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nikolayasdf123··on Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks
ToS are leagally binding contracts. there are there for a reason.

contracts are not laws themselves. but correctly done ToS (I bet LinkedIn does) hold very real legal power.

nikolayasdf123··on Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks
HN is out of control.
nikolayasdf123··on Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks
because they are pulling what they are not supposed to. they are doing it illegally. that's why.
nikolayasdf123··on Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks
what a nonsense. this is equivalent of "sovereign citizens" online. go and try it, and get yourself into jail.
nikolayasdf123··on Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks
what a nonsense. they explicitly say "do not scrape us, unless we approve". they put paywalls and captchas. their service is literally selling access to users data.

now you scraping it. this is direct violation and direct harm to their business, despite their explicit statements for you to stop.

you loose the case, it is clear as day.

nikolayasdf123··on Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks
> scraping LinkedIn profiles

is this legal? last time I checked linkedin.com/robots.txt do not allow scraping, unless explicit approval from linkedin

nikolayasdf123··on Launch HN: Slashy (YC S25) – AI that connects to apps and does tasks
> we build own MCP

> we use existing models via their API

> we use existing tools/services/platforms

> ChatGPT/OpenWebUI-like web interface

> mostly uses text, no image, no desktop control (?)

hardly can see what this app brings. also, it is paid and requests are routed to someone else? shouldn't this be free, local, and with bring-your-own–key already with things like ollama/llama.cpp?

nikolayasdf123··on Shein fined US$175M in France over cookies
yes, it is pretty much tax at this point. they are not going for small websites nor giants, both are privacty nightmare. they are going against SHEIN because they have money. disgraceful
nikolayasdf123··on Speeding up PyTorch inference on Apple devices with AI-generated Metal kernels
> non 100% correctness of kernels

wouldn't model not work properly if kernels are even slightly off?

wasn't kernels a part of training stack for models? am I missing anything?

nikolayasdf123··on 6NF File Format
> habr.com

interesting to see this forum show-up again.

remember 15 years ago there were posts about DYI drone from some random guy with lots of theoretical physics about stable conditions derivations. it got a lot of criticism. now looking back and following what DJI is doing with sensors, his approach was totally wrong and that community nailed it with feedback. the forum got some extravagant ideas and some worthy criticism. at least back then.

nikolayasdf123··on Cloudflare Radar: AI Insights
holdon, I own domain (with say Let's Encrypt certs), I have my own keys for signing WebBotAuth tokens, I host public cert at my domain...

where does CloudFlare come as a gatekeeper? what do they have to do with me sining my requests and my tokens? am I missing something?

nikolayasdf123··on Family of MSFT employee who died warn tech companies not to overwork workers
Hong Kong has good one right now with TTPS

China will be opening new visa track for tech in October, must be interseting to see

nikolayasdf123··on Family of MSFT employee who died warn tech companies not to overwork workers
Japan last year had HSP visa, which was a good deal (PR in 1 year + no Japanese language requirement). fastest permanent immigration track I ever seen
nikolayasdf123··on Family of MSFT employee who died warn tech companies not to overwork workers
get visa in countries that allow remote work. Portugal, Thailand, China now issue good vias that let you work for a company anywhere in the world and stay many years in the country, or start your own business.

don't let your employer keep you and your family hostage with your legal status

nikolayasdf123··on Family of MSFT employee who died warn tech companies not to overwork workers
> H1B unknowns

this. most countries have similar policies. been there, seen so many others going through this in UK, USA, Japan, Korea, Singapore. it really damages your life.

to everyone, check other countries (Portugal, Thailand, Japan) that give you residency for years and allow to work remotely

don't let your employer hold you and your family a hostage with your legal status

nikolayasdf123··on Python: The Documentary [video]
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nikolayasdf123··on Python: The Documentary [video]
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nikolayasdf123··on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS
say I start charging you 40 USD for clothes you have bought from someone else, you are washing yourself, reparing, and other people made, using their own tools and materials. I did close to nothing, and yet "you will be wearing it for a year". great, but that does not mean there is no ripoff from my part. I have close to nothing to do with your clothes, even if they are obviously useful to you for next year.

same story here. marginal contribution is too low compared to price

nikolayasdf123··on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS
you can pay for it 1000 USD too, nobody stops you

but that does not mean it is "worth it". as in, marginal contribution and work people did to make it happen. banana duck-taped to a wall, same story.

nikolayasdf123··on Monodraw
10 USD?

how does this compare to asciiflow.com which is free and open-source?

nikolayasdf123··on Proposal: AI Content Disclosure Header
I believe this is why Google did SynthID https://deepmind.google/science/synthid/
nikolayasdf123··on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS
you are missing the point. (proving yourself wrong?)

that movie has tons of AAA-grade creatives, AAA-grade actors, tens of thousands of people work, brand new music, licenced music, photos, drawings, videos, animations and motion graphics, 3D assets, pictures, photos, whole buildings and set built for this, that borderline tiny real towns. LotR had to develop brand new state-of-the-art VFX rendering tech, which is often the case with such projects.

VFX for say "fake" UI Iron Man suit, had to write tons of code to make it work. amount of work those movies and games take in creatives (very often it is just code) is unbelievable.

now, with this utility app. what did it produce? not even close.

nikolayasdf123··on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS
40 USD is way too expensive for this
nikolayasdf123··on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS
40 USD, this is ridiculous

this is on par with AAA games that have tons of creative assets, art, music, thousands of people work on them for years.. and here is a utility that did not even invent SQLite itself, not a dollar goes to SQLite creators either. rather a light wrapper over standard UI build by Apple - SwiftUI. what is the marginal contribution from creator here for this price? what a ripoff

nikolayasdf123··on Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs
> hold someone’s attention for more than 5 minutes.

more like, more than 5 seconds.

nikolayasdf123··on Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25
hold on, why would you have 7 hours?

dont you mean a week? 60 x 60 x 24 x 7 ?

or at lest 8 hours?

7 hours is just odd

nikolayasdf123··on Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25
no. it is different thing. container-agnostic zero value vs struct init.
nikolayasdf123··on Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25
zero value. container-agnostic initialization. say your type is not struct anymore, you would not have to change the way you intialize it. what you care here is zero value, and let the type figure out that it is zero and use methods appropriately. and it is just more clean this way

here is google guideline: https://google.github.io/styleguide/go/best-practices#declar...

nikolayasdf123··on Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25
"one of those", name calling, telling me what to say,

cool it down a little. touch some grass. and hopefully you will see beauty in Go zero-values :P

nikolayasdf123··on RFC 9839 and Bad Unicode
interesting. so Go seem to be using unicode categories, which is part of unicode spec/standard. so it is fairly language agnostic.

> IsPrint == .. categories L, M, N, P, S and the ASCII space character.

how does that compare to this standard (RFC 9839)? (don't mind that this is Go. just consider same unicode categories).

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