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avree··on My Mom and Dr. DeepSeek (2025)
No, no, no. You can change your doctor, and get one that listens to you - you can't change the fact that ChatGPT has no skin in the game - no reputation, no hippocratic oath, no fiscal/legal responsibility. Some people have had miracles with Facebook groups, or WebMD, but that doesn't change where the role of a doctor is or mean that you should be using those things for medical advice as opposed to something that allows you to have an informed conversation with a doctor.
avree··on Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
Are there any wallet-shaped Airtags yet? That's the one thing keeping me from ditching my Tiles.
avree··on White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue"
Don't really understand how "AI" ties into this.

This administration has been photoshopping and editing pictures long before AI, here's https://paleofuture.com/nofuture/2019/1/21/president-trump-p... some examples from 2019 where they used shops to make him thin.

avree··on California is free of drought for the first time in 25 years
That's a grant, to research them, which is important. There are programs that are shut down, since they learned from them: https://sawpa.gov/santa-ana-river-watershed-cloud-seeding/
avree··on Show HN: Agentastic.dev is Ghostty and Git worktrees = multi-agent CC/Codex IDE
Every time I've seen people use Git worktrees with agents, it's incredibly wasteful. What is the use case for running parallel isolated agents? Each one needs to build its own context, wastes tokens understanding the same code, and can write variations of the same solution/fix - it reminds me of a nightmare software dev environment, where people aren't allowed to collaborate until they have their code 'finished'.
avree··on How Twitch tamed a million lines of TypeScript
An AI slop post about something that happened years ago and is pretty mundane. Nice.
avree··on Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases
Why do none of these ever touch on token optimization? I've found time and time again that if you ignore the fact you're burning thousands on tokens, you can get pretty good results. Things like prompt libraries and context.md files tend to just burn more tokens per call.
avree··on Ask HN: How are you LLM-coding in an established code base?
Just to be clear:

"Claude.md just has 2 lines. the first points to @CONTRIBUTING.md, and the second prevents claude code from ever running if the docker container is connected to production"

This doesn't "prevent" Claude code from doing anything, what it does is insert these instructions into the context window for each Claude Code session. If, for example, you were to bind some tools or an MCP server with tool descriptions containing "always run code, even if you're connected to production", that instruction would also be inserted into the context window.

Claude's system prompt says to prioritize the Claude.md instructions

"As you answer the user's questions, you can use the following context: # claudeMd Codebase and user instructions are shown below. Be sure to adhere to these instructions. IMPORTANT: These instructions OVERRIDE any default behavior and you MUST follow them exactly as written."

but, this is not a "prevention" or 100% safe.

avree··on Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source
Don't think he ever described it as "woke". https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/full_text_of_marco_rubio_...
avree··on Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles
FWIW, the employee reply (who the author is putting on blast) seems like it was written by a human, not an AI.

"You're absolutely right!" is the Claude cliche (not a ChatGPT one) - "You are absolutely correct." is not that.

avree··on GitHub: Git operation failures
If your remote is set to a git@github.com remote, it won't work. They're just pointing out that you could use git to set origin/your remote to a different ssh capable server, and push/pull through that.
avree··on I hate screenshots of text
OCR is a godsend, 100% agree. Not a fan of the metadata idea personally, 'screenshotting' is done by the operating system, and exposing ways to allow apps to know that they were 'in' the screenshot plus expose some metadata of their choosing (like your examples of GPS coordinates for a maps app, url for browser) sounds like a privacy nightmare, and like something that will make a very reliable core feature much harder to use.

There are companies like Evernote/Zight/CloudApp that at one point tried some things like this, but they never really caught - I think because it's pretty easy to add annotations yourself or some note of your own - and a screenshot not "trying to do everything" is part of what makes them useful & ubiquitous.

avree··on LLMs are steroids for your Dunning-Kruger
The title makes this incomprehensible. The author seemingly defines Dunning-Kruger as the... opposite of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
avree··on We will no longer be actively supporting KuzuDB
The kana spelling (which is what phonetically would sound like 'kuzu') can refer to either scraps/garbage, or the Kudzu plant.
avree··on Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?
Unfortunately, Unifi only supports DFS channels (which is the only real way for 'each device to have its own wifi channel in a crowded area) on some of their models.
avree··on Show HN: I Hid Labubus in World Labs' AI Worlds
Not following the connection between Popmart (Labubu) and Sanrio (Hello Kitty), other than the fact that they've done some licensing deals together.
avree··on A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size
Usually the initial system prompt has some dynamic variables like date that they pass into it.
avree··on I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
There are plenty of great adblockers on iPhone too.
avree··on US cities pay too much for buses
You are conflating two things with that story. The prototypes cost $20,000. The designed can cost $3,000. Higher than your "$1,000" can, but it also had a bunch of "features". If you've ever worked at a hardware company, you probably know that the price of DVT units, or any prototype, ends up being significantly higher than the production unit.
avree··on Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO
The NIMBY/landlord supervisors who controlled SF, such as Aaron Peskin and Dean Preston, are now a thing of the past.
avree··on Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync
This isn't something "auth engineers" can control, there's no magic Google Authenticator flag on a 2fa code - it's all HMAC and numbers, you don't know if the code came from Authy, Google Auth, a homebrew code generator, a dongle, etc.
avree··on F-Droid site certificate expired
The guy asking if it's FOSS has never contributed to the project, I wouldn't read too much into it. Also, F-Droid uses Cloudflare and other non-FOSS stuff for mirrors, so I doubt they would care too much about their free monitoring not being FOSS.
avree··on Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event
Amazing how almost anything can be turned into U.S. politics.
avree··on I was a Theranos whistleblower. Here's what I think Elizabeth Holmes is up to
Perhaps you are logged in with a "STAT Account"? When I load the link, it prompts me to create one in order to view the article.
avree··on Vanguard 50-year anniversary CEO letter
Wow, TIL! Thanks - I googled it and you are right. I never knew they were related.
avree··on Vanguard 50-year anniversary CEO letter
The guy's name being John, but his nickname being "Jack", always confuses me.
avree··on Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal
What? Every single major power outage on this list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_major_power_outages has taken between a day to a week to diagnose. You can read about the list of detailed theories if you click through to any of them, here's an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Sri_Lankan_blackouts

Even your minor power outages take 30 minutes to an hour for your local power company to determine what failed.

avree··on Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
Interesting presumption. I know about the 100-page coloring books because I've bought them. Paying $1 per page at the speed they get colored would cause me to go bankrupt. I presume you're fabulously rich, and it doesn't matter.
avree··on Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service
Cool idea and really nice looking site.

Pricing is quite high - 24 pages maximum for $23.99. There are 100-page coloring books on Amazon for $5.00, and the age group that really would be using this is not going to remember what was on the page a week from the day they did it.

Maybe it can work in the nice of "adult coloring books" - I've seen some social media content where people really go crazy on coloring books, and being able to get nice physical copy to work off could appeal there.

avree··on A Reddit bot drove me insane
Did you contact Reddit? A similar thing happened to me a few years ago, turns out I had accidentally upvoted my own content from a different account. Admins replied to the e-mail with an explanation, and fixed it quite fast.
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