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Just like AI will kill all the software developers...

Obviously AI will change the legal industry. But a lawyer will still have an advantage because they know what questions to ask and can provide the AI with the relevant context.

jelledon Users Stuck in YubiKey Re-Enrollment Loop on X (Twitter)

Happened to me as well.

Side note, why isn't this on the front page? The points to recency ratio seems high enough.

jelledon Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

A native MacOS app called CutWord that turns command words spoken during video recording into automatic timeline edits.

You can grab a TestFlight link at https://cutword.com

jelledon Imagineers defend new Walt Disney robot

I agree that the number of years matter, but Walt Disney died in 1966.

jelledon Apple introduced its Retina MacBook 10 years ago today

Imagine if they re-released this with the chip and screen of an M4 iPad Pro.

jelledon Show HN: SQLite Plugin for Jekyll

Love the idea of preserving the simplicity of flat files for managing your content but dynamically loading them into a database to make sorting and filtering easier and more performant. I did something similar for my Laravel markdown blogging engine[0].

[0]: https://prezet.com/index

jelledon New Mac Mini with M4

Specs say it's 2.0 inches tall, going to need a 2U rack

jelledon Laravel has raised a $57M Series A in partnership with Accel

I've deployed a number of Laravel apps in both traditional and serverless architecture. I have to say I'm pretty excited about Laravel cloud. Not that deploying Laravel is hard, but for a full fledged app there's a number of moving parts that I'd rather not deal with.

Plus if you're building apps for clients handing off the whole hosting side of things sounds amazing.

jelledon Ask HN: How do you structure your shared finances with your spouse/partner

My wife and I direct deposit the first 90% of our paychecks to a shared savings account. Our family's living expenses are transferred from there to a shared checking account on the first of each month.

The other 10% goes into our personal checking accounts to spend on whatever we want.

jelledon Ask HN: Are you still using your Vision Pro?

Got mine on launch day. I use it once or twice a week for content consumption. Very similar to how I would use an iPad.

jelledon Meta Llama 3

Looks like 8K context length. Seems to compare well against Gemini Pro 1.5 and Claude 3 Sonnet according to the included benchmarks.

jelledon Sleep apnea: Mouthguards less invasive, just as effective as CPAP

I've been using one of these for the last two years and definitely feel more rested on the nights I wear it. Never tried a CPAP so I can't speak to the comparative effectiveness. The brand I've been using is called Silent Nite.

Had a sleep study done years ago that showed mild sleep apnea, but at the time wasn't severe enough to warrant a CPAP.

jelledon Vision Pro Teardown – Why those fake eyes look so weird

The elastic isn't used for support. There's a BOA style dial that tightens things down.

jelledon Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud

I expect that locally installed models will quickly resemble how we think about drivers today. In the short term you'll install a notes app that requires Mixtral-8x7B so you pull that in through ollama. Down the line all operating systems will ship with various models preinstalled.

jelledon Do you really need foreign keys?

I see foreign keys the same way I see types. You may not need them, but they catch a lot of mistakes and give you more confidence in the integrity of your system.

jelledon Purchase and manage domains directly through Bluesky

I tried hard to get a bluesky invite a few months ago. Even put a few bids on ebay hoping to get one for less then $100. The fomo has since passed. Probably wouldn't bother signing up if I got one today.

jelledon Building Boba AI: Lessons learnt in building an LLM-powered application

On one of my apps I ask for a plain text response first and then make a second call to parse the original response to json.

jelledon Gyroflow: An open source advanced gyro-based video stabilization tool

Adobe (and others) have offered tools like Warp Stabilizer that analyze the image to calculate movement. In my experience they are able to smooth things out a bit but nothing compared to what a gryo can do. Plus those image based tools take a long time to calculate.

jelledon Gyroflow: An open source advanced gyro-based video stabilization tool

I tried to use this with my Sony camera about two years ago and just could not get consistent results. Currently using Sony's Catalyst Browse which does a great job stabilizing the footage but the workflow is poor.

Looks like Gyroflow has a plugin for DaVinci Resolve[1]. If the stabilization has been improved and could be done right in Resolve I will definitely us this.

[1] https://docs.gyroflow.xyz/app/getting-started/installation/d...

jelledon ChatGPT is not ‘artificial intelligence.’ It’s theft

I like this example and I'd agree that tracking people at scale can be immoral depending on the circumstances. But to me it feels that way because something is being taken from you. You've lost your agency to be anonymous or to leave your past behind.

But I don't see how an LLM training on your works deprives you of something you had before.

jelledon ChatGPT is not ‘artificial intelligence.’ It’s theft

I have no idea how the courts will end up resolving this legally. In the meantime I've been thinking a lot about the morality of this alleged theft.

Most of us would agree that duplicating and selling someone's book is immoral. Similarly I think we'd all agree that reading multiple books to learn about a topic and then writing your own is perfectly fine.

So where does an LLM trained on millions of books fall? Personally, I don't find it immoral but I know others will disagree. I'd be curious to hear arguments for the immorality of LLMs trained on copyrighted works.

jelledon Hackers claim they breached T-Mobile more than 100 times in 2022

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-fi-dat...

This article says that Google Fi customers were SIM swapped due to a T-Mobile breach. Even though "[t]here was no access to Google's systems or any systems overseen by Google."

jelledon Hackers claim they breached T-Mobile more than 100 times in 2022

Thanks! Based on that article it seems that anyone who's reselling T-Mobile service would be vulnerable.

jelledon Hackers claim they breached T-Mobile more than 100 times in 2022

Was thinking about moving a line to Google Fi for this reason. I know they just resell T-Mobile bandwidth, but would they provide better account level security? Is it common for Google Fi customers to get SIM swapped?

jelledon AI breakthrough ChatGPT raises alarm over student cheating

You'll still be able to test writing, but going forward it will need to be done in a proctored setting. Similar how you would test grade school math given the existence of calculators.

jelledon We've filed a lawsuit against GitHub Copilot

Suppose you own the rights to a jpeg. And I apply a simple algorithm that increments every hex value. So 00 becomes 01 and so on. The gibberish images it spits out would be so different then your original image that you wouldn't have any claim to them at all.

jelledon Ask HN: What Is the Hype with Docker?

Before we used docker I'd spend hours troubleshooting team members local development environments. Once we switched to a common source controlled docker-compose file all those problems simply went away.

jelledon Spark email client goes subscription path

I don't mind paying monthly fees for tools that I get regular value out of. But I hate that feeling of paying for ongoing subscriptions that I rarely use. Plus deciding whether or not to cancel adds to my overall decision fatigue.

jelledon Spark email client goes subscription path

Well said. I never really thought about why some SASS offerings make intuitive sense while others seem unnecessary.

jelledon SIM swapper abducted, beaten, held for ransom

It's not speculation. The iPhone 14/pro dropped the sim card for models sold in the US.