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Re:Muse Wonder on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:19AM (#50068895)
Mandatory; can we please stop with the pelican? Classic Goodhart's law.
I wish it was in built haha, there's even more granularity that would have been nice to have
Glad you found it useful! :)

Show HN: Shortfuse – Make macOS permissions expire automatically

I used to get a little paranoid about the perms I was giving to apps, and them just keeping them. Especially, microphone (!!).So I made this Mac app that lets you schedule selected permissions to expire after 15 minutes, an hour, tonight, or when the app quits. You can also review permissions grouped by app and spot records left behind by deleted apps.MacOS 14+, Intel and Apple silicon.Demo and...

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Re:How to Code Claude Code in 200 Lines of Code on Friday January 09, 2026 @11:53AM (#46555870)
> this is a RL problem where you have to balance the chance of an infinite loop (it keeps thinking there's a little bit more to do when there is not) versus the opposite where it stops short of actual completion.

Any idea on why the other end of the spectrum is this way -- thinking that it always has something to do?

I can think of a pet theory on it stopping early -- that positive tool responses and such bias it towards thinking it's complete (could be extremely wrong)

Re:Thin Desires Are Eating Your Life on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @06:44AM (#46300895)
It was amusing to see a 'Sign Up' prompt right as the blog ended.
Why isn't there a working website? You've been up since 2024
Re:Marble Fountain on Sunday November 09, 2025 @02:02PM (#45868138)
Beautiful, I wonder what kind of craziness would be possible with this, at scale. Whole buildings being printed and assembled block by block. Real life Minecraft, if you will

Is finding gaps just hard now? As a 24 yo, everything seems to be done already

I'm trying to find good problem statements and gaps to solve, Tech/Non-Tech.But it just seems to hard find something substantial. Everything seems to be already done.The gaps seem very teeny-tiny. I really don't want to solve a hyper-specific, niche B2B sales gap for example.It seems like people earlier had it much easier and the ideas seemed a bit obvious. This sounds envious, and could be...

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Ask HN: Advice for 24 Y.O. founders afraid of repercussions if startup fails?

Hi HN,My co-founder and I have been working on a startup since the last 12-13 months or so.It's a social media that caters to a niche and we think it will work.We've built the MVP, and we have a certain amount of signups with minimal marketing costs. We think there is a market fit here.To scale up, we've been thinking of starting to approach funds for a seed round.At the same time, we're...

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Ask HN: Advice for 24 Y.O. founders afraid of repercussions if startup fails?

Hi HN,My co-founder and I have been working on a startup since the last 12-13 months or so.It's a social media that caters to a niche and we think it will work.We've built the MVP, and we have a certain amount of signups with minimal marketing costs. We think there is a market fit here.To scale up, we've been thinking of starting to approach funds for a seed round.At the same time, we're...

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> From my experience - don't even go looking for "most optimal ways" in this journey. The simpler, the more unstructured - the better. Otherwise maintaining the whole setup will take more than give.

That makes sense actually.

> Did you come up with this yourself, or did you copy it from somewhere else? Because I would like to know more. This sounds like a very good approach.

I came up with the thought, but the exact term Value Plan, I've read somewhere, Andy Grove (maybe, unsure, I'll try to find a source).

Re:Two Letter Dot-coms and Who Owns Them on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @11:40PM (#38186877)
Interesting to see a bunch of random small businesses, good thing they bought them early :)
This is so good for your age! I don't think I made anything beyond a calculator or a website before entering college.
Re:Ask HN: Git, JavaScript, Chrome, Redis etc. what next? on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @01:58PM (#36974464)
True true. That makes sense.

Ask HN: Git, JavaScript, Chrome, Redis etc. what next?

I wanted to work on something really interesting, such as problem statements that don't have good solutions yet.But I fail to find things that could be done that haven't been implemented yet.It seems like all the low (and even medium, high) hanging fruit has been covered. [Of course not calling Redis and such low hanging fruits, but just to give examples of something fundamental.]How would you...

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Re:Ask HN: Any Hardware Startups Here? on Thursday July 06, 2023 @04:50AM (#36613077)
Assuming that a wet-suit does not help with such bites, would it be feasible to make a full-body suit from the same material?

I'm a layman (or worse) in this area, and I was wondering if somethings similar could be made for shark bites.

After Googling, I found someone claiming that they have.

How hard would would it be to "combine these two"?

(Both of the above may be stupid questions)

Re:How Coders Can Survive–and Thrive–In a ChatGPT World on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:35AM (#36596940)
But then who would pay the corporations, if most of the population is on UBI? If only a subset of the population makes money (<30%), would that be enough to feed the rest of the population and to help them live a life without poverty?

Why isn't there more discourse around probable loss of jobs/income due to AI?

I've been thinking about this every now and then.Sure, there are already a lot of mentions of this in the mainstream news. But there doesn't seem to be an actual discussion around what the next steps would be.Only vague notions like "AI bad, job will be loss".Shouldn't there be some onus on companies putting millions of dollars into AI research to also provide some practical solutions/ideas to...

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That is really cool!
nit: The language in the readme is called 'Marathi' instead of 'Maranthi'. It's my native language, and not a ton of people speak it online. Nice to see it here :)

Isn't ChatGPT unfair to the sources it scraped data from?

ChatGPT scraped data from various sources on the internet.&gt; The model was trained using text databases from the internet. This included a whopping 570GB of data obtained from books, webtexts, Wikipedia, articles and other pieces of writing on the internet. To be even more exact, 300 billion words were fed into the system.I believe it's unfair to these sources that ChatGPT drives away their...

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