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New comment by fallinditch in "Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite"

fallinditch — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:27:12 +0000

Are you thinking of Nash? a standalone editable note as HTML that was featured on HN some time ago. https://keepworking.github.io/nash/

New comment by fallinditch in "Show HN: Capsule – Single-file web apps that save their data into SQLite"

fallinditch — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:12:59 +0000

Sharing HTML files with embedded Javascript is problematic: iOS users can't open the files directly, and have to save the file and then 'open with ... '.

New comment by fallinditch in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

fallinditch — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:00:03 +0000

Great point, the shit is going to get more pervasive for sure.

But also, there is the enablement of new fields of original and creative endeavor: I think we can already see this in some of the brilliant and useful apps being made, often by solo 'teams'.

I don't want to play down the harmful effects AI, but the flip side is that the opportunities for original ideas are many and varied.

Paul Graham wrote about taste being the moat https://paulgraham.com/taste.html

Qwen Audio Agent – full duplex via ACP

fallinditch — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:28:23 +0000

Article URL: https://qwenaudio.github.io/qwen-audio-agent/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49698617

Points: 2

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New comment by fallinditch in "Hermes Kanban – Multi-Agent Profile Collaboration"

fallinditch — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 23:24:05 +0000

Are you using the Hermes Kanban? What is your experience with it like? Good/ bad impressions?

Hermes Kanban – Multi-Agent Profile Collaboration

fallinditch — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 23:24:05 +0000

Article URL: https://hermes-agent.nousresearch.com/docs/user-guide/features/kanban

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49604068

Points: 1

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Artificial Intelligence Policy UC Berkeley School of Law [pdf]

fallinditch — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 19:29:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/AI-Final-Policy-26.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49602018

Points: 3

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New comment by fallinditch in "Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?"

fallinditch — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:35:21 +0000

I read somewhere that Boris (created Claude Code) recommends deleting skills, and hooks every so often and then observe how the LLM performs without them.

Maybe better to periodically prune: tweak some skills, shorten some, delete some.

Why nearly all songs are in a minor key now [video]

fallinditch — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:25:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=982k27De5xc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49578655

Points: 4

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New comment by fallinditch in "BBC destined to shrink at 'accelerating rate'"

fallinditch — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:32:19 +0000

Now they think about it: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/27/bbc-chief-prop...

New comment by fallinditch in "BBC destined to shrink at 'accelerating rate'"

fallinditch — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:22:10 +0000

I took part in an OFCOM (govt. Office of Communications) consultation on the future of UK public sector broadcasting in 2003-4, shortly before Youtube was born.

My suggestion was for the BBC to expand their definition of 'public sector broadcasting' to include facilitating the means of video distribution for communities ... kinda like Youtube in fact. The idea didn't resonate and was not mentioned in the report.

Around that time I also attended a meeting with some BBC bods, we were trying to promote Guerilla TV, a truly innovative and grass roots network that placed media servers and access points at strategic network nodes like universities (broadband was very sparse in those days). Nothing happened, opportunity missed.

To be fair, the BBC did accomplish some good stuff in those times too, notably Ashley Highfield and his team working on iPlayer, etc. But I've always thought the BBC made a strategic blunder by not doing more to enable grass roots content.

New comment by fallinditch in "Tim Curry has died"

fallinditch — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:44:50 +0000

Yes, his immense sexuality was an experience to behold, as he strutted in his leather jock strap, fishnets and high heels.

BBC destined to shrink at 'accelerating rate'

fallinditch — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:41:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/26/amol-rajan-warns-bbc-destined-to-shrink-at-accelerating-rate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49456317

Points: 8

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New comment by fallinditch in "Tim Curry has died"

fallinditch — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:09:27 +0000

When I was a teenager my aunt got me and my brother some tickets to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show - the original west end theater production: "you must see this". We had front row seats for a weekday matinee performance, Tim Curry was in the middle of a long run as Dr Frank-N-Furter - and boy, he blew our little socks off. I have never been present at such powerful stage magnetism before or since. The film version sorta captured it somewhat, but in the flesh he was unbelievable, powerful and ... divine.

How to stay positive (in the age of AI)

fallinditch — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:37:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEkoGCFpY8c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451013

Points: 2

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New comment by fallinditch in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

fallinditch — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:28:00 +0000

Yes, this is my approach now: a home server with devices connected via Tailscale. I'm starting to do more from my phone and less on the laptop.

I haven't added my iPad to the Tailnet yet but i reckon that it could become a very comfortable and productive device for me.

New comment by fallinditch in "Show HN: A techno machine in one HTML file, with verifiable renders"

fallinditch — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:37:31 +0000

Good job, very nice implementation. I do love the single page HTML delivery format. Downloaded

New comment by fallinditch in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

fallinditch — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:31:57 +0000

There is another aspect to this that I find even worse than LLM writing style: badly-human-written documents and posts.

You know this: you read something and it's like 'here's a mass of poorly structured text, it's not clear what the points are, it reads ugly, I have to read to the end to discover that there are no points! Or if there are points i now have to reread it. What a lot of effort.'

LLMs have annoying grammatical tics and can have other problems too, like the author says, but sometimes they can help to take bad writing and make it clear and more digestible.

New comment by fallinditch in "Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team"

fallinditch — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:23:08 +0000

I use the LLM-wiki pattern for a structured directory of topic folders of .md files, and made it also compatible with the Open Knowledge Format [1].

My agent (Hermes) responds to a made-up command "vaultize this doc/link/text, etc" to add new .md files in the right format in the right place. The agent does a pretty good job of maintaining the index.md file, cross-links, etc.

A Quartz website builder creates a static site on my server, each MD file is a web page, and rebuilds when a new file is added [2]. This setup gives me a useful knowledge base with a great UX - across all the devices on my Tailnet, no need to run Obsidian Sync, or Syncthing.

This system is simple and works well, but i think it could maybe benefit from a memory system like Honcho to make it more effective as it scales.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/how-th...

[2] https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/

New comment by fallinditch in "Software for One"

fallinditch — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:18:09 +0000

I used dexie js from dexie.org to persist indexedDB, vendoring the script in a sidecar js file or inlining it - good for your iOS persistent local db, android too.