> It is so embarrassing that LOC is being used as a metric for engineering output.
In one of my previous org, LOC added in the previous year was a metric used to find out a good engineer v/s a PIP (bad) engineer. Also, LOC removed was treated as a negative metric for the same. I hope they've changed this methodology for LLM code-spitting era...
For an open-source alternative, consider checking out - Lulu [0]. It's not as feature rich nor has impressive UI like the former but gets the main work done.
Sand companies more like sandworms who are producing melange (Chips) and not hesitating to eat away its consumers (Users) on the way... (# Dune vibes)
> I clicked on the two avatars but that didn't get me very far and the only thing left to click was "by alvin chang" but that was about as fruitful as I imagined it would be.
Thank god, I wasn’t the only one, just posted a similar comment here.
Regarding social media - it has created more gaps rather than making us more social. It's ultimate goal is to capture our attention for as long as possible rather than connecting us. And lately, with the celebrities populating it, it has become a showoff/bragging machine.
I don't have Apple TV but for videos on X, I download it temporarily to a intermediate server then stream using VLC [1] it's a hassle but I get great watching experience on all platforms. For now, you can stream this on VLC: https://bin.hrzn.pics/0AdLye8
Though I generally watch Everyday Astronaut's [2] coverage on YouTube.
[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vlc-media-player/id650377962
I'd greatly appreciate it if you can share the relevant link/repo for it?
If it were just individuals doing it, maybe it would've been somewhat digestible. But it's a pity that sometimes even trillion-dollar companies do it.
Pre-LLM days, the doers were atleast aware of their copy/clone/wrapper, but now it's happening unintentionally when LLMs give out modified versions of someone else's code without binding to its license, because AFAIK LLMs do not automatically add licensing details of libraries used inside their outputted code, or do they?
If there's anything that needs audio/video automation, I've always turned to FFmpeg, it's such a crucial and indispensible tool and so many online video tools use it and are generally a UI wrapper around this wonderful tool. TIL - there's FFmpeg.Wasm also [0].
In Jan 2024, I had used it to extract frames of 1993 anime movie in 15 minutes video segments, upscaled it using Real-ESRGAN-ncnn-vulkan [1] then recombining the output frames for final 4K upscaled anime [2]. FWIW, if I had built a UI on this workflow it could've become a tool similar to Topaz AI which is quite popular these days.
[0]: https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm
[1]: https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN-ncnn-vulkan
[2]: https://files.horizon.pics/3f6a47d0-429f-4024-a5e0-e85ceb0f6...
Thanks
> It looks like Gaussian blur. Probably "deconvolution" can fix it. Random link from Google: https://www.ianmorison.com/deconvolution-sharpening/
After a quick search, the Smart Sharpen I used along with setting the remove dropdown to Gaussian Blur, does indeed deconvolution sharpening.
Will try the same in Lightroom & CameraRAW which the author suggests may have better results. [1]
[1]: https://gregbenzphotography.com/photography-tips/what-is-dec...
In 2025, what is the best approach to unblur a QR code? And, how others would approach it — any new tools or AI workflows specifically good at structured unblurring like below?I encountered a video with a QR code blurred out with the caption “blurred to prevent intruders” [1]. Since I had watched a Veritasium's video [2] I had some idea about its working. So with an ethical hacker spirit, I...
Agreed, I wish we lived in world where PWAs had atleast an equal share compared to mobile apps. Apps winning, mostly have been a suicide for privacy.
Coincidentally, there's another HN story with even more relevance to our discussion. [1]
Imagine an e-commerce site that lets you review your order history and product pages offline (even if a bit outdated). That kind of experience feels genuinely useful—much more so than the "you're offline, here’s a cute dog (I love the pictures though)" fallback most sites provide.
Over the weekend, I experimented with service workers for the first time (assisted by Vibe coding). My initial impression was honestly a bit magical—“this website works offline, unlike most mobile apps these days that are just WebView-wrapped SPAs and crash offline.” [1]
That said, debugging was rough. Vibe coding output had subtle issues I found hard to untangle as a newcomer, cache saved v/s cache matching was being done incorrectly in the code, which LLM wasn't able to point out (cors/non-cors requests had issue).And Chrome’s DevTools made debugging manageable, but Firefox’s service worker support felt clunky in comparison (personal take).
Curious if others feel the same—are PWAs underused because of DX hurdles, lack of awareness, or just industry momentum around SPAs?
Suggestion: You can possibly try if you can use OpenHaystack [1] to send some "unknown tracker found nearby" alert to any nearby iPhone even if the receiver device doesn't have your app installed or use the FindMy network to send arbitrary data for your app's communication. [2]
Though my highlight (which I could completely comprehend) is "Section 14.b & 14.c - Getting the data..." All it took was 400K files (~275 photos/day after 4 years). We have so much of raw power of processing, storage & network still the most-used (probably) media-sync apps crashed or faced slow sync, AirDrop fails & lack of 'Select-All' UI feature. Crazy times we live/will live in... :)
> fullstack dev versus youtube - DEC 31 2024
(circa 2019) Why has India banned e-cigarettes? https://www.thehindu.com/news/why-has-india-banned-e-cigaret...
Worth sharing and the reasons are justified atleast for me...
If you're looking such option for Android, you can check out Mull [1] which is available on F-Droid [2] as well and use it along with uBlock Origin.
https://twitter.com/shrutisonal26/status/1544540603932758016
Edit: Apart from the tweets, the actual article is behind a paywall.
Though I do not know how the initial allotment of karma/points could be distributed for the pioneers and for the new growing community, maybe allot 'n' points for new user after a year...
https://mobile.twitter.com/btaylor/status/154552608708969676...
> "The Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery."
[0]:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_resources_of_India#L...
[1]:https://www.volkswagenag.com/en/news/stories/2020/03/lithium...
[2]:https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/eternally-five-years...
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From school itself, I was actively involved in software development, with my first public application being released in 2012. In 2016, during two months internship, I developed a web app to create geofences over Google maps and send alerts when breached. After college as a CS graduate, I started as an intern in 2017 and eventually progressed upwards to SDE1 and then SDE2 by 2018. Over time within different projects, I have worked with AWS S3, SQS, DDB, Firehose, ElasticSearch, StepFunctions, Lambdas, API Gateway, CloudFront, and Route53, EC2, ECS, and frameworks like – AngularJS, ReactJS, FabricJS, SpringMVC. Over the past two years, I have tried to involve myself in every engineering aspect that a programmer might not usually find himself in. I got into hardware by dissembling and repairing my old 2014 college laptop, installing Hackintosh understanding Apple kexts, learned about networking, Linux iptables and created wireguard exit rPi node for accessing Indian sites from the US, built Kali Nethunter for Nexus 5, repaired PCB for household washing machine, did freelancing for family-network clients, installing GrapheneOS on my Pixel and have been trying out different ideas myself that might turn into a startup.
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A great take, in one line... ;)
Haha... I think it depends on the current situation of the human is in... Sometimes human just wants to have a meaningful conversation, sometimes just reacting aptly to prevent social awkwardness or being tagged rude...