Hacker News: shawnc

New comment by shawnc in "Ask HN: Is Washington Post correct in saying Signal is unsecure?"

shawnc — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 16:22:00 +0000

Yes, thank you for saying so. I agree. And that's what should be being discussed everywhere.

New comment by shawnc in "Ask HN: Is Washington Post correct in saying Signal is unsecure?"

shawnc — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 16:20:56 +0000

Yes, this. I was about to post my own comment and will instead reply and upvote yours.

This strikes me as setting the conversation to be whether it's 'secure', and can then everyone can discuss that part - instead of the fact that's not where or how that conversation should have been happening at all.

New comment by shawnc in "Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content"

shawnc — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 01:27:41 +0000

Can I just say, the comments that have happened here before mine, have been stellar. Wow. And also, it's so weird to have some nostalgia for all of this now...

New comment by shawnc in "Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize"

shawnc — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 20:02:41 +0000

Thank you! I too have aphantasia and I really appreciate this comment :)

New comment by shawnc in "Autogenerating a Book Series from Three Years of iMessages"

shawnc — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 13:32:56 +0000

Ditto. Exactly what I pictured from the title and I was already thinking how interesting that would be. I’m curious to try something like it now.

New comment by shawnc in "The Apple Vision Pro’s missing apps"

shawnc — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 17:22:18 +0000

Wasn't the CEO of Disney on stage when the Vision Pro was introduced/announced? From an IP standpoint having Disney on stage over Netflix seems like the better choice...

New comment by shawnc in "Dissolves: The out-of-fashion film trick that makes 'The Holdovers' so affecting"

shawnc — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 21:54:29 +0000

Thanks for the link!

New comment by shawnc in "Dissolves: The out-of-fashion film trick that makes 'The Holdovers' so affecting"

shawnc — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 14:30:17 +0000

No subscription yet so I haven’t read the article. The dissolves were excellent in this film tho. But overall the slower pace and time with little moments is what made it so good for me - to stop and have time for a slow (but so so good) film like this is what was perfect.

New comment by shawnc in "Beeper Mini is back"

shawnc — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:56:44 +0000

Really shows to me why so many developers end up focusing so much more on the iOS versions of their apps. I would have expected the same.

New comment by shawnc in "What has changed in CPU cores in M3 chips?"

shawnc — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 14:15:20 +0000

I work with a lot of 4K elements and video in Apple Motion, After Effects, and other applications. The better the chip the faster things go, especially previews and encoding. Every second ends up counting.

I can see why others like me may upgrade. But I’m not going to bother just yet.

New comment by shawnc in "GPTs: Custom versions of ChatGPT"

shawnc — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 20:03:17 +0000

I don't recall which interviews I saw it stated in, but I believe Sam said in one or two of his world tour stops, where he stated they deliberately have gone with a technical name instead of a human name to help remind those using it that it's not a person. So I think that coupled with the mindshare (as others have stated) it already holds, makes a lot of sense to stick with it.

New comment by shawnc in "Patience for after-hours work socializing is wearing thin"

shawnc — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 04:05:43 +0000

There's SO MUCH MORE TO DO at home or with close friends, coupled with everything else already said in the other comments, that it just doesn't meet the threshold of enjoyment or need it once felt like it did.

New comment by shawnc in "Fandom can't decide if leaked songs are real or AI-generated"

shawnc — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 16:34:33 +0000

Great point. It's fascinating that the trend of the pop music industry has been towards more and more electronic control over vocals and instruments and everything else for a very long time... and now that AI can basically replicate it, and with all the auto-tune that we got used to, we can barely tell if it's 'real' or AI-generated.

New comment by shawnc in "Lie still in bed"

shawnc — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 19:04:48 +0000

Thanks, this convinced me to give this a try!

New comment by shawnc in "MacWhisper: Transcribe audio files on your Mac"

shawnc — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 15:12:46 +0000

Been using it for a couple months, and Jordi keeps improving on it at a steady clip. It's great!!

New comment by shawnc in "What happened in this GPT-3 conversation?"

shawnc — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 20:06:30 +0000

Since we have no eyes into the Custom Instructions - and while i personally haven't tested WHEN it takes these custom instructions into account, it says this before you use them: "Your instructions will be added to new conversations going forward, and you can edit or delete them at any time."

So, is it POSSIBLE that the custom instructions editing could have caused this, and there are weird instructions being changed between chats?

New comment by shawnc in "Twitter Is DDOSing Itself"

shawnc — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 17:50:18 +0000

Fair enough - the sentence in question was indeed 'What's Happening?'

New comment by shawnc in "Twitter Is DDOSing Itself"

shawnc — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 21:29:57 +0000

My 14yr old daughter sent me this screenshot the other day with the comment "I think that one sentence sums up twitter pretty well".

https://capture.dropbox.com/GqgTAxRimqAXzrdo

New comment by shawnc in "Obsidian-Copilot: A Prototype Assistant for Writing and Thinking"

shawnc — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 21:26:40 +0000

I haven't used Notion, but in my research its AI feature is only the Smart Write/Edit that Mem has - tho I am unsure how well it uses the rest of the content you have inside of Notion, as their sales page doesn't really make that clear.

Mem.ai has integrated many aspects into it - I love that I am now unconcerned about tags or folders or categories.

New comment by shawnc in "Obsidian-Copilot: A Prototype Assistant for Writing and Thinking"

shawnc — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 18:29:43 +0000

This looks great! I was about to start learning and diving into Obsidian about a month ago, finally driven to begin building a personal knowledgebase...

And then I found Mem.ai and dove into that instead, and i've been extremely happy with it. It accomplishes this aspect he's offering here (where it uses your knowledgebase to assist in your writing). However, it's also got built in chat with your knowledgebase, and helps with auto-sorting and all of that.

For those that want their data on their computer, I totally see why Obsidian is the most desirable. So this sort of addition would be the best of both worlds for them.