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crashabr··on Claude in Chrome
I've been wondering if it was a good replacement for the playwright mcp, at least for chrome-only testing.
crashabr··on Show HN: I built a system for active note-taking in regular meetings like 1-1s
What does this add compared to Logseq's default journal view?
crashabr··on PyTogether: Collaborative lightweight real-time Python IDE for teachers/learners
It would be great to be able to share an attached terminal as well, as a lot of action happens there when programming.
crashabr··on Pocketbase – open-source realtime back end in 1 file
What kind of app do you use it for?
crashabr··on What they don't tell you about maintaining an open source project
Code existed before FOSS. Code that people collaborated on existed before FOSS. Code given away for free existed before FOSS. FOSS code, by itself, is not anything special.

Licences also existed before FOSS, but open sources licences enabling the kind of freedoms that they allow did not exist. And as it happens, a license is not a technical artefact but a social contract. Stallman is activist, not simply a neutral combination of a technician and a lawyer.

The social contract and political vision are consequently not ancillary, but core to FOSS. Code is the medium, but the license is the innovation. Without that social contract, 'open' code is just abandonware.

The community doesn't need to be a 'house party,' but the license guarantees the right for a community to form when the original author walks away.

crashabr··on I built a faster Notion in Rust
What are they? The thing I value the most is the collaboration and the relational part, allowing to build pages that are essentially views on other data.

The only one I'm looking forward currently is the next version of Logseq which will enable collaboration on their existing block-based authoring model.

crashabr··on Heavy codes of conduct are unnecessary for open source projects
People have different level of tolerance to negative behavior. That includes both your team and your community. Having a clear rules allows you to

1) point both involved and uninvolved people to the code of conduct when you end up taking action.

2) avoid disparity of enforcement within your team

3) funnel disagreements (from both teammates or community members) by focusing them on the rule, rather than on a general debate on how should the community should be managed.

If people commit a lot of energy to a community/project then for many "I didn't like this behavior, end of discussion" won't cut it.

crashabr··on DeepFabric – Generate high-quality synthetic datasets at scale
How easy it is to pass an existing db schema to this library in order to generate a testable synthetic dataset?
crashabr··on Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly
I'm not sure I understand correctly: is it a new serverless offering competing with the likes of vercel and fly.io, but with a different technology and pricing strategy? And the wasm container means that I can deploy my streamlit of FastAPI ETL apps without the Docker overhead or slowness of streamlit cloud?
crashabr··on Show HN: Greppers – fast CLI cheat sheet with instant copy and shareable search
Nice job. Though it would be more useful to me as a cli app. A different take on tldr with live filtering of results based on what you're typing
crashabr··on Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me
I think you messed up something with your time-travelling setup. We're in the timeline where GPT5 did not become the all powerful sentient AI that Ai boosters promised us. Which timeline are you from?
crashabr··on Obsidian Bases
How does it compare to the table view of a Logseq query? Is UI the main added value? Is it possible to build a base of content blocks rather than notes?
crashabr··on Launch HN: Hyprnote (YC S25) – An open-source AI meeting notetaker
Do you intend to reach feature parity with something like MacWhisper? I'd love to switch to something open source, but automated meeting detection, push to transcribe (with custom rewrite actions) are two features I've learned to love, beside basic transcript. I also enjoy the automatic transcription from an audio, video or a even a YouTube link.

But because MacWhisper does not store transcripts or do much with them (other than giving you export options), there are some missed opportunities: I'd love to be able to add project tags to transcripts, so that any new transcript is summarized with the context of all previous transcript summaries that share the same tag. Thinking about it maybe I should build a Logseq extension to do that myself as I store all my meeting summaries there anyway.

Speaker detection is not great in MacWhisper (at least in my context where I work mostly with non native English speakers), so that would be a good differentiation too.

crashabr··on The future is not self-hosted
What kind of machine do you need to run all of this concurrently?
crashabr··on How to Firefox
> No moral choice is possible unless all your choices are moral.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som...

crashabr··on Jqfmt like gofmt, but for jq
I'm a long time user of this snippet as well. I discovered fastgron [0] last year and found it convenient for some situations!

[0] https://github.com/adamritter/fastgron

crashabr··on Inside the box: Everything I did with an Arduino starter kit
Anything you recommend instead?
crashabr··on AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds
> Does it matter that the computer had no skill, and the grandmaster did?

Yes it does when pondering about the transferability of the skills mobilized to achieve the result (grandmaster status) to other domains.

crashabr··on Backlog.md – Markdown‑native Task Manager and Kanban visualizer for any Git repo
Really nice! Have you thought of interfacing with the todo.txt ecosystem?
crashabr··on Show HN: HomeBrew HN – Generate personal context for content ranking
Really cool!

My results were

- 3 Dive 11 skim, 16 skip.

- 1 dive would have been a skim, 2 skim would have been a skip, 2 skim would have been a dive, 4 skips would have been a skim, 1 skip would have been a dive.

- Total mislabelled: 10, ~30% across and within each category.

Some thoughts:

- it's hard to get it right without a taxonomy of content. I wouldn't skim an essay (Conversations with a hit man). I either dive or skip.

- Skimming is also often a first check before diving, so the categorisation can be a bit artificial.

- I think "Would Read Later" could be an interesting signal/label, like bookmarks on Instagram.

crashabr··on Give footnotes the boot – alternatives to footnotes on the web
Good stuff, thanks.

As an aside, I didn't know that the popover technique could be done with html and CSS only, neat! I'll use this for my learning content in-line glossary links from now on.

crashabr··on MCP is eating the world
Could you elaborate on why the graph structure is better than embeddings? Is it for a specific use case?
crashabr··on Advanced Python Function Debugging with MCP Integration
Do you mind sharing your prompt/approach?
crashabr··on A look at Cloudflare's AI-coded OAuth library
Studies have shown that the more people use automated systems, the more they start to trust them, leaving to oversight. It's called [automation bias](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation_bias).

If a Cloudflare security engineer ends up missing the use of a deprecated functionality during a public experiment where they know they'll face very intense scrutiny, what will happen down the line, when llm use is normalized in security contexts?

crashabr··on Knowledge Management in the Age of AI
Crazy coincidence as I just started setting up my PARA system on Logseq.
crashabr··on Show HN: Donut Browser, a Browser Orchestrator
A shame that I just paid for Choosy. Oh well, it wasn't very expensive.
crashabr··on Show HN: CSV GB+ by Data.olllo – Open and Process CSVs Locally
How does it compare to OpenRefine https://github.com/OpenRefine
crashabr··on Show HN: 1st things 1st – Prioritize your goals, ideas, and tasks online
I don't think prioritizing to be a struggle. The challenge is to take the time to list out of all the tasks that need to be ranked by order of priority.
crashabr··on I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt
Your comment is a breath of fresh air coming from the comment section between the article about self hosting emails. Even beyond the moral imperative, it's saddening how a website called hackernews seems to have such a high amount of late stage capitalism drones.
crashabr··on The AI skeptic's guide to AI collaboration
The problem with deceptively correct information is that it leads us to take mental shortcuts that lead us to oversee details. If you do the work first, you've already avoided this problem. Instead, if the feedback of the llm doesn't match your mental model, it leads you to think twice about it, which is a good thing (the risk of overthinking is offset by the speed at which llms give you the feedback).
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