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Coming from a design background

From a UX perspective, it is very weird to place the toggle button for the right panel at the top of the left panel... After I gave up to find a way to close the right panel, I found that button a few minutes later, when I looked around for other interactive elements.

Well, not E2EE, but I like Photoprism very much for the self-hosted photosharing use-case. In fact, I tried Ente a while ago and am always impressed by their communication skills, but from a product side, I prefer Photoprism.

I have a local instance running on a Raspberry Pi with about 149.000 photos inside.

AFAIK, Cursor does some kind of indexing locally. So they don't have to upload all files, but can still search through them in order to find the relevant _parts_ that they upload so that the model can use them.

You can argue that it is somewhat disrespectful, but only to a low degree. Since everybody knows who is meant, and the disrespect fits the context, I think it is totally fine to just use the forename.

I also like to take a look at https://cursor.com/cursorbench

While in the past months Composer 2.5 was a lot better than I had expected a year ago, and the GPT 5.6 family does a good job in terms of cost for performance, I wonder why nobody is talking about Grok 4.5 high? Those numbers look very convincing to me.

And those bot protection mechanisms and ad-enforcement layers that terrorize humans are okay or what? Yes, I accept that many pages don't want me there and just don't use them anymore, but it sucks.

I am not saying that forks like this are a good idea, but I have enough frustration with said techniques that I sympathize with the effort.

Just curious, is there anything here that requires Fable? I mean, can't you build the same thing with Opus/GPT-5.5?

Reminds me of the time I built a BabyButton, which was built in a way so that a baby could use it. Instead of the normal click behaviour, it was using the touchdown event, because that way the kid saw that something happened, and there was no problem with holding the button too long or moving the finger while still holding the button.

Whether you should build systems for that age group is an entirely different topic, but I found it a good challenge to design something that fits the user's needs.

It's like asking why a car needs a red color ;-)

I am always a bit pissed when I see people using 'MVP' in a different way than how Eric Ries uses it (I know there are other definitions, but I never saw one that made more sense).

First, a definition: the minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort or in other words building the most minimum version of their product that will still allow them to learn. [1]

There is no hypothesis to be validated or learning connected to those prototypes in the story, and I think using the definition by Eric Ries would change the story quite a bit.

[1] https://leanstartup.co/resources/articles/what-is-an-mvp/

So true.

Maybe a case for the EU? I mean, they like creating laws limiting the power of big tech. Maybe there should be a law that requires all services that are used by public institutions and commercial transaction providers to be transparent to the public and therefore open source. And as a platform provider, they should be required to offer APIs to let users install alternative implementations.

Might require some fine-tuning, but you get the idea.

Credit where credit is due: Mr. Trump does a good job of showing the world why you should not give the state too powerful surveillance systems.

The problem is not if you have done something ethically wrong ('I have nothing to hide'), but if you can trust the people who will have control over those systems in the future. Who will be in control in 10 years?

Evaluations also show that it has a much lower ability to perform cybersecurity tasks than our current Opus models.

It seems being incompetent is a feature now...

Well, for Arch Linux, there was the unofficial version from the official binary in the AUR already... (Not sure what you mean by 'no arch based distro support').

How did you check? Like looking at the results or at the actual implementation?

I mean, I know that it mostly chooses Composer, but I wonder if it is hard-wired or if they have a logic that just selects Composer most of the time?

I didn't know that I was color blind, but thanks to those charts, I think I need to see a doctor...

I mean, you can read them even without the colors, but who on earth thought that those are a good set of colors? Oh, I forgot it was probably someone on 'Sol'.

What is the difference from Cursors 'auto' mode?

So I need a better setup to see HN with all its true colors?

SCNR

Maybe try Firefox.

Most of the time, things seem to be optimized for Chrome, but with this, I actually had the impression that Firefox ran a bit smoother, but I tested it on Linux.

Actually, calculators were banned in my school until 10th grade or so. I understood the reasoning at the time and still think it was a good thing.

But I think the AI topic is a double-edged sword. Those tools can help tremendously when used in the right setting (e.g., similar to how brilliant.org works) and can easily spoil the whole learning effort when used wrongly.

I am not convinced that a ban is the solution, but probably better than doing nothing.

Why not make a Show HN? In this thread, it feels a bit misplaced, even though it looks cool.

Actually, it isn't that complicated. If you have a basic understanding of how git works (a little beyond just clone, commit, and push), this can be quite helpful when working with a slow connection or large repositories.

So ironic that I had to start Chromium just to read his blog post, because my Firefox 151.0.3 was unable to render the font on his blog...

To some extent, I share the view that forms should be simple (e.g., at one point I built a reservation system that worked in Links2 (the CLI browser)), but having a blog that can't be read in a modern Firefox seems a bit weird when preaching such messages.

I think it is part of Web 2.0 with its user-generated content, but I think it lacks most of the central aspects of Social Media:

- contacts/friends

- personalisation

- followers

I think some central feeds + comments are not enough, especially with the weak user profile concept (I mean, there are not even profile pictures). But I think some people consider HN Social Media.

Same here. And I had some pretty f**ed up file systems.

At one point, I had one where the directory structure was completely broken and had circles in it (broken SSD). To be fair, in that particular case, I did not look for lost+found and just wrote a tool to extract the data manually that I was looking for.

Cool result, but just so much work for something that should be a no-brainer.

My Sennheiser RS 180 still works with normal rechargeable AAA batteries (charging on the official station).

Yet another case where the newer models are just worse.

The irony is that LLMs can make it much easier to learn new skills. You just have to use them in the right way, and obviously most people take the easy path and don't learn...

Sounds more like a problem with the Debian upgrade.

Sure, better error messages could help, but when it no longer even starts...

I have been using it for a while as well (started with OpenOffice). However, not all apps can keep up the pace.

As a word processor, I like Writer even more than MS Word, but Calc, for example, is just much slower than MS Excel when you build a bit larger spreadsheets.

So from an ideological perspective, I agree, but you should know that there are some drawbacks / the products have different strengths.

SQLite for everything

is just wrong, and I don't think that the SQLite fans are that crowd. Taking a database server for everything is probably possible, but often unnecessary. With experience, one can properly judge when SQLite is sufficient and when it is not.

So arguing that the SQLite crowd is inexperienced feels weird, because inexperienced people have a much harder time judging when to use what and can just use the database server all the time (even when it is overkill).