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Re:How I Over-Engineered My Book on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @01:27AM (#49357229)
I do wonder if all of the automated linting and the LLM-powered editor assistance is contributing to your very LLM-sounding writing voice that seems to be triggering everyone's internal AI-writing detection alarms here (also Pangram detects parts of the post as ~20% AI-written for what it is worth). It makes sense that a lot of what the linters would red squiggly on (e.g. weak passive voice) would also be the type of prose that gets trained out of LLMs as not "punchy" enough. So, basically, did you accidentally RLHF yourself into sounding like an LLM?
Really cool idea, but something about the TTS voices in the demo (https://ykdojo.github.io/awesome-agents-on-google-cloud/hn-p...) is really off-putting to me. It's like every single sentence spoken has an exaggerated incredulousness and every word has too much emphasis. Is that something influenced by the prompt or is Gemini TTS just like that?
Re:Making RSS More Fun on Thursday December 04, 2025 @04:18PM (#46153218)
You should try out https://scour.ing

It's not exactly a TikTok experience since it serves you a digest of multiple articles at once vs. one article at a time. But, you can tell it what topics you are interested in and it will find recent articles in thousands of RSS feeds that the algorithm thinks you are most interested in.

I found this post on Scour :)

Re:Why agents are bad pair programmers on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @12:06AM (#44232381)
Everyone knows real programmers only need to use a butterfly.
Do you have a link to the recording?
Re:AstraZeneca unveils successes in treatment of lung cancer on Monday February 19, 2024 @12:06PM (#39432081)
NCI has the current treatment guidelines for each cancer and is updated when new treatment options become available: https://www.nccn.org/guidelines/category_1

Unfortunately, these are very clinician-focused and are very hard to understand without a medical background. They also don't usually cover experimental treatments that are still in trials, but in some cases can be extremely helpful. I work on an app at Outcomes4Me (https://outcomes4me.com/) that is trying to convert the NCI guidelines into an algorithm so that we can tell patients in simpler terms what their treatment options are based on their specific diagnosis. We also try to find clinical trials recruiting for their specific diagnosis. We've done this for breast and lung cancer so far.

That is if you consume too much. Anything is poisonous in great enough quantities, including water. I'm assuming OP is asking about whether it's dangerous in normal dosages.
Re:DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @01:35PM (#38784988)
No one has mentioned ShareMouse yet? (https://www.sharemouse.com/) In my experience it has worked way better than Synergy. I switched after getting fed up with the synergy developers not responding to various multi-year old bugs that made the software unworkable for me (e.g. https://github.com/symless/synergy-core/issues/5992).

The only downside is that you have to "renew maintenance" to continue receiving updates to ShareMouse after a year. But I haven't done that yet and it still works fine for me.

Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @01:28AM (#36595848)
https://www.hallada.net/blog/

I post sporadically about side projects I'm working on. Some recent posts:

- https://www.hallada.net/2022/10/05/modmapper-putting-every-s...: Modmapper: Putting every Skyrim mod on a map with Rust

-https://www.hallada.net/2020/02/01/generating-icosahedrons-a...: Generating icosahedrons and hexspheres in Rust

- https://www.hallada.net/2017/08/07/proximity-structures.html: Proximity Structures: Playing around with PixiJS

I'm trying to get into the habit of posting more so hopefully updates will be more frequent in the future.

Re:Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time on Thursday June 29, 2023 @05:06PM (#36526706)
How are we sure that pulsars are 100% consistent? How do we know the timing discrepancies are due to gravitational waves and not just tiny wobbles in the pulsar itself?
Re:Why use Rust on the back end? on Monday March 20, 2023 @05:36PM (#35239112)
It really sucks when you are the only one on your team that knows Rust. I whole-heartedly think that I'd be more productive and write better backend code in Rust than JavaScript/TypeScript/Python/Ruby from my experiences of using Rust in side-projects. But I have to suffer because I cannot make the case of rewriting our backend and teaching all the devs Rust.

So my only choice if I want to use Rust is to leave the company, but it's really hard to find other companies that primarily use Rust. The majority of the ones that do are crypto/blockchain related or doing something extremely low-level or out of my wheelhouse since they assume you're also comfortable with writing C++. I'm primarily a web developer and I hardly see any web startups choosing Rust.

Re:Atom Was Archived Today on Friday December 16, 2022 @01:34AM (#34011276)
You can run vim and emacs in a gui app. I run neovim in neovide which imo is the best experience for vim these days. Vim's builtin terminal is good enough now that you can ditch running it inside tmux/terminal.
Re:Show HN: I am building a free version of Strava on Monday May 02, 2022 @05:46PM (#31241352)
Garmin has an integration with Strava to automatically sync activities: https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216918057-Garmi...

This is how I record all of my activities to Strava. There's no need for an external sync service.

Re:Alcohol linked to more cancers than thought, study finds on Thursday August 05, 2021 @02:02PM (#28077290)
Except the middle man can actually serve a purpose here. I would actually like someone to distill highly academic articles full of technical jargon into layman's terms that I can skim in a few minutes. The fact they don't link the original paper is just bad journalism.

It's also bad journalism when newspapers frequently misunderstand the original source completely or sensationalize one piece of the source completely out of context for extra clicks. But, there's not much we can do about that.

I hope we get more alternative media sources like Two Minute Papers (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg), who actually understand the subject matter, summarizing the latest research in various fields.

Re:Show HN: Ht – HTTPie Clone in Rust on Friday February 05, 2021 @08:55PM (#26043433)
Why use something slower when an equivalent faster tool is available?

There's definitely a noticeable delay on my machine with starting up the python interpreter. Enough that it dominates most actual request times to fast servers. (`http get www.google.com` is ~460ms while `ht get www.google.com` is ~130ms)

For a tool I'm constantly using to check APIs I'm developing, I really appreciate snappy commands that give me results that feel instantaneous.

Re:Bevy 0.2 on Saturday September 19, 2020 @10:13PM (#24531513)
Bevy is very new so there isn't a whole lot yet. But, there's a list of projects built with bevy being assembled at https://github.com/bevyengine/awesome-bevy

You could also checkout the #showcase channel in the bevy discord https://discord.gg/gMUk5Ph

Re:An update on our security incident on Saturday July 18, 2020 @01:05AM (#23879120)
Twitter is not an average company. As one of the top 40 internet companies, they are in the position of setting industry standards. I think it's fair to expect more than what the average company does from Twitter.
But that requires a network request after typing to get results, which is about the same user experience of a search bar that requests some search API.
You are referring to this backup restore process? https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...

It involves a 6 step (with multiple sub-steps) process of navigating the sdcard contents and then transferring some obscure file over USB to a computer and then from that computer to the new phone. I doubt this is something that "the masses" will be able or willing to accomplish.

Also, iOS has about 48% market share in the US, so it's at least half the masses there.

Re:Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi? on Monday June 24, 2019 @08:30PM (#20270028)
I currently have three around the apartment attached to the network:

One running Seafile (https://www.seafile.com/en/home/) with an old laptop hard-drive connected via USB enclosure. It acts as my own Dropbox. I mainly store notes and photos on it and sync them to a few other devices for redundancy. It also has a Samba share with all of my music and has an open vpn server so I can connect to it from anywhere.

One with a HiFiBerrry Digi+ hat (https://www.hifiberry.com/products/digiplus/) connected to my sound system via toslink running an MPD (https://www.musicpd.org/) server. I can control it with M.A.L.P. (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.gateshipon...) on my phone. This one also has a 7" touch screen (https://www.amazon.com/Raspberry-Pi-7-Touchscreen-Display/dp...) which I use to sometimes display ncmpcpp (https://github.com/arybczak/ncmpcpp) inside edex-ui (https://github.com/GitSquared/edex-ui). This one also acts as the living room clock with an USB LED message board (https://www.amazon.com/818-Dream-Cheeky-Message-Board/dp/B00...) controlled by dcled (https://github.com/Conservatory/dcled).

Another with a GPIO breakout and breadboard with an individually addressable LED light strip attached. I got the idea from this Adafruit tutorial (https://learn.adafruit.com/light-painting-with-raspberry-pi/...). I wrote a program in Python to make it softly glow between random colors and sync to any beats-per-minute.

Re:People Don't Know Themselves Very Well on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @09:18AM (#16536460)
The article said that people are their own best judges of internal state:

> People know themselves best on the traits that are tough to observe and easy to admit. Emotional stability is an internal state, so your friends don’t see it as vividly as you do.

Gender identity and sexual orientation are internal states that one can hide for years without anyone else ever knowing.

Also, you don't need to be sexually experienced to know your orientation. Sexual attraction starts to develop around age 10. These clubs are so important because they help kids come to terms with who they are instead of hiding it like most young gay people do because they know it is different and that their friends might turn on them.

I wish the chrome dev tools had Edit and Resend in the network tab like Firefox. It's incredibly handy when debugging or reverse engineering other sites.
I always thought it was because the test makers want the text samples to be obscure enough that most students will not have read them. Otherwise, it would give an unfair advantage to those that have read and considered it outside the time they are given for the test.
Re:I am not an introvert. I am just busy on Thursday March 06, 2014 @03:22AM (#7352537)
A lot of my engineering friends seem to write off the MBTI as some psychology pseudoscience like astrology. I think there's some truth to it, but it's certainly not a cut and dry science.
Re:The Next Microsoft on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @04:04PM (#4195916)
"My God, it's full of stars!"