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New comment by parentheses in "macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool (2025)"

parentheses — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:51:39 +0000

This tool is not just used for safety. ;)

You can spoof or disappear a mashed file. You can trigger vulnerabilities by breaking internal assumptions of a program.

New comment by parentheses in "Show HN: OpenCode for Meetings"

parentheses — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:49:30 +0000

I am only trying it out for now. But what I'd love is for things to be quite automatic. I join a zoom, get a prompt "what do you want? record, record+transcribe or record+transcribe+summarize (or use some custom prompt)"

New comment by parentheses in "Show HN: OpenCode for Meetings"

parentheses — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:50:10 +0000

I just downloaded and I'm presented with a seemingly required google login.

I really appreciate that this is free, but I do feel like the privacy-first approach is incompatible with requiring google login.

edit: FWIW, I bought MacWhisper and would buy this if it didn't require the Google login.

New comment by parentheses in "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"

parentheses — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:46:54 +0000

Fully agree to this. I find the cost of cloud providers is mostly driven by architecture. If you're cost conscious, cloud architectures need to be up-front designed with this in mind.

Microservices is a killer with cost. For each microservices pod - you're often running a bunch of side cars - datadog, auth, ingress - you pay massive workload separation overhead with orchestration, management, monitoring and ofc complexity

I am just flabbergasted that this is how we operate as a norm in our industry.

New comment by parentheses in "Postgres Postmaster does not scale"

parentheses — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:14:26 +0000

I think this is the kind of investigation that AI can really accelerate. I imagine it did. I would love to see someone walk through a challenging investigation assisted by AI.

New comment by parentheses in "Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device"

parentheses — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:13:00 +0000

What the commenter is saying pertains to the _decision_ to use Android. That is why this is happening. That is NVidia.

New comment by parentheses in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

parentheses — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:10:05 +0000

I look at this as the equivalent of writing a MUD as you ladder up to greater capabilities. MUDs are a good educational task.

Similarly AIs are just putzing around right now. As they become more capable they can be thrown at bigger and bigger problems.

New comment by parentheses in "Prism"

parentheses — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:16:39 +0000

This dynamic would create even more gate-keeping using credentials, which is already a problem with academia.

New comment by parentheses in "Prism"

parentheses — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:15:44 +0000

Totally agree!

I feel like this means that working in any group where individuals compete against each other results in an AI vs AI content generation competition, where the human is stuck verifying/reviewing.

New comment by parentheses in "Prism"

parentheses — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:11:42 +0000

It feels generally a bit dangerous to use an AI product to work on research when (1) it's free and (2) the company hosting it makes money by shipping productized research

New comment by parentheses in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

parentheses — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:33:27 +0000

I suppose in that position your head has lower elevation, allowing for better circulation.

New comment by parentheses in "Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation"

parentheses — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:14:27 +0000

I got some errors trying to run this on my MBP. Claude was able to one-shot a fix.

``` Loaded speech tokenizer from ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--Qwen--Qwen3-TTS-12Hz-1.7B-VoiceDesign/snapshots/0e711a1c0aa5aad30654426 e0d11f67716c1211e/speech_tokenizer Fetching 11 files: 0%| | 0/11 [00:00https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.1-24B-Instr.... This will lead to incorrect tokenization. You should set the `fix_mistral_regex=True` flag when loading this tokenizer to fix this issue. ```

New comment by parentheses in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

parentheses — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:09:57 +0000

With the recent success of AI, I feel the more insidious issue is preventing the use of AI in reading paper ballots. There's a lot of room to engineer bias.

New comment by parentheses in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

parentheses — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:08:06 +0000

The problem is that nothing is immutable about computing. Software itself is mutable. So is data. The transferability of software makes hardware mutable also.

It seems like pen and paper is currently the best verifiable and immutable voting approach.

New comment by parentheses in "The Tulip Creative Computer"

parentheses — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:49:02 +0000

It's a trade off as always. I agree though.

I wonder the same thing a lot. I also wonder how AI will fit into this problem.

New comment by parentheses in "90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet"

parentheses — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:46:04 +0000

To be fair, shutting down all communications and power are our only defense against a runaway AI system.

This is a capability that makes sense to have to use when absolutely necessary.

I think the differentiator is always when governments choose to employ these things.

New comment by parentheses in "On privacy and control"

parentheses — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 23:22:42 +0000

> I have nothing to hide

I really dislike that this is always the argument that's being attacked. It's not even what most people are thinking when they respond.

It's clear that the exchange is privacy for effort. If I want to self host, I need to pay time and money to get it all working, then continue to maintain it forever.

New comment by parentheses in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

parentheses — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:23:30 +0000

This is different because now the cats out of the bag: AI is big money!

I don't expect AGI or Super intelligence to take that long but I do think it'll happen in private labs now. There's an AI business model (pay per token) that folks can use also.

New comment by parentheses in "Go Gray, Not Cray: Why You Should Grayscale Your Phone"

parentheses — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 04:38:50 +0000

I prefer using the same feature to have an extremely warm (almost red) tone. I think it's much more pleasing than b/w and results in less blue light for me.

New comment by parentheses in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

parentheses — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:14:35 +0000

Not to mention the saturation of training data