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dostick··on Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
The difference is that today's tool has a demo website that makes the whole thing self-explanatory. Yours is a repository that speaks "figure it out".
dostick··on Homebrew 7.0.0
Was issue with upgrade running out of disk space fixed?
dostick··on Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap
The article describes a case that is a perfect candidate to be automated by LM. You don’t have to have real-world knowledge for that.

Would be interesting to see what involves contributing a real thing that’s not found on the net - a fence, footpath, etc. Or contributing a bus stop.

dostick··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
Does the harness apply when you sue Claude model in third party IDE? like Opencode, or third party adds their harness on top, not replacing it?
dostick··on I resigned from Anthropic today
It’s like Nathan Macintosh joke about AI https://youtu.be/ce-aWzOUs2A?si=9CkJ9x2rRMBdzCyO
dostick··on I resigned from Anthropic today
Must-see Nathan Macintosh standup about AI https://youtu.be/ce-aWzOUs2A?si=9CkJ9x2rRMBdzCyO
dostick··on Ask HN: Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
So Fable can act by itself as audio to midi decoder now? No need for specialised models, it just listens like a person and plays it?
dostick··on I'm a seeing-eye dog for a computer
LM still can not see and understand the desktop app UI on a level that is acceptable for testing. All the advances in coding are from web dev and thanks to the nature of html UIs. Try to develop a desktop app and it’s like working with a legally blind person who can see some part of the screen is they squint in a certain way but surely will miss all minor details.
dostick··on The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay
This is totally absurd because people don’t buy phone based on car integration they have. They buy car integration that works with their phone. And numbers reflect iPhone vs Android market share.
dostick··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Such board already exist as you described, and at that URL
dostick··on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
So Down Detector is a kind of quantum observation experiment, observing influences the result.
dostick··on The asteroid currently hitting front end web development
She wouldn’t be able to do any of that without you setting it up first. She would not know anything about deepseek, meaning of a folder with index.html file. Would not know even what to ask ChatGPT, “I need a website”? You make it sound like easy task anyone can do, when you provided 99% of otherwise impossible for them to easily obtain key knowledge needed.
dostick··on Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)
The whole incident was because of 0.2mm offset in a machined part! And the company that made the part ignored the quality compliance process was not fired. I wonder why - did Airbus think it’s their failure not to verify that the subcontractor adhered to procedures?
dostick··on Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines
How robitics may be “scalable”?
dostick··on Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues
I am curious why you list custom renderer as the first requirement? Must a distribution have a custom one?
dostick··on The turbulent AI era is here
> We have to think now about how to reduce job losses so that everyone can share in the prosperity that AI creates.

And I thought he is a smart man. This is so last century thinking. We need to prepare that there will definitely be no jobs for everyone and that will be falling all the time, it’s not a one-time event you should “prepare for”. There’s nothing to prepare, we already have funds and productivity to feed and shelter everyone. UBI is not a privilege, previous generations were slaving 9 to 5 all their lives so we can have it. This is it, arrived, and now, enter a few decades of historical period when all of us waiting for government bureaucrats to realise that UBI is a right.

dostick··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
> Assigning an official PETI petition number usually takes several weeks. If this is how it works in the EU bureaucracy, then there’s no hope.
dostick··on GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
I wonder what about UI review, which model is the best?
dostick··on I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead)
So the best solution according to the article is to use UDP’s feature of not being sent to any port in particular. In ideal hypothetical it should work, but on any public WIFI, and remote networks would not deliver UDP.

UDP was designed as no-guarantee of delivery. Why would you rely on it for this important feature?

dostick··on OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
Isn’t ethics incompatible with the nature of a commercial enterprise? Now, if OpenAI was a non-profit… as it was intended originally.
dostick··on Hyperspace
Surprised that app with Full Disk Access permission requirement is allowed to the App Store.
dostick··on Why do we assume everyone should be working?
That’s a misleading generalisation. Yes, it appears like an inflation vector, then if you follow the money it’s not that simple. In a closed utopian town system of 100 people that would cause inflation, in the real world -no.
dostick··on Why do we assume everyone should be working?
UBI is the inevitable future. We are now living in a time period in history when we wait for government bureaucrats to finally realise that UBI is a right and not a privilege. At this moment more than half of employment can be classified as “bullshit jobs” - inconsequential that would make no difference if they disappeared one day, created to satisfy the requirements of the capitalist economy. We have been productive to feed and shelter everyone for free for a while now, at least 20 years if not more, but the scarcity narrative gets reignited and pushed by politicians who want to distract and blame immigrants or lack of resources for their own incompetence.
dostick··on Boris Cherny on Trying to Get Claude Code to Rewrite the Claude App
Interesting how he works with it, ”do you have access to macOS runner?” , “do you have access to repo?” And finally they will see that the biggest and hardest problem with native development is verification. So the magic word it seems, is “verify pixel by pixel”. But that would limit what you can verify and implement. There should be vision models trained in UI.
dostick··on I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore
Why assume socialism?
dostick··on Seedance 2.5
I2p makes more sense and easier to do. But t2v is indeed of no use in any serious production, you must have the actor, product or setting communicated to the model visually
dostick··on How to Exist
It’s a result of people being less literate. “Existing” is used to describe passing time without meaning. What author should have used is “being”.
dostick··on I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore
More than half of employment is “bullshit jobs” needed only for capitalism. There’s artificial scarcity but artificial scarcity in minds of people is much worse problem.
dostick··on PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works
It surely is impressive,but it’s just that - components of db service as buildings/machine. What it needs is narrative, purpose, with main actors clearly defined - client and data. demonstrating what is involved in the chain when data’s written and requested.
dostick··on The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin
FinAmp is pretty bad, the UI is an example of design by committee of developers. There’s a “new UI” beta version that’s been going on since 2022, you can get it via TestFlight. But that new version is even worse.
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