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New comment by sync in "Gemini-3.5-Transcribe"

sync — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 22:48:37 +0000

I eval'd this pretty heavily with no audio or just noise, as for us hallucinating a response is very bad. It works great in this scenario. There are some bugs, e.g. randomly exactly 20 seconds of silence will lead to a 403, but I'm sure these aspects will be improved over time. I didn't get any hallucinations though.

New comment by sync in "Gemini-3.5-Transcribe"

sync — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 22:46:44 +0000

Are you in Smart or Verbatim mode?

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/transcribe#transcripti...

New comment by sync in "2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026"

sync — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:30:31 +0000

You can create a PostToolUse hook [0] which will automatically chastise Claude to shrink comments to one line. It's not perfect but better than the sea of prose it tends to generate by default. Bonus is that it would apply to your colleagues as well!

[0] https://github.com/chrisvariety/branch-fiction/blob/deb37f2b...

Better Auth is joining Vercel

sync — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:52:22 +0000

Article URL: https://better-auth.com/blog/better-auth-joins-vercel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48819512

Points: 128

# Comments: 89

New comment by sync in "Your ePub Is fine"

sync — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:10:16 +0000

If you have a ACSM (the file type Adobe Digital Editions uses for DRM) I’ve been using https://www.acsm-converter.com to strip the DRM and return a standard epub

New comment by sync in "NPM packages from Red Hat have been compromised"

sync — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:01:58 +0000

If using straight npm (v11.10.0 or higher), you can just add to .npmrc in the project root:

min-release-age=5

New comment by sync in "Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells"

sync — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:18:18 +0000

I tried it on my codebase. There's a lot of overlap with tools like Oxlint / ESLint, I'm not sure that's too valuable vs. a more focused tool that actually focuses solely on 'slop' signals. These lint rules tend to get very opinionated which is why those tools expose so many configuration options.

One real bug tho:

> [ERROR] Imports "mdast" but it's not declared in package.json

A type-only import like `import type { Blockquote, RootContent } from 'mdast';` is actually acceptable if `"@types/mdast": "^4.0.4"` is included in the package.json.

New comment by sync in "A Comma and a Question Mark, Redux: Quick Terminal Helpers Using Pi"

sync — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:50:48 +0000

Nice ideas! I've been using the `?` shortcut in atuin [0] which accomplishes the same sort of thing, but these days also has access to an Agent-like experience which allows me to prompt something like "Conventional Commit message for unstaged changes" and it will call `git diff` (after asking permission, of course) and then generate the commit message.

[0] https://atuin.sh

New comment by sync in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

sync — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:48:04 +0000

Neat! FYI when I tried it out, seems like there's a 60s timeout:

[Error] Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 504 (Gateway Time-out) (generate, line 0)

My "prompt" was, uh, simple: "Turns out, you don't need water to live."

New comment by sync in "[dead]"

sync — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:46:43 +0000

https://archive.is/UHwhp

New comment by sync in "Books are not too expensive"

sync — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:58:46 +0000

You can strip the DRM fairly easily these days if you have an ACSM file, I vibecoded this the other day after I couldn’t find any online converter that actually worked: https://www.acsm-converter.com

New comment by sync in "Parallel agents in Zed"

sync — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:15:51 +0000

I'm having a hard time adjusting to the Project Panel on the right (and, at least for me, hidden by default) - seems like they're trying to bury the concept of a 'file'?

It's certainly interesting though, and I'll give it some time - the post says "It feels more natural once you've spent a little time with it"

New comment by sync in "Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7"

sync — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:33:13 +0000

Which plan are you on? I could see that happening with Pro (which I think defaults to Sonnet?), would be surprised with Max…

New comment by sync in "Is Your Site Agent-Ready? (By Cloudflare)"

sync — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:22:37 +0000

at least for why Cloudflare keeps repeating the word… Welcome to Agents Week: https://blog.cloudflare.com/welcome-to-agents-week/

New comment by sync in "Lower Price for ChatGPT Business"

sync — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:07:26 +0000

Yeah, the lede is buried a bit, these new rate-cards seem to be aligning towards token-based pricing with the prior rates now labeled 'legacy'

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001106-codex-rate-card https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11481834-chatgpt-rate-ca...

New comment by sync in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

sync — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:58:51 +0000

Cute! Cactus for me. Nice animations too - looks like there were multiple of us asking Claude to reverse engineer the system. I did a slightly deeper dive here if you're interested, plus you can see all the options available: https://variety.is/posts/claude-code-buddies/

(I didn't think to include a UUID checker though - nice touch)

New comment by sync in "Reverse Engineering Claude Code's April Fools"

sync — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:57:47 +0000

I've posted here before about Claude Code's easter eggs [1] and they're back with another one this year for April Fools: Tamagotchi-style "buddies" appearing as ASCII art companions, determined by your userId.

Thanks to the Claude Code source code leak I was able to reverse engineer how it all works. Due to their PRNG choice (Mulberry32) it's trivial to crack all 4.29 billion seeds in seconds.

Some findings:

- 1% legendary chance: 42,989,564 seeds out of 2^32 produce legendaries - Stats & shiny appear to be dead code: rolled but never read anywhere. Pure bragging rights? - Commons can't have hats, only uncommon+ rolls from the hat table - "God" rolls exist: legendary + shiny + a maxed stat at 100.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44376970

Reverse Engineering Claude Code's April Fools

sync — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:57:47 +0000

Article URL: https://variety.is/posts/claude-code-buddies/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47588286

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Finding a typo in Fourth Wing using AI

sync — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:40:35 +0000

Article URL: https://variety.is/posts/fourth-wing-typo/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47546607

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sync in "Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app"

sync — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:05:05 +0000

Hmm, the Mac app downloaded gemma-3-4b-it-Q4_K_M.gguf for me (on an Apple M4) - maybe the desktop apps download different models?

Though, I don't see any references to Gemma at all in the open source code...