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Escapade5160··on Show HN: Email.md – Markdown to responsive, email-safe HTML
At this point markdown is going to be the foundation of the entire AI web. Someone the other day showed off Markdown as a responsive frontend protocol. Now we've got email. How long until we're writing classes in markdown? We can only abstract this so far before we confuse AI more than help it.
Escapade5160··on Astral to Join OpenAI
The means of production are just files with special extensions.
Escapade5160··on Astral to Join OpenAI
Theoretically it only requires it for birth. One can argue that once we achieve the singularity, it could immediately scale on its own as it decides.
Escapade5160··on Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes
I recently tried to learn it and found it frustrating. A lot of docs are for 0.15 but the latest is (or was) 0.16 which changed a lot of std so none of the existing write ups were valid anymore. I plan to revisit once it gets more stable because I do like it when I get it to work.
Escapade5160··on Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds
Whole thing feels very vibe coded. Even OP's post here.
Escapade5160··on I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported
> tech question

Route you to a shady scam center that paid for the ad spot.

Escapade5160··on Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing
Almost no one knows the shortcut to open the emoji menu on their computer. AI is why there is an increase. Even if someone does know the shortcut, the menu is annoying to use and it slows down your workflow too much for most people to go through the effort.
Escapade5160··on Claude Cowork exfiltrates files
That was fast.
Escapade5160··on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
If you're primarily a gamer, Bazzite is fantastic.
Escapade5160··on Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo
The obvious tell for me is when the article is packed full of 'Its not just x, it's y' statements. I am not sure why LLMs gravitated so heavily towards their current style of writing. Pre LLMs, I can't recall seeing that much written content in that format. If I did, it was in short form content.
Escapade5160··on Everything as code: How we manage our company in one monorepo
This article reads like 4o wrote it. It's so exhausting not being able to find content produced by a human being.
Escapade5160··on Meta Segment Anything Model Audio
From my brief testing in the playground, it is not very good. Maybe it needs better prompting than the 1 word examples.
Escapade5160··on Zellij: A terminal workspace with batteries included
Went to the homepage, had no idea what it was. Read the about page, I still don't know that it does.

Can anyone tell me what this is and why it might be useful?

Escapade5160··on Gaming on Linux has never been more approachable
If you are looking solely for a Linux gaming distro, Bazzite is it. I switched from Windows earlier this year and I haven't looked back. Everything works out of the box.

https://bazzite.gg/

Escapade5160··on The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
Microsoft invests in OpenAI, OpenAI agrees to spend 250b on azure compute. These companies are just sliding money back and forth to drive up their stock price. Just pulling money away from investors while taking very little risk themselves. It's literally a bubble.
Escapade5160··on Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive
I use it over discord pretty frequently. The app UI is much simpler than discords and I've been able to get family to stick with using it because of that. Signal is my main way of communication, then telegram, then discord.
Escapade5160··on Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move
They did for pixel phones yes.

I've been wanting to get into OS dev for years now, I may make an attempt at it soon. When I was younger I built my own kernels for the early OnePlus phones. Maybe I can build an alternative to Android, doubtful but I like a challenge.

The hardest part to making an alternative is the app ecosystem, you almost need a complete suite of 3rd party apps built before you can get any initial adoption.

Escapade5160··on Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move
People choose Android because they need / want more control over their system. If Google continues to remove that control, they lose the only thing that gives their OS an edge.
Escapade5160··on Designing agentic loops
I typically run my code agents in distrobox.
Escapade5160··on Modos Paper Monitor – Open-hardware e-paper monitor and dev kit
Soldered Inkplate is a solid option for anyone wanting a device with Wi-Fi, backlight, touch screen, battery, and runs arduino or micro python. Recently set one up as a display that updates if I'm in a meeting or free that I hang on my office door.
Escapade5160··on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
It's unfortunate, but websites now make content for AI. We used to use a browser, to view a site, to gain information. Now we use an AI, to tell us the information.
Escapade5160··on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones
Everything comes back to ads. I think the end goal is to monetize every single moment of our lives in some way.
Escapade5160··on Social media's biggest user protest rocked Reddit
Reddit content has been on the decline in quality for years, to the point now that r/all is basically a Facebook feed. It's people posting about their lives in funny stories or funny / shocking videos for entertainment. I first went to Reddit because there was good content with really good discussions happening in the comments. Now it's just recycled posts with people trying to be funny in the comments. No one will debate a topic it's just everyone trying to immediately "win" the conversation rather than defending a viewpoint. It's why I prefer HN these days, far better discussions happening over here. Reddit still has some good communities with a lot of solid knowledge but the majority of Reddit has gone downhill.
Escapade5160··on Little File Explorer – File Manager for Android 1.0 and above
Same reason I can't leave solid explorer, the features. Being able to manage my NAS in one pane then another storage in another pane and dragging files between them is essential.
Escapade5160··on How to Create a Black Hole Out of Thin Air
True. They could have said "out of nothing" and been closer to being correct while keeping the same meaning.
Escapade5160··on Show HN: FreshTube – show latest videos from YouTube channels
I'll try this out. Currently I use PipePipe (NewPipe fork) and have subscription groups I use to pull the latest videos for a specific set of channels.
Escapade5160··on Solreader: E-Ink Smart Glasses for Reading
Is there actually a market for this ? Like do people say to themselves"this book would be better if it was strapped to my eyes"?
Escapade5160··on Paper and bamboo straws contain PFAS chemicals more often than plastic straws do
It seems humanity just can't win. Short of using glass and metal for everything is there any way plastic can be used without harming the environment?
Escapade5160··on GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler
Models trained on the data from another model eventually leads to model collapse.
Escapade5160··on Aided by A.I. Language Models, Google’s Robots Are Getting Smart
Better than perplexity?
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