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thomasgeelens

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Creator Extraordinaire at http://Lifthill.Studio Creator of http://CynicalSally.com Dreamer over at http://getDreamTap.app Making music http://ThomasGeelens.com
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thomasgeelens··on Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments
oeeh hug of death, congrats!
thomasgeelens··on Anthropic Races to Contain Leak of Code Behind Claude AI Agent
I really wonder, and if somebody can enlighten me please do, most of the code is the harness right? What part of that is something that they race to contain, isn't this our classic 'well it's out there, good luck!' scenario?
thomasgeelens··on CERN levels up with new superconducting karts
oh my, I should really visit one day, I'm not even that far from CERN
thomasgeelens··on The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode
Can somebody tell me what this means for the company?
thomasgeelens··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
Every time I think: "do I live in a dystopia yet?" I get confirmation with these messages.
thomasgeelens··on Android Developer Verification
oh so I'm not the only one, always believed Apple was the hard ass but I've been having a better experience with them.
thomasgeelens··on Looksmaxxing, Gilded Age Eugenics, and Why the Algorithm Just Needs Users
tbh when I first heard of the 'Looksmaxxing' term I was kind of mildly shocked? first it was: "looksmaxxing is that people who?..." and then I saw people doing that stuff and I was like: aah, yup, it's exactly that.
thomasgeelens··on Copilot edited an ad into my PR
Damn Microsoft out here really finding new ways to serve ads.
thomasgeelens··on You're right to be anxious about AI: This is how much we are building
Talked to a guy at a bar yesterday (Well he talked TO me, couldn't really get into a conversation) and he went: "Now I create WordPress plugins in 10 seconds, like for real! I have the most expensive Github Plan, all the agents and I just tell them what I want, I get it and publish it!".

Mind you, my projects are also build with Claude Code / Coding Agents but I spec, I refactor, I research, etc. It was at that point I realised that there could be millions of people like him now. He unironically said: "When people ask me what I do, I tell them I'm a promp engineer".

thomasgeelens··on 'Project Hail Mary' Crosses $300M in Sales to Become Amazon/MGM's Highest-Gross
Still wanna watch this movie, I haven't seen trailers (try to keep that to a minimum) and I like Gosling. Anybody here seen it?
thomasgeelens··on LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs
This right here! I commented about that in that thread, it's like: This 5G calls drops, LinkedIN uses GB's of memory, my fridge needs an update to get the light on but Voyager 1 is out there on 69kb.
thomasgeelens··on Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder
I know it makes no sense about what I'm going to say but: whenever I lose a 'simple 5G phone call' connection I remind myself that the Voyager 1 runs on 69kb of memory and there's a robot on Mars.
thomasgeelens··on App that shows real-time lightning on Earth is showing bombings in Middle East
I was like: wow there is an app that tracks real-time lighting? Cool! Then I went.. oh.
thomasgeelens··on Say No to Palantir in Europe
Oh man I'm in NL, didn't know that, that's. .. dark.
thomasgeelens··on Supabase Got Blocked in India
oh lord I wonder how many projects this affected
thomasgeelens··on Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics
this feels like such a weird oversight in such a controlled environment: "oh my bad it was the gloves!" I wonder in how many other studies this happened?