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lagrange77··on Claude Design
And another step toward a world, where product managers/owners/whatever and other boring people can generate what they once needed creative, passionate and skilled people for. Go ahead, its just the natural evolution of extreme capitalism.
lagrange77··on Why AI Sucks at Front End
Curated by average people in most domains.
lagrange77··on Why AI Sucks at Front End
Exactly. And this seems more and more to be an inherent property of AI, which is kind of calming.
lagrange77··on LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
> The headline seems pretty misleading.

No it isn't. Performing fingerprinting on user's devices, to ultimately profit of financially or worse is misleading. Especially doing this while knowing the user isn't aware what this really means and just deciding it for them.

The headline is just an exaggerated way of saying what is really happening.

lagrange77··on FreeCAD v1.1
Some CAD systems, i think NX for example, let you give it a reference to an actual Excel (or csv?) file, that you edit in Excel.
lagrange77··on Welcome to FastMCP
> Obviously we shouldnt map existing apis to MCP tools

Why? Isn't obvious to me..

lagrange77··on Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?
It's really time that mainstream media picks up on 'agentic coding' and the implications of writing software becoming a commodity.

I'm an engineer (not only software) by heart, but after seeing what Opus 4.6 based agents are capable of and especially the rate of improvement, i think the direction is clear.

lagrange77··on Can I run AI locally?
Finally! I've been waiting for something like this.
lagrange77··on TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool
The background ASCII animation is so cool! Is it an actual simulation?
lagrange77··on Shall I implement it? No
And unfortunately that's the same guy who, in some years, will ask us if the anaesthetic has taken effect and if he can now start with the spine surgery.
lagrange77··on Agents that run while I sleep
I'll use that term from now on. :D
lagrange77··on Agents that run while I sleep
> There is a nontrivial amount of RL training (RLHF, RLVR, ...), so it would be reasonable to call it an RL model.

Hm, as i understand it, parts of the training of e.g. ChatGPT could be called RL models. But the subject to be trained/fine tuned is still a seq2seq next token predictor transformer neural net.

lagrange77··on Agents that run while I sleep
> Reward hacking is very real and hard to guard against.

Is it really about rewards? Im genuinely curious. Because its not a RL model.

lagrange77··on Things I've Done with AI
What is your perspective on the matter from a parent point of view?
lagrange77··on The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future
I'm not saying there are no good products. Hetzner Cloud come into my mind for example. It's executed really well.

I'm saying that the number of good software offerings is too low, to have a significant impact on the country's economy.

One of the advantages Germany had though, was a somewhat good and accessible higher education system in regards of computer science.

Now, with software development becoming a commodity, this advantage vanishes.

lagrange77··on The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future
Imho, the german mentality just doesn't fit today's economy. Too risk averse, too conservative. Creativity is not really embraced.

The state of the german IT sector also shows that.

Most startups have nearly no moat at all and purely live off marketing with some sprinkles of corporate identity.

lagrange77··on Show HN: Mcp2cli – One CLI for every API, 96-99% fewer tokens than native MCP
It's about letting LLM Agents use the CLI, the end user still interfaces with the agent via chat.
lagrange77··on Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
> Furthermore, what does it matter if it's "AI generated"? Is some AI content ok? What's the pass/fail threshold on human vs AI generated text?

If a human put his effort into it, is proud of it and wants to show it to the world, i'm happy to invest some time to have a look at it and maybe provide some helpful feedback.

I'm not willing to invest my time into evaluating the more or less correct sounding ideas of a ML model.

lagrange77··on Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
> coming AI wasteland: motivated individuals join small local groups and are validated face-to-face at meet-ups. Local trusted leads gatekeep their chapter’s posts, and this scalable moderation works up the tree. Bad leaves get culled out reasonably fast,

Wow this is really cyberpunk.

I'll bring my Yubikey!

lagrange77··on Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting
Wow, i just noticed, that they block access from Brave Browser.
lagrange77··on CasNum
> CasNum (Compass and straightedge Number) is a library that implements arbitrary precision arithmetic using compass and straightedge constructions. Arbitrary precision arithmetic, now with 100% more Euclid. Featuring a functional modified Game Boy emulator where every ALU opcode is implemented entirely through geometric constructions.

Awesome :D

lagrange77··on We mourn our craft
> The real question is what happens when the labor market for non-physical work completely implodes as AI eats it all. Based on current trends I'm going to predict in terms of economics and politics we handle it as poorly as possible leading to violent revolution and possible societal collapse, but I'd love to be wrong.

Exactly and the world has to start talking about it. Eventually everybody will, including all sorts of politicians who advocate to 'finally tackle the problem', which will be too late.

lagrange77··on The Waymo World Model
> I've never really thought of Waymo as a robot in the same way as e.g. a Boston Dynamics humanoid, but of course it is a robot of sorts.

I view Tesla also more as a robot company than anything else.

lagrange77··on Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
Just tested it and yes the issue is still there!
lagrange77··on Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?
I'm using a HP48G. [0]

It's just a joy to use and i also like it a lot design wise.

I like that it has a big display for 4 RPN rows, but i admit that that's something software calculators would even be better at.

It definitely has a nostalgic/romantic side to it for me.

Oh and for every day stuff, i really like to use Spotlight on macOS. It's really convenient: Command+Space, then just type the expression into the search box.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_48_series

lagrange77··on Kagi News
Awesome, i like it a lot!

Some UX friction i noticed: To get back to the homepage from an article, i have to click on the article headline. While this is elegant and you likely get used to it, once you know it, it's not exactly intuitive.

lagrange77··on Bach Cello Suites (2024)
Awesome, i love listening to Bach while developing.

While you're here, what other classical music can you recommend, especially for listening while working/focusing?

For me, it's currently

- Max Richter, discovered recently and he is fantastic

- The 'New Classical Essentials' playlist in Apple Music

- Brahms, especially String Sextet No. 1 (warning: can make Vulcans cry)

lagrange77··on Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG
Damn, outnerded.
lagrange77··on Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_aberration

?

lagrange77··on Next.js is infuriating
I can only recommend vike.dev .
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