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Posted by
hallak on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @02:54PM
from the medium.com dept.
Oh! I hadn't seen this. I was more inspired by the St Louis aquarium (where you color a fish and it swims) and Google's Quickdraw (a memory from like 2016)
That's actually intentional desgin - I think you can like a fish a little or like a fish a lot, and therefore should be able to upvote/downvote to your hearts content :)
Posted by
hallak on Monday August 04, 2025 @08:10AM
from the aldenhallak.com dept.
Unfortunately got posted to some heinous websites... and I made the mistake of using a very simple username and password that's been leaked 100 times for my admin account. I was going to "change it later"...
Anyway, working on the rollback now. A nice guy from here reached out and reported some small vulns I involuntarily committed.
This is an issue that many are seeing, it has to do with how the model is loaded / how the submission logic works without it. I think I know the fix, but am currently getting slammed at my big boy job and so I can't fix it until I'm free in the evening ...
There is mobile support... but it currently loads a 40mb model which doesn't work so great in a lot of places where you will use a phone. I meant to allow you to submit anyway, but I didn't test enough. Sorry...
Absolutely! I've removed all references of HTML and JS using string interpolation.
(jk)
This is definitely a drawback with with vibe-coding. I never really write like HTML5 style code - at work I always use typescript with heavy ESLint, so never have to worry about this.
I figured the string sanitization in the backend would take care of any XSS vulns, which was my main concern. But I will have to read into the dangers of string interpolation which I admit I do not remember too much about (outside of the XSS stuff I tried to mitigate).
Thanks for giving the opportunity to learn... :)
Actually most people aren't trying to submit bad fish! I was surprised to, it's really like 95/5 good to bad submissions. People seem to follow the rules on average :)
I don't let the client decide whether the submission needs moderation :)
There's a very slightly different model in the backend that sends things to the mod queue. Strings are also sanitized there. But copilot really wanted to add all that logic to the frontend too and I thought it was funny
This is only possible due to the surfeit of ballsacks in the training data from users like you :)
he is an inspiration 100%!!!
Yeah, the mods reposted it because I am a lurker not a poster and have all the deficiencies that exist therein...
I love when there are traffic spikes and I get to discover which corners of the internet have artistic talent or lack thereof :)
I have 100 of these in the training data under not_fish....
Posted by
hallak on Tuesday July 29, 2025 @12:57AM
from the show-hn dept.
Yeah! Lots of mandates from work about using AI tooling, so I gave it a shot on a personal project. My conclusion is that while CoPilot was very impressive at times, its greatest strength was helping me overcome the blank page jitters.
It should be there... unless of course... you drew a penis...
Posted by
hallak on Thursday July 24, 2025 @09:34AM
from the show-hn dept.
I am a couchers host in NYC and don't actually get too many requests! I host someone about once or twice a month.