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JLCarveth

So this works on Chrome on my Android phone, but not on Chrome desktop nor firefox.
Re:Backblaze has stopped backing up your data on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @06:33AM (#47763761)
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage.
Re:Android Developer Verification on Tuesday March 31, 2026 @08:03AM (#47586115)
Please don't try and police my language
Re:Android Developer Verification on Monday March 30, 2026 @07:02PM (#47580785)
Being able to side load apps was why I switched to android 10 years ago
Re:Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store on Saturday February 28, 2026 @07:25PM (#47202198)
I guarantee you the people downloading these apps aren't thinking about that. They use what works best.
Re:Gemini 3.1 Pro on Thursday February 19, 2026 @01:22PM (#47077094)
Every time I have tried using `gemini-cli` it just thinks endlessly and never actually gives a response.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony on Wednesday February 18, 2026 @10:21AM (#47061959)
I've reported direct threats of violence and Instagram told me it wasn't against their policies.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026) on Monday February 09, 2026 @10:17AM (#46946134)
I replaced MyFitnessPal: https://macros.jlcarveth.dev

Uses vision models to allow for automatic scanning of nutrition tables. Supports UPCs. Still thinking of a good name.

I also made an RPG game via a discord bot: https://questforge.ca

Long ago I switched to Bruno [1]

The biggest benefit for me was having requests stored as plaintext files, so you can easily track it with git.

[1] https://www.usebruno.com/

I would always close claude to start a new chat... Guess I should stop doing that. Thanks for bringing my attention to those two env vars.
Your previous comment was a run on sentence and didn't make much sense at all.
> some fake pictures of someone likely AI generated
Re:GitHub Is Having Issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @03:49PM (#45971849)
The Github CEO did step down a few months ago, they never named a successor. Could have something to do with the recent issues. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865560
Re:GitHub Is Having Issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @03:44PM (#45971768)
The last outage was a whole 5 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45915731
I would love Minecraft with more intelligent villagers I could boss around to mine and build for me.
Re:GitHub Partial Outage on Thursday November 13, 2025 @10:47AM (#45916285)
This sure does seem to happen a lot
You could also just run the node.js process via a `systemd` service and sandbox it that way using hardening directives.
Re:Ask HN: Desktop Agents for Linux on Tuesday October 14, 2025 @10:07AM (#45580200)
I've used LMStudio with no issues with an MCP server I've written
Plaid is used by a lot of the major Canadian banks.
Re:Apple announces the ultra-slim iPhone Air on Tuesday September 09, 2025 @02:15PM (#45186083)
Apple already released a folding phone, the iPhone 6 Plus!
Re:WiFi signals can measure heart rate–no wearables needed on Thursday September 04, 2025 @04:47PM (#45132029)
Close enough
Re:WiFi signals can measure heart rate–no wearables needed on Thursday September 04, 2025 @01:03PM (#45129470)
Apparently wifi can also see through walls:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37469920 (from the same org)

Re:Hardening Systemd Services on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @11:54AM (#44953015)
Sorry that this blog post fell short... I never expected anyone would post it here anyways. I will keep this feedback in mind going forward. I tend to blog for myself.

Edit: also, unsure why the OP used a `us.` subdomain instead of `blog.` where my blog is actually hosted. I am surprised `us.` even works.

Re:Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI on Thursday August 14, 2025 @06:07PM (#44906258)
I ran into the same looping issue with that model.
Re:Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI on Thursday August 14, 2025 @01:34PM (#44903270)
This was linked at the end of Google's announcement: https://docs.unsloth.ai/basics/gemma-3-how-to-run-and-fine-t...

Not sure how much data is needed to realistically fine-tune something like this and get useful output.

Re:More honey bees dying, even as antibiotic use halves on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @05:02PM (#44728231)
I still get a large amount of bugs on the front of my car, makes me wish I had applied PPF.

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