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radicalriddler··on OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says
In response to the legal claims other commenters are making, Richard Marles, our defence minister and deputy prime minister has stated they’ll be looking into legal action, but they are unsure about how “intent” will span out in a case like this.
radicalriddler··on Shopify acquires Tailwind
As a lifetime access purchaser of Tailwind UI and a user of their recent oatmeal template, the news that they’re winding down tailwindui hurts a little.

Glad they got their exit, Adam deserves it, but I don’t know why they can’t see the value in preset UI templates. AI sucks at building UI, it sucks a little less when it’s got codebase references to build upon and reference.

radicalriddler··on Asahi Linux Supports M3
From the early comments, no wonder the lead maintainer resigned.

Great job Asahi! Reverse engineering someone elses proprietary hardware and drivers is amazing work!

radicalriddler··on Getting Started with AT Protocol
Spaces really is gonna bring all the features that HN is critical about AT platforms like Tangled.

Private repos are now on the horizon. Huzzah!

radicalriddler··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Huh, according to some of those charts, it's both dumber, and more expensive to run against their benchmarking tasks than Fable??? Seems crazy to me.
radicalriddler··on Orbs
Feels like the tech industry balks at any whimsical introduction of feature names. Reminds me of Tangled’s spindles and knots and HN’s reaction.

They’re just names to be used within the context of their parent ecosystem. If it were a general purpose tool, I’d tend to agree.

radicalriddler··on Zohran and the Short Link
The great thing about Bsky is that feeds can be user-run (and the for you feed is a great success story). So if Bluesky Inc. wants to derank links on their discover feed, there are a lot of user driven feed options to counteract that
radicalriddler··on Go 1.27
Minor versions are basically major versions for Go. They’ll “never” create a Go v2 because they prioritise maintaining backwards compatibility as a language feature, thus following semver rules, no majors.
radicalriddler··on How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
Ahhh gotcha, thanks for the info
radicalriddler··on How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
what happens when it’s a custom handle like @example.com?
radicalriddler··on How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
LinkedIn’s job screen in the app is a good example of this different presentation.

I’ve noticed a certain AI recruitment company gets “highlighted” (darkened white background of the screen, but their logo is pure white and REALLY stands out), but when I screenshot it, it reverts to normal, like there’s no blatant special advertising.

radicalriddler··on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
Yeah, only open for public repositories until Atproto finishes their permissioned data spec.
radicalriddler··on Delta
I expected a release today because they didn't want to date the podcast episode recording date lmao
radicalriddler··on Delta
i've had a similar idea for a while. Creating almost a multiplayer grill-me interface so teams can collaborate on spec definitions. Will be interesting to see how this plays out.
radicalriddler··on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
The issue I always had with Typescript, was that LLM's like to find the easiest way to get a job done on a micro level (they seem to like to find the hardest design patterns to implement on the macro level tho, but language agnostic). What this means for Typescript, is unless you place guardrails everywhere, they'll cast their way out of a compiler problem with as any, or as unknown and then casting later. You either end up with readability issues, or runtime issues leaking out.

Might be a skill issue, but I got frustrated with it on new projects constantly.

radicalriddler··on Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
Agreed. Felt like a AEO / or GEO (generative engine optimization or whatever the field term is these days) puff piece. Seems too verbose for most people to bother reading.
radicalriddler··on Karpathy’s Pelican
I wonder though if models are now "benchmaxxing" against these kinds of prompts. I haven't needed to use them so I can't say, but would be interesting.
radicalriddler··on Diátaxis
Agreed, a couple months back, I got cf to crawl the site and created a block of skills around it for personal use.
radicalriddler··on RamenHaus
Right click on the back button and you get a full list of the previous ramen entries you've viewed. If he implemented with Javascript, he'd have to build a custom history menu.
radicalriddler··on Google Cloud is killing it
I’m sure the market is less interested in that number in isolation, and how that number compares to growth in other cloud platforms like Azure and AWS during the AI times
radicalriddler··on Orion Browser by Kagi
Yeah, bitwarden just not filling fields at all is still broken
radicalriddler··on The state of open source AI
> Parity reached. The contest is one layer up.

I want to vomit reading that.

radicalriddler··on Grok Build is open source
What does this open source that the Codex harness hasn't already?
radicalriddler··on We need a federation of forges
It’s had horrific uptime, to the point of hitting 88.x uptime percentage.

This is likely on the back of Mitchell Hashimoto (Hashicorp founder) announcing he’s moving off of Github as well.

And really just years of Github feeling inconsistent, bad UX, no good solutions for open source developers in terms of AI spam etc.

radicalriddler··on EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Yeah, I had this happen the other day with their Moltworker.

Another one of their products which was “just an experiment”

Cloudflare annoys me as a company.

radicalriddler··on Do your own writing
I wonder if anyone from HN would be willing to input their opinion into some features I'm building, which is really outputting LLM generated writing.

It's basically automating release notes and sprint summary's from existing systems like Jira and Linear. The target user is a product team, the target reader are business stakeholders who want to validate your existence. I've found this process to be stupidly time consuming for both our delivery manager, and whichever Dev they decide to tap on the shoulder to help contextualize tickets.

I feel like LLM's are a really good _summarizer_ and it can easily highlight if your tickets don't have enough context for actual people, if even an LLM can't write a summary with good enough context.

Idk, maybe it's a sensible usecase because you REALLY don't want novel ideas from the LLM in this case. You want it to tell you 1:1 what you did this sprint based on a list of issues.

radicalriddler··on Cloudflare crawl endpoint
Interesting... I built an MCP server for their initial browser render as markdown, and I just tell the LLM to follow reasonable links to relative content, and recurse the tool.
radicalriddler··on PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
I notice that PlanetScale has a Developer Educator position available. Has anyone sent that to Aaron Francis yet? He might be interested.
radicalriddler··on PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
This is really good!

After they ditched there free tier, it became basically untenable to justify trying Planetscale for $30 (USD as well) on a POC or MVP product, and it also felt like you were paying a lot for unneeded hardware.

radicalriddler··on Indefinite Backpack Travel
I went backpacking last year for only a little over a month. Absolute pain in my chest when someone who I'd gotten to known over the past few days said it was their last day lol.
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