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dalmo3··on Vite+ Beta
vp + sv seems to work very well, when I tried it. And oxfmt supports svelte now too!
dalmo3··on YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
Yes, like filtering out shorts.

/s

dalmo3··on I'm Tired of Talking to AI
I agree with your sentiment from the perspective of the asker.

But if I'm the askee, I honestly don't know how to navigate those waters yet.

If someone asks me for help and I can find, through AI, a thread to explore, but I don't have time to explore it myself, should I not share?

Do I say "Have you tried X?", where X is the thing the LLM suggested? Should I pretend that I did not ask the LLM?

In the past, I could find some source and send them the link, and I wouldn't assume the person had exhausted the entire Google index. Sending a link isn't the same as LMGTFY.

Analogously, while "Claude says X" does sound as rude as lmgtfy, disclosing that your suggestion was found via llm is more akin to linking to a source, or "take this with a grain of salt".

dalmo3··on Mexican government breached by solo user with Claude, 150 GB exfiltrated
It's order vs chaos, and LLMs are on the side of chaos.
dalmo3··on Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
It's so blatant that it's hard to call it unintended.
dalmo3··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
Beyond the Singularity, we reach the Nullarity.
dalmo3··on Cisco workforce reductions
> reduction of our overall workforce in Q4 by fewer than 4,000 jobs

Interesting use of fewer.

dalmo3··on Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise
If your hair is on fire, you don't ask how hot.
dalmo3··on Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
Damn, I got the paper stack wet with all that ocean water. Guess I'm starting again from scratch...
dalmo3··on AI slop is killing online communities
Do they also say you're wrong, then proceed to "prove it" by pasting more AI slop that they don't understand?

The first time that happened, I had the courtesy to point out why the slop was incorrect... I don't know what that did for my social capital. I fear/suspect people are getting attached to their pet AI to the point of taking personal offence when called out.

dalmo3··on What we lost the last time code got cheap
While you're technically correct, I found that a simple "give me the strongest arguments for and against this, cite your sources" works wonders.
dalmo3··on Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision...
Classic gamblers fallacy!
dalmo3··on Knitting bullshit
Being the devil's advocate, it sounds like no one involved see any value in that exchange, therefore they don't care.

In that sense AI slop is a symptom, not a disease. But perhaps also a catalyst.

I really wonder if there is a sort of silver lining here, and in the long term low value activities will be filtered out of society. Though that borders on the AI maximalist view which I don't fully agree with.

Of course the glaring question is what value even is.

dalmo3··on Why most product tours get skipped
Isn't that exactly what IKEA does?
dalmo3··on Stitch together lots of little HTML pages with navigations for interactions
Don't worry, it's only in the HN bubble that adding a 500ms round trip to open a damn menu is acceptable and commended.
dalmo3··on Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for AV companies
Augmented Virtuality?
dalmo3··on The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy
As if that was a bad thing in 2026!
dalmo3··on Is my blue your blue? (2024)
I hereby propose the Turquoise Trolley Problem (TTP):

If you say the trolley is blue, it goes straight, where there's a baby in the tracks. If the trolley is green, two grandmas die.

dalmo3··on Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
Ah, yes, 2001 but on land.
dalmo3··on Tip: Web requests should not be measured in Hz [Hertz]
I assumed the author was one of those HN haters and was filtering by referrer. Now I'm curious.
dalmo3··on Jumping into cold water can stop your heart
At this rate Lee Child must have already secretly invented AGI.
dalmo3··on A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU
AI or not, I liked this bit:

> Averages lie about the tails, and a person who gets a 15 cm bust error doesn’t care that the mean is 4 cm.

A variation of that sentence should be mandatory in every scientific paper.

dalmo3··on How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences
That's a poor analogy because practicing an instrument is a single-player game.

Unless you mean you can practice socialisation at the mirror, or that you're willing to practice scales or solfege in public.

dalmo3··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Ohh they finally ship to New Zealand. It's a shame they wouldn't last year, and I ended up with a Lenovo :/
dalmo3··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
The new UI is literally opt-in. Nothing changed for me.
dalmo3··on Modern Front end Complexity: essential or accidental?
> I'm familiar with the newer carousel CSS/JS stuff but it's kind of clunky

I think you've just answered yourself why.

Browsers are the most used applications on the planet. They have one chance to get an API right ("don't break the web"). They iterate on a new API for years. When they finally launch it, devs call it "clunky".

dalmo3··on The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances
Until you take a baby to the vaccine clinic, the nurse googles which vaccine to give at his age, and blindly trusts the highlighted AI snippet at the top.

Not a fictitious example.

dalmo3··on One neat trick to end extreme poverty
Apparently 75% of the world's population believe in some kind of god. 60% is a low number as far as fantasy beliefs go.
dalmo3··on Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file
Are you sure the script is actually testing the gameplay? Given it can see the entire source code of the game.
dalmo3··on Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes
Is it not safe to assume that all* publicly available prior work is in the training data?

Then you could just prompt it to propose options with pros and cons etc.

* Bar extremely new stuff from after the cutoff

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