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clarkdale··on Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?
Can you expand on this?
clarkdale··on I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA
This reply genuinely reads like AI and I don't mean to insult you. Perhaps large language models have been trained too much on your books. Your first 2 to 3ish paragraph (explanation and rephrasing) is very characteristic of an AI when they're pressed (e.g. on why they recently hallucinated).
clarkdale··on MCP is dead?
I can't pipe an MCP's output to jq, and I can't ask an AI to write a python script to call an MCP.
clarkdale··on I'm Tired of Talking to AI
> Worse: it's a conversation killer. There's nothing to respond to. Your wall of text suppresses dialogue. They can't reply, can't push back, can't clarify. It's a weapon disguised as helpfulness.

This has that slopccato feeling.

clarkdale··on The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
LLMs are trained on real life grammar written by humans. Sometimes the characteristic traits you see by LLMs are written again by human hands.
clarkdale··on I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop
If the mechanic is under the hood all day, sounds like business is well and he can't support any more customers. Time to increase rates.
clarkdale··on What Is OAuth?
Completely agree. OAuth, Auth0, Okta, OIDC.
clarkdale··on GitHub Agentic Workflows
I feel like this solution hallucinated the concept of Workflow Lock File (.lock.yml), which is not available in Github Actions. This is a missing feature that would solve the security risk of changing git tag references when calling to actions like utility@v1
clarkdale··on [dead]
Banner text reads:

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clarkdale··on Oh no, not again a meditation on NPM supply chain attacks
By removing ellipsis in submission title, the sentiment feels more like "not another meditation" instead of the intent "oh no!: a meditation"
clarkdale··on Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML
98.css has this with the details html element
clarkdale··on My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education
I see Conway's Law at work here. The marketing department must have its own IT department separate from the IT that maintains the core website and business functions. It's impossible for them to get on the same web domain (much less build something in the phone apps). Instead, they built their own disparate site and experience.
clarkdale··on Show HN: I built a tool to manage and compare credit card rewards
It could be factored in, but many restaurants near me add a fee for credit card use, usually 2% but I've seen as high as 3.5%.

The credit card rewards usually still make sense, but sometimes I pay cash even if I might lose 0.5% on it.

clarkdale··on What will enter the public domain in 2025?
Maybe more helpful would be base 256 so it renders in ascii.
clarkdale··on FDA proposes ending use of oral phenylephrine as OTC nasal decongestant
Only the second to last paragraph was necessary.
clarkdale··on Implementing Regular Expressions in TypeScript Types (Badly)
Derivatives approach is great and works if you're matching on some pattern like \w+, but could it work with "or" characters like (abc|def) or patterns like [a-z]+\d+
clarkdale··on Toasts are bad UX
I'm sorry to say this, but I don't think it's fair that you (a moderator) should be allowed to pin comments to the top. There may be dozens of helpful links sharing or clarifying context in the discussion. The community can use the upvote feature to sort comments.

Exceptions might be made in cases of misinformation or abuse.

clarkdale··on Show HN: Double – Design and invest in your own stock index
Are you hiring?
clarkdale··on Do not try to be the smartest in the room; try to be the kindest
"Being nice is the new punk"

I would say helping others is incredibly punk. Such as responding to chat messages requesting help in some particular coding problem. So many people will direct them to a support queue, but I love taking time to understand their issue and help them out.

clarkdale··on I'm puzzled how anyone trusts ChatGPT for code
Sometimes I forget a parenthesis here and there.
clarkdale··on FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules
This is why Netflix built fast.com
clarkdale··on Finding lead in Stanley's Quencher
Absolute science like this, with x-ray imagery, does reveal, or rather, confirm what we needed to know. Independent verification is an important part of the process and shouldn't be discounted.
clarkdale··on 4B If Statements
You can improve this with tail recursion.
clarkdale··on NASA: Capillary Cup
This would make a great gift for a space lover!
clarkdale··on Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot
A Berlin artist used 99 phones on a bicycle to trick Google into showing a traffic jam.
clarkdale··on TypeScript 5.2's new keyword: 'Using'
What does the compiled JavaScript look like?
clarkdale··on Apollo will close down on June 30th
Is this aggregation manual and do you find it rewarding?
clarkdale··on Wikipedia user edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”
Hey there, when you are quoting and ending a sentence, you should place the period inside the quotes. I understand if you are new to writing in the English language.
clarkdale··on How much can Duolingo teach us?
Modernized learning a language with books on tape.
clarkdale··on AWS staff spending ‘much of their time ’optimizing customers' clouds'
The title has two grammatical errors with quotes. The corrected form would be:

> AWS staff spending ‘much of their time’ optimizing customers' clouds

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