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New comment by ssalka in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

ssalka — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:07:01 +0000

I immediately thought "oh, the email client? It's AI now?" Then I realized this is Thunderbolt, not Thunderbird. Kind of an odd choice by Mozilla to have two products with such similar names.

New comment by ssalka in "Nucleus Nouns"

ssalka — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:45:27 +0000

This makes me think of domain models in domain-driven design. Very useful to think about what these models are and how it makes sense to set them up & relate them in your area of work.

New comment by ssalka in "LM Studio 0.4"

ssalka — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:05:57 +0000

Personally, I would not run LM Studio anywhere outside of my local network as it still doesn't support adding an SSL cert. I guess you can just layer a proxy server on top of it, but if it's meant to be easy to set up, it seems like a quick win that I don't see any reason not to build support for.

https://github.com/lmstudio-ai/lmstudio-bug-tracker/issues/1...

New comment by ssalka in "He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over"

ssalka — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:03:42 +0000

For those interested, National Geographic has the "Out of Eden Walk" [1], a journey along the path of historical human migration, led by Paul Salopek. He started in Ethiopia in January 2013 – nearly 13 years ago – and just recently made it to Alaska. The planned end of the trip is at the southern tip of South America.

[1] https://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/

New comment by ssalka in "I analyzed the lineups at the most popular nightclubs"

ssalka — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:49:46 +0000

I'm just gonna say that some aspect of the data collection here seems flawed: among the SF clubs listed are DNA Lounge and Public Works – which are great clubs, don't get me wrong – but they are very much on the smaller side. And, Phonobar? That is a bar/restaurant, not a nightclub at all. Meanwhile, The Warfield and 1015 Folsom are left out – how does that make any sense?

New comment by ssalka in "The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful"

ssalka — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:42:30 +0000

Eric Weinstein refers to this as an Embedded Growth Obligation (EGO), whereby organizations and economies at large assume perpetual growth, and that things really start to unravel when that growth inevitably slows. It is pretty mindblowing how we have basically accepted growth as the default state, it is not at all a given that things always grow and get better.

New comment by ssalka in "Open music foundation models for full-song generation"

ssalka — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:40:24 +0000

Something interesting... the first 10 seconds or so of the "Death Growl" example[1] is basically copied verbatim from "Ov Fire And The Void" by Behemoth.

More specifically, I think the part that seems copied is at 2:13 of the original[2], as it leads into a solo-ish bit which in the AI version sounds similar still, but goes on to do its own thing:

[1] https://map-yue.github.io/music/moon.death_metal.mp3

[2] https://youtu.be/vAmnsKKrt9w?t=133

New comment by ssalka in "Gemini CLI GitHub Actions"

ssalka — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:39:15 +0000

Maybe a skill issue, but I've tried using Gemini 2.5 Pro in Cursor several times, and each time it is an abundance of thinking and very little (often incorrect) actions. Claude Sonnet is cheaper and much more effective for me.

Having a hard time imagining the GHA integration will be much different.

New comment by ssalka in "The era of ghosting job candidates is slowly ending"

ssalka — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 23:11:31 +0000

https://archive.ph/uiPhA

New comment by ssalka in "Do variable names matter for AI code completion? (2025)"

ssalka — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:05:29 +0000

The names of variables impart semantic meaning, which LLMs can pick up on and use as context for determining how variables should behave or be used. Seems obvious to me that `current_temperature` is a superior name to `x` – that is, unless we're doing competitive programming ;)

New comment by ssalka in "Anthropic Faces Potentially "Business-Ending" Copyright Lawsuit"

ssalka — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:02:30 +0000

IMO cases like this won't matter until the supreme court decides to hear or not hear an appeal for one. There's no way we will allow "fair use" training in certain regions of the US while prohibiting it in others (at least, no way that will last very long).

That, or Anthropic wins their case and we continue with the de facto argument of fair use.

New comment by ssalka in "Women dating safety app 'Tea' breached, users' IDs posted to 4chan"

ssalka — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:56:56 +0000

I would imagine Tea enjoys protections from Section 230, same as all other social media sites.

New comment by ssalka in "Internet Archive is now a federal depository library"

ssalka — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:47:03 +0000

It sounds like it was at the request of IA:

> "...in response to the enclosed letter I received from the Founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive, Mr. Brewster Kahle, I am designating the Internet Archive as a federal depository library in California."

Which seems a lot more agreeable than unilateral designation (which is also how I initially read this).

New comment by ssalka in "Show HN: Price Per Token – LLM API Pricing Data"

ssalka — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:42:42 +0000

I'd love to see this data joined with common benchmarks, in order to see which models get you the most "bang for your buck", i.e. benchmark score / token cost

New comment by ssalka in "Unsafe and Unpredictable: My Volvo EX90 Experience"

ssalka — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:33:44 +0000

FWIW I've had a 2006 S40 for the past 10 years and found it very reliable. But can't speak for their models since then

New comment by ssalka in "Show HN: Scream to Unlock – Blocks social media until you scream “I'm a loser”"

ssalka — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 19:11:37 +0000

As much as I hate to say it, forcing users to look at ads probably does a decent job of limiting social media time, at least it would for me.

On TikTok you can just swipe through ads when they come up, so lots of people now have built-in muscle memory to auto-swipe every 4th or 5th video, or if they see "Sponsored" in the lower left. If I was instead forced to watch every one of those through to completion, I'd spend a lot less time on there.

New comment by ssalka in "Meta in Talks for Scale AI Investment That Could Top $10B"

ssalka — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 02:21:16 +0000

Apples & oranges IMO. VR is a fun idea but the tech just simply isn't there yet. Can't say the same for AI.

New comment by ssalka in "Asymmetric Content Moderation in Search Markets: The Case of Adult Websites"

ssalka — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 21:50:52 +0000

> The shift did not take place immediately. Within six months, traffic at smaller, less regulated sites had grown by 55%, and at larger sites by 10%, with point estimates implying that the traffic was entirely diverted to competing firms. This suggests that regulating only the largest platforms may push traffic to fringe sites and less controlled spaces.

This rings true to me, especially in the recent context of AI adopters looking for uncensored alternatives. This frame of thinking can be applied not only to models, i.e. many move away from OpenAI/ChatGPT in search of less restricted models, as well as being applied to sites providing AI resources. Just the other day, CivitAI (the current leader for distributing custom checkpoints, LoRAs for image-centric models) announced it was taking a much more heavy-handed approach to moderation due to pressure from Mastercard/Visa. Its users are simply outraged, and many I think will be leaving in search of a safe haven for their models/gens going forward.

New comment by ssalka in "AI Avatars Escape the Uncanny Valley"

ssalka — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 22:04:18 +0000

This is besides the point, but the linked Monoverse / Unanswered Oddities videos are so good. Would definitely recommend, besides being hilariously funny it's a testament to what the average person can accomplish now if they actually want to put time into making good AI-based content.

New comment by ssalka in "Show HN: Nodini.ai – AI-Powered Brainstorming with Branching Conversations"

ssalka — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:02:06 +0000

In the visualization on your site, I see some curvy arrows linking between two different branches of the conversation. Does that mean anything in the context of the chat with the LLM? Or is it like some detected similarity between the two nodes that was determined after the chat occurred?