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An unknown number of them were also allegedly burned for heat as they were mistaken for wood logs during early excavations
Re:Wine Ported to OpenBSD on Monday October 19, 2026 @11:43AM (#50153808)
I would hope that lazy polarization found some resistance on this particular forum
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) on Monday August 10, 2026 @01:09AM (#49239419)
Very cool! I was just today thinking I should have an AI help me design a new piece of furniture I've been thinking about, and send it off to a CNC shop.

The MCP server seems to have a bug. The tool list flashes for a second in Claude Desktop, but then immediately states "This connector has no tools available." and the error "Couldn’t reload tools from the server." when I try to refresh it.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) on Monday August 10, 2026 @12:59AM (#49239357)
In the last few months I have been building an AI assistant that is quite possibly saving my life.

It's an iOS app that uses LLMs to estimate and track nutrients and calories in all the food I eat. It is plugged in to Apple Health so it sees all my activity, sleep, body metrics, etc. I have set some general health goals in the app and it uses this to rate (poor, neutral, good) and advise me on the food I log. A calendar view shows how each day has gone in a traffic light coloring system. I can also log contextual notes to help it make sense of my day, and it has a memory system so each session has continuity.

The assistant can save extracted or inferred nutritional data in a library, like when I give it photos of nutritional labels for foods I eat frequently or I log the same thing repeatedly, for easy reuse later. Also useful for home made meals and recipes.

I've connected it to my workout tracker app Hevy so it can keep tabs on my exercise and also adjust my programs based on me chatting with it in the app about how a workout went. This is really useful for swapping out exercises I struggle with, for example, or to keep a well-balanced program over time.

Recently I added an Apple Watch companion app with a watch face complication so I can keep an easy eye on things like up-to-date calorie deficit.

All built in Swift with Opus on the $20 plan. I realize I can probably use existing AI nutrition tracking apps, and probably also connect Claude to Apple Health, but the joy of building and getting this to be completely tailored to me has been so fun and extremely useful. I've shared it with a few friends, but since I am paying for all the API tokens currently I have not yet tried to get more users onboarded.

Re:I Made Tinnitus My Friend (Then It Disappeared) on Sunday August 09, 2026 @08:19PM (#49237731)
Wow, I’ve had it for 15 years and until now I’ve never thought it may be connected to also being «treated» for glue ear as a kid. Do you have more info on this and how you came to that conclusion?
So it was you! /s
Re:AI is making me dumb on Thursday May 14, 2026 @04:27PM (#48140787)
A particularly pronounced version of this can often be seen by letting 2 agents review and code in a loop. One agent will find some problems with the code, the other agent will address the review by adding more code.

A good human developer might see that the better way to address the review is to backtrack and pick a different approach. The ai agents seem more prone to getting stuck down bad branches of the decision tree.

Re:I'm going back to writing code by hand on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @02:12AM (#48104807)
Code reviews should be done by someone other than the author though, so the only thing that changes with ai generated code in that respect is the amount of it
They specifically mention "H.264, H.265, and av1 codecs, along with many others" here https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/
Re:Cloudflare is down on Friday December 05, 2025 @01:06PM (#46164926)
Thanks, I did not know this. My Tailscale was unaffected by the outage.
Re:Cloudflare is down on Friday December 05, 2025 @01:04PM (#46164899)
Tailscale Funnel, but might need a paid account
Re:Cloudflare is down on Friday December 05, 2025 @04:09AM (#46158579)
Checkout tailscale
Re:Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure on Friday June 13, 2025 @01:42PM (#44270534)
I read their point as why have passwords at all when the security is you having access to your email account.
> The backup roll thrusters in use are now at risk due to residue buildup in their fuel lines

Such a human experience this probe is having

Re:Damn Vulnerable MCP Server on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @07:52PM (#43711609)
In relation to the client (AI Agent), the MCP server is serving resources like tools, but in relation to your platform that hosts the API those tools call, it is a client.
Re:OpenAI Audio Models on Thursday March 20, 2025 @04:10PM (#43428309)
I had good results with pyannote and the following model for that use case in the past https://huggingface.co/pyannote/speaker-diarization-3.1
Re:Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back on Sunday November 03, 2024 @02:57PM (#42035672)
I believe their comment was about safety, not usability
Re:CrowdStrike attempts takedown of parody site on Thursday August 01, 2024 @09:28PM (#41135341)
Curiously, Scipio is also arguably one of the most famous family names from Roman Antiquity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scipio_Africanus

Re:Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac on Monday June 10, 2024 @06:51PM (#40640191)
I share your frustration on services that won’t let you automate them, but to me that’s precisely what generative AI will let you do. You don’t need an API at the family doctors to have AI automate it for you. It just rings them up and sorts it out at your command. AI is like obtaining an API to anything
Re:Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac on Monday June 10, 2024 @03:26PM (#40637593)
Walking, cycling, running, driving, relaxing on the couch
Re:Kino: Pro Video Camera on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @04:39PM (#40516762)
iOS and macOS ships with Pomodoro. Open Shortcuts and you should see it.
John Landis film The Blues Brothers crashed a reported 104 cars
Re:Bollards: Why and What on Sunday May 05, 2024 @05:00PM (#40268326)
Lowering the speed limit where there are sidewalks next to cars driving seems to work well in Europe. But that also requires policing of those speed limits so they are not considered mere suggestions by drivers.
Re:The Curse of Monkey Island on Friday April 19, 2024 @03:53PM (#40091281)
An excellent write up on this great game! One particularly striking element of Curse to me is the soundtrack. Michael Lands compositions for the series is absolutely perfect in this high fidelity form. The familiar themes from the earlier games take on a whole new dimension and the music has its own narrative which perfectly complements the visuals and gameplay. A masterpiece in its own right. I still find myself loading it up on YouTube and playing it in the background while working or doing house chores.
Re:Meta Llama 3 on Thursday April 18, 2024 @03:48PM (#40080006)
If you’re measured on number of users, why would you remove lots of them?
Re:Discovering My Roommate's Death on Facebook on Sunday April 14, 2024 @04:56PM (#40034407)
While you’re correct that you would see the same graphs if drivers had become exemplary, observing traffic in SF anecdotally point towards the opposite. It’s frankly shocking.
Re:German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice on Thursday April 04, 2024 @08:03PM (#39937309)
Some institutions have requirements that files don't leave your computer or network
Re:Pitcairn Island Immigration on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @06:27PM (#39924081)
> applications must also attach a police certificate or letter from every jurisdiction in which they have resided in, disclosing whether they have any convictions and the nature of those convictions.

Presumably to prove that you have a criminal record before approval? /s

edit: this was a joke about their mutiny, was unaware of the criminal issues brought up in another comment

> however with software nobody dies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25

Re:How to Start Google on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @07:40PM (#39761476)
From the perspective of society, this is how to start Google

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