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willsmith72··on Malicious versions of Nx and some supporting plugins were published
sounds like the best way to miss critical security upgrades
willsmith72··on What makes Claude Code so damn good
literally every single startup in the past year is helped by these. Of course you haven't heard of them, they're year-old startups
willsmith72··on What makes Claude Code so damn good
not at all, it's just not a "claude model". All these companies add their own prompts hints on top. it's a totally different experience. Trying using kiro which is also a "claude model" and tell me it's the same
willsmith72··on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
yes, because meta has no incentive to act like there's no bubble
willsmith72··on Meta accessed women's health data from Flo app without consent, says court
how exactly? you expect the average joe to have a better technical understanding, and more importantly ability to learn, than a judge? that is bizarre to me
willsmith72··on Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers
(as long as the campers are considerate) it's also low cost. even prime location starbucks have large lull periods through the day, prime for campers, even though only spending $5-10.

when people feel entitled to take up 2 spaces for hours while families roam for seats is when it's too far

willsmith72··on Tesla remotely deactivates rapper's vehicle for singing about the Cybertruck?
agreed. It's on-brand for Tesla, but still looks more like a PR stunt than reality

Would they really put "comply with cease & desist to reactivate" on the screen?

willsmith72··on OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second
so 96% availability = "survived" now?

but interesting write-up. If I were a consumer of OpenFreeMap, I would be concerned that such an availability drop was only detected by user reports

willsmith72··on GPT-5
But also, AI progress is non-linear. We're more likely to have an AI winter than AGI
willsmith72··on 6 weeks of Claude Code
Why does it go against your morality? Sounds like a totally rational business decision, only affecting a sub-par partner
willsmith72··on 6 weeks of Claude Code
Totally agree with the off-shore component of this. I'm already going to have to break a task down into clear detail and resolve any anticipated blocker myself upfront to avoid multi-timezone multi-day back and forth.

Now that I'm practiced at that, the off-shored part is no longer valuable

willsmith72··on MacBook Pro Insomnia
is this just powernap?

as in `sudo pmset -a powernap 0`?

I'd rather not install an entire desktop app if that's all he's doing

willsmith72··on Fast
Not in development and maintenance dollars it's not
willsmith72··on Fast
Since when is the constraint "how many times can I run this thing"?
willsmith72··on Do not download the app, use the website
What about just using PWABuilder? Sure maybe it's not as nice an experience as a native app, but the savings on costs and time with having 1 product mean you can do way more innovation elsewhere
willsmith72··on Show HN: MCP server for Blender that builds 3D scenes via natural language
sounds like my CEO. "we don't need engineers, we have ai"

now who runs the AI?

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willsmith72··on Kiro: A new agentic IDE
first impressions:

1. autopilot should be off by default. this is the norm for claude code and cline (plan mode)

2. my sidebar is on the right. that was imported correctly from vs code, but the kiro window is still on the left. why can't it be on the same side as my sidebar like a usual extension (e.g. cline)?

3. the textbox is super busy. for some reason the "Hold Shift to drop image" is stuck there

willsmith72··on Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents
> Spying on your users does not give better feedback than simply asking your users

If that's true, there are many companies paying thousands -hundreds of thousands unnecessarily. Why are they choosing to throw away their money?

willsmith72··on Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents
"not breaking things they like" is a very low bar for building a great product

To be honest building things this way seems like such a competitive disadvantage I don't see how it could ever work at scale. Certainly all the big players are using them. If we shake our heads at the little players doing the same, we're just going to widen the moat

willsmith72··on Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents
how do you build a product without analytics? how do you measure the success and failure of every change?
willsmith72··on Show HN: Vibe Kanban – Kanban board to manage your AI coding agents
It's the email/username harvesting that you mean right? Or do people also have something against anonymised product analytics?
willsmith72··on Building a Mac app with Claude code
> The main issue here is you can’t acquire expertise by using llm to code for you.

Agreed, but I wish I had it as a teacher while learning. The amount of help my interns need from me has reduced by at least 50%, and what remains is the non-trivial stuff which is completely worth my time to coach and mentor them

willsmith72··on ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral
Like in sports, how before every drug test the athlete is given a heads-up right?

Or is perhaps the chance of a random test at any moment more of a deterrent?

willsmith72··on Show HN: Jobs by Referral: Find jobs in your LinkedIn network
i totally agree on the problem, ex-colleages can be one of the best datasources for predicting the quality of a hire

but how is your solution better/different to a referral, other than the un-recommendations? (which i like the idea of but am weary of ethically)

willsmith72··on Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages
True for stuff requiring interaction, but to help their LCP/SEO lots of sites these days render plain html first. It's not "usable" but for viewing it's pretty good
willsmith72··on The $25k car is going extinct?
Well of course, but tech gets cheaper over time too. Just look at the price and power of today's MacBook air vs 10 years ago. You get way more value for money as you should
willsmith72··on Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven't yet
I completely agree, and haven't had the meta/twitter/reddit apps in years. But facebook does keep me around (or at least keep me from deleting my account) through marketplace. I've now found my last two apartment rentals there, both of which were nicer and cheaper than alternatives on dedicated rental sites.

I find keeping an account open solely for desktop marketplace is a fine compromise

willsmith72··on The Effect of Noise on Sleep
You're the only one who said break things
willsmith72··on The Effect of Noise on Sleep
and this is how societal progress slowly crawls to a halt.
willsmith72··on The Effect of Noise on Sleep
This isn't the first study on noise and sleep, in fact it's barely scientific compared to the rest of the research.

There is no scientific disagreement as to the correlation, it's just "how big" and "what specifically".

Compare the downside of "smaller impact than expected" with the cost of delay and it's a no-brainer

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