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InsideOutSanta··on Worse on Purpose
But they do get worse, and somebody decided to worsen them, and that website tracks these changes.
InsideOutSanta··on Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts
Apple already had giant margins before and could easily absorb memory price increases. The fact that they did not and instead decided to increase prices shows how confident they are that people will buy their hardware anyway.
InsideOutSanta··on This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)
You've now responded a second time to my comment, both times saying things that I feel most people who are doing okay would probably not say. I hope you will reconsider what is currently happening to you and seek help. I realize that this is something people often say as an insult, but it's not meant that way, and I hope you will consider the possibility that you genuinely do need help right now.
InsideOutSanta··on AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying
These numbers are so small that I'm doubly ashamed of all the corruption happening. If politicians at least sold out for fuck-you money, I'd understand, but no.
InsideOutSanta··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
Makes sense, thanks for explaining!
InsideOutSanta··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
I'm not sure what you're referring to, but what I basically do is self-host everything that stores relevant data: Vaultwarden, Immich, Notesnook, etc. I only know how to set up Bitwarden and my 2FA generator from scratch, so when I get a new phone, I install Bitwarden and the 2FA app and set them up.

Then everything else is documented inside Bitwarden. It's just a matter of installing the apps and logging in using the credentials stored in Bitwarden and a 2FA token generator.

There's no need for relying on any phone OS features.

InsideOutSanta··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
I drove a friend to an airport in Switzerland, got lost on my way home, and accidentally visited both France and Germany.
InsideOutSanta··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
I haven't been to the US since Trump first got elected, but even before that, immigration agents often seemed oddly adversarial, whereas immigration agents in China just don't really seem to give a shit.
InsideOutSanta··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
I used to love visiting the US. I have many friends there, and I really enjoy staying in places like Seattle and SF. But I haven't gone there since Trump 1.

That said, I think protecting your privacy is a good idea in general.

InsideOutSanta··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
With self-hosting, it's possible to easily bootstrap a clean phone with all your data and passwords from scratch, without relying on any third-party cloud services. The only thing you need to bring across the border is your brain (which contains the most basic information on how to set up your password manager) and maybe some kind of 2FA generator. Your password manager then contains all the other information you need to get everything running.

I don't think it ever makes sense to transport actual data across borders if you care about governments gaining access to it.

InsideOutSanta··on Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27
I think it's shameful that Moonshot isn't providing us with party kits like Microsoft did with the Windows 7 Launch Party kit. How am I supposed to properly celebrate this without fun Kimi-themed quizzes for my guests?
InsideOutSanta··on French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time
Don't worry about the end of the world, I heard the cockroaches will survive the apocalypse.
InsideOutSanta··on Decker, a platform that builds on the legacy of Hypercard and classic macOS
A lot of these modern HyperCard reinterpretations get stuck on the black-and-white aesthetics of the original. That's cool, but it limits how broadly appealing they become. Even back when HyperCard was relevant, Apple's inability to properly introduce color as a first-class feature was what effectively killed the product.

A few years ago, I think there would have been a market for a HyperCard-inspired tool that targeted modern technologies - probably web tech.

Today, I guess vibecoding is what HyperCard was in the 80s and 90s, the tool you can use to quickly and easily build a little program that fills your specific need.

InsideOutSanta··on This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)
I commented because I'm not sure if you have considered that you might not be well. I hope you look after yourself. What you are doing right now, including posting all these responses to comments here, does not seem healthy.
InsideOutSanta··on Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means
I'm in Europe and I've heard of him.
InsideOutSanta··on This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)
I'm so confused by what I just read. What was the point of that? Why is this on hn? It's incoherent and almost manic; I'm a bit worried the author might be experiencing some kind of mental health crisis.
InsideOutSanta··on Tile's security is so bad it's a feature for stalkers
Criminals, particularly heavily disordered ones like stalkers, are usually not the smartest people in the world. So increasing the barrier of entry just a little bit might substantially decrease their practical access to this type of technology.
InsideOutSanta··on The small, real, original web
I'm not sure if I understand what you're saying. Isn't calling for boycotts an essential part of free speech and libertarian-style freedom? If libertarians favor small governments and believe that free markets will govern themselves, aren't boycotts exactly how that happens?
InsideOutSanta··on The small, real, original web
I agree that this isn't the primary issue; my comment was a response to somebody making a specific claim, which is why I highlighted the moderation issues on Reddit and Facebook.

I agree with you that sheer scale is the primary issue, but for a particular reason: these systems are all prime targets for malicious actors intent on manipulating people on a large scale.

InsideOutSanta··on The small, real, original web
Reddit and Facebook are on the decline because both are full of slop. The problem is undermoderation, not overmoderation. Twitter's real decline started after the acquisition and its ostensible return to free speech.

I should also think that libertarians should be in support of private people deciding not to support companies or people that support causes they disagree with. That's an excellent example of people's freedom of action.

InsideOutSanta··on If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?
Commercial software has been getting worse for at least a decade now, and the reasons are multifaceted and difficult to solve. They include the switch to subscription pricing, misaligned incentives at companies that make most revenue from "services" or, even worse, ads, the constant need to reinvent solutions to problems that were solved twenty years ago in order to show "progress", companies that build elaborate management systems to attempt to ensure that employees are replaceable, high turnover and a lack of institutional knowledge, and so on.

The ability to generate a lot of code will not solve any of these issues.

InsideOutSanta··on AIs don't do what you want. This is bad
The word "overeager" implies that it did something the user didn't want in order to achieve the user's stated goals. One example for me was when I pointed out that a feature had a bug, Claude was unable to fix the bug, so it removed the feature altogether to get rid of the bug.

"Eager" is good. "Overeager" is definitionally bad.

InsideOutSanta··on Claude Opus 5
Yes, the OpenAI plans are much more generous than both Moonshot's and Anthropic's. It's the only provider of the three where the $20 plan is at all usable for programming.
InsideOutSanta··on Claude Opus 5
I think the way people usually compare pricing is fundamentally flawed. You can't compare token prices because different models use different tokenizers, and you can't compare tokenizer-normalized token prices because different models at different settings use more or fewer tokens to complete the same task at a different level of quality.

Based on my entirely subjective experience, the $100 Moonshot plan using only K3 is comparable to the $200 Anthropic deal using the whole Fable allocation and Opus 4.8 for the rest.

InsideOutSanta··on Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS
I wonder how many people are flying to space in rockets for rocket launches to make the frontpage? It's just interesting. Haiku is cool, and getting relatively complex games to run on it is a good signal that it is making progress.
InsideOutSanta··on I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year
I don't think any app should be built like this. Rather, I think this approach should be used when you already have a large codebase and are making atomic changes to it. In fact, I think taking this approach for greenfield work is more likely to result in slop because early accidental decisions turn into fundamental design choices.

Instead, I've settled on a top-down approach: I write an in-depth spec for the whole app first, then have the LLM implement reviewable sections of it.

InsideOutSanta··on Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs
> Anthropic's annualized revenue

That's not a meaningful number, and even if it were, quadrupled isn't nearly enough.

InsideOutSanta··on I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year
Yeah, I think not manually fixing issues, but telling the LLM to fix them and update its own documentation to reflect the fix, is a somewhat unpleasant but necessary approach. Otherwise, the LLM is just going to make the same mistake again elsewhere, or randomly revert your change, or get confused.
InsideOutSanta··on I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year
If you read the article, you'll see that the author took the same approach one would use when writing an app manually from scratch:

> I started with a simple hello world application. Then added in the habit list, the ability to add a habit, edit a habit and so on.

This hands-on, incremental approach works, of course. But I don't think it is the most effective way of using LLMs to write apps.

InsideOutSanta··on German battery maker Varta files insolvency applications
Yeah, they make some of the best low-self-discharge rechargeables. All of my AA and AAAs are Varta. They're extremely prominent in lots of stores in Europe. When I read the headline, I was like, "But how?" but the Apple angle makes sense.
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