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Re:Show HN: UI micro interactions prompts for AI on Thursday October 22, 2026 @04:54PM (#50200884)
Why wouldn't I just point claude at the interaction on your site and tell it to replicate it?
Agreed. The implication is, get really good at defining acceptance criterion.
Everyone would just programmatically filter out the ads.
Re:Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS on Friday October 02, 2026 @04:16PM (#49938085)
Everyday, we get one step closer to the year of the Linux desktop.
Re: on Thursday October 01, 2026 @04:47PM (#49926900)
>Feel free to then talk to them at length about all the reasons why AI, especially over-reliance on it, is bad for our society, like how it discourages learning, poisons the internet, angers everyone who is involuntarily subjected to it, and destroys our planet. Tell them that AI is not the future, but a creepy dystopia that this project wants nothing to do with.

I know that open source projects have struggled with the onslaught of AI slop. If I thought that was the motivation, I'd get it.

But that is so clearly not what is going on here.

Re:Pi 1.0 on Thursday October 01, 2026 @04:14PM (#49926537)
thats not a suggestion.
Re:Pi 1.0 on Thursday October 01, 2026 @04:13PM (#49926532)
I like Orca
Re:Strands Harness on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @11:37AM (#49817744)
Deepseek was cheaper, but also less accurate. "Beats" isn't a fair assessment.
This article seems incredibly biased. Is there a more balanced report of what is actually occurring?
Re:Tailwind Labs is joining Shopify on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @11:56AM (#49628623)
I was a hardcore tailwind user and my projects still use it. That said, in the last 6 months, I haven't touched it. I just let my agents style things as they want. ... and they just use plain CSS.

I really appreciated tailwind, but it solved problems that fewer people face these days.

Re:Claude, change the "Add to Cart" button to blue on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @09:26AM (#49626177)
I never really understood what being "triggered" was like until now.
Re:Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root on Sunday August 30, 2026 @12:34PM (#49500176)
This is the type of security and vulnerability testing that actually matters. In a sea of security researcher noise, thank you for contributing in a meaningful way.
Re:The New MCP Roadmap on Saturday August 22, 2026 @12:01PM (#49401032)
The challenge with this is that it often causes a proliferation of MCP tools which bloats context, which is one of the reasons that MCP was created.
Re:Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub on Thursday July 30, 2026 @02:02PM (#49113463)
I get your point, but it kind of is AI related. The size of PRs since AI has made it much harder to review a diff. Stacking the PRs seems like a response to this problem.
Re:Small Penis Rule on Sunday July 05, 2026 @04:57PM (#48797872)
This sounds like exactly the kind of thing that some with a small penis would say ...
Re:Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix on Sunday July 05, 2026 @09:37AM (#48794245)
The post effectively communicated what it needed to. It seemed both written and structured in a way that was optimized for human consumption.

If they used AI to write this and that gave them more time to volunteer their time towards developing this fantastic piece of open source software, then this all seems like a good thing to me.

Let me make sure I am hearing you right. 1) The person you report to asked you to accomplish a discrete task 2) of standing up one of the most common websites on the planet 3) and your response was to begin building your own custom CMS?

I know I am removing the train of thought that led you down this path, but is there anything I just said that is factually false?

Re:RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @06:52PM (#48666552)
It analogous to Active Storage and aws-sdk-s3.

Some of the things I like about RubyLLM: 1. the DSL - You can chain methods like ActiveRecord. 2. the Structure - If gives a way to organize agents, tools & prompts 3. the Portability - The costs of AI usage, will one day be an issue for any successful product. Being able to easily test and move from Anthropic to DeepSeek cut my bill down by over 90%. Knowing how easy RubyLLM makes it, ignoring this eventuality feels reckless to me. 4. ActiveRecord Integration - With a simple `bin/rails generate ruby_llm:install `, you can save each chat to your database. 5. Agent Training - This is a side benefit of the above, but has been a huge unlock for me. Since I have all my chats saved, I will regularly pull down that history and give it to claude code to refine my agent instructions.

Re:RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @11:27AM (#48661401)
Do you have any details published around 2.0? Would love to learn more.
Re:RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @11:20AM (#48661310)
And thank you! It is absolutely awesome and a true joy to work with.
Re:Running local models is good now on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @11:22AM (#48556706)
He is using a 2022 M2, which you can get that for about $2k used. That is beyond reasonable.
Re:Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg on Saturday June 13, 2026 @08:57AM (#48516843)
The incentives structure is deeply broken in the field of Security Research. They are the middle management of the FOSS world. Celebrated for dumping more work on volunteers. The more urgent the work, the more they are celebrated. Acknowledging the realistic impact of issues or the pragmatic implications of an issue are at odds with their incentives.

It's hard not to see them as bottom feeders of the software industry and I wish we would starting treating them like pariah. Submit the PR or STFU.

Re:Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware on Thursday February 05, 2026 @09:05AM (#46899747)
MacOS isn't a hard requirement. You could spin it up on a VPS. Hetzner is great and very inexpensive https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/
Re:Anthropic acquires Bun on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @06:31PM (#46128386)
I remember a time ...
Re:Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line on Saturday November 08, 2025 @09:05AM (#45856734)
Remember that Steve Jobs appointed his COO Tim Cook to take over Apple. Not Ives or Cue or Federighi. I've always seen this as an acknowledgment that without Jobs the company would not be able to innovate in the same way.

Having acknowledged that, Apple shifted to the value extraction phase of its business lifecycle.

It sucks.

It like when your favorite band starts selling out, but as publicly traded company, I am not sure it is avoidable.

Re:SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3 on Saturday September 27, 2025 @12:55PM (#45397451)
I like this idea!

Having SSH in the name helps developers quickly understand the problem domain it improves upon.

Re:DaisyUI: Tailwind CSS Components on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @12:48PM (#44649795)
That is a rather dismissive attitude that could cause you to overlook some great technologies.
Re:Apache ECharts on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @05:30PM (#43626666)
I've been using apache echarts for a while. It is excellent. As you dig deep, some of the examples and libraries are in Chinese, which can be challenging.

The only real drawback that I've discovered is that it uses canvas to generate the charts. So, when you UI changes to dark mode, you need to reload your charts to update the color scheme ... which in the grand scheme of things is really minor.

Re:RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI on Saturday March 15, 2025 @09:44AM (#43372491)
Well, taste for a Global Interpreter Lock, at least.

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