments, I’m not blind to the advantages of toll money being used to improve roads etc. This preserves that upside, while making the publicly owned resource roughly
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by snickell 9mo ago
Highways are almost always publicly owned monopolies. We, the public, choose to build them because they enrich all of us. If you want to raise the money to buy land and build a private highway, price segment away. If you want to price segme
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by snickell 9mo ago
This is allocating public property, not personal. The money raised by auctioning access is of some public benefit, but is it enough to offset the deep unfairness of the public granting, for example, software engineers a shorter commute on a
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by snickell 10mo ago
Any efforts to consolidate around a community fork yet?
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by snickell 11mo ago
Parrot? Sure, but a parrot operating in a high dimensional manifold. This breaks naive human assumptions.
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by snickell 11mo ago
I really like "agent assisted coding". I think the word "vibe" is gonna always swing in a yolo direction, so having different words is helpful for differentiating fundamentally different applications of the same agentic
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by snickell 1y ago
This is a brilliant idea, I really hope somebody on the iPhone 18 design team reads it. I think there’s a huge pent up demand for a mini model, many of us would pay more for it than the large versions.
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by snickell 1y ago
On an iPhone 12 mini, wishing I hadn’t upgraded to iOS 26 because now my phone is notably laggy. Word to the wise. I use swiping for input and would consider it now unusable due to extreme lag. The physical aspect I can’t give up is I can h
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by snickell 1y ago
The distance between earth and mars varies between 150 and 2000 light seconds.
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by snickell 1y ago
I think many open source projects already experience two buckets of contributors which maps nicely to the two class distinction inherent in this model: 1) a bunch of people who contributed one or two PRs, but it took the maintainers more ti
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Show HN: universal application where LLM does all computation directly(universal.oroborus.org)
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by snickell 1y ago
If you want to try what Karpathy is describing live today, here's a demo I wrote a few months ago: https://universal.oroborus.org/ It takes mouse clicks, sends them to the LLM, and asks it to render static HTML+CSS of
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by snickell 1y ago
What scares me is that the obvious pool of money to fund the deficit in the cost of operating of LLMs comes from the most subtle native advertising imaginable. Can you resist ads where, say, AirBnB pays OpenAI privately to “dope” the o3 hyp
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by snickell 1y ago
I use AI heavily in my own programming, so I’m not against, but I suspect this “as much as” is mostly copilot doing “tab completion” style autocompletions, not AI writing and modifying functions on its own.
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by snickell 1y ago
This is a really interesting project, and a great read. I learned a lot. I'm falling down the rabbit hole pretty hard reading about the "Leap" algorithm ( https://www.usenix.org/system/files/atc20-mar
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by snickell 1y ago
It definitely knows what GTK4 is, when it freaked out on me and lost the code, it was using all gtkmm-4.0 headers, and had the compiler error count down to 10 (most likely with tons of logic errors, but who knows). But LLMs performance vari
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by snickell 1y ago
Yes, very much agree, an interesting benchmark. Particularly because it’s in a “tier 2” framework (gtkmm) in terms of amount of code available to train an LLM on. That tests the LLMs ability to plan and problem solve compared with, say, “co
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by snickell 1y ago
This is the smoothest tom sawyer move I've ever seen IRL, I wonder how many people are now grinding out your GTK4 port with our favorite LLM/system to see if it can. It'll be interesting to see if anyone gets something workin
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by snickell 1y ago
> How do you even read code without types? We're not going to settle the preference for dynamic vs static types here. Its probably older than both of us, with many fine programmers on both sides of the fence. I'll leave it at t
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by snickell 1y ago
Even in early 2025, LLMs are already the most powerful type inference algorithm. Why would they need a static type system in 2030? My guess is it'll be the opposite: I suspect compared to humans, LLMs will make fewer type errors, and m
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by snickell 1y ago
I was wondering the same. I’d love to see a quick head to head, in realistic non studio wfh environment, starting with macbook mic, and then at $50, $100, $300 mic investments. Anyone got the setup already in front of them at their zoom des
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by snickell 1y ago
The main things I'm blocking on before submitting a "Show HN" are: - Getting the instant-replay gallery sorted to make it usable, maybe sorting via likes. - Selecting a couple interesting sessions from the gallery and turning
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by snickell 1y ago
Anyone know order-or-magnitude how many visits to expect (order of magnitude) from an Ask HN? A thousand? 10? 100? I need to figure out how many credits I'd need to line up to survive one. > had to charge you a few dimes s/you&
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by snickell 1y ago
wow, that would be amazing, sending you an email. I don't think the project would have gotten this far without openrouter (because: how else would you sanely test on 20+ models to be able to find the only one that actually worked?). Wi
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by snickell 1y ago
What I'm currently doing is caveman: I ask the LLM to attach a unique id= to every element, and I gave it an attribute (data-use-cached) it can use to mark "the contents of this element should be loaded from the preivous frame&quo

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