News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

skramzy

Re:A Recipe for Steganogravy on Friday April 03, 2026 @02:52PM (#47630544)
What's TDS?
Anthropic's official ralph plugin gets the core principle of Ralph wrong by preventing a single instance of claude from exiting, rather than continuously starting new sessions.

Here's an opinionated, but proper implementation of the Ralph Wiggum AI technique.

Ralph solves the AI context window problem in the most simplistic way possible; keep feeding new AI sessions the same prompt until the job is done.

Re:AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @07:30PM (#46610705)
> Sorry, that's AI. So is OCR, so is voice recognition, and many other things you probably use and take for granted

Have you heard of machine learning?

That's Stripe's transaction fee, not theirs
I had a lot of fun writing this. Fascinating stuff.
Re:Numbering should start at zero: E.W. Dijkstra on Friday March 21, 2025 @04:14PM (#43440328)
It definitely does not
I'm not sure how they built theirs, but here's how I built mine:

- Parse the newsletter RSS feed - Summarize the most recent post with an LLM in the style of a fast-talking 1920s transatlantic radio broadcaster - Generate an audio file by synthesizing a custom voice I generated by sampling the recap narrator of Avatar: The Legend of Korra - Upload the file to a cloud object store and return the playback URL to the client - Repeat steps 1 - 4 each week until the heat death of the universe

This will run autonomously with new weekly content for as long as the newsletter persists.

Built with Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind & Vercel

Re:Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022) on Sunday September 29, 2024 @06:56AM (#41686492)
What gets measured gets optimized
My office is across the street. I can see it from my window and still never go in.
Re:Node.js 20 is now available on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @07:58PM (#35622266)
I've used Koa in my last few work projects but will be either switching back to Express or moving onto Fastify for the next one. Like you mentioned, Koa does indeed feel dated. It's community never really took off, either; many of it's most popular helper/companion libraries haven't been updated in years.