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New comment by juliendorra in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

juliendorra — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:49:04 +0000

> Agents should have the same permissions as the user prompting them, nothing else.

In user support work, it won’t make them very useful. User support is the fallback when self-serve tools and public documentation, the one you have permission to read and use directly, are not allowing a solution.

By definition useful user support allows operations that are beyond the user’s permissions

New comment by juliendorra in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

juliendorra — Sun, 31 May 2026 09:44:29 +0000

"Our entire society has become black and white, overly tribal" It might be a recency bias, because the 19th and 20th were extremely polarized, politically… from entire nations split up on one issue, up to political assassination, civil wars… slavery, women’s vote, antisemitism, prohibition, civil rights, asylum, universal marriage, and much more.

New comment by juliendorra in "Accelerando (2005)"

juliendorra — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:58:19 +0000

Yes, it was obvious maybe even in the 60s for a few, and it has been fantasized by many, but you wrote it as a cohesive, nearly deterministic, and fluid story. Your deep understanding of some fundamental issues (like latency) that you turned into consequences instead of brushing them off is what made it so perfect as a very tangible and possible future. One read and it never left me

New comment by juliendorra in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

juliendorra — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 08:56:20 +0000

This is a really close equivalent to keep learning sketch and clay modeling in design school

New comment by juliendorra in "When do we become adults, really?"

juliendorra — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:08:21 +0000

ADHD and other mental issues are under-diagnosed in dysfunctional or toxic families, and of course exist in very stable caring families, so I would be very curious in which data link the very different symptoms you cite directly to trauma. It feels like going back to the era of shaming mothers for autism.

New comment by juliendorra in "I haven't used a mouse for 14 years"

juliendorra — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:35:45 +0000

They are the basis of the prototype that Bas Ording used to design all the interactions we know today on touch: inertial scrolling with rubber band effect, row of icons for apps, pinch to zoom, etc. It was a fingerwork trackpad with his Director (in 2004!) interactions projected on! It was designed for a Mac tablet, but then the focus shifted to a phone.

New comment by juliendorra in "Tech bros are lying to you about the MacBook Neo"

juliendorra — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:29:47 +0000

I use an Air M2 8GB, and memory becomes an issues when I have Chrome with hundreds of tabs, a docker runner, an IDE, and several other apps like keynote all open. Add Claude and the machine is suffering! My guess is that 8GB should be fine for most users, but design students for example may stumble upon issues if they use a lot of big apps concurrently.

New comment by juliendorra in "Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch"

juliendorra — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:14:07 +0000

Nice write up! Even if I think that turn taking is a very simplified model of conversation! There’s collaborative overlapping, while the other continue, there is all the confirmations that the other agree, there’s the phatic messages maintaining the "listening channel open", and there’s even completion (filling a word or a name) that are not turn taking and should not be taken as such, yet that the model should be able to produce and accept. They are probably not modeled well or at all by a turn taking process

New comment by juliendorra in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

juliendorra — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:22:29 +0000

In the first years, I remember no other search engine was close to Google quality. We all ditched AltaVista because Google was incredibly better. It would have been awful to switch back to any other options. We can already switch between the 3 big proprietary models without feeling too much differences, so it’s quite a different landscape.

New comment by juliendorra in "Tell HN: Intel could blow up the Console Wars if it had the guts"

juliendorra — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:24:34 +0000

Consoles are not a big market enough to move a company like Intel. Consoles are a niche in computing. Gaming computing is niche compared to business computing (both in value and in number of users)

New comment by juliendorra in "French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence"

juliendorra — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:22:47 +0000

Wider range in bigger cities, I think it’s quite common everywhere? Small town restaurants need pauses

New comment by juliendorra in "Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out"

juliendorra — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:41:28 +0000

I think it’s a myth that people consumed less information just a few decades ago. Remember that newspapers used to have at least two daily editions (morning and afternoon). And of course radio has had continuous news flashes for a century.

This is similar to the myth that people communicated less before the messaging apps: they were glued to their phone for hours, sent telegrams and even sent very short letters (delivered same day!) to just say "thanks for the lunch that was very nice" (I found some in my grand-parents’s papers)

Our (social) communication appetite has always been quite insatiable.

New comment by juliendorra in "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO"

juliendorra — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:52:36 +0000

Yes, there has been nice geniuses (ie. people with extreme talent), Mozart was for example a good person. Da Vinci (if a little sycophantic when young) was not unhinged at all nor abusive and was appreciated.

But since romantism we have built this image of the genius as necessarily abusive.

I’m sure abusive genius are very visible (by definition?) and that abusive people tend to monopolize more ressources too. (Like these tenured professors that use their students to advance their own career)

New comment by juliendorra in "I used o3 to profile myself from my saved Pocket links"

juliendorra — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:53:57 +0000

You should be able to use Google Takeout to get all of your YouTube data, including your watch history.

This article is a nice example of someone using it:

> When I downloaded all my YouTube data, I’ve noticed an interesting file included. That file was named watch-history and it contained a list of all the videos I’ve ever watched.

https://blog.viktomas.com/posts/youtube-usage/

Of course as an European it's a legal obligation for companies to give you access, but I think Google Takeout works worldwide?

New comment by juliendorra in "Container: Apple's Linux-Container Runtime"

juliendorra — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 16:59:00 +0000

Microsoft did it too with Windows and Words (supposedly after a very messy trademark dispute around excel? If I remember well?). This avoids trademark dispute on names (as you can’t trademark generic name alone) and is an effective way for very recognizable brands to extend their branding without adding too much confusion

New comment by juliendorra in "How to not use AI to code for you"

juliendorra — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:20:32 +0000

I have been using CSS since, well, they were invented back in 1995 but not continuously (when I need them). And I can never remember how to properly center things or how to do a lot of supposedly simple things. The specs has a lot of confusing naming (the naming have some logic, but nevertheless a confusing) and of course a lot of interrelated effects.

We used to have css editors that helped.

But I’m glad LLMs can now write CSS for me, and it nearly works perfect every time (I sometimes have to dig and fix things, and to push it to use the latest specs not old obsolete tricks)

New comment by juliendorra in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

juliendorra — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 06:50:14 +0000

The first digital privacy laws following a personal data scandal were voted in… 1978 (France)

Tech has always been a tool for control, power and accumulation of capital.

You counterbalance it with social and civic laws (ie. Counter power)

New comment by juliendorra in "Dia – An Early Review"

juliendorra — Fri, 16 May 2025 06:08:54 +0000

My guess is that it’s easier to build with (WebKit is old, after all) and maybe Apple’s pace on certain features is perceived as slow? A new WebKit browser on Windows might also seem risky for a startup, they probably want a known and safe build path.

New comment by juliendorra in "CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]"

juliendorra — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 06:58:07 +0000

Alternatively people who say “I’m not political” are benefiting from the status quo and political direction of things (long term, not necessarily short term). They frame inaction as apolitical.

New comment by juliendorra in "Show HN: iPhone 2005 weird "Blob Keyboard" simulator"

juliendorra — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 08:20:30 +0000

There's no up swipe in the prototype made in 2005 by Ken Kocienda (which this is a reproduction of). It's tap for center letter, and swipe for the sides.

What do you mean by "widen the margins"?

In any case, Ken Kocienda validated this reproduction's behavior as very close to his original blob keyboard (see bluesky posts between him and me)

The goal is not to make it better than the original prototype! But to the contrary, to give you the same experience that pushed Kocienda to explore further and design the right user experience.