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New comment by riddlemethat in "Using coding assistance tools to revive projects you never were going to finish"

riddlemethat — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:22:37 +0000

What’s fun for me these days is picking up a project I started with an LLM doing agent driven development a few months ago or even a year ago and hit a wall and stopped being able to be picked up by the latest version of Claude and/or codex and bringing it further. Some can now launch some still are too complex for the agent to build. But, it’s getting easier and easier to build personal apps. We are not far off from being able to say “Alexa, build me an app on my iPhone that lets me take pictures of the food in my fridge to compile the nutritional benefits and sync it with my workout app then compare it to the ideal ingredients I should eat based on my fitness goals in my health app and have it set to send me emails where it can find me better ingredients to buy that are cost effective, local, and meet my diet restrictions” and in 15 minutes that app suddenly exists.

New comment by riddlemethat in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"

riddlemethat — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:36:15 +0000

If you want security through obscurity you can revert to IPoAC (RFC 1149).

New comment by riddlemethat in "Michael Rabin has died"

riddlemethat — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:16:44 +0000

Anti-Jew rhetoric is at a level unseen since WW2. It’s the new normal. It’s horrible.

New comment by riddlemethat in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

riddlemethat — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:41:21 +0000

If it’s not 10BaseT I can’t see small spread adoption.

New comment by riddlemethat in "New iPhone age and identity checks restrict internet freedom in the UK"

riddlemethat — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:34:35 +0000

Some people just want government to parent them.

New comment by riddlemethat in "MacBook Neo"

riddlemethat — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:27:58 +0000

This, coupled with the nightmare fuel that Windows has become as of 2026, means no one sane should buy a Windows computer. It's more expensive, more intrusive, and Microsoft management clearly has zero respect for its customers.

New comment by riddlemethat in "Never buy a .online domain"

riddlemethat — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:03:36 +0000

You know it's getting bad out there when corporations act like the government.

New comment by riddlemethat in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"

riddlemethat — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:51:08 +0000

https://www.page-vault.com/ These guys exist to solve that problem.

New comment by riddlemethat in "Good Riddance, 4o"

riddlemethat — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:41:34 +0000

I think that's part of it, but then the user perceives "personality changes" when the model changes due to differences in the model. Now they have lost their relationship because of the model change.

New comment by riddlemethat in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

riddlemethat — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:07:06 +0000

In capitalism, the rich get powerful; in socialism, the powerful get rich.

New comment by riddlemethat in "GitHub is down again"

riddlemethat — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:03:52 +0000

CoPilot has done more for Linux than anyone expected. I switched. I'm switching my elderly parents away next before they fall victim.

New comment by riddlemethat in "The Great Unwind"

riddlemethat — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:05:03 +0000

Anyone attempting to build a movement might find it interesting how Pumping Station One in Chicago is governed. It's a maker space but run by people who care (at least from my experience when I was a member back in 2015/2016). The process for electing leadership and holding members accountable was very democratic and fair, from my experience. They open-source as much as they can about how they organize:

https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/wiki/Do-ocracy

https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/wiki/Member_Manual

https://wiki.pumpingstationone.org/wiki/Administration

New comment by riddlemethat in "Rural Americans are trying to hold back the tide of AI"

riddlemethat — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:19:37 +0000

https://theweek.com/politics/us-election-who-the-billionaire...

New comment by riddlemethat in "Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

riddlemethat — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:08:58 +0000

Microsoft Teams was bad, so they rebuilt it and somehow made it worse. Then they decided to do the same with other apps, like Notepad. I switched to Ubuntu on my computer this week. Linux administration is not something I want to spend time on, but LLMs are able to help me debug why my password manager can't talk to my browser and write shell scripts to fix it... I'm able to focus on work and be done with the Microslop.

New comment by riddlemethat in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

riddlemethat — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:43:04 +0000

The same issues plague old Android tablets. Lots of unecessary ewaste out there so OEM's can sell new devices.

New comment by riddlemethat in "Show HN: Build Web Automations via Demonstration"

riddlemethat — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:40:47 +0000

I do this with Chrome recording and Playwright. What I need is an AI agent to meander through my product as if it were the target user and test/break things so I can pass that to my LLM to fix. Does anyone have that?

New comment by riddlemethat in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

riddlemethat — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:59:03 +0000

AI is genuinely good at hallucinating. So is middle management. Probably displacing some of those jobs.

New comment by riddlemethat in "A dark adtech empire fed by fake CAPTCHAs"

riddlemethat — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:35:39 +0000

DocuSign tracks your location when you sign a document unless you disable it in the browser. Learned that a few years ago.

New comment by riddlemethat in "Car dealerships revert to pens and paper after cyberattacks on software provider"

riddlemethat — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:09:38 +0000

The paid internship... The true unicorn...

New comment by riddlemethat in "Apple won't roll out AI tech in EU market over regulatory concerns"

riddlemethat — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 17:24:49 +0000

As an American, my perception is that Europeans work to live while those of us in the States live to work; the highest crime in America is hurting the rich, and the highest crime in Europe is hurting the working class.