varun_ch

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by varun_ch 5d ago
I think OpenAI was surprised to find their agents had access to the unrestricted internet :P
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by varun_ch 5d ago
same here! I got into Scratch at the age of 7 and without it (and the Scratch community), I wouldn’t have any career (or even a plan for one). I also worked as an intern on the Scratch team at the Scratch Foundation. I also know that one of
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by varun_ch 5d ago
> Also, what's the reason banning minors? Is AI bad for mental health? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots#Suic...
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by varun_ch 8d ago
These 'integrations' everywhere just mean we get more APIs that can be accessed programmatically, which I think is good for users, even if you don't plan to use to use AI. It's like the optimistic web 2.0 APIs everywhere
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by varun_ch 8d ago
Couldn’t you just prefix your search with KDE? Search engines aren’t that bad. I like the Apple approach where apps are just named what they do. (Minus Safari. I wonder why they went with Safari.)
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by varun_ch 10d ago
I know agents have lowered the cost to make a website to be a few cents for tokens and a couple dollars for a domain name, but isn’t all this a little excessive for a few line long markdown file!? Why not just display the ‘skill’ itself wit
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by varun_ch 11d ago
This is something I’ve seen before. Someone is registering domain names related to open source projects and then ‘creating’ slop websites about the projects. Not sure what the play is, or whether this falls into that category, but it’s real
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by varun_ch 19d ago
The new Framework Pro laptop is supposed to be pretty good. Anyone have any experience with it yet?
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by varun_ch 20d ago
I’m in Japan right now on a holiday and I was blown away by how easy it was to get set up with Suica through Apple Wallet / Apple Pay. In fact, I did the initial set up back home in Toronto just by tapping a few buttons in the native A
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by varun_ch 20d ago
In Japan right now. I didn’t even have to install anything, just went to Apple Wallet, add card, selected Suica, and then could create and load up a card. Plus it gets set up as an express transit card so I can tap my locked phone to pay fo
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by varun_ch 24d ago
It might not think to do this but it’ll certainly help do it. The code is full of suspiciously AI code comments and file headers! https://github.com/AlpinDale/gpt2.cmake/blob/main/cmake/mode...
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by varun_ch 24d ago
Also, the website seems to be largely ‘vibe coded’, at least given by the written copy and the style. If you ask Claude to use 1990s/2000s web design and HTML it’ll do something like this.
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by varun_ch 25d ago
If you use HDR videos, you can get bright white even on soon browsers that don’t support HDR images
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by varun_ch 29d ago
Mildly related: I have found that the best text editor I've ever used is neovim with Claude code writing the config which I don't look at. I'm not a huge fan of 'vibe coding' or whatever, but being able to configure
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by varun_ch 29d ago
not the OP, but I assume: Apps don't need to go through Apple and Apple doesn't get to take a cut?
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by varun_ch 1mo ago
The part about getting authorized to test the emergency calling capabilities is cool! I should've expected that would be a thing but I didn't ever consider it.
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by varun_ch 1mo ago
What are the serious holes?
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by varun_ch 1mo ago
With Tom Scott in particular, there’s a number of his videos that are kinda eerie to watch now with today’s LLM context eg. https://youtu.be/CcZdwX4noCE
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by varun_ch 1mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=myshapeprotocol
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by varun_ch 1mo ago
https://github.com/MCPBlender/blender-mcp/commit/4460e97c04e... That doesn’t look pretty
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by varun_ch 1mo ago
I also agree that a big issue here is crappy software. The discussion revolving AI+cyber always revolves around the assumption that all software is crappy, and to a certain degree that may be true, but we could also take our jobs seriously
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by varun_ch 1mo ago
to be fair, the model used for Chat Jimmy is not very smart, but the world where it is smart is very interesting. It’s going to be really crazy when the bottle neck for agents is the speed of the tool calls rather than the speed of inferenc
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by varun_ch 1mo ago
not that it really helps to know now, but .gle is a TLD operated by Google. the only domains on a .gle domain will be Google (in theory). Plus, a single letter domain (on any TLD), like c.gle would be expensive to burn on a phishing scam. B
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by varun_ch 2mo ago
tech companies are responsible for the products they ship, aren’t they? a company shouldn’t release something that could only be used for Bad Things
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by varun_ch 2mo ago
What is an AI image generator inside Google Earth useful for if not generating believable but fake images that look like they’re from Google Earth?
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by varun_ch 2mo ago
is this the same thing as/related to https://superb.systems/ ? https://go.superlogical.com --> https://superb.systems/ edit: aand someone fixed it :) I guess that must've been their
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by varun_ch 2mo ago
I found https://radicle.dev/2026/04/23/domain-move It sounds like both are the same project, one is the “explorer” which is on a different domain so that censoring it doesn’t impact the main site
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by varun_ch 2mo ago
I’m ambivalent towards AI generated poster or other business design. It might leave a bad taste in my mouth but it’s whatever. While I’m against it, I can understand why for many businesses it’s an easy and convenient choice. What makes me
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by varun_ch 2mo ago
This is pretty cool. iOS could do with more 'do one thing and do it well' apps without paywalls or subscriptions...
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by varun_ch 2mo ago
Does HN still use simple files for storing its data?

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