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jadengelleron Show HN: Corporate Mind Games – logic puzzles with a sarcastic corporate theme

this is higher quality than i expected given the very ai design

might be worth trying to tweak to look less like the default ai theme

cute overall tho!

jadengelleron How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots

Tangentially, I see a lot of people here upset that apps can react to your screenshot before it is captured. I think it is helpful to think about it as a tradeoff between freedoms:

(a) the freedom to screenshot any content on your own device (b) the freedom to share content with others that cannot be screenshotted

It can be annoying when DRM or privacy features block a screenshot, but I think it can also benefit the platform ecosystem that you participate in as a user too. Idk!

jadengelleron Acronym Fatigue Series Introduction: why I'm wary of acronyms

when naming the protocol part of a url, obviously you don't want to pick something so verbose, but that doesn't mean you gotta pick an acronym. could be hyper:// or smth. not saying it should be, just saying there are other ways that a more verbose concept can be shorted for certain contexts

jadengelleron Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter

Modern Swift borrows a lot from Rust! And it also has its own benefits, both ergonomic and also supporting eg generic in dynamic libraries

jadengelleron Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work

this comment seems to be astroturfing to sell a course

jadengelleron Bitwarden integrates with OneCLI agent vault

exfiltrating a credential provides persistent access (until detected and rotated) tho! probably one of the more leveraged things to prevent

jadengelleron Decision trees – the unreasonable power of nested decision rules

No, you misread

jadengelleron How Dada enables internal references

I think this is a bit similar to Mojo's origin types: https://docs.modular.com/mojo/manual/values/lifetimes/#origi...

jadengelleron I built a search engine to index the un-indexable parts of Telegram

what do you verify about the bots?

jadengelleron Show HN: Phage Explorer

some quick feedback on the user interface:

- i pressed "Amino Acids", and nothing updated below the toolbar. can't figure out what it does

- the "Tools" buttons looks like a segmented picker, but both seem to actually initiate a modal presentation

this tool seems interesting, but it would be worth polishing some of these ui quirks because my first impression was that it seems a bit broken (or confused me)!

but seems like a cool project otherwise, love people building and sharing explainers as they learn stuff!

jadengelleron Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

I'd probably say we ought to use DNS.

jadengelleron Well, it's just an AWS Account ID

If there are rate limits, or if the search space is vast, this is notably more limited (even if arguably still enumeration)

jadengelleron Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says

is it actually free? or are we collectively paying for it by allowing the big business to gain control of an otherwise competitive market and jack up prices

individuals are not pricing that in. coordination is needed. that's why we regulate the market

jadengelleron Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says

it's not a great market for consumers if we allow big business to undercut pricing and kill competition

government should help us coordinate to prevent this Nash equilibria

jadengelleron First Class Contexts – Rye Language

It's hard for me to tease apart the differences between Rye "first class context", deprecated JS "with" statement, Scala/Idris/Agda implicit arguments, and I guess also just effect systems generally?

it feels like there're all features for ergonomic dependency injection, but maybe that's a lot of programming

jadengelleron Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs

> When it matters?

This applies to usernames too! It's easy to phish if platforms render capital I and lowercase l the same

jadengelleron OxidOS Automotive

it may be about safety against cyberattacks

jadengelleron You cannot simply publicly access private secure links, can you?

Client web app makes POST request. It leaves browser, but not in URL

jadengelleron M1 Macs may lag behind

If this is true, XML must've been way more exciting than I could've imagined

jadengelleron Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone

Yeah, the price difference between this and Teenage Engineering's own products is wild! It's worth noting the Playdate (by Panic) is designed by Teenage Engineering and also just $200. https://shop.play.date

jadengelleron Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone

I'll admit the device is very cute, but without a solution to prompt injection, you'd be a fool to give this access to your accounts.

jadengelleron U.S. cities opt to ditch their off-street parking minimums

If downtown apartments are not sufficiently desirable without parking, developers will build parking.

jadengelleron A programming language coding in a grid

It's not so bad if you think of this as pipelining. I definitely agree some intermediates ought to be named though.

jadengelleron Ask HN: Where to learn the cutting edge of prompt engineering?

Here's a great article that links to a lot of research: https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-03-15-prompt-enginee...

jadengelleron iCloud Drive silently deletes your content

I have dozens of old Pages documents that are inexplicably now “Zero KB”. I would not trust iCloud with your data.

(Aside: I really gotta backup my iCloud Photo Library…)

jadengelleron Dropping the SAT requirement is a luxury belief

I don't think the data supports this: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobilit...

I do think it's true that Caltech students are all very passionate about STEM, so the average family wealth is less apparent.

jadengelleron Show HN: ChatBotKit – The simplest way to build AI chat bots like ChatGPT

The following models are considered GPT 3.5:

- code-davinci-002

- text-davinci-002

- text-davinci-003

Source: https://platform.openai.com/docs/model-index-for-researchers...

jadengelleron Heterosexual HIV diagnoses overtake those in gay men for first time in a decade

"The fall in diagnoses among gay and bisexual men is a result of the growing availability of HIV prevention pill PrEP and targeted promotion of routine HIV testing followed by the rapid initiation of HIV treatment for those diagnosed, meaning they are more quickly virally suppressed and cannot pass on HIV."

Sexually active gay men generally take PrEP.