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Instead of suggesting that DHH stay silent, your online verbal energy would be best directed towards the politicaly supporters of that open letter, wouldn't you say? Who do you think are the actual political agitaters in tech?

sridon Grok 4 Fast

> From an ethical perspective, and I'm based in Denmark mind you, they are all equally horrible in my opinion

Could you provide a specific prompt (as an example) where Grok turned out to be horible in your opinion?

sridon Notion API importer, with Databases to Bases conversion bounty

Can you deduct these expenditures fully in income tax?

sridon macOS Tahoe

> AMD Strix Halo chips

Do you happen to know any laptop that has a) equivalent screen quality (retina resolution), b) keyboard, c) trackpad but with full Linux support where all hardware pheripherals just work?

sridon The Helix Text Editor (2024)

Is Helix good for Markdown-based note taking workflows? I suppose no, because plugin system is yet unavailable.

sridon Raku.org Chooses Htmx

I just tried out Pico in a small site. The resultant HTML looks more semantic and readable compared to that of Tailwind.

Though, Claude Code ended up injecting a bunch of CSS definitions, which you can't avoid I suppose.

https://github.com/srid/Naivete-CoM/pull/1/files

sridon Raku.org Chooses Htmx

Any reason to use Pico CSS over Tailwind?

sridon I ditched Docker for Podman

Or if you are on macOS, there is https://github.com/juspay/services-flake which is based on process-compose. So you get an unified alternative to docker-compose but based on Nix and works on both platforms.

sridon Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources

There is a whole bunch of them here:

https://fmhy.net/audio

sridon Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed

Note: if you use SSH-based remote development, this doesn't work.

https://x.com/sridca/status/1963271904384401886

sridon LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers

This reminds me of Elon Musk's recent claims on the future of gaming:

    This – but in real-time – is the future of gaming and all media

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1954486538630476111

sridon The Dereliction of Due Process in the Scala Community

Here are two submissions on Jon Pretty, one from 2021 when the cancellation happened, and another from this year when it became clear who the wrongdoers really were. It is really interesting to compare the nature of discussion between the two threads:

2021 My experience with sexual harassment in the Scala community https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26961482

2025 The untold impact of cancellation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44755644

ETA: Here's another thread:

2024 Jon Pretty wins in court against sexual harassment claims by Scala community https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40169578

sridon Nice things with SVG

    <svg
        class="w-16 h-16 text-blue-500 transition-all duration-300 ease-in-out transform hover:scale-125 hover:rotate-12 hover:text-purple-600"
        fill="currentColor"
        viewBox="0 0 100 100"
        xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
    >
        <circle cx="50" cy="50" r="40" />
    </svg>

Preview: https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_2a2dd030-8177-4fa0-aac5-17d2...

sridon Nice things with SVG

  without groups and layers

As distinct from `<g>`?

sridon Nice things with SVG

Which book are you referring to?

sridon The Meditation Startup That's Selling Bliss on Demand

https://archive.is/xbM7S

sridon xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B

Just FYI, you can't expect intelligent conversations on HN about anything related to Elon Musk. A small vocal group really hate him, and we know that passion (especially if politically motivated) retards intelligence.

sridon Twitter.com – Is Twitter Down?

This was posted just 3 hours ago:

> There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X.

> We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.

> Tracing …

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899149509407473825

sridon Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

My gut feeling is that HN comments on these political threads (which are almost always of sinistral statist ideology, à la anti-DOGE, pro-Ukraine, etc.) do not properly represent the whole HN demographics. It seems that only a small vocal group of participants tend to participate in these threads. Most techies just want to do tech stuff.

sridon ChatGPT Saved My Life (no, seriously, I'm writing this from the ER)

Yes, but this doctor in particular doesn't seem to have any such automated system. They seem to reviewing it all manually. From the post,

> I was told I’d receive a response in 2-3 business days

2-3 "business days"? Yea, I can see how LLMs are going to be super helpful in patients taking their health more in their own hands.

sridon Lobsters blocking UK users because of the Online Safety Act

> At least HN allows you to come back under another name

You can also come back under the same account, which is what I did. I emailed dang, and promised to respect the site's guidelines this time.

Lobste.rs on the other hand has terrible moderation, with moderators arguably being from one political clique. You can find details about the ridiculous ban they issued on my account in this X thread: https://x.com/sridca/status/1751586241110519837

pushcx then tried to argue with me here after 3 months, lying about the ban: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40166912#40176320

sridon Grok 3 claims its system prompt includes censorship about Musk/Trump

I cannot reproduce your result. Rather, I get Elon Musk as the answer:

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_02886c4d-79fc-485b-a07c-2a59...

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_59091f94-f1c4-4c48-ad69-1330...

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_7060b523-dec5-4d17-b944-3267...

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_0441b53b-1ac6-4c0d-bcbd-64e4...

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However, this used sources from mainstream. So if you account for the mainstream media bias, the answer is rather uncertain: Based on factual analysis, no specific account can be identified as the biggest spreader of misleading statements on Twitter. Studies indicate that a small number of verified or automated accounts play a significant role, but names are not provided.

https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_5fd3d6a0-d231-4a59-9435-4c53...

sridon DOGE employees don't understand the basics of SQL

> What should I believe?

For one thing, do not blindly believe what you read here on Hacker News, where there is a clear anti-Musk slant. I'd recommend more rational places like https://www.themotte.org/ where these topics can be discussed in a relatively calm manner. You are likely to come up with more informed opinions than otherwise.

sridon Obsidian is now free for work

You can always publish on GitHub Pages using a suitable tool, like https://emanote.srid.ca/

Disclaimer: I'm the author of Emanote

sridon Grok 3: Another win for the bitter lesson

We understand very little about human microbiota (therapies like fecal microbiota transplant, however, are promising) yet germ theory is "settled science"? Interesting.