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Well, I have no idea how complete this is, but perhaps a neat Christmas-time-project for anyone with seemingly unlimited tokens to take this and let it build up a simulator, using the real code to drive simulated machinery.

I’m sorry to hear about your very odd friends, but I suggest you consider traveling more yourself and gather some personal insights of the world. You should very quickly come to realize that Europe is not one place, one kind of people. This isn’t really something one would say, having spent even just a minute in one or two places here that aren’t Germany or France. Odd to read that.

EU. iPhone 13 Pro. Not complaining, but I can't really.

Coming this fall...

In "English" later this year...

We've heard that before, haven't we, Apple? I feel the right way to fix the trust issues would be to announce this when it's actually done. Like, here's Siri AI, and you can download and use it, right now.

Burned through all the available Pro tokens in a day. What a wild rug pull!

Browsing through the repo, I noticed this, and wondered if that isn't a recipe for disaster (code is condensed to showcase my concern)?

  app.get('/api/auth/callback', async (request: any, reply: any) => {
    const params: any = request.query || {};
    const code = params.code || '';
    const state = params.state || '';
    // Exchange code for token via curl
    const tokenResult = curlExec(
      'curl -s -X POST "https://github.com/login/oauth/access_token" -H "Accept: application/json" -d "client_id=' + GITHUB_CLIENT_ID + '&client_secret=' + GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET + '&code=' + code + '"'
    );

At least in Europe (likely globally), cached sites on Cloudflare Pages are currently returning 500 (Internal Server Error).

I am on the way to a client demo hosted on Cloudflare, amazing timing.

We should all send our already-generated UUIDs to a shared database, we could just put it on Supabase with a shared username/password posted on HN, so we can all ensure that after generating a UUIDv4 locally, it's not used by anyone else. If it's in the database, we know it's taken.

It's a super simple mechanism, check in common worldwide UUID database, if not in there, you can use it. Perhaps if we use a START TRANSACTION, we could ensure it's not taken as we insert. But that's all easy, I'll ask Claude to wire it up, no problem.

user-generated (as in: on the user's phone) was only at the very early stages of this product, and we've since moved to on-server. It's a cash-register type of app, where the same invoice must not be stored twice. So we used to generate a fresh invoice_id (uuidv4) on the user's device for each new invoice, and a double-send of that would automatically be flagged server-side (same id twice). This has since moved on to a server-only mechanism.

The database flagged it simply by having a UNIQUE key on the invoice_id column. First entry was from 2025, second entry from today.

oh, interesting, I didn't know that and this could possibly be part of the problem perhaps depending on what's used as the seed.

I knew it, we're all getting the same cheap UUIDs and the good ones are reserved for the big dogs.

yeah, any sort of additional semi-random data could've helped prevent this, I'm sure. That, however, is also kind of the idea of UUIDv4, it has lots of randomness and time built in already.

I fully agree. It makes no sense. Yet...

The only guesses I'm having is that we originally generated UUIDv4s on a user's phone before sending it to the database, and the UUID generated this morning that collided was created on an Ubuntu server.

I don't fully know how UUIDv4s are generated and what (if anything) about the machine it's being generated on is part of the algorithm, but that's really the only change I can think of, that it used to generated on-device by users, and for many months now, has moved to being generated on server.

20 solid years of experience, self-employed at the moment, but I got curious a while back and started browsing jobs, and it's ... well, tough to even find something unless you're an extreme specialist and trust to bank on that technology or niche sustaining you through the next few years.

just wanted to give you another perspective to consider: I teach a class where they're designing websites and small apps with ChatGPT, but we're failing to host this. I built a simply copy/paste HTML renderer, so they can at least share and try it outside of ChatGPT, but for our final project, I felt like it would've been nice if something like all those JS playgrounds would exist, but much, much simpler. I upload an HTML and it becomes accessible publicly so students can share their projects. The domain never matters, any subdomain is fine, but it needs to be without an account and that makes it incredibly hard to host (spam). Why without an account? Our onboarding of the same class (30 students or so) to Figma took us two full days, it was a disaster. Nobody wants to go through that again. That said, university budgets are nearly untouchable, so I'm not sure if and/or where there's reason enough to do this other than purely academical.

Just got a Wireguard update on Windows a minute ago, so seems resolved?

I teach a tech class to marketing students, and it definitely works very well. They are allowed to use ChatGPT and other tools, with one caveat: you remain responsible for the output. I hide white-text prompt injections in specs or longer task instructions (usually in PDFs, works well enough there with copy and paste), and sometimes place a phrase near the end of the text that prompts the LLM to append something like, "I submit this assignment without checking its output, and I accept point deductions as agreed."

I used to do this for a laugh and not deduct points, next year, I showed them this before class as an introduction to working with AI and kind of as a warning, I'll deduct points, expecting nobody falling for it, then they fell for it over and over again. Well.

Totally off-topic, and I may be wrong, but I immediately loved the non-LLM writing-style and felt glued to the content just through the writing alone. It's getting rare.

wow, thanks for all the links, I'll have a look and see if anything interesting with recent updates comes up there.

Amazing way to show-case a tool (all in-browser, can be done so simply), super disappointed in the result. I took care writing all the letters, but when I looked at the generated font, even some of the corner markers ended up as letters!?

Not sure if this was meant to work with cursive handwriting?

OpenClaw vs. OpenPaw? Seems like a very similar thing, or am I misunderstanding the concept here? Is the lock-in to Claude Code the feature here?

Can't be long until we see a BaseClaw repo, where everyone can clone and name their own local claw-like loop.

While great in theory, I think it almost always fails on "non-existent" testing structures that reliably cover the areas you're modifying. I change something, and if there's no immediate build or compile error, this (depending on the system) usually does not mean you're safe. A lot of issues happen on the interfaces (data in/out of the system) and certain advanced states and context. I wouldn't know how Mikado helps here.

In other words, I'd reword this to using the Mikado method to understand large codebases, or get a first glimpse of how things are connected and wired up. But to say it allows for _safe_ changes is stretching it a bit much.

Attention, attention, and more attention. That's what that is.

First it was crypto, now it's things like this, literal slop that helps absolutely nobody, doing the very thing it claims needs to be stopped: polluting the internet.

I get it, everyone wants attention, but figure out a better way, do it right.

Also, "Microslop is a satirical mirror" seems like some heavy lifting on overselling the message here. People need to stop pooping in the pool, so, to bring awareness to this, I will now poop in the pool.

this is visually fantastic, but while trying this out, it says I can't run Qwen 3.5 on my machine, while it is running in the background currently, coding. So, not sure what the true value of a tool like this is other than getting a first glimpse, perhaps. Also, with unsloth providing custom adjustments, some models that are listed as undoable become doable, and they're not in the tool. Again, not trying to be harsh, it's just a really hard thing to do properly. And like many other similar tools, the maintainer here will also eventually struggle with the fact that models are popping up left and right faster than they can keep up with it.

Your complimentary subscription will expire at the end of the Benefit Period. After expiration, any existing subscription will continue unless you cancel. You may independently choose to purchase a paid Claude subscription at the then-current price through Anthropic’s standard signup process.

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-for-oss-terms

I may sound unthankful here, but it just very strongly smells of Antropic amping up their PR campaigning lately, even the headline on the post reads offputting.

Plus, while 6 months is better than 1 month, why isn't it a recurring deal (or token-limited), which renews after check-ins (like educational discounts do). This sounds like an Apple TV+ offer you get for every Apple product you buy. A hook, more than a treat.

In this case, I guess it's just a slimy approach to building a self-selected lead list of people you can hard-hit with upsells after the 6 months.

Thank you for everything you ship*

*there's a 6 months limit we have on gratitute.

Dropbox wasn’t a massive money generator

Depends on who you ask. I guess Drew, who posted it here, may beg to differ.

Smells heavily like the Wunderlist approach, just re-do and re-sell the same thing over and over.

I wonder how long it'll take (if it hasn't already) until the messaging around this inevitably moves on to "Do not self-host this, are you crazy? This requires console commands, don't be silly! Our team of industry-veteran security professionals works on your digital safety 24/7, you would never be able to keep up with the demands of today's cybersecurity attack spectrum. Any sane person would host their claw with us!"

Next flood of (likely heavily YC-backed) Clawbase (Coinbase but for Claws) hosting startups incoming?

what do you run this on if I may ask? lmstudio, ollama, lama? which cli?