thorio

Your English is good, but the (probably smartphone keyboard) typo revealed you :-).

Well Google has activated access to Google drive, mail, etc for most users automatically (or maybe I just clicked yes sometime) and so far I think it's a net positive for me personally and don't here from any disasters publicly.

While technically this is rooted in the technological misconstruction of a missing separation of data and instructions.

However my point is: on the other hand, that would be the same if you outsourced those tasks to a human, isn't it? I mean sure, a human can be liable and have morals and (ideally) common sense, but most major screw ups can't be fixed by paying a fine and penalty only.

You mean people already employed bot gangs to boost retention just to squeeze out some authentic human feedback juice?

While this is directionally correct it does come down to a tonality, that I think wasn't justified in that case. But hey, it's the Internet and I'm not naive either.

While that's true, my tool (as part of the flood) didn't originate from the same spring, it's just something I happen to be building that same way, I did before the LLM wave. It's not vibecoded SaaS fast food.

I checked community guidelines before and think regarding Reddit, this is where it should be resolve in my option.

Sometimes time doesn't allow that for multiple communities simultaneously, but you are right. Still I think a lot of online communities are drowning in AI slob diluting the well thought about stuff that would deserve the attention.

True story, yesterday I tried to get some feedback from an industry relevant subreddit for a real estate quick check calculation tool (automatically extracts listing data into calculation and enables sharing investment ideas). The pure mention of AI brought up a whole crowd of fed up bullies that talked it down as vibecoding trash - which it really isn't. All those places are flooded.

This sounds pretty reasonable to me. What am I missing?

Maybe it still is supposed to sound fancy to say you didn't read any of the code. The guy definitely could very deeply understand, read and edit the code, he developed the industrial standard liberal for PDF editing (used by Dropbox etc).

Just saying what you want might be the future for development of some kinds of software, but this use case sure seems like a very bad idea.

I very much appreciate the vision he put into practice, but feel sorry for the project being acquihired kind of.

I challenged Gemini to answer this too, but also got the correct answer.

What came to my mind was: couldn't all LLM vendors easily fund teams that only track these interesting edge cases and quickly deploy filters for these questions, selectively routing to more expensive models?

Isn't that how they probably game benchmarks too?

Shows an error for me on Chrome Mobile

For what it's worth: he has been saying for years, that they were only making the S and X for nostalgic reasons.

How about using some of that skills to make that page mobile ready...

I think affiliation is much more likely to be a relevant revenue stream for them in the future. Instant checkouts would be a game changer in my view. Especially for upcoming generations, that don't have the habit of scrolling the open web to get their stuff done, but are native to LLMs.

Hence (for example) the doom scrolling wheel keeps spinning.

This is in my family too. One person always had a tendency of being overly worried and after children moved out and social life thinned or a bit, this became more prevalent.

After years of trying to push that person towards trying out new things and enriching their life, I kind of gave up. You simply cannot convince someone about a medicine if they don't feel there is a problem. Still it's hard to see believing the person could be enjoying life more, especially during their retirement.

I came here to say: read this book, it's really great.

I think if your depression is very deeply buried, it surely isn't enough to read it, but still it can open up quit some insights regarding the connection of what you think and how you feel. It makes it visible.

There can also be other causes for depression is course.

While studying and testing the exercises described in the book I discovered one other thing I'd like to share: to me it seems, to come out of a reappearing mental dip, you need to be very consistent in your efforts (mental / physical exercises and other habits you try to establish or change, to feel better). Anyone else?

Let's count the days until someone builds an AI solution that does just that and adopts existing apps to the new SDK without breaking anything or changing functionality.

Anyone already started building this? :-).

Would bring my social RSS reader back to life too. Had the exact same experience others have described here: it's not worth the time investing anymore at some point...

Sometime it's funny to look at the packages list of your domain provider and realize for example, that at some point in the past I was indeed convinced "thewienerway.com" would one day be the go to merch shop for everything around wiener dogs :-).

Okay, there were some beers involved...

How problematic is app compatibility with Lineage nowadays? (banking, google-pay etc.)

Couldn't get my hands on one so far as they don't sell in Germany. Could you elaborate a bit if you had the chance to try one?

Since Google is about to brick my Pixel 6a with the battery botchering update, i find myself in the same struggle again i had when buying the 6a.

Basically you have to make compromises on performance and camera and then this was, what i came up with: - Zenfone 10 (flagship with prices still above launch price (!), which soon gets no updates anymore) - Unihertz Jelly Max (small, but thick and bad camera) - Rakuten Hand 5G and Rakuten Mini (also bad camera and older Android) - Balmuda Phone (which i really like, but also bad camera and discontinued, so probably not even security updates and no custom rom support) - Bluefox NX1 (really tempting, but appearantly kind of bad build quality and no NFC)

All other options are even older phones. Samsung S25 line does exist, but i really like vanilla Android. I think the price chart of the Zenfone DOES somehow indicates the existence of a market and i wonder if it would be big enough for a small niche player!?

Personally I am considering a pixel 8, which is the "smallest" of current phones, but it still really isn't small. And i don't see myself as a Google customer because of the battery topic...

I personally would have been more happy had Eric made a small android phone instead of the new pebble, but hey...

This my friends is how the next iteration of venture capital contract templates becomes even longer...

Otherwise, normally with the amount of capital raised by Windsurf, the founders must have signed some kind of non-compete for the event of a bad-leaver (which this obviously is). Guess covering these penalties was just part of Google's deal, hm?

Reading all the comments here about small phones and after recently receiving Google's info about my pixel 6As battery downgrade I took a look at Unihertz again and they apparently made a pretty good looking new 5G model "jelly max".

What do you guys think? Should we give it as go? Apparently it's funded via s Kickstarter...

Interesting point.

So if that really might be the way forward in mind when developing liquid glass, I think they did a pretty good job. Curious to see how this works in more complex UIs - I'd expect, that it has to play along with a very reduced number of visible UI components in sight.

My first thought was: This seems like a very logical next step in order to prepare for future broader market adoption of AR applications and AR glasses.

Being a sceptic about the latter at first I must say, I wish the technology would finally allow having a "normal" pair of glasses with high resolution, no cable attached, AR overlay screens.

Considering quitting my mind-melting corporate job to have the freedom of mind to pursue another attempt of starting my own business. So the decision is, what I'm working on. Background: they announced large scale restructurings last week and that could be my chance of getting some money for leaving (region beta paradox in full swing here).

Anyone else?

Hi everyone,

A few years back I liked Nassims Talebs writing about path-dependency in life. When recently Navals podcast made me circle back to the topic, I tried to find good books about the field and stumbled upon this blog (TheJollyContrarian), which I liked.

There don't seem to be any references to it on HN tho - am I the only one?

Best, Thorsten

This is absolutely fantastic! It releases me from my region beta paradox and finally gives me enough activation energy to break my laziness of using chrome mobile (only left-over).

Would like to head for Firefox, if they would only add some usability features I'm so used to (like tab groups). So Brave it will be, i guess...

Still the sad thing is, that both Brave (technically) and Firefox (financially) are heavily dependent on Google.