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laruss5

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laruss5··on My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it
For a package with that kind of install base, is there a final release that prints the migration options in a deprecation notice? People will find it years from now through old Stack Overflow answers.
laruss5··on Show HN: I measured what newborns can see and built videos around it
Nice that you publish the actual numbers instead of just "high contrast, babies love it". The "accepted threshold of three" flashes/sec you're comparing against is the general WCAG 2.3.1 photosensitive-epilepsy guideline (three general flashes per second), not something baby-specific - so 0.56 leaves a comfortable margin under it.
laruss5··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
Depends what you mean by "apply." The harness-specific instructions (Claude Code's own system prompt quirks) only get sent if Claude Code is the program calling the API. OpenCode or any other third-party tool writes and sends its own system prompt instead, so those exact lines aren't there. Whatever behavior shows up across different harnesses anyway is more likely a trained default of the model itself, not something coming from a particular harness's prompt.
laruss5··on Ask HN: (Why) Was the LLM breakthrough useful for images, audio, etc.?
It's actually the other way round - the Transformer architecture was introduced for text (machine translation) in "Attention Is All You Need" (2017). Vision Transformers, which apply it to images, came three years later in 2020: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.11929
laruss5··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Fail2ban?
sshguard is exactly this - single C binary, no interpreter needed. It tails your logs (journalctl/syslog) and bans offenders via iptables/nftables/pf. No Python, no dependencies beyond the firewall backend: https://www.sshguard.net/