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GPT-5.6 Cancels SaaS Stripe Subscriptions

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news.ycombinator.com 2mo ago

Ask HN: Anyone else struggling with AI and work?

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iamunknowing.com 1y ago

1 in 5,486

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status.flyio.net 2y ago

Fly.io – Down

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Diffusion Radio – A 24/7 Livestream of AI-Generated Music

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twitter.com 3y ago

Nomad DeFi Project Loses $190M

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Atlanta Fed Public Data Is Being Removed

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iamunknowing.com 4y ago

What are you good at?

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

EV conversion after 10 years and 90k miles

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iamunknowing.com 4y ago

What’s the Worst That Could Happen?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: How to get government software engineering job?

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threadreaderapp.com 4y ago

Big Tech Workers, Does This Tweet Thread Mirror Your Experience at All?

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iamunknowing.com 4y ago

Dopamine [Detox?]

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twitter.com 4y ago

On Dopamine Addiction

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solar.lowtechmagazine.com 4y ago

A solar powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: How to Revive Dying Creativity?

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blockworks.co 4y ago

$600M taken in largest DeFi hack to date

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: How to Improve Consistency with X?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: How to think like a kid again?

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iamunknowing.com 5y ago

Living with the Old to Appreciate the New

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iamunknowing.com 5y ago

Cryptocurrency Bear?

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It used the browser agent to grab user cookies after signing in, then made API calls iirc.

Using just a browser is way too token intensive and slow. It would look for 401 errors then run the browser automation to login with the credentials and grab the token.

I have worked with LLMs for a couple years at a very non-technical level and it was not that difficult to give it proper prompting and reference material.

If you are reading LLM content just about everywhere and have no idea. Obviously there are easy to spot things, but the stuff you don't spot is the stuff you don't spot

I will say that I believe you probably have absolutely no idea because it's not "slop". It looks like every other reddit comment you see.

My experiment was focused on niche subreddits as well due to the nature of the product I was trying to market.

I have largely written Reddit off and no longer visit it after an experiment I did where I had an agent karma farm for me and do some covert advertising. As I went through the posts it wrote I realized that as a reader I would have NO idea that these were just written by a computer. Many many people (or other bots) had full on conversations with it and it scared me a bit.

I am not quite there with Hacker News but I do know for a fact that many "users" here are LLMs.

Online communities are definitely dying. I guess I hope that maybe IRL communities have a resurgence in this wake.

I "subconsciously" moved to codex back in mid Feb from CC and it's been so freaking awesome. I don't think it's as good at UI, but man is it thorough and able to gather the right context to find solutions.

I use "subconsciously" in quotes because I don't remember exactly why I did it, but it aligns with the degradation of their service so it feels like that probably has something to do with it even though I didn't realize it at the time.

Of course there were. Don't be pedantic. Anybody could write a program and put it on the internet. But to get a reasonably polished version with decent features and an enjoyable enough UX for someone to sign up and even pay money more, it generally took people who kind of knew what they were doing.

Of course shortcuts were taken. They always were and always will be. But don't try to compare shipping software today to even just 3 years ago.

The hardest part about this stuff is that as a user, you don't necessarily know if an app is vibe-coded or not. Previously, you were able to have _some_ reasonable expectation of security in that trained engineers were the ones building these things out, but that's no longer the case.

There's a lot of cool stuff being built, but also as a user, it's a scary time to be trying new things.

I agree with this for the most part, though there are times and with specific cars that you can have a blast. I can have a lot of fun in an old M Coupe, or Miata.

I used to have a GT3...it was a dream car of mine and I finally got it. The sad reality was that in order to have fun with it on public roads I was either going to kill myself/someone else, or go to jail. The only way to really experience that car in a responsible way was to go to the track. Which I just flat out didn't have the time to do with young kids.

Things were very different 20-30 years ago. Roads were less crowded and people were much more respectful on the road. Now, especially where I live, it's a free for all Mad Max cosplay.

I am one of those founders who does not want their customers to know. I have one specific very large customer that is quite an old school company. My software has become pretty pivotal for some of their workflows and if they knew it was one guy on his laptop keeping things afloat with the help of a mysterious AI I am pretty sure they'd reconsider our contract.

I have such a difficult time with this. Not the self driving part, but the largest possible car/truck part.

As a cyclist in a very truck-and-large-car-obsessed state I really hate them and their drivers scare me. And because of that I have a really hard time convincing myself that I should be in one too vs. a smaller more practical car. But at the same time I realize that my family getting hit in a Honda Accord (most likely by a much larger car) is going to be quite a bit worse than if we get hit in a Cybertruck or GMC Sierra.

For real. I just assume that anyone who talks like that has never driven the car and has not used FSD in the past couple years.

Say what you want about Elon, his politics, whatever, but the cars and technology are absolutely incredible.

I don't know if you are purposefully being pedantic here, but they are very different things. Even as an adult who has been in several of these very active iMessage group chats with "mutual bullying", they are vastly different from any of the RCS/SMS groups I'm in due to some of the features in iMessage.

Ubiquiti SFP Wizard 9 months ago

This is not for me as I'm not a professional network engineer, but I do want to say that Ubiquiti has made home networking SO fun for me. Everything truly "Just Works."

My setup is definitely more on the prosumer side, but it's been so build out and inspect my network with their tools.

From what I've heard (primarily in the music hardware space) is that it depends. Some use Arduino's software and language while others use the lower level toolchains.

This is prototyping mostly so I'm not sure if any of the Arduino code actually gets shipped with production devices.