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I really like inkbleed, that looks really good!

I think an aging is going to be a non-linear (not in time, but in brightness application) fade to an off white and de-contrasting add addition of grains (not white noise, but bigger grains/dust). What's hard about this is there's some threshold of believability. Real photos age surprisingly well even when very sun bleached, staying pretty visible right till the end. You want slow degradation that does actually remove some of the photo each time, from what I can tell. You might be able to get away with a literal dust layer on top for that though.

Neat idea, but I think would need to have thousands or 10s of thousands to be useful

half a grand for a tablet with a PI as the core running a weak LLM seems ... bad. Maybe I'm missing the point, but this doesn't seem like a useful product to me.

"Self healing" doesn't sound like a feature to me. It sounds like the product so regularly borks itself it needed nasty safegaurds put in to not, and it was done in a weird way that's annoying to diagnose and fix. Your most stand out feature being it doesn't break it self isn't great. Otherwise, it's what? Fancy on-prem Alexa? Why wouldn't I just setup Home Assistant Voice?

I suspect normal HN readers aren't your target market, but I don't really see who is?

> In 99% of software it does not matter

and

> Models will become so fast that UI will be generated on the fly

Tells me this author is a bit, uh, disconnected from the real world. Your time to UI being populated and the UI's familiarity are the product.

I'm working on a huge vibe coded app in Rust rn, but it's entire purpose in existence is to be way, way faster to open and use than the software it competes with. The difference in feeling of something that opens and is usable within ~10ms (so under 1 frame at 60Hz) compared to one that's 100ms or 1s is HUGE. Getting it to be fast, good UI isn't a single prompt, it's a huge amount of refinement, over many weeks.

The difference between software with very straight forward keyboard shortcuts and intuitive UI, guided and crafted for a human, is huge.

Right now, models particularly struggle to make good UI, because it's a human problem. It doesn't care how big text is, because it's reading HTML, not visually looking at the page. Even if you feedback loop it image processing, it's a long ways from making good UI, especially good UI 1-shot. Even if you assume this makes leaps and bounds AND that "frameworks" that make the UI share common design language across on-the-fly prompts AND that it caches UI's that the user likes, etc. etc. I think this is incredibly far off base.

Then there's the missing points of software not being all basic tools that the end goal is to make a SAAS for. Embeded software exists. We're a long way from it being smart enough to figure out when something is a hardware issue. Hardware harness that connect it every test point are ungodly expensive, and so will continue to need a human in the loop for the foreseeable future.

Or, to pick on different points

> Code review will die. [...] Unit tests might die too

Alright, but then you're first up to use the AI vibe-coded pacemaker, or large machinery, or medical diagnostic hardware, or car.

To quote Doctorow,

> There are no cars, only computers we sit in. There are no hearing aids, only computers we put in our ears. There are no 3D printers, only computers that drive peripherals.

I do think AI will change software development, but not everything, not universally, and not without consequence to quality that we'll have to learn the hard way.

Reminds me of https://hackaday.com/2022/11/19/open-source-passive-radar-ta...

Awesome work!

I tried to get my lawyer-mom switched to Linux a bit ago, and she loved it in generally, but none of the Office competitors had good enough compat to work.

The only other thing keeping her on Windows is Adobe PDF pro, since it can do OCR where, when you edit it, it reflow the text in a font that matches the scanned in one to look like the original. (I also got weird "This feels like it enables fraud vibes" from this, but, no, turns out it's a totally common workflow for lawyers to need to do this ... I hate it.)

Cool to see 1/2 of the problems keeping her on Windows solved.

What internal tools are you having the LLM access? I have a server, but I just host whatever MCP servers and what not on device, not on the server.

I also pretty much exclusively work at my desktop - if you use multiple systems I can see where this matters.

Not really?

I have some custom skills/MCP servers I use:

one MCP server for using https://usefeyn.com/blog/pulpie-pareto-optimal-models-for-cl... ran locally so that reading web pages is cheaper and uses up less context

One MCP server for doing automated code quality checking, using Valknut, Jscpd, and Lizard to output scores, combine/aggregate them. That's then give to the model so that it can see if there's a mess of code dupe or if there was significant architectural regression. It's allowed to say "This is worth it" but it ground it a bit and stops really stupid, short sighted, hacked-in features

Another uses https://github.com/thejens/id-token-nicer so that the model doesn't bork a big ID without being noticed. It's told to translate in and out of that as necessary.

I had it write it's own skill for making sure to follow some sane commenting/style guides per language, that way it doesn't just give me massive files with no comments.

Finally, a last one lets Antigravity or Codex call out to local models as workers, for long running background tasks where a cheap, dumb model is fine. Saves on overall token usage.

I also have a few skills from the internet setup. https://github.com/AlmogBaku/debug-skill being the most important one.

On top of that, the way people work is notable: Do you use worktrees for agents? Why/why not? Do you have only one subscription? What level? I'm using both Codex at $20/mo and Antigravity at (promo) $5/mo right now. Antigravity's TOS says you MUST use their harness, which informs some of my skill setup/workflow. Do you make your agents.md self modifying, write it yourself, or not use one at all? Do you use a sandbox or YOLO it?

Even just how you prompt matters. On Antigravity/Gemini, I can give it a big list-o-TODOs and have it make a very detailed implementation plan itself, carry it out, and generally do the thing, all unsupervised. Codex, from what I have experienced, isn't as good at that. Doing the planning as a separate step, writing to a file, then telling it to step-by-step it with commits for each step makes it work okay again though.

This feels self-selective to how some people work, because it requires using MCP to contribute.

I'm a reasonably heavy AI user, and have some custom skills/MCP servers I'd share, but there is no way in hell I'm connecting to some arbitrary MCP server and connecting my Github account to it. Noppppeeeee.

Even before AI deceptive ads by showing renders/etc of a product were a problem, but I think I'd support a law that says any advertised product must show at least one real photo, unedited except for optional background removal, of the product prepared/resting as typical.

Can't edit: Looks like they edited this page after the fact[1]: It directly said:

> Continuity (cnt for short) is the git storage system [...]

I guess someone realized that turned this into even more of a joke than it already is.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20260818210312/https://cursor.co...

Remember, don't put large objects in cnt, it makes it a real pain later.

Corpo-only support,

Q: Can I run Proxmox VE on a Raspberry Pi or a similar single-board computer? A: No. An arm64 host must boot through UEFI and describe its hardware through ACPI. Device-tree-only boards and legacy boot are not supported.

Basically no consumer facing arm SBCs, NAS boxes, etc will work with this. Frankly, I see this as a good thing though: Maybe it'll make the SBC market get its stuff together and start actually doing UEFI instead of every board needing a custom build.

Orca, Nestup, https://krasse.itch.io/wavebots-editor, https://github.com/hisschemoller/music-pattern-generator, https://github.com/chalkwalk/arps-euclidya

If you use Cardnial as a VST you can use any of hundreds of generative sequencers it has.

Browsing midi clips compared to something with parameters that you can tweak, like all of these have seems infinitely preferably than wandering through a sea of MIDI clips.

This feels like a joke, right? Short, generative midi clips, for real world money? I thought at first maybe the shop thing was like a visual gag, but, no, it's actually going to stripe.

There's a million better generative MIDI tools out there, and the vast vast majority are free. I can't fathom making this and not being embarrassed, let alone anyone actually spending money on the site.

I would normally reserve such harsh criticism but as sporkl points out, this seems to be some LLM generated drive-by money-grab mess.

I do worry that maybe OP is like a teenager and I'm coming off overly harsh, but even if that's the case, then OP needs to learn what actually makes a product differentiate itself and how to actually appeal to a target audience. This ain't it chief, as a musician, I find it actively offensive.

I think if you assume a capitalistic, commercial framing of code, this makes sense.

If you think about all the projects you don't have time to make that require code but would be really cool albeit have no *marketable* value, making those faster to make and easy to share isn't a bad thing.

I want more cool free things people make out of passion - sure, you could argue using AI removes some of that passion, but there's also a large subset of people who are passionate about their field but not passionate about code, and if they're able to make something cool by feeding the idea in and pulling the token generation slot machine's lever on repeat to get their vision, I still think that's cool.

Of course, there's a line where it's slop, so it depends what they're making. A tool to make music? Cool. An album where it's all AI gen'd audio. Not cool. A tool to modify art/apply filters/modify brushes? Cool. AI art standalone? Not cool.

Basically, is the target something standalone as a product we want to have human creativity in the output expression (art) or not. I don't think of MS office as particular artful, but I'm sure many good books have been written in it.

This line is definitely blurry and full of gray areas. For example, https://www.redwoodrhetorica.com to me is totally fine, but I could see why people find it weird.

Similarly, I'm sure to someone working in or on emacs or vim, they're almost sacred and they view the tool itself as a work of art, such that the idea of using AI to improve either sounds offensive, but as long as VSCode works (which, it has had more bugs lately...) I really don't care if they used Claude or whatever to work on the editor/IDE itself.

Of course, there are projects and features which probably shouldn't make it past the "Should this exist?" filter. Complexity does have a cost - nobody wanted CoPilot in Notepad - but having LLMs doesn't change that, I don't think. It means we can do more, but being selective and having good taste to avoid making something bad by adding unnecessary crap to it was a problem far before LLMs.

That wording could be interesting, because it's ambiguous if free is applicable to the repository or the project. Presumably, the latter. This means you could absolutely do source-open but not open-source and still get around it.

Looks both expensive and power hungry, will be interesting to see how that works out

used. Apple used. It's legally a dead trademark, so Apple is claiming ownership of something they've already abandoned, but enforcing that nobody else can reclaim it, despite being a good name. That's not right, they don't just get to name squat.

Decent Sampler is what I had in mind, and I think is slowly seeing more and more adoption. I do have some hope for it.

NI has been a husk for a long time, hardly surprising. It really sucks so many great sample libraries used the Kontakt format instead of something standard and open.

Their hardware was also fine but not ground breaking, in a sea of actually great options. They just didn't keep up.

The in-music-ing of so many brands is not going unnoticed among anyone with "I'll buy a moog" money, so while I expect all the brands in music is hoovering up to be profitable, I don't see any of them as huge loss to innovation.

Oh! I have so many in-progress projects right now,

First up, the "AskHN for help project in progress": I'm working on some pages for my websites and want to capture + embed some interactive gaussian splats. I haven't yet found a good, embedded-able option that doesn't assume a huge dynamic website instead of my simple Hugo based static site. Any good options?

Otherwise,

I just got a vintage horn-speaker. The actual Atwater Kent driver was long since dead, but I ordered a compression driver to feed it after testing it with a talkbox and finding it sounds amazingly honky!

I have a piano's soundboard and 24 solenoids, all the drivers, etc I need to wire up to make a self playing piano (ish, I mean, it won't be hitting hammers - directly solenoid to string)

I got tired of Alexa's slow degradation into a central advertising point and weird LLM-y-ness, so just got some Home Assistant Voice Preview Editions to replace it. Performance is so far worse, so I'll be doing some tuning on that. It also means, unfortunately, replacing a lot of my lights/switches and moving to Zigbee. Total cost, with the two voice/speaker boxes + lights + switches + Zigbee hub I think I'll be about $300 deep. Not too bad.

I have a Dactyl Manuform mechanical keyboard that's 3D printed, has the keys put in, but needs soldered up, hopefully able to knock that out soon too.

Old eleksmaker pen plotter / laser engraver sitting around had it's controller die a while ago, finally got a new one, but will have to actually learn how to setup GRBL and find some open source software for driving - Which, sounds less than fun. Last time I tried, I found all the software to be expensive, hard to use, and generally frustrating.

On top of all of that,

* I have a Hurdy Gurdy sitting at about 3/4 finished, shouldn't need more than another 8 or so hours of work to get playable.

* I want to make some Nuclear Instrumentation Module inspired modules for VCV rack

* I have an AudioMoth on the way, I'm looking forward to learning how to setup so I can learn about bats in my area!

* I'm still about 75% done switching back to linux, now that I feel it's finally ready to be used for music stuff since the transition to Pipewire seems over with and It's no longer a total mess of ALSA+JACK+Pulse+PipeWire. That transition hell mad me switch back to windows for few years, and it's nice to be back

Also, since the last thread I've managed to fully rebuild my studio setup, setting up multiple 3-tier stands for synths + the Wall-o-pedals. It came out really well! Was nice to brush up on at least basic wood working skills for it too. During that project I also discovered 3M dual lock is magic and will be over-using it on everything from now on.

I think the author agrees, just that it's a phrasing problem

I don't think it's some conspiracy to make anyone more likely to get malware. Instead it's that for their business model of mostly being used on business PCs where the same dozen tools are installed all over the world they can be overzelous in protection and it is what most customers want. Really, they should leave the "piracy is malware" thing in defender, it should just be off by default if your PC isn't connected to a domain or setup as "work PC".

Until recently the exception for me was music software/VSTs. I definitely did get a few infections over the years doing so, but after finding some safe sources it went pretty well. To some extent, I still see advise it, actually, just with purchasing first but never using the key, just because DRM in the music software world is so aggressively bad. iLok is a cancer on that industry.

I think to an extent Microsoft is the guilty party here. For may cracks Windows Defender will trip saying "Win32/Keygen" even if there's no actual malware

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclo...

This trains people that do a lot of piracy to be used to turning off their antivirus to let something through, which is fine until it's not. It's like drugs, if we know a subset of the population will do them no matter what, we should make it safe for them to the extent we can. False positives, causing people to ignore actual positives, creates a market for these things.

I think this sort of just points to modern security tooling is more-or-less redundant: The leads in the title "Loose on an internal network"... don't do that. You will never, ever, ever configure everything on your network to be 100% safe, keep everything up to date, etc. Crowdstrike, Sophos, don't care- you can't run anything that will catch everything, so the answer is boring: Isolate and prevent any intrusion to begin with. Limit external connections, use sane firewalls, don't depend on cloud infra, and KISS.

If this didn't work, every single small to medium business would be a malware aquarium - and while some are - generally most are fine because the boring, basic stuff and not going out of your way to misconfigure the hell out of things or give anything more permissions than necessary is 95% of the battle. Have guests using your wifi? Have a guest wifi (Vlan) for them. Congrats, you're not already doing better than like 2/3 of easy targets.

Like, this would be interesting if if was "We told OpenClaw our external IP and said go to town" but some insecurity in the internal network is often just outright necessary to not be a total PITA when doing day-to-day operations.

This can still be a useful testing idea for some orgs, but I feel like the applications are very, very limited.

I suspect there's a lot of people on the 2028 refresh train. If you bought a 1700 in 2017/2018 - which a lot of people did, because it was so good $/perf, you could ride the AM4 platform to a 5900(x/xt) now and be still pretty happy, but AM4 is a dead end now and the X570 motherboards are hard to find. So, if you want more PCIe, DDR5, etc. it'll be time to jump once it starts to feel sluggish for high end tasks (gaming, etc.) around that time.

If you need Docx compatibility to interface with the rest of the world, are you better off with the at-least open source option or the sign-your-life-in-eula-and-O365-subscription option.

This isn't rhetorical. I don't know which is worse. I lean disliking Microsoft more, because jazz hands at Windows11, and OnlyOffice at least runs on Linux, but it's still not a fun position to be in.

LibreOffice and other alts definitely don't have as good of Docx compat.