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New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "The National Herbarium of Ireland digital collection of Irish plants"

dfajgljsldkjag — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 03:30:03 +0000

It is very important that we treat the natural world like data that needs a backup. The environment changes so fast that we will lose the history of these plants if we do not save them in a digital format. This collection gives us a way to check the past against the future so we can see what has been lost.

New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "Stonebraker on CAP theorem and Databases (2010)"

dfajgljsldkjag — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 03:27:52 +0000

I think we try too hard to solve problems that we do not even have yet. It is much better to build a simple system that is correct than a messy one that never stops. I see people writing bad code because they are afraid of the network breaking. We should just let the database do its job.

New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "Building docs like a product"

dfajgljsldkjag — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:58:09 +0000

I really like that you used the live code components inside the documentation pages. The biggest problem we have in this industry is that the manual becomes wrong as soon as we update the software. If the documentation runs on the same code as the app then it will never be out of date. This is the only reliable way to keep the instructions accurate over time.

New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "175K+ publicly-exposed Ollama AI instances discovered"

dfajgljsldkjag — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:57:44 +0000

I see this happen all the time when people just want their new toys to work right away. They copy and paste commands from the internet to open up the connection but they forget to put a lock on the door. It is dangerous that so many people run these programs without understanding the basics of how networks work.

New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "The $100B megadeal between OpenAI and Nvidia is on ice"

dfajgljsldkjag — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:52:36 +0000

the chinese will probably figure out a way to sneak the nvidia chips around the sanctions

New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "Show HN: I built an AI conversation partner to practice speaking languages"

dfajgljsldkjag — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:51:11 +0000

I always had trouble getting AIs such as ChatGPT to get out of their assistant mode and give natural and conversational replies. No matter what I put in the system instructions it always responds with the same old walls of text and same old it's x not y etc.

Does this one have a prompt that actually takes care of this problem? Does anyone have some nice prompts that make the ai actually useful as a practice partner?

New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "I reverse-engineered Netflix's 4K restrictions"

dfajgljsldkjag — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:22:15 +0000

Hello HN, I have an important thing to point out:

THIS EXTENSION DOES NOT WORK!

let me put it another way:

THIS EXTENSION DOES NOTHING USEFUL!

The author did not reverse engineer anything. He simply asked Claude Code to make this without testing or verifying any of the outputs.

The author did not check if the extension actually works. He simply asked Claude Code to make this without testing or verifying any of the outputs.

Other commenters in this thread have noted that this extension cannot do what it claims. [1] The author simply asked Claude Code to make this without testing or verifying any of the outputs.

Thanks for listening to my ted talk.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46803836

New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "Android’s desktop interface leaks"

dfajgljsldkjag — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:13:11 +0000

This looks like it will help a lot of students and families who are on a budget. If you can just plug your phone into a screen you do not need to buy a separate laptop anymore. The browser extensions are the most important part because that is what makes a computer useful. I am glad to see they are thinking about this.

New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "Oban, the job processing framework from Elixir, has come to Python"

dfajgljsldkjag — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:12:06 +0000

I have fixed many broken systems that used redis for small tasks. It is much better to put the jobs in the database we already have. This makes the code easier to manage and we have fewer things to worry about. I hope more teams start doing this to save time.

New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "Show HN: Extracting React apps from Figma Make's undocumented binary format"

dfajgljsldkjag — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:52:32 +0000

It's interesting that the AI tool just writes react rather than creating a figma drawing. All that training on writing code has made it easier for AI to just write the app than make an illustration of it.

New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "Amazon One palm authentication discontinued"

dfajgljsldkjag — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:48:58 +0000

These were neat to use at whole foods but I never saw them anywhere else. I guess Amazon just didn't really have much penetration in payment terminals in general. Maybe a deal with clover or toast could have changed things.

New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "Clawdbot is a security nightmare [video]"

dfajgljsldkjag — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:16:31 +0000

It is very sad that we are ignoring the lessons we learned about security twenty years ago just because we want new toys. We spent so much time making sure that user input could not change how a program runs and now we are doing the exact opposite. The video is right that the problem is not a bug in the code but a flaw in how the whole system thinks. We are building a house on sand.

New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

dfajgljsldkjag — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:45:22 +0000

I like Whole Foods because it feels warm and the food looks good. The Amazon stores felt like walking inside a vending machine and that is not how people want to buy dinner.

New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "Cloudflare claimed they implemented Matrix on Cloudflare workers. They didn't"

dfajgljsldkjag — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:41:34 +0000

It is worrying to see a major vendor release code that does not actually work just to sell a new product. When companies pretend that complex engineering is easy it makes it very hard for the rest of us to explain why building safe software takes time. This kind of behavior erodes the trust that we place in their platform.

New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor"

dfajgljsldkjag — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:00:16 +0000

The author is a healthy person but the computer program still gave him a failing grade of F. It is irresponsible for these companies to release broken tools that can cause so much fear in real people. They are treating serious medical advice like it is just a video game or a toy. Real users should not be the ones testing these dangerous products.

New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "RIP Low-Code 2014-2025"

dfajgljsldkjag — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:30:41 +0000

I always felt that the biggest problem with low code was the wall you hit when you tried to change something small. You had to fight the tool just to make the button look the way you wanted. AI gives you the speed of low code but allows you to build anything you can imagine. It makes sense to stop paying for tools that limit your freedom.

New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

dfajgljsldkjag — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:24:36 +0000

The term was coined then, but people have been doing it with claude code and cursor and copilot and other tools for longer. They just didn't have a word for it yet.

New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "Show HN: FaceTime-style calls with an AI Companion (Live2D and long-term memory)"

dfajgljsldkjag — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:43:58 +0000

It creates a conflict to build a system that is both a private friend and a public performer. You cannot maximize intimacy and fame at the same time.

New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "I was right about ATProto key management"

dfajgljsldkjag — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:57:05 +0000

Complexity acts like a gate. When we make the code too hard to understand, we are telling regular people that they are not allowed to participate. True ownership of your data is only possible if you can actually afford to host it yourself. We should focus on making things simple enough for anyone to use.

New comment by dfajgljsldkjag in "Show HN: Open-source Figma design to code"

dfajgljsldkjag — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 19:59:37 +0000

Interesting. It appears this doesn't use AI itself (though it's probably vibe coded). Figma in dev mode already gives react components and css styles [1] and this seems like a more automated way to pull that functionality. It's unfortunate figma paywalls dev mode and this might be a good way to work around the limitation.

1: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/articles/15023124644247-Guid...