Hacker News: tuchsen

New comment by tuchsen in "FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices"

tuchsen — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 05:51:44 +0000

You're spot on, I've been doing Doordash on an e-bike on the weekends for exercise and the wait times are BS because everyone orders lunch/dinner at the same time and they're in essentially a random queue with everyone else who orders. Add to that multiple pick ups and drop offs and you've got a mess.

Talking to people really does help though, everyone wants to be more forgiving when you remind them theirs a human factor involved in getting the food to them.

New comment by tuchsen in "Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)"

tuchsen — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 18:32:50 +0000

The last time I upgraded my networking setup (just as the pandemic started) I went with Ubiquiti, shortly after (before?) they started default forcing you to sign up for their cloud service to use the router, you can switch it to a locally operated mode after you sign up but they bury it in the options. Their networking equipment works great, don't get me wrong, but they don't open source anything. I keep waiting for the full rug pull when sales start to slow because everything they release is rock solid and everything I have is "good enough." I don't feel the need to upgrade for as long as the rug pull doesn't happen.

I am super grateful people are starting to work on open source solutions to this stuff :).

New comment by tuchsen in "Autogen: Enable next-gen large language model applications"

tuchsen — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 22:38:40 +0000

I did a DSL to facilitate this at https://prlang.com. I've had some success setting up agents to "act" out scenes, where each plays a different part, but it was kinda limited in that conversations would kinda de cohere into nonsense after a bit.

New comment by tuchsen in "Driver hits woman in SF, then Cruise driverless car runs her over"

tuchsen — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 16:31:24 +0000

Yeah I think we're in agreement that the current solution is not very good. I can understand why they opted for it initially though, given the thing that happened with protesters putting traffic cones on AV's to disable them. Imagine if instead of doing that, protesters hijacked cars and drove them into situations where the AV couldn't easily navigate out of, like driving up onto sidewalks for instance. The bombastic headlines write themselves. In the end I bet they end up making a kind of "master key" that works with all AV's to distribute among first responders. I'm in the "it'll get sorted out eventually" camp on this one.

New comment by tuchsen in "Driver hits woman in SF, then Cruise driverless car runs her over"

tuchsen — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 16:02:12 +0000

I don't know about Cruise but Waymo has a training video[1] that shows a first responder hitting a button to contact dispatch, then explaining that they're a first responder and they need to move a vehicle, and finally being given control. It looks like the process could take 30 seconds in the best case scenario, which is likely too long in many life or death scenarios, but they do at least have a process.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dprg6r5-8Yc

Meta in Myanmar, Part II: The Crisis

tuchsen — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 21:56:58 +0000

Article URL: https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-part-ii-the-crisis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37720290

Points: 6

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New comment by tuchsen in "Show HN: CnTUI – Replay Chrome requests in your Terminal using cURL"

tuchsen — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 18:20:53 +0000

This looks neat, but isn't it already implemented natively in Chrome? You can go into the Network tab in the Chrome Dev Tools and right click a request in the "Name" list, go to "copy", then "Copy as cURL". It'd probably be easier to use CnTUI if you wanted to bulk resend requests that Chrome's making though.

New comment by tuchsen in "Building Boba AI: Lessons learnt in building an LLM-powered application"

tuchsen — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 03:58:26 +0000

Yeah I'll raise my hand here to say I did a file manager that automates file management tasks by using AI to write Bash scripts (Aerome.net). It's still super primitive though, if I'm being honest. I think the problem is that it's way harder to write a cross platform file manager, or browser wrapper in your case, then it is to write a chat interface on top of ChatGPT. I suspect in a year or two many good use cases will emerge, as people write more complicated software to take advantage of LLM's capabilities.

I'm going to check out you're browser thing later tonight, it looks good!

New comment by tuchsen in "Human Or Not: Guess if you're chatting with an AI or a Human"

tuchsen — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 01:37:21 +0000

Yeah it might have lied to me but i tested your theory and the bot swore back, then left early when i called his mom names. I thought for sure that was a human... but alas it said it was a bot.

New comment by tuchsen in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics"

tuchsen — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 19:38:34 +0000

Do ya mind me asking where you are in the country? I ask because I have a severely disabled nephew, and if I recall a few years before Covid our corner of California tried to get rid of special ed in elementary school. It went about as well as its going for your kid. My nephew literally couldn't integrate with the rest of the class, he's got severe epilepsy, even if he could understand the material, he couldn't actually write because his hands shake horribly! It was actually insane to put him in a normal class, the only thing he could do was disrupt it. It was bad for everyone involved.

Fortunately though, they had kept special ed programs at other schools nearby and he got transferred pretty quickly for being a severe case. It was my understanding that our school district backpedaled and reinstated special ed, but maybe that's not the case? I thought that it was just a crazy liberal California thing, but is this cancelling of special ed a more widespread phenomena? Why the hell is that happening?

New comment by tuchsen in "Welcome Lemmy.world"

tuchsen — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:01:34 +0000

I wonder how much this has to do with the devices people use to access Reddit. I always preferred the old.reddit site on the desktop. Although when I'm on my phone, it gave me eye strain to try and read the tiny font, and pinch/zooming all the time is super annoying. The newer Reddit web app was still incredibly annoying, given all the "install the desktop app" prompts, and it's general lagginess, but allowing me to just flick scroll through articles was actually better for me.

Lemmy's the same way for me, hate the UI on the desktop but it's fine on my phone.

New comment by tuchsen in "Eight days later: Kbin, Lemmy, the landed gentry, and the rise of “threadiverse”"

tuchsen — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 02:45:42 +0000

I'll give you that Reddit has certainly made it easier for those communities to organize and form. I don't think it's true that it's the only place that those communities will ever form on the internet. Theirs nothing special about Reddit, Digg was a thing before Reddit, and forums before that.

Our computers are all still connected, web browser and web servers exist. With software like Lemmy, it's become super easy to stand up a place for people to connect. People that like Civilization will find each other without Reddit.

New comment by tuchsen in "Eight days later: Kbin, Lemmy, the landed gentry, and the rise of “threadiverse”"

tuchsen — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 01:15:27 +0000

I can't verify this is true, but I've seen stuff pop up on Lemmy that Reddit accounts are getting banned for promoting Lemmy/Kbin/etc. Being resistant to unseen administrators destroying your social graph is literally a selling point of federation.

New comment by tuchsen in "Eight days later: Kbin, Lemmy, the landed gentry, and the rise of “threadiverse”"

tuchsen — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:52:09 +0000

Is it weird that I don't really mind the splintering? Have massive social networks really been a net positive for society? It seems like, depending on how they're moderated, they'll end up in some local maxima of rage baiting and trolling (Twitter, Facebook four years ago) or a super sanitized dumb feed of cutesy content (TikTok, Facebook now, and soon Reddit). You always get defenders of these networks that say if you do X/Y/Z and not A/B/C, then you'll get value out of them.

My X, Y, and Z formula for Reddit over the last couple of years has been to ignore the larger communities and focus only on interesting niche content. I think that's how a lot of other people use it, for the long tail of actually interesting content. And hell, I don't think you need the massive network effects of the larger social networks to make that work.

New comment by tuchsen in "Eight days later: Kbin, Lemmy, the landed gentry, and the rise of “threadiverse”"

tuchsen — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:25:05 +0000

I only tried it briefly, but Kbin has a microblog tab where people can just post comments.

Also if you look at the "/instances" list on a Lemmy instance they at least federate with Mastadon (as well as Kbin) instances, although I've not seen that exposed in the interface at all.

New comment by tuchsen in "Eight days later: Kbin, Lemmy, the landed gentry, and the rise of “threadiverse”"

tuchsen — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 00:19:29 +0000

Yeah I've switched to Lemmy too. Signed up for "Behaw" and "Lemmy.world" because the main instance has some controversy attached to it. It was just slightly more difficult to get started, but the user experience so far has been pretty close to Reddit when using the "mlem" app on iOS. It's early days still, bugs need to be worked out, but I've not been back to Reddit since switching, it's good enough.

It's only a matter of time before someone comes along and make an easy client that integrates multiple instances together into a seamless experience.

New comment by tuchsen in "Show HN: Apricot – because RSS won't come back unless we move it forward"

tuchsen — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 06:15:22 +0000

Ah thanks for the tip! And FWIW I think you picked a great time to ship, it's really a great MVP.

New comment by tuchsen in "Show HN: Apricot – because RSS won't come back unless we move it forward"

tuchsen — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 22:54:22 +0000

Ah I wish I had more than just a screenshot to show! Lurk works in a very similar way to Apricot from an end users point of view. The scraping of websites happens in the background on the users device, with a bunch of scripts that it ships with to grab data from websites like Reddit and Twitter. You've lit a fire under me to finish though, it's been stuck at that 90% done threshold for too long now. It's just been good enough for me to use, but still way too buggy to release.

If you're scraping Youtube and relying on that index I guess it makes sense that I can't find my niche Youtubers (try "TattooedTraveller"). I don't know how much of an outlier I am in preferring smaller channels, but I would have appreciated a way to add a channel manually. I know that's a big ask though, and hell, don't waste your time on me I've got my own thing anyways :P.

New comment by tuchsen in "Show HN: Apricot – because RSS won't come back unless we move it forward"

tuchsen — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 20:53:39 +0000

I really like you're idea! In fact, I like it so much that I've been working on something very similar at https://lurk.news. I don't have anything released yet though, congrats on getting yours out there, it works pretty well.

I've got a couple of minor bugs to report. The first (very small) bug is that I couldn't sign up with the email address of "accounts (at) lurk.news" because it says that it's invalid. The second bigger issue is that your YouTube search seems to be down? I tried some niche youtubers at first and then just searched for "mr beast" as a sanity check and it doesn't find him.

Are you using the services official API's to find and display content? For Lurk, I wrote an Electron app that opens up websites in the background and then parses the HTML to query for data, then presents that to the user as a unified feed. I figure with it all happening on each client device it'll be very hard for any given website to block it, and that way I can expose an extensions mechanism so that people can scrape whatever they want to get a unified feed of data.

New comment by tuchsen in "ChatGPT Changed How I Write Software"

tuchsen — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 17:50:42 +0000

That I can know almost nothing about VimScript and Hljs, yet be productive in both, is the game changer! It immediately makes me more ambitious and confident in my personal projects, because I know that at least, I can "fake it".

In a lot of cases (like my given example) the faking it is all I need. The only thing I needed to know about that JS syntax highlighting library was how to import it, the LLM handled the rest.

It saved me a ton of time! I don't think anyone is claiming that ChatGPT is going to immediately replace programmers anymore, but it is increasing the speed at which I can grind through problems I don't have deep knowledge in.

I wonder if these disagreements in ChatGPT's usefulness come down to peoples programming domains. I can see how if you're very knowledgeable and productive in a particular space, like say embedded C programming, and that's the only code you ever write, then ChatGPT doesn't have a lot to offer, because you already know everything you need to know to be effective.

ChatGPT's nice for exploratory programming, it makes me a more creative person, in the literal sense that I'm creating more stuff now then I ever have.