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psteinweber··on Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)
I couldn't find out on the fly: does it support multiple humans?

A lot of these tools (paperclip) don't, but for our small, agent-supported team, that would be the feature we're looking for. I.e. the agents of different marketing roles talking to each other, with clearly defined 'human in the loop' decision making.

psteinweber··on OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API
I find that very obvious too. It started (visibly) shortly after the Opus 4.6 hype.
psteinweber··on Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester
Which is paywalled, so thanks for posting it here.
psteinweber··on Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday
We are quite happy with bunny(.net) stream. Very affordable and easy to use
psteinweber··on Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday
Try Bunny Stream, really super simple and affordable
psteinweber··on The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source
Munich seems to have become the preferred destination for US companies opening their German office (most recent: OpenAI, Notion, Anthropic).

So if Microsoft would have paved that way, it would have been totally worth it for the city.

psteinweber··on TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale
For me apps like Opal work really well.
psteinweber··on Show HN: App that asks ‘why?’ every time you unlock your phone
Opal is incredibly helpful for me. Exactly the right amount of control and annoyance to get me off social media.
psteinweber··on Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)
This will be missed and was a really nice growth hack. The following scenario just worked so well:

- Setting up phone for relatives

- Replacing Android Messages with Signal

- “So this is the App to send and receive SMS, and you can also send me and many others secure and free messages on there”

My optimism for Signal becoming mainstream just faded...

psteinweber··on Stripe has decided to nuke my entire business
There’s a really good Podcast from FT on the payment issues with porn. It’s more complicated than the chargeback rates. If you want to go down that rabbit hole: https://www.ft.com/content/762e4648-06d7-4abd-8d1e-ccefb74b3... The podcast is quite a nice history wrap-up on online payments. Episode 8 addresses the current situation with credit card companies most detailed.
psteinweber··on Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B
Sketch
psteinweber··on Jean-Luc Godard has died
Check out mubi.com for a more cineastic approach to streaming
psteinweber··on Show HN: Bang Bookmarks – replicate DuckDuckGo bangs in Firefox using Keymarks
Is yubnub not working anymore? Looks operational at first glance.
psteinweber··on Sketch: Proud to Build a Truly Native Mac App
> what percentage of users actually care about using the OSX dictionary while working? They took out a bunch of space to show a user using the dictionary for the word "reading" - a use case that likely doesn't resonate with 99.9% of their users.

Indeed, what a ridicolous example that is! I've not once used the built in dictionary on purpose, only clicked it by mistake. And they chose the word "reading" to highlight some sort of usefulness?

I love Sketch and am a paying user with our company, but this article and discussion does not leave me hopeful for a bright future.

psteinweber··on Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0
Exactly my story. Had this with my retina MBP from 2015 and couldn't understand how this is supposed to be usable.

Tried everything, even resetting the OS.

Have a new MPB since Monday, tried Firefox again, no issues at all.

psteinweber··on Apple Faceshield
I don't know. But someone posted this in a previous comment, maybe it helps:

> The Czech 3D Printer company Prusa has been on it for a while: https://www.prusa3d.com/covid19/ and they have been open-sourcing the design. You can print it on a 3D printer.

psteinweber··on Apple AirPods: iPhone accessory or the next big thing?
And the Tesla Cybertruck. I would bet on it falling in the exact same category: Being a Meme first, and a huge success later.
psteinweber··on Meetup.com alternatives
The mentioned $2 fee was just a test. Check out the offical statement from meetup.com (linked in the posted article): https://www.meetup.com/lp/paymentchanges

>We are not, I repeat not, in the process of making a massive payment change for our existing customers. The confusion was triggered by a limited test to a few hundred groups in two U.S. states. The payment options shared on social media will only apply to organizers who are part of this test. We apologize that the language on the page caused alarm and confusion. We would never make such a change without giving our customers advance notice.

psteinweber··on Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News
Leave alone collapsing comment threads. I end up on the commenters profile 50% of the time.
psteinweber··on Tell HN: Thank you for not redesigning Hacker News
I generally agree, but what a few lines of CSS would make it much more pleasant to read IMO:

- limit container width so lines don't get too long

- larger text and more line height

And not really CSS but:

- Making it easier to collapse comments on mobile

I know some of those changes would potentially destroy the look & feel that some seem to enjoy around here. However on mobile currently it's only possible to enjoy HN via a third party app though.

psteinweber··on Show HN: Stein – Use Google Sheets as a No-Setup Database
They just raised $100M last November, I wouldn't consider them dead... Probably busy hiring :)

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/airtable#section-fun...

psteinweber··on Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music
I'd use this too :)
psteinweber··on Firefox 64 Released
Same here. Had hope, but the fans of my RMBP state otherwise.
psteinweber··on Firefox 64 Released
Always the same ritual:

- Read about new firefox version

- "I should give it a try again"

- Update and start new firefox

- Open spiegel.de and youtube.com (note: with pi-hole active!)

- Fans of RMBP go crazy, scrolling a news article lags like it's 1999

- "Well, let's hope for a better/usable performance with the next update. I'd love to use it after all..."

:(

psteinweber··on I still miss my headphone jack, and I want it back
I don't agree. Just because a phone needs foresight and charging, doesn't mean that it's not a massive disadvantage if other accessory also require the same effort. It's just an additional hassle and more things to charge.

That logic doesn't scale.

psteinweber··on Airtable raises $100M at a $1.1B valuation
Airtable is great - I use it every day. It's perfect for anything in-between document and spreadsheet; when you have to deal with database-like entries that are awkward to handle with a word processor or spreadsheet.

I was hoping that Dropbox might acquire Airtable one day, and integrates it into Dropbox Paper. That would put them ahead of Quip, Coda and the like in an instant (for my use case).

psteinweber··on Firefox 62.0 Released
Agreed, and I'm confident to say that every power user would benefit from vertical tabs. After all you can still read the title text when having more than 10 tabs open.

I'm experiencing the retina macbook performance issue, hence I can't use FF + tree style tabs anymore, which was frustrating. Until I recently discovered the Vivaldi Browser (https://vivaldi.com/) which has it as a native option - plus it's built on Chromium. Most Chrome extensions work.

Good setup for me so far!

psteinweber··on UTC Is Enough for Everyone, Right?
I really enjoyed this.

And I think no one mentioned the very related Computerphile video yet: "The Problem with Time & Timezones " https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY

Same topic, equally entertaining (not AS geeky though).

psteinweber··on Make front end shit again
Love that! Would really like to have one for me too. You don't by chance want to offer hosting those as a service, do you? :)
psteinweber··on Firefox 60 released
I'm in the exact same boat. Trying since a year to switch (back) to FF, but my testing period always end in frustration. Chrome is much more "snappy" in all regards.
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