Hacker News: adambb

New comment by adambb in "Show HN: I left Figma to build a diffusion-based UI design tool"

adambb — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:15:32 +0000

Agree with both points, at least for folks who already have that infra (which I do). Made it much simpler than trying to "extract" things out of a tool that wanted to do everything.

New comment by adambb in "Show HN: I left Figma to build a diffusion-based UI design tool"

adambb — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:18:16 +0000

Liking this concept - definitely seems to have more design freedom and ability to iterate than say Claude Design and at a lower price (well it doesn't blow through it's entire "token budget" after 3 prompts anyhow!)

The "copy agent prompt" feature has what looks like a thorough prompt for the implementation, that can call back to DiffUI to grab assets and make SVGs and other things a FE dev would bug a designer for - nice touch!

New comment by adambb in "One Brain to Query: Wiring a 60-Person Company into a Single Slack Bot"

adambb — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:35:37 +0000

To be fair to them, the architecture description said that each datasource had a unique agent, so the orchestrator AI didn't have direct data access, and that they specifically only allow access to data the user has permissions for.

Unclear if each datasource agent is ALSO AI based though, in which case it has just pushed the same concern down the line one hop.

New comment by adambb in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

adambb — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:08:05 +0000

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/responsible-use/chat-in-y...

They do seem to word this at a more professional level in this context (the terms linked are for individuals using Copilot in Windows, probably?)

New comment by adambb in "Show HN: ANSI-Saver – A macOS Screensaver"

adambb — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:23:52 +0000

(unintentional) satire? almost a meditation on the seemingly inevitable bloat of software

FlyTrap Attack on Autonomous Drones

adambb — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:17:08 +0000

Article URL: https://ics.uci.edu/2026/02/25/uc-irvine-researchers-expose-critical-security-vulnerability-in-autonomous-drones/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47206442

Points: 1

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New comment by adambb in "Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring"

adambb — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:28:08 +0000

The great promise and the great disaster of LLMs is that for any topic on which we are "below average", the bland, average output seems to be a great improvement.

New comment by adambb in "Company says it has produced the Holy Grail of batteries"

adambb — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 11:11:11 +0000

https://archive.is/cfFe7

Company says it has produced the Holy Grail of batteries

adambb — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 11:09:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2026/01/18/donut-lab-solid-state-battery/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666807

Points: 4

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New comment by adambb in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

adambb — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 04:28:40 +0000

LG (UT8000 at least) TVs have an option to default to last used input, that works reliably.

New comment by adambb in "Show HN: I built a wizard to turn ideas into AI coding agent-ready specs"

adambb — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 01:42:13 +0000

I think the "messy ideas" was a reference to the homepage copy "Turn your messy ideas into crystal clear specs.", not continuing the previous thought about the placeholder. I'd agree that "messy" might have more negative connotations than you intended.

New comment by adambb in "[dead]"

adambb — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:03:59 +0000

Learned a few things I didn't know about exception handling, like Vectored Exception Handling. If it's possible to somehow have enough permissions to install a generic vectored exception handler that has enough complexity to emulate generic instructions, not sure why the shellcode couldn't just be included there instead.

Maybe someone else will have a follow on regarding some product that does some more complicated processing in a VEH that could be used to implement something that has the same shape as this.

The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis

adambb — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:56:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/opinion/culture/ai-chatgpt-college-cheating-medieval.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45111098

Points: 5

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New comment by adambb in "PSA: SQLite WAL checksums fail silently and may lose data"

adambb — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:48:17 +0000

The disk controller may decide to write out blocks in a different order than the logical layout in the log file itself, and be interrupted before completing this work.

New comment by adambb in "The Internet Archive is back online"

adambb — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:40:19 +0000

Other way around! Cloudflare can optionally load your site from IA if it's down.

OpenAI rolls out voice mode after delaying it for safety reasons

adambb — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 03:39:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/30/openai-voice-mode-launch-sky-scarlett-johansson/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41135913

Points: 6

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New comment by adambb in "Nissan accused of dumping its electric car pioneers"

adambb — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 11:45:41 +0000

In the US they had a module replacement that upgraded the cellular modem to 3G, I believe. Wonder why they aren't doing that in the UK as well?

New comment by adambb in "Postfix 25 years old today"

adambb — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 21:45:06 +0000

Always thought QMail was the best option back when Postfix came out, but it certainly has won the top spot over time.

New comment by adambb in "Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples"

adambb — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 05:12:12 +0000

The samples are super small and not homogeneous, so its tough to get any kind of accurate reading with probes, is my understanding.

Nissan Leaf Is Hiding a 13,000 RPM Secret

adambb — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 23:04:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVlMxQaAf-k

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34812211

Points: 2

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