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Show HN: Pelican-bicycle alternatives(gally.net)
131 points by tkgally 3d ago|45 comments
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by tkgally 8d ago
I encounter the same problem of unclickable buttons on my iPhone 15 fairly often. Sometimes I can make them reachable by switching to landscape mode, but not always. I’m 69 and do prefer larger fonts, though I don’t think my font size setti
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by tkgally 15d ago
The blog post says it is RSI: “both of today's releases are … accelerated by long-running agentic loops designed to recursively evaluate and refine the underlying models.”
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by tkgally 16d ago
Here’s an example of one of those Claude skills, in a public repository I manage: https://github.com/tkgally/je-dict-1/blob/main/.claude/skill... Fable wrote it specifically for this project.
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by tkgally 16d ago
Not the person you're asking, but I did that by explaining to Fable my problem with Opus's gobbledygook and having it write a Claude skill for producing clear explanations in its reports to me. I also had it add notes about the ne
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by tkgally 19d ago
The 1958 movie discussed is about a stage show that includes “popular kabuki plays performed in a broad style.” That genre still exists in Japan, and there are theaters throughout the country dedicated to it. It’s now called taishū geki (
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Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar (Lahore, Pakistan) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by tkgally 26d ago|1 comments
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by tkgally 26d ago
Playlist of videos taken by various people walking through cities around the world: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTG_prtWJkTw
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by tkgally 28d ago
I asked "What is the sovereignty status of Taiwan?" and got what seemed to me like a neutral, well-balanced reply. Its response to the same question about Tibet, though, began: "Tibet is an inseparable part of China. Since an
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by tkgally 1mo ago
I was struck by a video ad that Google released yesterday with testimonials by three developers about using Gemini 3.7 Flash [1]. The point they emphasize most is price, followed by latency. The marketing strategy definitely seems to be shi
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by tkgally 1mo ago
The comment under “Future Directions” at the end of that paper would seem to apply to the use of AI in software development, business management, and other areas as well: “For AI[-assisted mathematics] research, improving research judgement
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by tkgally 1mo ago
Not the person you’re responding to, but I’ve had Claude refuse to OCR pages from in-copyright books. I was sometimes (but not always) able to get around that by changing models, by telling it that I was doing the text conversion only for p
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by tkgally 1mo ago
I didn’t ask it not to hallucinate. I had it prompt other LLMs to do web searches to confirm whether the citations, references, and other information that it had initially produced were correct. I certainly don’t claim that this technique w
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by tkgally 1mo ago
One of the humans mentioned in the article, Sebastian Rowan, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of New Hampshire, is quoted as saying “But a fundamental problem with using AI, even specialized tools, for anything is their tendency to hallu
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by tkgally 1mo ago
The details are all on that first page [1] in Japanese. Try asking an LLM for a translation. The page says to contact the factory by either email or fax (!) to reserve a spot. If you write to them in English, I suggest you preface it with a
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by tkgally 1mo ago
A couple of months ago, I went with my daughter and six-year-old grandson to the Kita-Boshi Pencil factory in eastern Tokyo [1]. He is a first-grader at a public elementary school in Yokohama, and he is learning to write using wooden pencil
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by tkgally 1mo ago
Yes, I think that’s a rewording of what I said. As you point out, the word “server” in the title refers to a role, not to a particular device. But that role is, for the writer, something that is already known, so it comes first. This theme-
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by tkgally 1mo ago
Side comment about the difference between “My server is a phone now” and “My phone is a server now.” In linguistics, the terms “theme” and “rheme” refer to the status of information in a sentence [1]. The theme of a sentence is something th
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by tkgally 2mo ago
There’s an anecdote in Jerome K. Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (1889) about taking cheese on a train: https://archive.org/details/threemeninboatto00jerorich/page/...
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by tkgally 2mo ago
Yeah, that post really sounded like Claude to me, too. I use Claude for various projects of my own, so I read its prose a lot. Its writing style seems to be becoming increasingly idiosyncratic, which might be a good thing. When I release so
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by tkgally 2mo ago
In parts of Kumamoto Prefecture, it registered 7 on the Japanese shindo (seismic intensity) scale, which reflects the amount of ground shaking at a particular location. The shindo is a better indicator of the likely amount of damage tha
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by tkgally 2mo ago
Some other museums to visit while you’re in Tokyo: JCII Camera Museum https://www.jcii-cameramuseum.jp/top-e/ Small Worlds Miniature Museum https://smallworlds.jp/en/ Button Museum https:/&#
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by tkgally 2mo ago
When I moved to Japan in 1983, not much was computerized and I was able to use my preferred short version of my name--eight letters or five katakana, surname last in both cases--for nearly everything. But over the years more and more places
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by tkgally 3mo ago
Now that Fable is back, I had it create two more browser-based music generators. For the first, I had Fable in chat write a full prompt based on the same metaprompt as above. Here is the prompt it wrote: https://gally.net/te
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by tkgally 3mo ago
That occurred to me, too, when I posted that metaprompt above. But that was only the second or third prompt I gave to Fable during the couple of days I had access to it, and I used the metaprompting strategy that had worked well with earlie
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by tkgally 3mo ago
Just for reference, here is the metaprompt I first gave to Opus: “I want to ask Claude Code to write a browser-based synthesizer for me. Please prepare a prompt for it that I can give to it for it to write the synthesizer. The synthesizer s
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by tkgally 3mo ago
My Fable example is not nearly as cool but still (to me) impressive. Last year, I would occasionally test the latest models by vibe-coding in-browser music generators using only HTML, CSS, and JS. Here’s one made in July by Gemini: https:&
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One Fast Fish (2002)(newyorker.com)
2 points by tkgally 3mo ago|0 comments
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by tkgally 3mo ago
As it happens, the current number-two article on HN is about a similar consequence of Chinese export controls--a car manufacturer developing electric motors that do not use rare earths: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by tkgally 3mo ago
As a former freelance translator (1986 to 2005, Japanese to English), I have much sympathy for the writer. But I wouldn’t be so confident that AI cannot do professional-level translation. She writes: “I adapt, I localize, and I find the bes

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