quietfox
Re:What I learned from six months of being stupid on purpose
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @03:10PM (#50185993)
> I feel that tutorials and informative reading are always good starting points for getting down the basics of a skill.
And for seeing what’s possible with a skill. But this can be very overwhelming as well. When you watch the masters doing what looks really easy and after that start with your first steps - and fail - it’s way more discouraging than starting without having seen this and being proud of small achievements.
Re:REA Reverse – Engineer Anything
on Saturday October 10, 2026 @04:07AM (#50030777)
It is a lot of gatekeeping involved for sure. As a lifelong musician, who probably spent a few thousand hours to learn piano, guitar, drums and music production, I was shocked when people could produce reasonable sounding music with a mouse click and a budget of cents instead of endless dedication and a lot of money. I felt totally devalued and stripped of my „street cred“ to stay with your terms.
Re:Why Isn't the Industry Freaking Out About DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
on Friday October 09, 2026 @09:01AM (#50019871)
What’s your dev environment with flash v4.1? Do you call the API directly or via Openrouter or something else?
Re:Dots: Always-on agents
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:40AM (#49906992)
What’s the „euro idea“ of work life balance?
Re:German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon sy...
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:05AM (#49723008)
Having completed our company’s ISO 27001 recertification process recently, this one really hits home with me.
Re:Show HN: I made a flight simulator, except you're just a passenger
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @02:55AM (#49722953)
That’s a nice idea. Taking off from Frankfurt am Main felt like that ultra long runway in Fast & Furious 6 though.
Re:LinkedIn CringeBot 3000
on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @06:11AM (#49270072)
Just like LinkedIn, this is not working as intended, so it’s spot on. (… getting the Oops-error).
Re:Over 181,000 AI meeting recordings left wide open in note taking app
on Monday August 10, 2026 @04:54PM (#49249580)
Funny enough, there is a news story in which the same CEO that didn't care about the breach for 6 months told USA Today 'that European tech needs to be “bold but secure” to win the enterprise AI race'.
Re:Over 181,000 AI meeting recordings left wide open in note taking app
on Monday August 10, 2026 @01:56PM (#49247279)
I wonder how the HN algo chose this one link to Bobs blogpost to be the one to hit the front page. This story was committed three more times by three different users, 6 days ago (16 points), 4 days ago (11 points) and another one 4 days ago, again with 16 points.
Re:Show HN: What should the GUI for AI agents look like?
on Friday July 31, 2026 @03:08AM (#49119953)
A quick FYI: at marbles.com/learn, starting from „Turn Messy Notes into Today’s Task List“ the demo videos don’t work for me. I tried Safari and Chrome.
Re:'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyri...
on Thursday July 30, 2026 @09:42AM (#49109895)
This is going to get some interesting responses by people commenting immediately after only reading the first paragraph.
Re:GigaToken: ~1000x faster Language model tokenization
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @06:10PM (#49014147)
‘I run an AI platform’
I have so many genuine questions I don’t even know where to start.
Re:Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Poli...
on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @05:29AM (#48989990)
TIL about imginn.com
Thanks, that’s really helpful!
Re:Building Food Metadata with LLM Juries
on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @04:22AM (#48903702)
I am taking from their hero image that something like a gluten allergy would have to be verified by the merchant, but I’m just guessing that’s true.
Feeding failure cases into an AI-led prompt tuning agent to solve them seems prone to a lot of problems though.
Re:QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
on Saturday July 11, 2026 @02:33AM (#48869366)
Glad I’m not the only one. I’ve been tinkering with sensors, robotics, sdr and similar stuff for 20 years now, but this conversation was way over my head.
Re:
on Friday July 10, 2026 @02:41PM (#48863607)
As a first reaction, I loved the idea, since I have had a handful of bands in my life and really loved how you revived (or aimed to revive) the old days with modern tools. I really liked the web design and nostalgia of the old photos combined with the possibilities of new technology.
Then I hit play.
AI sucked the soul out of your music. I am happy for you if you liked the results. But for me, each of the comparisons proved me right to loathe AI music.
Re:Home made GPU escalated quickly [video]
on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @05:30AM (#48829694)
The determination to pull through a project of this scale is mind blowing and the joy is contagious.
Re:US allows Anthropic to release Mythos to 'trusted partners'
on Saturday June 27, 2026 @01:40AM (#48695494)
Comparing AI models with missiles is a far fetch as long as citizenship is the single qualifier used to decide who’s allowed to be a customer. This is not a security related policy, it’s about strategically controlled economic power.
Re:Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn
on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @01:38AM (#48566152)
I’ve always been wondering how they are actually planning this scenario. If they cut human labor on a massive scale due to AI, consumption is about to drop heavily. AI doesn’t pay healthcare insurance or taxes, it doesn’t buy groceries or cars or gas and it doesn’t rent apartments. How do people imagine to compensate that?
Re:I've built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you ...
on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @01:18PM (#48196247)
Oh this is that this was called. A long time ago, like in Googles earlier stages, I tried so hard to find this from my memory, but I failed and over the years forgot about it. Thanks for bringing it up again.
Re:Google De-Indexed My Bear Blog and I Don't Know Why
on Friday December 12, 2025 @03:40AM (#46242117)
I'll be honest, I read "Google de-indexed my Bear Blog" and was looking forward to discovering an interesting blog about bears.
Re:The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora
on Thursday December 11, 2025 @10:05AM (#46232277)
That's interesting. I think besides the hard facts (like numnber of possible tokens before throtteling happens) the perceived quality differs from use case to use case. In that sense, ChatGPT is my daily driver, in terms of helping with coding problems or debugging Claude feels far superior to me. And when it comes to ideation and creativity (product idea validation, etc.) Gemini surpasses both of the other in my opinion.
Re:Roc Camera
on Friday October 24, 2025 @03:13AM (#45691781)
I really need to get back to that mindset. I keep catching myself unconsciously checking my hobbies and abilities for marketability. I've been playing guitar for almost three decades, one of them spent in a touring metal band. When I started, I used to enjoy making music so much that I played and composed so often an album would just come together naturally. And then another one and another one, I just couldn't stop.
These days, I no longer sit down to play just for myself and the moment — instead, I catch myself thinking, “Can I sell sample packs from this? Record a course? Should I code a VST plugin for it and sell that?” And after weeks of moments like this, all I have are three random riffs and frustration.
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
on Thursday September 18, 2025 @08:10AM (#45288636)
I'm a Discord user myself, in private as well in job context. But we all have been here long enough to know that the only reliable constant is change.
Re:Show HN: The text disappears when you screenshot it
on Thursday September 18, 2025 @03:17AM (#45286554)
"The text disappears..."
And my eyesight with it
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
on Thursday September 18, 2025 @03:16AM (#45286540)
Let's revisit this assessment in a few years.
Re:DOOMscrolling: The Game
on Thursday September 11, 2025 @07:52AM (#45210485)
Wow, that was stressful, good job!
Re:Make any site multiplayer in a few lines. Serverless WebRTC matchma...
on Friday August 29, 2025 @04:39AM (#45061669)
It worked for me in Safari for a while, but then the entire browser stopped working.
Re:Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of ...
on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @03:21AM (#44959508)
It seems to try to check if you are using the Burp Suite on their web application.
Re:Show HN: I made an online financial modeling platform for stocks
on Friday May 03, 2024 @03:21PM (#40251280)
Congratulations on launching your first product. Which stock markets does it cover? I wasn't able to look up BMW or adidas for example.