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Brett Gregson

React, PHP, JS/TS, Drupal, Yii, Unity. Based in Prague

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invalidusernam3··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
That looks like inflation.
invalidusernam3··on Claude Opus 5.5
I would happily pay more for a claude model that performs the same but speaks normal English. The proliferation of claudespeak in the workplace is driving me insane. Every ticket, every PR feedback, every comment in the codebase is poisoned with its ridiculous unnatural vocabulary
invalidusernam3··on 9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"
Hoardings is UK English (so... English) for the advertising boards around a football pitch
invalidusernam3··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
I've been working on a daily games platform called fribble - https://fribble.io/

It's a collection of daily games with some classics like crossword and sudoku, some geography games like draw the country shape and pick the country from a borderless globe, and a few more. Ten daily games in total.

Word Shift and Nine Grid are my the ones I enjoy the most. Would love some feedback!

invalidusernam3··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
LLMs seem to work well with tailwind which I assume is because there was a lot of tailwind in the training data. As a human I never found tailwind to be particularly easy to work with anyway (mostly because I can't be bothered to learn another CSS framework) so I was constantly checking the docs when manually writing code. But I do like the rigidity it forces, which is probably a good thing for AI coding as well.
invalidusernam3··on Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue
Claude is great, but I have come to really hate the way it "talks". It's so irritating and there seems to be no way to make it speak normal English. So many claudisms in every response
invalidusernam3··on Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2014)
It's just how the font looks: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Syne
invalidusernam3··on P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names
Non latin characters are sometimes inputted by holding down a key. For example on my keyboard holding down z shows ź,ž and ż with a corresponding number to select which one I would like to type. I haven't checked but one would assume if you're detecting keydown the input at that time will be z, and keyup would record ž (or whatever was selected).
invalidusernam3··on A 3D fruit fly on macOS desktop powered by the real FlyWire connectome
Why would you choose not to have empathy for a living creature?
invalidusernam3··on Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content
Why didn't he step down for his metaverse then?
invalidusernam3··on How Claude marks AI-generated content
Off the top of my head I would have thought zero width characters (eg: U+200B, U+200C) making some unique identifier sprinkled in amongst the output. But obviously far from foolproof since they could simply be removed.
invalidusernam3··on Flowise is shutting down
You hit the nail on the head. A couple years ago I started prototyping a similar node based AI workflow builder which worked well but everyone I showed it to was either; confused at how to use it (even for super basic stuff), or liked it but poked holes by asking "can it do x, can it do y" which it couldn't. There is such a small niche of people technical enough to use something like this that wouldn't just opt in for coding it themselves (especially with AI assisted coding nowadays)

I do still use a part of it on one of my projects for building multi-step image processing pipelines for AI property photo editing (ffocal.io for the curious) that are configurable in the admin panel and it works super well and is useful for modifying and testing pipelines. So there are use cases, they're just very narrow

invalidusernam3··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
This seems like an insane thing to have to do for visiting a supposed first world country. If phones had been around during USSR times I imagine you would have had to do the same. Personally I will rather just avoid any travel to the US, and I hope others do the same.
invalidusernam3··on OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line
What regulations specifically do you find make it hard for you to start a business or hire people?
invalidusernam3··on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling
Exactly, I think a lot of people aren't thinking about it this way, they're imagining a faster version of ChatGPT. In reality if it was a frontier model running a these speeds it would change so much about how we interact with computers. It would be custom hyper specific software on demand.

Looking for a lamp in a specific style?

"Make a VR application set inside my apartment (based on all the photos of my apartment from my photos directory) with all lamps under $100 that fit Scandinavian interiors and could be delivered to my house before Friday. Place the lamp on the dining room table, allow us to: cycle through lamps, change time of day, and interact with all the lamps and furniture".

Five seconds later and bam you have this new piece of software that you'll use once and then dispose of.

invalidusernam3··on Decoy Font
An exact opposite way around version would be more useful in my opinion, where the actual text content was garbled but displayed correctly for humans, eg: "JLKKP" is readable as "HELLO" for humans but the actual string is "JLKKP"

Surely there is a bigger use case of AI processing text rather than OCR? Yes it would be a pain to type, but that's easy enough to fix with a little application transposing typed characters to garbled

invalidusernam3··on Collection of Digital Clock Designs
Same for me. Messing with browser scrolling is such a cardinal sin in web development
invalidusernam3··on The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes
Why only focus on youngsters? Many of the older generations that I see online seem to have been impacted massively by social media in a negative way. Yes in theory adults should have freedom to choose, but when your app is the digital version of crack cocaine I think there should be some rules.
invalidusernam3··on It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history
I think it's mostly due to mobile phones. Most people seem to spend a substantial amount of their free time staring at their phone screen rather than engaging with books or other forms of entertainment. Phones being bite sized entertainment orientated is probably changing the way people feel about longer forms.
invalidusernam3··on Claude Code is steganographically marking requests
I suspect this is just one of many checks like this
invalidusernam3··on Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses
"I'm uncomfortable"

Should have read the terms and conditions

invalidusernam3··on Europeans should learn to love the air-conditioner
Why has this become a meme? Sure aircon is nice but there are also reasons why it's not common in some parts of Europe. Here in central Prague a lot of the buildings are historic and protected, so you can't just gouge out a section of the building to install an aircon. Also it's generally only hot enough for aircon maybe 2-4 weeks a year. I'm seeing more and more American's yapping about not having aircon in Europe. I assume they're mostly the kind that has never been to Europe
invalidusernam3··on Claude Fable 5
What about allowing people to synthesize dangerous virus protection?
invalidusernam3··on 1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background
It's a novel and fun idea! I also wonder how it would be represented correctly as a digital image, could be as an actual png or maybe the white/grey checker pattern from PhotoShop? Realistically probably just with a white background
invalidusernam3··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
My girlfriend and I were staying at her sisters apartment one Christmas (while the sister and her partner were away). They made homemade kombucha which gave the apartment an overpowering smell. You couldn't escape it anywhere in the apartment, particularly the kitchen. On the first night of arriving while lying in bed my girlfriend wanted to connect to the wifi but we didn't know the password. I guessed it first attempt, and yes it was kombucha
invalidusernam3··on Scorched Earth 2000 – Web
This reminds me of something similar I did as a teenager in the 90s. Also some shareware game, can't remember exactly what it was about (I think a submarine game?). The shareware version only gave access to the first map. After digging around the files I found that it included all the maps and simply renaming map n to map 1's file name allowed you to play it
invalidusernam3··on Googlebook
Google: site:apple.com "Apple Intelligence"

303 results including https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/

invalidusernam3··on Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930
Czech Republic didn't become Czechia, it's still called Czech Republic. Czechia is just the official English short name.
invalidusernam3··on ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state
But why block the ui until then? Surely you can just not make any requests until the checks are complete?
invalidusernam3··on Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories
eval is the major red flag here
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