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janaagaard··on Six curl CVEs after OpenAI and Anthropic came back with zero
Very unrelated to the content of the article, but that is a pretty weird ft ligature in the heading. It looks a letter from another alphabet. Which maybe makes this pretty cool after all.
janaagaard··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
> Firefighters who deal with forest fires, police, governments, rescue services (here in Spain) are all posting their updates on X - because, like the users, they have no choice, because no alternative exists.

This what a healthy society shouldn’t be accepting. But we both need to create laws about this and build the alternative.

janaagaard··on I don't recommend Tailwind CSS
> If you don't know CSS tailwind gets your far enough sometimes, but you have to learn many of the same paradigms as you would in CSS.

This is also my experience. But one of my colleagues highlighted this as a strong feature. He had been doing web dev for many years, but always with a CSS framework. He was really glad that Tailwind forced him to learn plain CSS.

janaagaard··on So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
I didn't know this existed. Pretty neat, especially since Reddit recently started redirecting old.reddit.com to reddit.com when clicking internal links on the site. Thanks.
janaagaard··on Hacker News but for independent blogs
Yeah, I get that some prefer it the other way around.

The HTML anchor should have a target="_self_or_blank_depending_on_what_the_user_has_configured" option.

janaagaard··on Steam Machine launches today
Why all USB-A ports instead of USB-C? (I counted 4 USB-A and just one USB-C.)
janaagaard··on Hacker News but for independent blogs
I think the links should open in the same window (like they do here on HN) instead of in a new tab/window. If I want a separate tab, I can Cmd+click and Browsers don't have the reverse option for opening in the same window.
janaagaard··on Let's celebrate work that is 100% human-made
What are the rules? Is it okay to use autocomplete? Are spell checkers accepted? What if I used an AI chatbot to figure out something instead of a traditional search engine?
janaagaard··on Issue links now open in a popup
It sounds like the root issue is that some people prefer opening new tabs while others prefer staying in the same browser window. I surfed the web when all links, even across websites always stayed in the same browser window, and I still prefer that. But I can understand that some people prefer opening new browser tabs instead.

I think web browsers should revisit how they handle links with target=_blank/_top, and show different cursers when hovering and let users customize the default behavior.

janaagaard··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
> The iPad would go from a never-buy to a buy-right-away for me, if they added user profiles.

I am crossing my fingers that that Apple's rumored Home Hub will change this.

janaagaard··on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
> In total the thickness went down from 7 to 6 pixels, which is a 14% decrease, making it 14% more likely to miss it.

But also a 14% higher chance that you won't hit it by accident.

This is not a situation where bigger is simply better. If the thickness was 50 pixels, that would make it pretty much impossible to not resize the windows. I am one of those who believe that there are still people at Apple who care deeply about user interfaces. Given the amount of attention paid to the regions for resizing by dragging the corner, I actually assume that they also took a second look a dragging the edges, and concluded that 6 pixels was better than 7.

janaagaard··on Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time
SO peaked long, long before LLMs came along. My personal experience is that GitHub issues took over.

You can clearly see the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022. That was the final nail in the coffin.

I am still really glad that Stack Overflow saved us from experts-exchange.com - or “the hyphen site” as it is sometimes referred to.

janaagaard··on Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright
> Lately, I see a lot of drivers who turn on their brights and just leave them on and this includes cars with the older halogen and even incandescents. This is a change in behavior.

I suspect this is because more and more people don’t know how to turn it off and/or don’t know what the blue indicator on the dashboard means.

As you mention, Tesla model 3 seems to be the worst offender. Could this be caused by a bad interface in that car? How does the brights indicator look in a model 3 and you turn off the brights?

janaagaard··on Show HN: Continuous Claude – run Claude Code in a loop
Kudos on making Bash readable.

(https://github.com/AnandChowdhary/continuous-claude/blob/mai...)

janaagaard··on Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
Same here - on a 12 Mini. My wife and my mother have the same phone, and I have recommended that they hold back on upgrading.

I really hope Apple will address this in a dot-upgrade later this year, but I am afraid that the market share of the 12 and 13 models are too low for them to justify this.

janaagaard··on Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26
> but now Apple has essentially decided that this Liquid Glass will be mandatory after a year of support for "compatibility mode" that disables it for your app.

What exactly does this mean? Are there references in Apples design guide lines that explain this in more details? (Or wherever this would be documented)

janaagaard··on Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels
I want this for YouTube.
janaagaard··on Tesla used car prices keep plumetting, dips below average used car
> And depending how you drive you might not use friction brakes at all.

I’ve been told that should remember to use your friction brakes once in a while, to keep them in shape. Is this still true with cars that have effective engine brakes?

janaagaard··on Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos
As I understand it, the brilliant idea is that the small variantions in brightness of the pixels look just like standard noise. Distinguishing the actual noise from the algorithm is not possible, but it is still possible to verify that the 'noise' has the correct pattern.
janaagaard··on Thesis: Interesting work is less amenable to the use of AI
A Danish audio newspaper host / podcaster had the exact apposite conclusion when he used ChatGPT to write the manuscript for one his episodes. He ended up spending as much time as he usually does because he had to fact check everything that the LLM came up with. Spoiler: It made up a lot of stuff despite it being very clear in the prompt, that it should not do so. To him, it was the most fun part, that is writing the manuscript, that the chatbot could help him with. His conclusion about artificial intelligence was this:

“We thought we were getting an accountant, but we got a poet.”

Frederik Kulager: Jeg fik ChatGPT til at skrive dette afsnit, og testede, om min chefredaktør ville opdage det. https://open.spotify.com/episode/22HBze1k55lFnnsLtRlEu1?si=h...

janaagaard··on AI's energy footprint
- "4.4% of all the energy in the US now goes toward data centers"

- "by 2028 [...] AI alone could consume as much electricity annually as 22% of all US households."

What would the 22% be if compared against all US energy instead of just all US household?

janaagaard··on Hyper – Outperform React on every metric
The React example feels dishonest because it could be a lot simpler:

- All the imports are only needed because a UI library was used. This is not necessary.

- It also looks like 'User' is imported, but not used anywhere.

- The curly braces and the return statement can be left out.

- React.FC<> is unnecessary, you can just specify the type after {users} or, at least, simplify React.FC to FC.

janaagaard··on Watching 03 Model Sweat over a Paul Morphy Mate-in-2
I was also confused. It looks like the article has been corrected, and now uses the familiar 'o3' name.
janaagaard··on Dutch Parliament: Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options
I really hope Europe seizes this as an opportunity to start pushing public money, public code.

https://publiccode.eu/en/

janaagaard··on Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model
After using Prettier to format my code and turning on format-on-save, I pretty much don’t use the tab key anymore. This doesn’t invalidate your point, - I am merely guessing as to why the tab key seemingly has been reassigned.
janaagaard··on The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time
These charts should be on a log scale.
janaagaard··on How to help us build open source Pebble software
Their time line UI was really good: Go back in time to see emails and texts. Go forward in time to see upcoming events and weather info.

I was never in doubt about was button to press. I have had my Apple Watch for many years now, but still fumble around with basic stuff like turning on the torch light.

You could select what apps you want to also trigger notifications on the watch. And easily pause notifications for an hour or for the rest of the day.

janaagaard··on Take the pedals off the bike
If your kid is having troubles leaning to ride a bike, I would suggest trying one of the bikes from Woom (https://woom.com/). Especially in the smallest models for 4-5 year olds, these bikes much lighter - almost half weight - than a lot of the alternatives. They also cost a lot more, but the high resell value makes up for some of this.

They also have balance bikes.

janaagaard··on What other communities do you use apart from HN?
Bluesky. A lot of the devs that I followed on X have moved to that platform.
janaagaard··on GitHub Copilot is now available for free
Yeah, I agree that StackOverflow it but a shadow of what it used to be, and that this is a shame. But I don’t think that AI is to blame for this - all the interesting discussions had already migrated to GitHub issues. AI is just the nail in the coffin for SO.
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