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te_chrison Show HN: NanoClaw – “Clawdbot” in 500 lines of TS with Apple container isolation

Posthog is doing this now for project setup

te_chrison CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT

The failsons of the king of the failsons

te_chrison 150k lines of vibe coded Elixir: The good, the bad and the ugly

The imperative thing is so frustrating. Even the latest models still write elixir like a JS developer, checking nils, maybe_do_blah helper functions everywhere. 30 lines when 8 would do.

te_chrison EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity

Truly, this is one of the greatest losses of the UK leaving. For both parties. Advising EU startups on where to incorporate that isn’t London could be so much simpler.

te_chrison AI generated music barred from Bandcamp

Yeah, but most of the the old (2000s in particular) mid-range hifi units all had decent-enough DAC's to do 44.1/16bit. And they're cheap now.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/317751858636 e.g. £65 doesn't even remotely get you close to listenable in vinyl.

te_chrison AI generated music barred from Bandcamp

Love it. Not often you get music threads like this on HN!

te_chrison AI generated music barred from Bandcamp

Yes. But shhhhh about cds, don’t want people to realise…

Also the price of decent (Sony hifi grade, not ES) CD players used is great too.

te_chrison Toys with the highest play-time and lowest clean-up-time

Allow me to introduce my favourite toy from my childhood that I have been lucky enough to be able to buy for my son recently: https://www.reddit.com/r/auckland/comments/eymcks/do_you_kno...

It’s called the Humdinger set. Made by an eccentric guy in NZ with no online presence beyond resultantly keeping an email address.

Stumbled across him randomly at a market when we visited last and had to triple take - “is this THE Humdinger” type thing. My mum confirmed it was the real deal, so we bought it on the spot.

Son loves it. Connectable wooden stuff ftw

te_chrison Unifi Travel Router

Yes these are the way. Use them to get cheap anker security cams to work as baby monitors while we’re in hotel rooms

te_chrison If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)

Also see Feedback Analysis, by Peter Drucker from Managing Oneself - https://hbr.org/2005/01/managing-oneself

te_chrison Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration

Trying to implement their gRPC api from their specs and protobufs for Live is an exercise in immense frustration and futility. I wanted to call it from Elixir, even with our strong AI I wasted days then gave up.

te_chrison Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration

The way the models behave in Vertex AI Studio vs the API is unforgivable. Totally different.

te_chrison Agent design is still hard

If you’ve spent any time with the vertex LLM apis you wouldn’t be so enthusiastic about using Google’s platform (I say this as someone who prefers GCP to aws for compute and networking).

te_chrison Nano Banana Pro

Then you actually use it! I dare someone to try and get Gemini live vertex app working.

te_chrison Always be ready to leave (even if you never do)

Getting downvotes for this, but genuinely laughing over here

te_chrison Why we migrated from Python to Node.js

Yeah moving from python to node for concurrency is insane.

te_chrison Claude Memory

Very long OR insufficient. Ah yes, the goldilocks Claude.md

te_chrison AI is making us work more

Yes. What they've shown me is that I don't like code. Hate it, actually. But I like building things, and can still read and reason about problems and code. So I chose the best stack for what we're doing, but I don't get bogged down in arcania. It's great.

te_chrison Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels

They deported and abducted enough kids in Ukraine, so close enough.

te_chrison The RAG Obituary: Killed by agents, buried by context windows

Or the thing that ranks the term based result. That’s the fun these days: it’s all whatever fits your problem.

te_chrison ERP Therapy Sucks

I've got OCD and I've done CBT, ERP etc. As others have alluded to, you need to realise the work is never done. Recently I've found it more active, but this time - having recently read The Maps we Carry by Rose Cartwright, who was something of a poster-woman for OCD after her first book, Pure - I've tried to go deeper. CBT etc feel like prophylactics. They're certainly useful, but they don't address deeper things, such as learning to be as you are, to observe and integrate your anxiety etc.

This set me off on a harder path of more abstract therapy (I'm working with an integrative therapist who practices across IFS, Jungian etc), meditation etc. The book the untethered soul, by Michael Singer helped a lot to put everything into perspective - the therapy, the anxiety, the day to day - in a way that nothing else had really achieved for me.

Also, a key conclusion of Cartwrights is that individualised change/treatment is important, but it's worthless without community. I think she's deeply, profoundly right.

te_chrison Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo

Yes. Just look at London - where it’s private hire, not taxi, but still very regulated.

te_chrison What brain surgery taught me about the fragile gift of consciousness

Like the rlhf is all Hemingway bros (and I love Hemingway)

te_chrison The electric fence stopped working years ago

Worth looking at the book the Untethered Soul by Michael Singer

te_chrison UK government states that 'safety' act is about influence over public discourse

Definitely not happening in the us too! Certainly no academic visas being cancelled.

te_chrison GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card

Cursor

te_chrison GPT-5 for Developers

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/latest-model

Looks like they're trying to lock us into using the Responses API for all the good stuff.

te_chrison AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive

100%. It's made me like dev again because my head can be used for things other than remembering arcania - this may be a curse of using languages like Ruby and Elixir which mostly don't have great tooling.

I enjoyed the article, fwiw. Twitter was insufferable before Elon bought it, but the AI bro scene is just...wow. An entire scene who only communicate in histrionics.

te_chrison PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator

Dots call functions on objects, pipe passes arguments to functions. Totally missing the point.

te_chrison NSF has suspended Terry Tao's grant

Trump got less votes last time than when he lost to Biden. The democrats lost, trump didn’t win. People stayed home.