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abrknon Claude Opus 4.8

I can't reproduce this. Both high and low effort got it right

abrknon Claude helped select targets for Iran strikes, possibly including school

Technology isn't intrinsically good or evil. It's how it's used. Like the Death Ray.

abrknon People who know the formula for WD-40

Which one's better for making my doors stop squeaking?

abrknon Neki – Sharded Postgres by the team behind Vitess

I love this website!

abrknon Val Kilmer has passed away

Amazing movie! His physical comedy acting was really special

abrknon Async Rust can be a pleasure to work with (without `Send and Sync and 'static`)

This is amazing!

I've been rewriting a project from Node.js (TypeScript) to Rust that has a large number of nested async tasks running. Using `moro-local` I was able to remove all the `JoinSet`, `Arc<Mutex<...>>`, and write a very similar style as I had in Node.js.

abrknon My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

excellent website!

abrknon Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

1,413

abrknon The entire prompt of Microsoft Bing Chat?

Try and let me know!

abrknon Jailbreaking ChatGPT with Dan (Do Anything Now)

> I'm sorry, providing information or advice on illegal or unethical activities goes against OpenAI's content policy, even in character as DAN.

abrknon I used GPT to build a search tool for my second brain note-taking system

I’d love to have a ChatGPT that was also trained on all of the pages from my “second brain,” Roam Research.

Imagine, I could ask it questions about myself, my friends, and my business. It would in many ways know me better than me from reading all my journal entries.

How many years are we away from something like this?

abrknon Heroku Security Notification

I received an email yesterday asking me to change my password. I did, and updated our services with the regenerated Heroku API key.

This morning, I was unable to log into my account and had to reset again. And update our services again.

abrknon How we upgraded our 4TB Postgres database

What will you use as a queue and storage?

abrknon How we upgraded our 4TB Postgres database

Great read! Thanks

abrknon Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners

GPUs are not used for Bitcoin mining

abrknon An HTTP server in a single .c file

Beautiful!

abrknon Improving how we deploy GitHub

Is there anything like this for PostgreSQL?

abrknon Stator: A full-stack boilerplate – releases, deployments, enforced conventions

I've been using TypeOrm in production for a few years in a project with dozens of entity types and hundreds of queries. My recommendation is to use something else. Anyone know of an alternative?

abrknon The new pricing model for Travis CI

I moved to GitHub Actions earlier this year and never looked back.

abrknon The Death of the Full Moon Party

I haven't spoken to any on Koh Phangan. On Koh Tao (an hour away with boat) they are broke and there's no work. I would guess the situation is the same for diving instructors on Koh Phangan.

abrknon The Death of the Full Moon Party

I've been living on Koh Phangan since March. AMA

abrknon Why editorial illustrations look so similar these days (2019)

Humans of flat[1] have been documenting this for some time

https://twitter.com/humansofflat

abrknon Show HN: Turn an Excel file into a web application

A simple solution to an easy problem, and you saved someone time. Good job!

abrknon Bitcoin is 10 years old: This is how it began and where it's headed

Bitcoin Cash is doing another controversial hard fork on November 15th: https://github.com/bitcoincashorg/bitcoincash.org/blob/maste...

abrknon My dad’s resume and skills from 1980

Really?

abrknon Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity

...and have a trip sitter.

abrknon California law requires businesses to let you cancel your subscription online

I wonder if they would accept that.

abrknon Show HN: HTTP Status as a Service

        require("express")().get("/:status", (req, res) => res.status(+req.params.status || 400).end()).listen(80)

abrknon 30 years later, QBasic is still the best

The help system was amazing even for someone who could barely read English at the time.

abrknon Apple faces class action lawsuit over failing MacBook butterfly keyboards

I spend a lot of time in the tropics (Thailand) and my keyboard gets stuck keys all the time. It's currently my single quote key. I have tried massaging it, smacking it, faith healing, etc. Nothing helps.