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hanszarkov

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Software professional since 1999
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hanszarkov··on Show HN: Core – open source memory graph for LLMs – shareable, user owned
Tried this, no joy. I created a CORE API key from my workspace->API page, configured MCP with Claude Desktop, I get this: "You didn't provide an API key...You can obtain an API key from https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys"

Other memory MCP servers do not require access to OpenAI - and not even sure why I would want any of my data going there when I use a paid Claude subscription.

I like the idea here, but doesn't seem very usable.

hanszarkov··on Show HN: Core – open source memory graph for LLMs – shareable, user owned
Does this work with Claude?
hanszarkov··on How Nissan and Honda's $60B merger talks collapsed
Tesla makes great products.
hanszarkov··on Four Hidden Species of Portuguese Man-O'-War
Fascinating read. Never knew about these 'aggregate' organisms.
hanszarkov··on Is regulated BGP security coming?
But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you
hanszarkov··on One malicious car could trick smart traffic control systems in the US (2018)
I have experienced the same thing 100 plus times
hanszarkov··on Univer: Open-Source Alternative for Google Sheets, Slides, Docs
Framemaker was great, was the tool used by most US military contractors in 90s. Many well known aircraft were designed using this document tool. I still try to configure MS Word to work like it.
hanszarkov··on Suicide is on the rise for young Americans, with no clear answers
>The world probably has never been as peaceful as in the last 50 years or so.

Peaceful? As in Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, Iran? Brazil is at great risk also.

I don't think so.

hanszarkov··on Three Body Problem by Netflix: Reviews
I like the show so far. I did read the books several times because they are incredible.

I think its better for people to think of this (or any film based on other media) as someone's adaptation. I wonder if the expectations for such endeavors are high because of how good Jackson was with LoTR - surely an epic story and films, but this is just a TV series. Some of these imdb comments are funny, like the one that likens this show to the Friends TV series - only set in Oxford. Probably because the portrayal of the group of scientists is more social than science, but that is just a reflection of the time we live in.

So not without thorns, but if you are a fan of the books this is a fun watch.

hanszarkov··on Russian advantage: UK Challenger tanks keep getting stuck
Perhaps based on land rovers...
hanszarkov··on Pilot of Boeing flight says he lost control after instrument failure
This
hanszarkov··on A 7k-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That's Bad News for All of Us
While I agree with most of the ideas here, the statement of "...than a gas-guzzling H3" is just sensational.

Sure the Hummer line in general was not good on gas, but most folks, including these folks don't know that most H3 units were sold with 5 cylinder engines (GM's inline-5 Vortec), and get reasonable fuel economy _for a truck_.

hanszarkov··on Alexei Navalny has died
This 100%, I have a similar experience.
hanszarkov··on Javalin – a simple web framework for Java and Kotlin
Concur, Jetty has been faster than Tomcat in my experience. Undertow seems even faster in my testing.
hanszarkov··on Javalin – a simple web framework for Java and Kotlin
This isn't factual, Spring and Boot have been 100% annotation configurable for almost a decade. The Spring documentation I read has zero XML.
hanszarkov··on I looked through attacks in my access logs
yes, also add cryptographic complexity, don't think that qualifies either.
hanszarkov··on Show HN: BSON Extension for Postgres
I've used the BSON Java ObjectId for distributed primary key generation for a long time. Really useful for distributed systems.
hanszarkov··on Elon Musk to provide Starlink connectivity to aid orgs. in Gaza
with full spy mode!
hanszarkov··on Mazda slaps developer with cease-and-desist for DIY smart home integration
I'm one engineer that won't be buying a Mazda
hanszarkov··on Windows NT 3.1 on Dec Alpha AXP
you've never seen remote X, it was a decade ahead of RDP
hanszarkov··on Windows NT 3.1 on Dec Alpha AXP
False, I've done remote XDMCP in the early 2000s and it worked well on dial up.
hanszarkov··on If You Want a Car This Heavy, You Should Pay Through the Nose
Sick people
hanszarkov··on If You Want a Car This Heavy, You Should Pay Through the Nose
This.
hanszarkov··on FBI improperly used 702 surveillance powers on US senator
> You can't cover up your crimes by arresting the criminal you > did the crimes with and then saying he's got no credibility > because he's a criminal.

Yep, 100%

hanszarkov··on San Francisco announces initiative to convert office buildings for other use
None of these are unique to San Francisco
hanszarkov··on No Mow May, Low Mow Spring
dogs, camping out-at-home, and sledding with kids, baseball/catch. I practice my golf swing in the summer, family fun
hanszarkov··on The Counterintuitive Physics of Turning a Bike (2015) [video]
Part of the Motorcycle Safey Foundation (MSF) curriculum since at least the 1990s: "push left go left, push right go right"
hanszarkov··on As a US Navy fighter pilot, I witnessed unidentified anomalous phenomena
That book by Leslie Keane is honest journalism, a fair treatment, I liked it.
hanszarkov··on Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software Development
You misunderstood - its the "ratio of people talking" that is poor
hanszarkov··on Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software Development
Funny stuff here, this is a long & opinionated rant against null or undefined pointer references in favor of functional. Little to do with functional programming - aside from how it handles this same construct.

> you can’t have a resistor shared by, say, both the keyboard > and the monitor’s circuitry. But programmers do this kind of > sharing all the time in their software. It’s called shared global state

Not it isn't - this is called reuse, in modern OOA&D its either inheritance or polymorphic composition. Some more modern approaches use 'mixins' and age old cross-cuts.

> Another complexity monster lurking in the software quagmire is called > a null reference, meaning that a reference to a place in memory points > to nothing at all

I recall my earliest days, using a microtec ICE to step through my code on an i960 on board and plugged into a DEC Alpha PCI slot, when the instruction pointer went to a place where there wasn't any instructions - I called it 'hyperspace' so yeah computers can actually execute bad code when I write bad code... omg - WRITE BETTER CODE, don't be constrained by the language!

>software industry has eliminated GOTO from modern higher-level languages, >software nevertheless continues to grow in complexity and fragility.

Seriously, did Scalfini quote 1970 BASIC GOTO? what about :<ref> ?

> Instead, there is a construct usually called Maybe (or Option in some languages)

Perhaps, maybe 8 years ago there was java.util.Optional ?

> founded in 1982 with a mission to help government agencies leverage technology

I think this explains some motivation

>Functional programming has a steep learning curve

Maybe for some, not for experienced practitioners, which I'd argue if you need to learn it perhaps you already have some computer science in your background - then not so steep.

I love functional approaches, don't get me wrong here, just don't appreciate rants so slanted and based in bias without real roots.

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