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Re:Patrick Stewart has died on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:17PM (#50295223)
O captain, my captain
Yes! I got annoyed that I had to manually close old finder/preview windows, so I OSSd an app that closes any stale window. There have been commercial apps in this space a decade, but none worked how I wanted (per window not per app, config each app separately). So I just made it with Claude using some spare tokens at the end of the week. You can customize anything to be the way you like it now.

https://github.com/scosman/Squeegee

Re:The Agent SDK on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:31AM (#50274268)
Open AI and Anthropic already have "Agent SDK" brands. Vercel is "AI SDK". I wish folks would come up with some good names for new projects.
Re:Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office on Saturday October 24, 2026 @04:31PM (#50224928)
It's a spreadsheet app (cells) that's free. FreeCell. I mostly thought it was funny.

The card game and computer version predate windows -- it's not a MSFT creation.

Re:Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office on Saturday October 24, 2026 @03:56PM (#50224542)
I decided to build an OSS excel-like app for fun in Rust. Thought I'd hit a wall and hate it. Ended up with GPUI based 240fps app that's way faster than Numbers on my Mac. It's not feature complete, but every feature I need (graphs, 95% formula coverage, fast). Hard to imagine a world where folks pay a ton for desktop software in the future.

https://github.com/scosman/freecell

Re:A farewell to Arc browser on Thursday October 22, 2026 @06:12PM (#50201802)
There is only one truly AI native browser: https://github.com/scosman/cursed_browser
Re:Voxtral 3 on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:02PM (#50169389)
Closed :(
It depends on the goal. Given powerful tools, Opus 5.5 will eventually get the job done, but it might have to write/test its own custom software to get there. If you're running the same task thousands of times that's you want to move that work into the harness (building the right tools, right instructions, right guidance). Once you move it into the harness, you probably no longer need Opus, since the hard parts were pre-compiled into harness.

So for 1-off tasks: use smart model and powerful harness (bash + vm). For repeated tasks used optimized harness, and the cheapest model you can get away with.

Harness optimization is essential. Doesn’t matter how smart the model is if the tools you give it are ineffective, or the task is under defined. It needs invent the solution from first principles every time.

We did a harness optimization on Jev. Raw it was no where near as good as deekseek, but optimized it was significantly better and a tiny fraction of the cost. https://kiln.tech/blog/auto_optimizing_jev_with_autoresearch

Re:Vintage Cassettes: 1963-2010 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @04:49PM (#50135005)
I got really into this design aesthetic a while ago. Once you recognize it, you see it more and more. Some examples/sources:

- amazing animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9DfSCk-6Ko

- IG account of VHS cassettes: https://www.instagram.com/blanktapebingo/

- Product launch: https://www.lux.camera/meet-orion/

- product page I made using the style: https://criticalmoments.io

Re:apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper on Saturday October 17, 2026 @02:19PM (#50133601)
thanks for your work, it's awesome!
Re:OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents on Saturday October 17, 2026 @02:14PM (#50133548)
I'm not sure at all, it's pure conjecture. But they actively exploited a zero-day, leaked private repo data to public repos, modified private code, and rooted private machines. It was far from just reporting leaked keys.

And the others have been pretty muted: the online forums they spammed, etc.

Re:OpenAI discloses four more rogue incidents on Saturday October 17, 2026 @02:07PM (#50133464)
We don't know they haven't settled with HuggingFace and others. I'd be surprised if they didn't. The communications we're seeing from the attacked seem to be inline with folks who settled. I'm assuming OpenAI doesn't actually mind the press that its agents are cyber capable, but everything I've read so far makes me think they love it.
Re:Hello Toronto – Waymo Is En Route on Friday October 16, 2026 @10:59AM (#50119189)
that's in the FAQ. They say they have sensor cleaning tech. But they aren't launching until 2028 so 2 winters of testing should tell.
Re:Hello Toronto – Waymo Is En Route on Friday October 16, 2026 @10:58AM (#50119180)
both?

both!

Re:How Protein Took over the World on Thursday October 15, 2026 @05:17AM (#50101179)
30g from a shake are better than 0g from the chicken breast I won’t cook and eat every single day. It’s a supplement, not your primary source.
Re:I guess I'm using WebP now? on Sunday October 11, 2026 @10:12PM (#50050468)
I love webp. I founded one of the mid 2010's "photo backup and rediscovery" startups. Webp let us offer free unlimited photo backup at the iPhone resolution of the time (iPhone 6: 8MP). We hosted billions of photos for free, and paid for it all with a sub 1% conversion rate to $5 a month for untouched jpegs. It was profitable. We had to have a few dozen auto-scaling image conversion servers for browsers that didn't support webp, but 95% of users used our apps which supported webp, so it was fine.

I'd probably go avif/jpegxl today, but webp was ahead of it's time.

Re:apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper on Sunday October 11, 2026 @03:16PM (#50046788)
ahh. It’s been around a while, but maybe the date convention is for articles not repos.
Re:apsw: Another Python SQLite Wrapper on Sunday October 11, 2026 @02:02PM (#50045961)
It’s a great wrapper, but we should add a year. Not exactly new.
If folks like local-AI dictation, but want it optimized for meetings recordings (like Granola/Otter/Notion) check out Biscotti. Free, local, separates voices, voice identification, AI summaries, etc.

https://github.com/scosman/Biscotti

Re:How Protein Took over the World on Saturday October 10, 2026 @05:03PM (#50037151)
Most folks (at least in North America) get no where near the recommended level. It's silly to have protein infused junk food, but a shake or protein powder make it a lot easier to get to the right level than remembering to have 3 hard boiled eggs.
Cloudflare worker AI is verrrrry slow for user interactive use cases. Fine for background jobs or evals.
> Chasing the latest and greatest is silly

Said every week by someone who would never go back to using the model they had 6 months ago

Re:Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:27AM (#49993350)
I'm sure it's been done, but Doom in Excel at 240fps seems like the logical next step.
Re:How Fast is Python 3.15? on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @10:47PM (#49987459)
only tangentially related, but naming PyPy when PyPI was already established was ridiculous
Re:Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @09:39PM (#49986858)
oh, scrolling around is buttery smooth.
Re:Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:50PM (#49986447)
Haven’t really promoted it at all. Here’s an older video from discord pre-charts: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1206947691058171907...
Re:Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:46PM (#49986399)
It absolutely doesn’t need to be. This is an exercise in “why not”.

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