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smrtinsert··on Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration
How much are worktrees benefitting you? If I can describe the work so clearly that it can be done in parallel, I find Claude can typically one shot so parallel work isn't needed.
smrtinsert··on Show HN: 2 Weeks of Hallucinate – The Photo Gallery
This might be greatest thing ever, especially if you have any experience with that culture.
smrtinsert··on Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
Even at a quick glance this doesn't make any sense. The census is literally how they get the data. Where else would it come from? Drones? Every computer being hacked Michael Bay style?
smrtinsert··on US bans differential privacy in Census data
The removal of his name is not performative since we're in the thick of a cult of personality president (at a bare minimum).
smrtinsert··on What the fuck happened to nerds
100% agreed. I saw it somewhere else that the tech industry has burned all the transformative good will it had earned over the years and is now seen as the key villain in joblessness, societal discord and loneliness. What the fuck did happen? Edit: this isn't just an old man thing, this is the new generation saying this
smrtinsert··on Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
Which they should. I've been lucky enough to work at places that had great non-technical managers that promoted based on great execution, as well as highly technical managers that also promoted based on great execution.

Now I'm at the other kind of place and it sucks. They'll fire the performative engineers though during layoff season. It's almost like they like playing politics until it really matters.

smrtinsert··on Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos
I am definitely for services respecting customer privacy, but I can't help if this is different. I recently saw a thread where a person was bragging that frontier providers were blocking their attempt at what looked like to be social media de-anonymization and blackmailing app.

Maybe this isn't different than using something like Google Sheets to keep a list of people to dox and blackmail, but the leverage certainly makes it feel different.

smrtinsert··on Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes
Not nearly enough animated gradient dropshadow. Check out googles AI Mode button and the same loading button status thing while waiting for responses in AI Mode. Please add it so I don't have to prompt for it - I can't tell if I'm joking.
smrtinsert··on Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
How about product only CTOs who quietly hate engineers because they don't know what they do, and they constantly feel threatened
smrtinsert··on Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
The brutal reality being its probably most capable in that domain. They'll freely admit they're not "the never the smartest guy in the room" and their decision record proves it
smrtinsert··on Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
Little late to the thought leadership circus. What's next, limp LinkedIn posts only her sycophants like?
smrtinsert··on Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux
Sorry that's not the use case anymore its about (checks notes) "forward deployed engineers", yep that's it. Go build!
smrtinsert··on Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
This could avoid flagging by Meta explicitly allow bot traffic to do stuff with impunity on its services. Don't tell me an army of people went through and compromised acct by acct.
smrtinsert··on Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot
How do business owners hire people from Meta knowing these types of "bugs" get deployed with a shrug? Meta will survive them. Their business might not.
smrtinsert··on Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud
"build me a 10 million dollar MRR saas, make no mistakes"
smrtinsert··on Angular v22
A framework releasing an official MCP as well as making AI tooling a key offering is new to me and it immediately strikes me as absolutely necessary.
smrtinsert··on Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra
I also had a bad experience, but I'm willing to throw all that out of the window after seeing that it had 128 unified memory on a CUDA enabled device. This is an AI native dream machine from what I can tell. I'm almost obligated to buy one.
smrtinsert··on Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services
There's literally no excuse - I'm still baffled.
smrtinsert··on Nvidia RTX Spark
> Non-techy consumers may never do it

They will. As some point in the future, people will want everything, they'll prompt full movies because they're bored and want to watch something.

smrtinsert··on The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
It's stuff like this that honestly makes it very hard for me to take anyone working at Meta seriously. How much communication had to happen to enable this feature? It really casts doubt across the organization at multiple levels, don't tell me a single engineer caused this.
smrtinsert··on Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers chasing usage scores
How many employees were hatetokenmaxxing I wonder
smrtinsert··on Ruby vs. Java vs. TypeScript: my experience on building a Cowork DOCX plugin
Bitwig and Intellij stand out to me
smrtinsert··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
Let's skip to the part where they put the taxpayer on the hook for a bailout as an industry since they integrated everywhere with big promises
smrtinsert··on YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
Why is that tinfoil? That's just good business?
smrtinsert··on Anthropic acquires Stainless
what is the value in destroying those relationships? I assume it was acquisition to defend against another company owning a key part of their delivery pipeline, but killing the public product is just bad press.
smrtinsert··on Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged
Influencers are getting paid to promote ai for 10s of thousands of USD. This is one the reasons social media has been swamped with it lately.
smrtinsert··on A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous
Seems like something that will add to their billable hours
smrtinsert··on Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable
From the third party perspective, it feels like gambling to me. I can't imagine being ok with knowing everything keystroke you make is being tracked to train a model, most likely to replace you. I can't imagine ever wanting to work there, thought that for a long time. "It's full of brilliant people". Well, the profession is quite honestly, there are plenty of places to work.
smrtinsert··on LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate
It did this for during one of the recent outrage periods. It was unjarring deps left and right instead of googling for it. What an easy way for me to own the tokenmaxxing leaderboard I remember thinking
smrtinsert··on Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
I'm probably very out of date here, but I thought domains weren't allowed to be purchased programmatically due to misuse, crime, fraud etc. Why is it allowed now just because of agents? This is bonkers to me.
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