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This is actually very cool!
Re:Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs on Tuesday May 06, 2025 @12:08PM (#43906729)
Question for the devs in here...something I've been thinking about a lot recently. So I see that OP linked out to a public github repo...but when downloading the actual bundle, what's a quick way for me to determine that what I'm installing on my mac is actually the same as what's in the public repo? It's always seemed like a loophole to me ready for (potential) exploitation.

>> Ship project. >> Link out Github repo on the static site somewhere >> Gain trust instantly as users presume the public repo is what's used behind the scenes

Disclaimer: I'm a web dev and don't know a single thing about native MacOS software

Re:4B If Statements on Thursday December 28, 2023 @01:21PM (#38796596)
I'm relatively new to the world of node. Is there anything objectively wrong or should I say nefarious with that this Jon person is doing? I guess, what's the issue here, from your perspective, if he's creating package (that albeit are simple) but some some amount of utility?

Ask HN: How does Google Widevine work under the hood?

In an attempt to watch a movie together with a friend over Zoom, I found that while screen sharing, HBO Max (via the browser) blacked out the entire screen in a preemptive effort to combat bad actors from exploiting copyrighted material.I did some digging and found the source of this technology: Google Widevine.I tried circumventing this restriction and visited HBO Max from Brave browser, but...

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Re:Show HN: Playing Telephone with GPT-4 and Dall-E-3 on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @11:42AM (#38710590)
I am VERY curious to see how this recursion plays out, but I'm seeing the below error.

RuntimeError: This app has encountered an error. The original error message is redacted to prevent data leaks. Full error details have been recorded in the logs (if you're on Streamlit Cloud, click on 'Manage app' in the lower right of your app).

Yesterday, I read an article by Oleksii Sidorov where he shared his experience on being incubated by YC – batch of W22. Here's the link to the original substack: https://acecreamu.substack.com/p/is-y-combinator-worth-the-m...

I work for a YC (S21) company, as an employee and not as a founder, so I immediately sent the article to one of the cofounders to gauge his thoughts on Oleksii's experience, purely out of my own curiosity.

Being the kind of mentor that he is, Colton sent me a highly detailed, point-by-point analysis on everything Oleksii touched on.

I loved it and told him that instead of having his perspective exist merely in our private discord DM, he should put it in a twitter thread and share it publicly, since a second perspective is always useful, thus this post.

Enjoy!

Re:Russian Court Sentences Griner to 9 Years on Thursday August 04, 2022 @07:44PM (#32349739)
Is it worth trading Victor Boot for her?
Hey Taylor, Colton, and Jason.

Congrats on the launch! Out of curiosity, what are the most popular wallets that your users are syncing with Hedgehog?