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An AI toy meant for kids was happy to chat about sexual fetishes

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How Postgres Triggers Can Simplify Your Back End Development

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Bunny CDN privacy focused font hosting

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FDA Issues First Approval for Mass Drug Imports to States from Canada

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All code is technical debt

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The big reveal: Stripe for Healthcare

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Show HN: All GitHub repos shared on HN

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Navalmanak - Naval Ravikant's eBook about building wealth vs. riches

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How a Serial Entrepreneur Turned a Problem into a Profitable Business

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Illume ArcLighter – Flameless, Electronic Candle Lighter

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Eleven-year-old entrepreneur builds startup: inspired by Facebook founder

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Focus on your own success

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Why Consulting Is A Job Everyone Needs To Experience

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DIY “Reclining” Workstation: Proof of Concept

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Building a Mobile App Empire (15+ apps) in 3 yrs with pthompson

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Seth Godin: A hierarchy of business needs

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We're creating a culture of distraction

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Nice summary -

While it's not my first choice, or habit, in many use cases, using an ORM is still OK looking back in the start especially when the schema is being fleshed out prior to understanding what needs optimizing. It's trivial to start optimizing a query after taking it away from ORM. The new angle I think is the ability for LLMs to use ORMs given the documentation, etc.

The only other thing I'd say is the benefits of running something that works with Postgres, such as Supabase, Hasura, etc. It really can be the best of multiple worlds, especially in the beginning in terms of having flexibility in one place.

The models definitely seem to pay attention to the tests.

Since the tests can be generally gamed with directing descriptions at it non-deterministically, there's a greater chance the questions solution can be found.

Of course, hopefully the models are instead adding patterns and types of questions as well and it makes the models more capable, but it may be limited in how it transfers to other types of questions in breadth or depth.

This is interesting, instead of a command line interface it made me wonder what an interface right on the tv could look like.

Comparisons to watching tv, are usually a TV interface, with a TV device/app, be it an Android TV/Apple TV, etc.

Maybe I'm missing it, I couldn't see a tv interface.

The part where it can send video to any kind of tv is a pretty remarkable piece.

I agree, and it's not necessary for agents to run as root and full access to data.

There has always been a trade off sold to consumers of security vs convenience and a belief that giving up a little security gets a lot of convenience.

It ends up being often about a convenience of adopting the new tech, not necessarily in a way that's in the best long term interests of each party.

It feels like Anthropic was affected by resource limitations upon launch or big adoption curves in the past, and now they're tyring to be mindful of having less of those, in several ways, one of which is trying to keep capacity to keep core services running and let the high demand not impact the rest of the system.

WHen it doesn't turn out that way, it opens up options.

At the same time if other model providers were anticipating Anthropic or someone else to have problems at launch, and were waiting in the wings with their own models to launch competitively, it sets off a capacity release competition.

One might lower prices, one might give it away, or just make it available, and then there are users on other platforms with limits, or free until a certain day, etc.

There is nothing wrong with being a vegan, but the default assumption that Veganism is great for all, especially in countries where allergies are rampant isn't always feasible.

The drive by downvoting to suppress a broader perspective and impact of veganism is for everyone is one thing.

Claude dispatch does things differently than this. Dispatch is very convenient for somethings (including connectors).

But increasingly it seems like dispatch was slapped on top of cowork incrementally, when there was not an integrated and cohesive strategy across cowork between mobile/desktop/laptop. This is kind of what many of us get/got to learn in our 20's.

Just like stackoverflow saved developers from experts exchange, it might be able to save us from what is coming from AI being an averaging engine by default and generating average code. Hopefully it's average but always works.

This appears to be much worse on so many more fronts than this article says.

It's basically how a virus would infect your computer through a USB Key.

Forcing itself to be installed, hiding what it does, sustaining itself across reboots, bypassing all security restrictions... because a monitor might need something new after all these decades?

I totally see what you're saying.

Also noticing a lot more creators on youtube who are metalsmiths, woodworkers, electrical engineers.

Many seem to only have started the past few years, and the rest may have not been presented to me by the algorithm because the algorithm cared to keep me watching and not if I might have diverse interests.

One of the other realities is more and more people are distributed, and having communication be clearer (sound, light, video) is increasingly becoming more common in any field.

The thing that stands out to me about some of these designs is they look great, but not enough show the functionality that needed to be designed as well (organization, storage, etc).

Learning about something doesn't invalidate it entirely on that basis alone, just like the experience of one parent doesn't speak for all parents, or those concerned about the impacts of phones on kids (who are future adults).