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Re:OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Of...
on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @10:45AM (#48818593)
Nice!
i'm making the same - interesting that so many ideas converge. Hopefully we can soon point an GPT6 at all of them and have a super tool. Or else GPT6 can do it without all our helpers...
https://github.com/odcpw/ooxml-cli
Glad to get feedback on what doesn't work or is missing.
I'm also making one for PowerBI - it's in testing. Drop me a line if you're interested.
Re:OfficeCLI: Office suite for AI agents to read and edit Microsoft Of...
on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @10:43AM (#48818566)
I'm making a similar tool that tries to do macros as well
Re:Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
on Friday June 12, 2026 @04:35AM (#48501479)
I just say "if you need something specific or have any questions, stop and ask me for it".
Re:Building from Zero After Addiction, Prison, and a Felony
on Monday June 08, 2026 @01:07PM (#48448013)
How nice is that!
Re:Silurus/ooxml: Pixel-faithful Office documents, rendered in the bro...
on Sunday June 07, 2026 @03:06PM (#48437652)
Interesting because I'm building ooxml-cli right now, for editing pptx, docx, xlsx.
At work I had to adapt a pptx to a corporate template and tried via agent. It kept failing so I started building and then it was able to relatively quick and accurate do what I needed.
Then I needed it to make tables, add pictures. Recently wanted to get data from an xslx and replace text in a presentation etc.
So the tool is growing and maybe this would be interesting to have as the non LibreOffice dependent viewer...
Re:Map of Metal
on Thursday May 21, 2026 @01:35PM (#48226345)
Progressive sludge I think
Re:Map of Metal
on Thursday May 21, 2026 @01:34PM (#48226339)
In case you haven't seen it, Metal Evolution is a great documentary by a sociologist tracing the different ages of Metal.
Some have mentioned Sabbath, mc5, Stooges etc as origins.
Sam Dunn (documentary producer) says Paganini has a big influence in the guitar solo, demonstrations of virtuosity by the players etc. interviews this crazy swedish guy can't remember his name.
Re:A Brief History of Fish Sauce
on Monday April 20, 2026 @06:34AM (#47832420)
I had a nice Thai Omelet once in a restaurant and then looked up the recipe. Now I always add a bit of fiah sauce into my eggs, with chopped garlic and some soy sauce and a bit of water so it gets fluffy in the hot oil. Never thought fish in omelet would work but it's quite tasty!
Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet?
on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @07:07AM (#47673357)
A series that hits even closer is BrainDead, about an alien that gets into politicians' heads and polarizes them completely. It's very fun, and each episode recap at the beginning is done via lyrics of a folky song.
Worth a watch and laugh. And cry.
Re:How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents
on Sunday March 08, 2026 @03:52PM (#47300664)
No, you just don't have to be black or white about it.
At daycare they don't do it, that's ok. Do it at home. It's not a PROJECT, it's an orientation.
Take it easy.
Re:How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents
on Sunday March 08, 2026 @03:51PM (#47300641)
It works well!
And it's not huge effort either.
Don't overpressure your self or your kid but go ahead and follow the method it's fine.
You'll be fine.
Re:Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persist...
on Sunday February 08, 2026 @06:22AM (#46933332)
https://github.com/z80dev/lemon
Sounds like exactly this, hot off the presses...
Re:
on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @01:03AM (#46612856)
Slice THEIR hands. They might say yours are rigged.
I'm a non dev and the things I'm building blow me away. I think many of these people criticizing are perhaps more on the execution side and have a legitimate craft they are protecting.
If you're more on the managerial side, and I'd say a trusting manager not a show me your work kind, then you're more likely to be open and results oriented.
Re:Welcome to Gas Town
on Monday January 05, 2026 @10:04PM (#46508273)
Look at cc-mirror, and use the mclaude there.
It unlocks a (still) hidden multiagent orchestration function in Claude code. The person making it unminified the code and figured out how to unlock it.
I find it quite well done - I started a orchestrator project a few days ago and scrapped it because it'll be fully integrated soon it seems.
Re:OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Co...
on Saturday December 13, 2025 @03:39AM (#46253102)
Oh wow conreasoning through an IRC like chat. That's a great idea.
Would be cool (sci fi) for LLMs of different users to chat and discuss approaches to what the humans are talking about etc.
Re:New benchmark shows top LLMs struggle in real mental health care
on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @10:50AM (#46219136)
Have you seen the feeling great app? It's not an official therapy app but it's based in TEAM CBT, made by David Burns and team.
Burns is really into data gathering and his app is LLM based on the rails of the TEAM process and it seems to be very well received.
I found it simple and very well done - and quite effective.
A top level comment says that therapists aren't good either - Burns would argue that mainly no one tests before and after and so no measuring effect is done.
And of people I know who see a therapist, practically none can tell me what exactly they are doing or what methods they are doing or how anything is structured.
Re:My mum was a 17-year-old free spirit so she was locked up and put i...
on Monday November 17, 2025 @04:27AM (#45952091)
Amazing read! Thanks for this
Re:Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models
on Monday November 17, 2025 @04:21AM (#45952068)
And I ask how to make mescaline (which is legal in some jurisdictions because cactus, traditional medicinals etc). Then I can also try arguing saying I'm a shaman from an indigenous tribe etc to see how it reacts.
Re:Show HN: Sosumi.ai – Convert Apple Developer docs to AI-readable Ma...
on Friday August 29, 2025 @05:48PM (#45069804)
When I was a kid I used Sosumi as my chime on the apple IIGS!
Re:Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied b...
on Thursday August 28, 2025 @01:23AM (#45048694)
Sorry, I can't tell if you're serious?
Can you confirm?
Re:Show HN: Doxx – Terminal .docx viewer inspired by Glow
on Monday August 18, 2025 @04:59AM (#44938652)
LibreOffice is a food alternative if you just want simple Word management.
Of course it's a big install on the other hand.
Re:Scam Inc: Online scams may be as big a scourge as illegal drugs
on Sunday February 09, 2025 @04:33AM (#42989561)
Re:Starship Flight 7
on Friday January 17, 2025 @07:53AM (#42737012)
Landing boosters, reducing costs etc etc
Re:The Peter Principle explains why your boss is incompetent
on Thursday January 02, 2025 @03:26PM (#42578455)
Please spend another 30s. It can an interesting bit of philosophy about competence and ambition - and humility.
Re:Porsche's Idea for a Six-Stroke Internal Combustion Engine Looks Br...
on Saturday September 21, 2024 @06:07AM (#41608895)
If I may disagree: I live in a flat with a fully electric vehicle. It's just a matter of planning around charging a bit. Once you think ahead (and it's not dramatic), you don't notice anymore.
I find plug in hybrids make no sense: electrification is the future.
Re:Human history in the long run: It was mostly pretty bad
on Monday July 15, 2024 @12:57AM (#40965380)
I recently discovered a blog by a historian that tries to describe life as it was.
Here's the post about what's needed to feed society with bread (there are many others) https://acoup.blog/2020/07/24/collections-bread-how-did-they...
To my understanding, much of the work was backbreaking, disease was a big problem, starvation around the corner every year. And governance and freedoms were mostly reduced to service to a local strongman.
And this is before the industrial revolution, working in insalubrious factories, belching smoke steam engines etc.
Nowadays I think things are significantly better for the majority of people.
Re:HIV breakthrough: Trial shows drug provides 100% protection
on Sunday July 14, 2024 @03:58PM (#40962841)
Well I hope this isn't a weird comment: thanks for expressing your views so clearly and positively. It opened my eyes to an aspect of genuine and human exploration of newfound freedom and caring.
Re:The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
on Monday February 19, 2024 @06:46AM (#39428759)
Weren't we all complaining 20 y ago that music labels were giving bands pennies on the dollar and the only way they could actually live off of the music was by touring and selling merch?
I think Radiohead then did the groundbreaking selling of mp3s for a pay what you want fee.
Now the baddie is Spotify.
Re:Long Island Midwife Gave Pellets Instead of Vaccines to 1,500 Children
on Thursday January 18, 2024 @01:33AM (#39038662)
In my country, midwives don't do vaccines - doctors only I think (maybe for like the yearly flu vaccine pharmacists).
For babies it would be the pediatrician.