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elaus
·last month·discuss
You have to fight, for some bots it might not be a real fight anymore...
elaus
·last month·discuss
Yes, people pay with their personal data (Alphabet is not a charity)
elaus
·last month·discuss
That single, annecdotal evidence gets posted everytime a topic like that comes up. I would really love to get more reliable stats about this.

Even the "0.1% of sales" figure is quite atypical.
elaus
·2 months ago·discuss
Just to clarify: I believe it should cache them (it works for me).

So far I like it much more than Gemini CLI (my previous daily driver for personal projects). Seems more mature and "feels more intelligent" (very subjective ofc)
elaus
·2 months ago·discuss
Kagi has been mentioned already, just to provide anecdotal reference: searching for "pokemon wiki" with the country set to Italy shows OP's website as first result.
elaus
·2 months ago·discuss
Right now, using Google searching for "what is Xanatewthiuy" , the AI summary is not generated, but the only search result previews as

> Xanatewthiuy is a supplement that dramatically lowers anxiety from media induced hysteria, primarily stemming from carefully worded pieces meant ...
elaus
·2 months ago·discuss
I think the deal is pretty clear with stuff like this: Free accounts for individual users, earning money with businesses.

It's not like Bitwarden is giving away their product without getting anything in return: The free users (tech-savy early adopters) were the ones that pitched Bitwarden to their bosses when they were looking for a password solution for their company. It's really no different than Adobe or other companies giving away student licences. Companies are not stupid.
elaus
·2 months ago·discuss
I too love the SVG Path Editor, used it many times to create SVGs that had "nice code". Nobody really appreciates it, but it just felt good.

Inkscape on the other hand almost inevitably creates really messy SVGs with a lot of transforms (why??) that make it almost impossible to see actual coordinates.

But as I said, nobody cares about how clean and nice your SVG paths are and I don't either most of the time, so I'm still a regular user of Inkscape. Thanks to the team :)
elaus
·3 months ago·discuss
I don't really see how the vacuum can effectively clean a whole room or flat using only a CNN of the current image in front of the robot. This would help detect obstacles, but a bumper sensor would do that as well.

All but the most basic vacuum robots map their work area and devise plans how to clean them systematically. The others just bump into obstacles, rotate a random amount and continue forward.

Don't get me wrong, I love this project and the idea to build it yourself. I just feel like that (huge) part is missing in the article?
elaus
·4 months ago·discuss
Quite a lot of sample sound strange. Some even have echo or other weird artifacts. I hope it's not AI generated.
elaus
·4 months ago·discuss
I agree. freeCAD has become a tool that I just use without thinking about it. Earlier versions always made me question my choice and try out other software.
elaus
·4 months ago·discuss
Most of those suggestions would be incredible confusing for anyone not familiar with the concept.

Users expect to see exactly 1 new char (either the key pressed or an asterix) when they type something. Seeing up to three chars appearing or disappearing after some time imho is worse than what we have today.
elaus
·4 months ago·discuss
It really is boring and lifeless. Most of those vibe coded sites have senseless boilerplate UI like the "send feedback" link that opens "beautiful" UIs that are completely without function.
elaus
·4 months ago·discuss
It seems easy enough to circumvent: "We're launching our product in 2 weeks, so let the AI create and 'warm up' 20 new HN users so they're ready to shill".

It's really not a problem that can be solved easily :(
elaus
·5 months ago·discuss
I think as humans it's very hard to abstract content from its form. So when the form is always the same boring, generic AI slop, it's really not helping the content.
elaus
·5 months ago·discuss
I understand that you need an account to save/publish stuff on their servers, but I would really love a "guest mode" where I can just try it out, maybe even save to LocalStorage.
elaus
·5 months ago·discuss
I too feel like the latest versions are quite a big improvement and I finally lost that feeling of slowing myself down just for the sake of using OSS.

But I still hope for a "blender moment" where a concerted effort gets rid of old cruft, improves UI/UX and jump-starts growth (also in developers/funding) and further improvements.
elaus
·5 months ago·discuss
I think you're confusing Pebble with something else. All current models on the website as well as the OG pebble (according to Wikipedia) use eink displays.
elaus
·5 months ago·discuss
For me it's the eink display that makes them interesting. Being programmable or looking cool is nice, but for that I could also buy an Apple/Google/Samsung watch - that's not unique.
elaus
·5 months ago·discuss
TÜV is the mandatory inspection that every car in Germany has to go through. Failing that inspection means you _have_ to fix the issues or may no longer drive that car on public roads.

So while it would be nice to get more detailled stats, I think this is still really helpful. For me the TÜV report was a very important source for my decission on which models (and to a lesser degree manufacturers) I should avoid.