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davea37on Reflex – Web apps in pure Python

> Reflex launched in December 2022 with the name Pynecone.

davea37on I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language

Have I spent too long reading AI output, or was this reply in fact generated using ChatGPT?

davea37on GitHub code search – waiting list signup

A couple of years ago you stopped indexing repos that hadn't had activity for a year [0]. Will such repos be indexed by the new code search?

[0]: https://github.blog/changelog/2020-12-17-changes-to-code-sea...

davea37on Show HN: Dress Circle – IMDB for UK Theatre

Reminds me of https://theatricalia.com - have you come across that site before?

davea37on Show HN: Making Python one-liner-fit with the new pwk (Python With Kurly braces)

In a similar vein, pyp: https://github.com/hauntsaninja/pyp

davea37on Mac keyboard shortcuts

MonitorControl achieves the same thing but using the existing keyboard keys: https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl (recent discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23785291)

davea37on Signing in to websites with SSH

If the web page was served over HTTPS and provided the SSH server's fingerprint for the user to verify, wouldn't that get around the MITM risk?

davea37on The new archive.org

Is the old one available anywhere? ;)

davea37on Show HN: ZipLocate, a free API for zip code geolocation

http://mapit.mysociety.org/

davea37on Supercomputer takes 40 minutes to simulate 1 second of a human brain

Probably this: "It doesn't take much raw power to play Nintendo or SNES games on a modern PC; emulators could do it in the 1990s with a mere 25MHz of processing power. But emulating those old consoles accurately—well, that's another challenge entirely; accurate emulators may need up to 3GHz of power to faithfully recreate aging tech." - http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-o...

davea37on LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS

> It breaks the very concept of email security.

There's no such thing. Email breaks the concept of email security.

davea37on Apple provides credit to people who have reported security issues

> Apple acknowledges Ibrahim Balic for discovering security flaw in dev center

This title is inaccurate - the linked pages credits 7dscan.com and SCANV for reporting the developer centre issue.

Ibrahim BALIC is credited with reporting an apparently unrelated issue in iAd Workbench.