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Re:Websites Should Be Printable on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:17AM (#50259775)
no
Re:Where every major LLM stands politically on Thursday June 25, 2026 @04:36PM (#48678874)
Like ChatGPT?
I built a similar system for an identity protection service that automated removing PII from directory websites like whitepages. Which was less ethical, stealth browser automation or monetized privacy invasion?
Re:Moving beyond fork() + exec() on Monday June 08, 2026 @11:41AM (#48446818)
other people in the thread say that posix_spawn is more or less implemented as a fork+exec wrapper though? it sounds like the idea is more like if there were a separate deferred_fork that made an intermediate "process factory" that let you set up a process without actually creating a new one until the exec. obviously the if() construct would have to be replaced with an in-process handle that mimics calls to the posix api.
We use claude -p and a max subscription for our devtools, this seems like a sufficient workaround to avoid usage based pricing. I had already tried letting max users sign into a web frontend with oauth, but that was obviously not an anthropic sanctioned use case.
Re:I design with Claude more than Figma now on Monday June 08, 2026 @10:55AM (#48446226)
"i design with claude" yes, they do
Re:I design with Claude more than Figma now on Monday June 08, 2026 @10:49AM (#48446160)
With a vibecoded multiplayer web IDE for our flutter app, I have two nontechnical team members prototype app features from a browser all day. The outcome is a git branch with functional dart code, and a strictly more powerful design prompt than figma make. Claude built its own claude -p harness that communicates with the browser via websocket flawlessly. To use our max subscription after [1] takes effect, we are considering adapting that setup to an approach like [2] instead.

[1] https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2054610152817619388

[2] https://lanes.sh/blog/claude-billing-split

Re:Mastering Dyalog APL on Monday May 25, 2026 @04:56PM (#48271581)
APL workspaces substantially predate Jupyter notebooks!
yep, it generates 700 tools on my mac. I consider discovery context a separate problem, there is no more reasonable way to ask an MCP to limit the number of tools it exposes IMO, than there is to ask a linux distribution to paginate /bin. for the context problem, you would want the harness to use vector search on the list of tools to find the ones relevant to the given prompt instead. not sure if any do this currently.

Show HN: MCP server that generates macOS tools via Open Scripting Architecture

https://github.com/MayCXC/osa-mcp

Cf. The Claude computer use beta. Their own docs state that MCP servers are preferable to computer use [1]:----Claude has several ways to interact with an app or service. Computer use is the broadest and slowest, so Claude tries the most precise tool first:- If you have an MCP server for the service, Claude uses that.- If the task is a shell command, Claude uses Bash.- If the task is browser...

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Re:How memory maps (mmap) deliver faster file access in Go on Thursday October 23, 2025 @07:39PM (#45688897)
wowie. mmap also dramatically improved perf for LLaMA: https://justine.lol/mmap/