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chazhazon AI is a business model stress test

the quoted comment is arguing that devops will never be promptable — putting aside the discussion about whether or not that's true today, the argument here is that it's not likely to _never_ be possible

chazhazon Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS

The advantage of TUIs is that you get a low-fidelity browser UI that doesn’t need to be exposed to the internet, that can be run remotely via SSH, which doesn’t ship you megabytes of JavaScript, and which works equally well on everyone’s machine

chazhazon How I code with AI on a budget/free

Agreed that it’s all about context — but my experience is that pasting into web chat allows me to manage context much more than if I drop the whole project/whole filesystem into context. With the latter approach the results tend to be hit-and-miss as the model tries to guess what’s right. All about context!

chazhazon Our interfaces have lost their senses

Reader seems to be broken on iOS Safari—after the first few paragraphs sentences start repeating 8 or so times in a row

Plus the longer paragraphs, confined to the height of their parent image, are cut off on my iPhone mini, leading to sections reading e.g.:

> controls with GUIs—graphical user interfaces. We skeumorphed the heck out of our screens, with digital switches, flat sliders, and folder icons. But we kept some of the the functionality in the physical world, with slots to stick disks into and big

chazhazon The Demoralization is just Beginning

...and about twice what it was 50 years ago. How have Sweden, Japan, France, etc. managed to keep income inequality around postwar lows while America hasn't?

chazhazon Starlink has achieved breakeven cash flow

I suspect that the parent poster is morally opposed to them as well, even if they don’t regularly make baseless claims on platforms they bought to make baseless claims on

chazhazon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://charlesharri.es

Commentary on stuff I find online, public-facing journal at irregular intervals, collection of book reviews. Skews web-dev. I’m trying to use it as an archive of what I’ve been thinking about recently—the idea is that the primary audience is me, but 5 years from now.

chazhazon Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

> you nuke your Instagram account

> Meta will nuke your Instagram account

> exactly the same

chazhazon Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro

This isn’t a mass consumer device. $3500 is what Apple’s charging to folks with great ideas who want to dictate what the future of “special computing” looks like. This is for early adopters pretty much exclusively.

The rest of us will get the apple vision se in 2028 when the territory’s been mapped out

chazhazon Who wants to be tracked?

It’s one thing to say that you’ll keep the data private between you, but from the user’s perspective there’s no guarantee. Whether that’s because you change your mind and decide to sell the user’s data, or there’s some sorta data breach, or or or.

chazhazon My favorite iPhone feature was removed, long live its subpar replacement

The problem here is that the “move left to expand left” and “move right to expand right” doesn’t map mentally to the way a cursor works.

With a traditional cursor, it places an anchor wherever you’ve moused down and then drags the selection around that anchor.

Whereas with Haptic Touch selection, there’s no anchor, so you find yourself selecting text you didn’t mean to. I’m sure that once you’ve gotten used to it, it’s a nice feature; but it’s not intuitive if you’re not accustomed to it (which seems to be the majority of folks).

chazhazon Fresh is a new full stack web framework for Deno

The JS ecosystem seems a lot more hesitant to bundle features into frameworks à la Rails/Laravel & friends, but Redwood.js sounds like what you're looking for. The ORM it uses is Prisma, which works really well on its own too.

https://redwoodjs.com https://www.prisma.io

chazhazon Google Container for Firefox – Prevent Google from tracking you around the web

I mean, you don't. You have to trust the maintainers of the software you use, to a certain degree, or spend a majority of your time auditing the software you use.

That being said, Brave is pretty upfront about the security of their software. They've paid $25k in bug/security bounties so far and their browser is open source. So if an update turns evil, it stands to reason that someone is going to notice.

chazhazon We can no longer leave online security to the market

A big problem is that regulation tends to be pretty porous. Rather than curbing bad behaviour, it just adds, as you say, several layers of complexity on top of the bad behaviour. And the task of handling that extra complexity ends up on the desks of the working grunts keeping the system churning.

Like with GDPR, the regulation was to give people control of their data and make privacy by default an available option. But it's just given users more hoops to jump through before scooping up a user's data anyway.

Regulations tend to be a bit of a nudge in the right direction, but play out as something systems have to work against to keep things running the way they were before.