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My local grocery store goes a bit further, selling € 280-350 laptops with 4 GB RAM and Win11 preinstalled. Absolutely bonkers.

At a glance the repo feels like a meticulous forensic investigation, but I couldn't find any photographs or other information about the alleged drone capture and where all this information is actually sourced from.

I really like your analogy as-is, but LLMs aren't reliable power tools. Asking for external help requires good communication and can be overkill for small tasks.

Hiring a team of subcontractors carries risks unless you babysit the whole project.

Dan, your HN comments are a collection of beautiful essays that is becoming a reference library for healthy discourse. I think it deserves a dedicated website.

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Changing the default demo is a reasonable and actionable suggestion.

"Heavy-duty" calls for exaggerated impact and prestige.

"Tony pioneered the famous red-and-green squiggles of Microsoft Word, empowering millions of users with a spell-checking revolution."

The conclusion conflicts oddly with the author's arguments and interests. Attributing LLM usage would actually help the author avoid articles even touched by LLMs, but they indirectly admit being haphazardly dismissive.

Their arguments are mostly addressed by proper, clear attribution. "My sister helped with my homework essay" deserves distrust withour further clarification.

Comparing LLM usage to lying is a fun perspective, but most of the lying happens in attribution. Their moral against lying also seems silly.

I really like this idea of rapidly extensible software, a browser is a nice sandbox for it! Models also seem to be much better at generating programs than "manually" executing a described task.

Lightweight browser extensions generated on demand, now there's a good use case for what they seem to be actually building.

Extending applications without having to launch a full agentic IDE. Macos is already very well equipped with GUI automation tools.

I laughed on the groundbreaking emphasis that you can move and resize the chat window because it's a Mac.

You're up to something, maybe they really have a broken pseudo-window with basic UI interaction hacked on top.

My impression was that they're doubling down on that horrid Liquid glass.

Apparently there's a new fancy slider for making it more (but not completely) opaque? Did I miss an option for turning it off?

It's funny how well this reflects the contrast in internet advice between Windows and Linux issues. All users deserve advice beginning with thorough sanity-checks and potential quick-fixes before having to dig deeper.

Searching about common Windows issues results in misleading blogspam. Suggested "solutions" resemble blindly applied folk remedies.

I'm no stranger to breaking my desktop Linux after an hour of misdirected troubleshooting and desperately messing with core libraries. I'm still glad I can quickly find my way to ArchWiki.

I'm scared that the influence of the largest companies exceeds governments of most nations.

Allegation of severe HN censorship. Further speculation on the political motives inside Y Combinator.

You are controlling your emotions with that technique, accepting and waiting emotions out is just not the only option.

Getting indoors from a cold rain is an obvious choice. I can't really decide to stop shivering, but changing my clothes and grabbing a hot chocolate helps. It still takes a while to warm back up, meanwhile I can actively choose not to open windows or go right back in the rain.

Probably flagged by containing suspicious words, such as "children", "stripped", "strings" and "kill"

I stopped worrying after I began protecting all keys with a passphrase.

I hate generic name-text-submit-forms as the only method of contact. Somehow the article makes them the definition of not a "f** off contact page" - why?

I think such forms are a direct downgrade from providing an email address.

- Responding to the submissions likely requires email anyway

- Impersonation/spam is even less difficult

- Sender isn't guaranteed to get a record of sending the message

- A faceless form with unknown machinery feels like sending messages in a bottle

Even worse, dry heaping spoonfuls easily get 2-4x the volume of liquids fitting the same spoon.

We can't just guess the recipe's teaspoon standard and blindly convert everything to mL.

I don't think data leak extortioners have any incentive to even pretend they won't keep asking further payment.

Why not just offer a monthly subscription "service"?

Measuring pasta with calipers is prime HN material, thank you for posting this!

https://0ver.org/

For tracking to be at all effective, this requires the user to log all of their transactions thoroughly and accurately. Personally I'd never remember to update the logs immediately after a purchase during the day.

Logging transactions on the go demands the interface to be rapidly accessible. Touch screen typing is error-prone and slow. I'd prefer a dedicated interface where I could just tap one of the available categories and enter the sum with a large number pad.

It'd make sense to primarily synchronize data from their online bank account and then ask the user to clarify/categorize unknown events. Obviously an online sync is hard to implement for all banks, so a TSV import would be a bare necessity. My bank has integrated financial tracking nicely in their mobile application.

3rd-party browser implementation: https://qalculator.xyz/

Qalculate handles physical units seamlessly, which makes everyday calculations an absolute breeze. It definitely has an overkill amount of features, but they're not a distraction.

We read and write so much more English than Finnish when working with software, so the English terms bubble up naturally.

I have a strong dislike against setting the language of my OS, or most applications, to Finnish. Application translations are extremely inconsistent, sometimes even nonsensical. The absolute worst case is seeing only translated error messages without error codes. It's nearly impossible to search help or follow step-by-step guides.

I definitely should improve my knowledge of "proper" Finnish IT terms. Some of them have very intuitive meanings:

- hashing -> hajautus: (chaotically) splitting, scattering things away from each other

I constantly forget my food in the microwave for hours at a time.

I really enjoyed spending a bit of my morning with these two implementations of the concept.

I prefer your idea of treating the question as a proper puzzle with a 1-submission limit. The "calculator" UI took a whole 2 minutes to understand initially, but I really liked seeing the chain instead of having to mush all the factors in my head.

It's really nice to see the correct answer broken down to get a feel about the real numbers!

The current question's answer seems to contain big errors in magnitude in its factors:

"How many kilograms of skin does a human shed in their lifetime?"

    Skin cells shed per day: 5e8 / day
    Mass of one skin cell: 3e-6 g
    Years in a lifetime: 80 yr
    Grams to kilograms conversion: 1 kg / 1000 g

The first two factors correspond to shedding 1.5 kg/day, which is definitely unrealistic!

Hence I'm pro compression culture

I think the problem is that this compression culture is lossy and fragmented.

Summaries serve a purpose similar to thumbnails in an image gallery UI - the full picture is always available behind a click.

Imagine if you could only see them as 128x128 JPEGs at 50% quality - after they've been reposted with "deep fried meme" filters a few times. No links to the source, and the next bite-sized truncation pushed right after. Later someone reposts them upscaled to 8K.

This is exactly what I feel is happening with the written word.

Say the most important things at the top that cover your topic entirely and then go into further depth.

A powerful trick in all forms and contexts of communication.

-- eyes darting frantically across screens like a rat in a maze searching for the cheese of instant gratification.

I have lost the ability to search for information online when I'm not solving a specific technical problem. My eyes jump over paragraphs as if performing a binary search to find the sections I'm interested in - obviously a bad approach for less orderly documents.

Search Engine Optimized spam keeps me encouraged to habitually skip large chunks of text.

HN is mostly a safe harbor of high quality content, but I still have a bad habit of completely skipping most HN headlines, or jumping to read the comments before even considering to read the article. That's basically letting the crowd digest and summarize posts for me.

This was a satisfying read and worth the short time to patiently digest it.