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New comment by illwrks in "Show HN: 41 years sea surface temperature anomalies"

illwrks — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:56:38 +0000

Very nice. I had a quick look at the data source and I wonder if the more recent data is more sensitive/better quality since 2020? There's a clear trend of the oceans getting warmer but recently it seems like there's more and more heat retained.

"CRW's first-generation global monitoring products were operational at NOAA until April 30, 2020, when they were officially retired, and succeeded by CRW's next-generation operational daily monitoring products."

New comment by illwrks in "Caveman Mode Save Token?"

illwrks — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:33:28 +0000

It does. I've been tinkering with Copilot Studio Agents and you can hit a 8k character limit quickly. By taking your instructions and asking Copilot to compress the information down, while ensuring they are still human readable, you can cut it back to about 5k characters. The information is more dense and functionally the same and the agent is just as consistent as before.

New comment by illwrks in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

illwrks — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:29:55 +0000

LinkedIn is in a different category than your standard website or social site due to the amount of PII. I'm not saying it's right to scan your environment, but as someone with a LinkedIn account I would prefer they tried to protect my data than be lazy about it. You have more to worry about from Adobe's online tracking than LinkedIn checking your installed extension for scrapers.

New comment by illwrks in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

illwrks — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 09:40:17 +0000

You can guaranteed that this is a data protection and anti-scraping measure. I used to work with some recruiters and there are several third party recruiter tools that scrape linked in data to the third party sites database under the guise of supporting recruiters. I would rather this than having my LinkedIn data siphoned off other parts of the internet for god know what purpose.

New comment by illwrks in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

illwrks — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:22:30 +0000

Anthropic launched in the UK recently (Feb I think) so I expect it’s as a consequence of that.

New comment by illwrks in "Engine Cinema. OpenAI Killed Sora to Build a Cinema Camera"

illwrks — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:57:34 +0000

This has to be a joke. April fool

New comment by illwrks in "What Is Copilot Exactly?"

illwrks — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:48:06 +0000

I’ve been saying the same thing to people I work with for the past few months. When everything is labelled as copilot it creates such confused ideas when someone says they have created something with copilot… or created a copilot agent. It always invoked 20 questions to interrogate what actually was created, and with what ‘version’ of copilot.

MS really needs to distinguish between them all.

New comment by illwrks in "Raspberry Pi profit surges as AI boom lifts demand"

illwrks — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:48:25 +0000

Yes. Most people have close to zero understanding of tech, and are instead very heavily influenced by what they hear and see online, on social etc. They won’t think too deeply about the detail and therefore will make false assumptions.

New comment by illwrks in "Apple Can Create Smaller On-Device AI Models from Google's Gemini"

illwrks — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:35:06 +0000

Air model - ditsy and air headed, prone to exaggerate. Standard model - does enough of what you need, no bells and whistles, less of an airhead. Pro model - for professionals, serious and trustworthy

New comment by illwrks in "Microsoft weighs legal action over $50B Amazon-OpenAI cloud deal"

illwrks — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:19:41 +0000

Looks like the same article: https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-weighs-legal-ac...

New comment by illwrks in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

illwrks — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:52:43 +0000

Yes, computer in your pocket indeed! I think the Apple Neo shows just how powerful/capable the mobile chips are getting for computer use.

New comment by illwrks in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

illwrks — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:52:33 +0000

I installed Termux on an old Android phone last week (running LineageOS), and then using Termux installed Ollama and a small model. It ran terribly, but it did run.

New comment by illwrks in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

illwrks — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:45:28 +0000

He will still need a pipeline of work to keep himself and his team busy. Someone has to do that job, if clients are self selecting then it makes sense to automate it if possible.

New comment by illwrks in "I love my dumb watches"

illwrks — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:36:35 +0000

My Fitbit died two weeks ago. I had purchased it because I can set multiple silent alarms. I could replace the battery but then it’s likely that the watertight seal would be compromised. I’ve put on my analogue watch, learned to live with my phone for alarms and so far so good. No worrying about the charge state every few days. No syncing with apps etc.

New comment by illwrks in "E Foundation – deGoogled unGoogled smartphone OS"

illwrks — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:36:14 +0000

I recently installed lineageOS on an old (2018) android phone. It's amazing how snappy it is, and makes a great standalone music player.

New comment by illwrks in "Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome"

illwrks — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:31:33 +0000

It wasn't immediately obvious to me what you had written... so I had to Google it. Very clever statement :D

(Matthew 19:24) "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."

New comment by illwrks in "Xiaomi launches next-gen SU7 with 902 km range and Lidar, still undercuts Tesla"

illwrks — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:23:26 +0000

Is that 97% really just the 80% of the full battery capacity?

New comment by illwrks in "MacBook Neo"

illwrks — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:23:57 +0000

If you stop the video you can see the 8 screws on the bottom of the Neo. I'm hoping that means there's some level of repairability at least from a battery perspective. I'm looking forward to some teardowns when it's in peoples hands.

New comment by illwrks in "My lobster lost $450k this weekend"

illwrks — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:24:15 +0000

It’s starting to sound like the plot of The Prestige (2006 Christopher Nolan film)

New comment by illwrks in "Tesla registrations crash 17% in Europe as BEV market surges 14%"

illwrks — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:33:43 +0000

So no parts when they are eventually needed!