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New comment by dflock in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

dflock — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:05:04 +0000

Recent Claude will just look at your code and copy what you've been doing, mostly, in an existing codebase - without being asked. In a new codebase, you can just ask it to "be conscice, keep it simple" or something.

New comment by dflock in "Learn Prolog Now (2006)"

dflock — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:01:24 +0000

There are a bunch of libraries that will do this - here's one example of a python one: https://github.com/yuce/pyswip - and a ruby one: https://github.com/preston/ruby-prolog

New comment by dflock in "Learn Prolog Now (2006)"

dflock — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:00:24 +0000

There are a bunch of libraries that will do this - here's one example of a python one: https://github.com/yuce/pyswip - and a ruby one: https://github.com/preston/ruby-prolog

New comment by dflock in "Did Space Debris Hit A United Flight Over The Rockies Thursday?"

dflock — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 11:29:51 +0000

Interesting! There are ~2 starlink satellites re-entering the atmosphere _every day_ now - and this is only set to increase. I wonder if this was caused by starlink debris?

New comment by dflock in "A New Internet Business Model?"

dflock — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:57:47 +0000

You can still do this, it all still works, technically. You will have a spam/malware/security issues that wouldn't have been an issue back in the day. You will also have discoverability issues - but that hasn't actually changed, if it's just for you or your friends.

New comment by dflock in "Tinycolor supply chain attack post-mortem"

dflock — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:13:58 +0000

- [supply-chain-security · GitHub Topics · GitHub](https://github.com/topics/supply-chain-security)

- [GitHub - safedep/vet: Protect against malicious open source packages](https://github.com/safedep/vet)

- [GitHub - AikidoSec/safe-chain](https://github.com/AikidoSec/safe-chain)

- npm audit

New comment by dflock in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

dflock — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:13:52 +0000

The store in the case of pass, is a plain text file, whose contents are encrypted strings. If you trust the encryption, you can put it anywhere you like. Keep the keys secret and safe, though!

New comment by dflock in "Kite News"

dflock — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:08:58 +0000

If you could mash this together with this: https://www.newsminimalist.com/ - that would be great.

New comment by dflock in "Show HN: Sumble – knowledge graph for GTM data – query tech stack, key projects"

dflock — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 17:52:23 +0000

Please ingest the biotech industry!

New comment by dflock in "Show HN: 90s.dev - game maker that runs on the web"

dflock — Tue, 20 May 2025 15:15:50 +0000

Show examples of things built with it?

New comment by dflock in "Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with 100+ hours of battery life"

dflock — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:59:06 +0000

https://github.com/unkyulee/micro-journal

New comment by dflock in "eInk Mode: Making web pages easier to read"

dflock — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 21:55:57 +0000

Dark Mode, and media queries are both just options/hints - they are implemented on the client side - by the user agent.

The actual problem is that most browsers have forgotten that they're "user agents" - and have stipped away all the configurations and options that they used to have, removing control from the user.

Vivaldi is still very configurable, and still behaves like the users agent.

New comment by dflock in "eInk Mode: Making web pages easier to read"

dflock — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 21:49:20 +0000

I want this too! I discovered a really esotieric way to get this: https://duncanlock.net/blog/2024/01/04/super-fast-reader-mod... - but it would be really nice if there was just a way to switch reader mode on permenantly in modern browsers. Apparently Safari can do that, but afaik no other browsers support it.

I really wish browsers were more modular - if the rendering engine and network fetching were easily separable - and you could insert your own steps into that pipeline, you could do all sorts of neat stuff. If I could insert some code of my own in between the fetch and the render, that would be ideal - strip out all ads and malware, optionally remove all scripts or css, run it through readability, etc...

New comment by dflock in "Why Vermont farmers are using urine on their crops"

dflock — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 13:43:21 +0000

Probably this place: https://cat.org.uk - Llwyngwern Quarry, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 9AZ

New comment by dflock in "Show HN: Kate's App"

dflock — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 17:57:03 +0000

Great idea!

- What country/ies do you accept users from and which jurisdiction do you store their data in?

- Get a HIPPA/GDPR/PHIPA audit by a legal professional ASAP!

New comment by dflock in "Building a Knowledge System That Enhances Rather Than Replaces Thought"

dflock — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 10:55:05 +0000

Inkscape does have multi page, now, if you still want that.

New comment by dflock in "ChatGPT's artificial empathy is a language trick"

dflock — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 09:53:16 +0000

It's all a language trick.

New comment by dflock in "The Weeds Are Winning"

dflock — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 20:13:35 +0000

The UK climate is, currently, very good at growing grass. You can continuously graze cattle all year round in most of the country, as long as you rotate them between fields every few days. If you have enough space, by the time they get back round, the grass is back. The cow shit fertilizes the grass, and silage made on the farm does a lot of the winter feed top up. As long as the density isn't too high, it can be pretty low input.

New comment by dflock in "Care Doesn't Scale"

dflock — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 13:24:58 +0000

Infrastructure is care at scale, as Deb Cachra would say: http://debcha.org

New comment by dflock in "Started a guide to writing FUSE filesystems in Python"

dflock — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 18:47:47 +0000

There are a bunch of jirafs type things on GitHub, fwiw. Eg. https://github.com/coddingtonbear/jirafs