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Well. I have a camera. Their solution requires me to buy glasses. As a person wearing corrective glasses. The inconvenience of turning on a camera vs putting on (however cool-looking) glasses over my glasses, is an easy choice.

How does it compare to

- https://github.com/amywork777/lipflow

- https://github.com/amirrsyed/hushkey

- https://github.com/amanvirparhar/chaplin

- https://lipnet.ai

First, love it. Second, aren't you worried that video to text (AI lip reading) will be good enough so it can be a software only solution with any webcam? (e.g. https://lipnet.ai)

Pfft you still do that? I have it write individual bits to memory on my web server.

They are busy merging 30,000 PRs a day, who has time for UX?

One of my favorite tv shows of all time.

I think the main issue is that you don't expect a service to send anything related to your data without letting you know. Even if it's a ping "alive" sent to a server they own.

Imagine if your smart toilet would just send a small anonymized message to a urine sampling analysis service so it can let you you know your cholesterol levels are a bit high, totally anonymous, totally for your benefit. Maybe it's a great feature, but would anyone expect this to happen without consent / opt in?

- Should a password manager warn me about reused passwords without sending things out without opt in? yes

- Should a password manager send even one byte of my data to any service, regardless of whether it is for a good intention and mathematically proven to be "safe" without opt in? I'd say no.

- So would any other product out there, be it a smart home manager or a toaster, send any of of my data, hashed or not to any 3rd party without opt in? even if it's just the byte "1" to a page called "donothing.com"? I say hell no.

- Should open source developers who are not Linus Torvalds be a bit nicer on a public issue?

- And should open source users should be less heated because "let us know if you plan to fix this or we will uninstall and fork it" deserves the "go ahead, this is open source, threats don't really help here"

We all can sometimes write a reply at the heat of the moment that we later regret. Frenk definitely realized it after the fact and I respect him owning it, apologizing, and keeping the old messages. He is right it's open source, and he doesn't owe anyone anything, but still, I believe a phoning home of any kind is violating The Principle of Least Astonishment.

From the post:

> Our design team will make that less AI and more humane in the coming days.

Wait, is this new? I feel like we all have been doing this with widgets / artifacts for a long time now, am I missing something? Just easier to use / done without asking?

This should be illegal.

Wait, isn't it already illegal to forge someone's signature?

Is it just me or the launch video sample (aside from needing an epileptic warning), is just not very good.

What about gVisor and/or container-sandbox + Kata + cloud-hypervisor

What about gVisor and/or container-sandbox + Kata + cloud-hypervisor?

Daily reminder that containers are not considered a safe security boundary, and never were. If you really need to run untrusted code, use a MicroVM.

I think every single one of us who use more than one agent locally has built something like this. There is definitely a need, and appreciate it being 100% free, but eventually, something needs to be so good and with so much community best practices in it, that it will beat a DIY one. E.g. I usually use Claude Opus 5.5 as the "driver" and let it spin cursor, codex, other claude subagents at will for different tasks (this way it always know what is running where). Simply asking it to break down the backlog into a DAG, show which one needs my input, which one is blocked, publish an HTML page and keep it up to date (and sinked with the built in TODO list) is usually all it takes.

I would go as far as making this a skill perhaps, so I can get the same results on other projects... but not sure what is the benefit of making it a Mac only binary, it can be a simple HTML / jsx, with maybe hooks or a /loop to keep it up to date.

A solution needs to be really better than what I can ask Claude to build in 20 minutes. It's not the "someone else spent time and thought and tokens so you don't have to" which does have some value, it's knowing that whatever I try, it will be a little different from what I want, and the energy to fork it, tweak it, is too high vs just asking Claude to build it for me on the spot...

tl;dr Definitely cool, definitely needed, but the bar for everything (including free and open source) has gone extremely high. Things that would become beloved de-facto "industry standard" tools a la "oh are you still using X everyone is using Y" just a few years ago, are now shrugged as a vibe coded lunchtime project (the new weekend project)

It's impossible to impress anyone anymore. I feel dead inside. We all got accepted to hogwarts and we became desensitized to having magic powers.

That was my first thought. I think adoption will increase if projects will have a clear FAQ about prior / related work, and not leave this to the reader (human or AI) to figure out.

I’m raising my eyebrows…

People or AI...

I wrote about it 13 years ago, some of it still stands true. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5857495

This is include ads that impersonate google services, e.g. "your google translate has expired, upgrade to a new version". Reporting it to google is like yelling at a wall. Or worse, yelling at a wall after a few million years will slowly erode it due to the air friction.

When a benchmark becomes a target, it's no longer a good benchmark...

While this may be a funny take, the real one I tend to see happening in the real world sometimes (and is mentioned by contrast in the post) is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle

Obligatory https://xkcd.com/1053/

It was a pet project of mine back in 2013 [0]... revived it (with a bit of help from Claude) and made it updated to Scala 3. Feedback welcome!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7614130

Aperture Science

We do what we must because we can For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead

Nicely done. A shuffle letters button would be nice.