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Re:TeXPen on Saturday December 13, 2025 @07:34PM (#46259697)
Here's some more details on the project. Maybe I should've linked to this instead: https://x.com/i/status/1999703580958208467
Re:Show HN: Find Hidden Gems on HN on Friday August 29, 2025 @06:11PM (#45070000)
LLMs are also notoriously verbose. Don't know if that's the case here, but not sure how "Passion" protects against that
Re:The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @03:26PM (#44965402)
While I do agree the iPhone was the major cause, I think this was an intentional move by Apple. During the early years, iTunes let you make your own ringtones for free using songs in your library. GEICO even had a novelty ringtone online you could download to your iPhone for free. Eventually, Apple started selling premade ringtones (for the same price as the full song!), after which the built-in iTunes functionality was removed.
I didn't know this, thank you for the anecdata! Do you think it'd be more reasonable to generalize my suggestion to "This CLI should be included as part of ChatGPT's pricing"?
There's a lot of tools now with a similar feature set. IMO, the main value prop an official OpenAI client could provide would be to share ChatGPT's free tier vs. requiring an API key. They probably couldn't open-source it then, but it'd still be more valuable to me than the alternatives.
One major disadvantage is that this one doesn't seem to have an OSS license :(
Congrats on shipping! Should this be a Show HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Re:Solitaire on Thursday February 27, 2025 @05:41PM (#43199361)
I heard from an obscure source (a former Zachtronics intern in a stream chat) that they're currently building a new game
Re:Apple Launches Apple Invites on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:59PM (#42940385)
I'll blame Apple for dragging their feet on RCS as long as they possibly could
Any reason the repo license is MIT but the crate is CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0? The latter is ironic, given this project's scope :)
Re:I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS–and You Should Too on Thursday January 16, 2025 @03:01PM (#42730146)
I've been trying to get back into RSS recently. The problem I keep having is the dramatic weight difference between a news site and a personal blog; I'm occasionally interested in what the news site posts, but its volume is so overbearing that it's all I see in my feed. I just walk away with FOMO every time.

I'm currently thinking about trying Feedly AI as an algorithm that could surface good content for me.

Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blog in 2024? on Sunday January 05, 2025 @06:49PM (#42606094)
I've started relying on Michael Tsai's blog for Apple-centric news and insights: https://mjtsai.com/blog/
Re:I'm trying to use Bluesky without getting burned again on Monday December 30, 2024 @03:56AM (#42547688)
I keep seeing people say BlueSky should be a paid service, but X gets mocked ruthlessly for this.

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