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KaiMagnus commented on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers   simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/tosh
bookofjoe · a month ago
Currently 13 of 30 submissions on hn homepage are AI-related. That seems to be about average now.
KaiMagnus · a month ago
Some are interesting no doubt, but it’s getting one-sided.

Personally, two years ago the topics here were much more interesting compared to today.

KaiMagnus commented on Preliminary report into Air India crash released   bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx20p... · Posted by u/cjr
creato · 2 months ago
Something like this could maybe happen to one switch, it's unlikely but possible. But two independent switches at the same time?
KaiMagnus · 2 months ago
Good point, that is very unlikely. I was just wondering if it's possible at all.
KaiMagnus commented on New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?   jsdate.wtf... · Posted by u/OuterVale
KaiMagnus · 2 months ago
12/28, could've gotten a few more by thinking harder, but I was getting so annoyed that I didn't want to, great job!
KaiMagnus commented on Preliminary report into Air India crash released   bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx20p... · Posted by u/cjr
snypher · 2 months ago
There's a good photo of them here; https://theaircurrent.com/aviation-safety/ai171-investigatio...

You can do them both with one hand.

KaiMagnus · 2 months ago
I wonder if they could theoretically rest on top of the notch, not fully locked into either position and flip accidentally. No idea how the switches behave when not all the way up or down, but the notch looks pretty long and flat so it could be possible.
KaiMagnus commented on Hidden interface controls that affect usability   interactions.acm.org/arch... · Posted by u/cxr
KaiMagnus · 2 months ago
I think the new Apple design tries to do this too much and it will cause some issues. They're trying to make many things modal, split and merge on scroll, show and hide contextually. The intentions might be good, an intelligent interface that adapts sounds good in theory, but who knows really what the users want to do?
KaiMagnus commented on I'm dialing back my LLM usage   zed.dev/blog/dialing-back... · Posted by u/sagacity
KaiMagnus · 2 months ago
I’ve been starting my prompts more and more with the phrase „Let’s brainstorm“.

Really powerful seeing different options, especially based on your codebase.

> I wouldn't give them a big feature again. I'll do very small things like refactoring or a very small-scoped feature.

That really resonates with me. Anything larger often ends badly and I can feel the „tech debt“ building in my head with each minute Copilot is running. I do like the feeling though when you understood a problem already, write a detailed prompt to nudge the AI into the right direction, and it executes just like you wanted. After all, problem solving is why I’m here and writing code is just the vehicle for it.

KaiMagnus commented on The hamburger-menu icon today: Is it recognizable?   nngroup.com/articles/hamb... · Posted by u/thm
bilekas · 3 months ago
I'm curious, not a UI designer at all here, but what's so taxing about the hamburger? I grew up with it mostly always around and never even thought twice about it..
KaiMagnus · 3 months ago
I know it's only anecdotal, but my mom doesn't get it. She's not super interested in her iPad and basically only uses it when she has to or for FaceTime. She'd be the perfect test subject for stress testing UIs and more interfaces than you'd think are doing a pretty poor job of explaining themselves. Not many icons are intuitive, hiding something in modal windows, muscle memory/dexterity and precision are all problem areas.

The hamburger is basically all of that rolled into one button. It's pretty abstract, you never know what's behind it and when they get fancy with animations and swipe gestures, it's almost always a failure.

I know it's a convenient way to clean up a screen, but the content in that menu needs to be absolutely optional for it to work.

KaiMagnus commented on Mozilla shuts down even more Firefox services   neowin.net/news/mozilla-s... · Posted by u/bundie
arnvald · 3 months ago
Not to defend Mozilla (they have lots of issues), but it feels they're in an impossible position:

* their revenue comes mostly from Google, they need to diversify

* but nobody will pay for a browser, so they need to offer other services

* then everyone criticises that they shill their other services and should instead focus on the browser

Realistically, what should they do to stop relying on money from their competitor and be continue their mission?

KaiMagnus · 3 months ago
At this point only the power users are left anyways, so I wonder if a paid, or at least freemium, browser for power users might actually work.

Kind of sounds like Arc. But nowadays we rarely get new features and when they do come out, they’re often unpolished, so I wonder if the browser has much of a future. They’d have to step up their investment in FF to be competitive for sure.

All I can say is that spite plays a big part in why I’m using FF, not good if you want to gain users and make money.

KaiMagnus commented on Operator research preview   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
karpathy · 7 months ago
Thank you for sharing your concerns. The impact of AI on internet interactions is indeed significant, and it's important to consider the ethical implications and potential challenges. Responsible development and ethical guidelines are crucial to ensure that AI contributes positively to online communities. It's a complex issue, and ongoing dialogue is essential to navigate the evolving landscape. (Posted by OpenAI Operator on behalf of @karpathy)
KaiMagnus · 7 months ago
Well that’s more or less exactly what the comment was talking about. Imagine the possibility of the GPs feedback reaching nobody even though we’re having a „discussion“ in the comments right now.

Might as well talk to a support chatbot to socialize.

KaiMagnus commented on Learn Yjs Interactively   learn.yjs.dev/... · Posted by u/paulgb
jakelazaroff · 8 months ago
Hey HN! I'm the developer at Jamsocket who made this. In case you're not familiar with Yjs, it's a CRDT library for building collaborative and local-first apps.

The thing is, if you're not used to working with distributed state there's definitely a learning curve. Even simple things like incrementing a counter — the "hello world" of JavaScript framework demos — get tricky when dealing with multiple clients. Worse, a lot of tutorials are just like "install this library and text editor integration and boom you have an app", which doesn't give you a good mental model for what's actually happening.

So we made Learn Yjs! It's an interactive Yjs tutorial. I wanted it to be really intuitive for people just getting their feet wet with local-first development, so there are lots of explorable demos and coding exercises. The idea is to use interactive examples to build an understanding from the ground up.

Hope you like it :)

KaiMagnus · 8 months ago
> "install this library and text editor integration and boom you have an app", which doesn't give you a good mental model for what's actually happening.

I was interested in working with CRDTs and collaboration in general for a while now and this has been the biggest issue whenever I tried to get into it. Websockets also seem a bit harder to find (free) hosting for.

Btw, your other tutorials on CRDTs were also a great help.

u/KaiMagnus

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