AI Fatigue. I'm a fan of AI but I've stopped clicking on stories about it because it's mostly hype, slop, fomo, and flat-out lies.
Readit Newsfraaancis commented on Ask HN: Why are there no talks about Seedance 2.0 on Hacker News? · Posted by u/ElectroNomad
I also fixed clothing sizes for my family using a hacker mindset, but in a different way:
Did you know that most professional sewing charts are just DXF files?
And did you know that DXF is the most common file format for laser cutters?
;)
=> just let the machine cut out precisely the clothing shapes that you need
After a few tries, I also started to add small sideways cuts to the outlines as alignment markers. And then you just need to connect the pieces where you marked them while always leaving roughly 0.5 cm of gap to the laser cut line. I went with 0.5 because my sewing machine has a hardware alignment guide with that offset. And at that point, it takes a skilled tailor only mere minutes to finish a shirt, which means in exchange for their 1x hourly rate they will be willing to finish off 5x proto t-shirts for you.
I wonder how many layers of fabric a cutter could get through in one pass (without setting it on fire).
YouTube's recommendation system is great... for children.
fraaancis commented on AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/VorpalWay
In the problem is the solution. Open source maintainers start writing AGENTS.md and other files to guide those using LLMs, and future nerd sniping and elitism can be practiced in reference to the spec instead of the actual code. There can just be an agent template for maintaining or adding features to curl or projects like it.
fraaancis commented on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux himthe.dev/blog/microsoft... · Posted by u/bobsterlobster
If you can handle Linux, you should try Reaper as a DAW. It's really great.
fraaancis commented on Toyota "Can Barely Cover the Demand" for Its Cars kbb.com/car-news/toyota-c... · Posted by u/breve
Were only Toyota realistic about EV adoption/pushback and the others (excluding the Chinese juggernaut) were overly optimistic?
Maybe, but they also have bets placed that hydrogen fuel cells are the future, which doesn't seem very realistic either. Unrealistic in a different direction.
fraaancis commented on Ask HN: Claude file creation/edit feature leading to worse coding performance? · Posted by u/arjunchint
I've definitely seen this in the chat interface. It loses entire methods and segments of source, and it absolutely crawls during generation. To the point where I just tell it to give me the changes and where to put them.
fraaancis commented on Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers · Posted by u/latexr
It's too bad the AI can't just do the sewing.
I've recently been prototyping a mobile application to track your food nutrition. The key feature lies in auto-detecting the food based on a given image, and breaking it down into it's ingredients and then into it's macros.
Existing apps such as MyFitnessPal and HealthifyMe fall into two ends of the spectrum where you either need to add ingredients one by one, or your food is logged with a standard macro count where you cannot change the ingredients used.
Weit ideally provides a seamless experience in taking a picture to retrieving ingredients to retrieving macros per ingredient. Once that's sorted, food tracking should be granular enough to build intelligence around it to improve one's diet based on their requirement.
Honestly, I used to constantly struggle with the realisation that none of my ideas are unique and whenever I see someone having built something similar, I feel like I'm wasting my time. I'm getting better at dealing with it now though.
This is exactly the app I would've wanted when I was still trying to lose weight by tracking calories, really great idea. I paid for a calorie-tracking app that couldn't do this, I think it was MyFitnessPal, and know several people currently paying for the same type of thing.
Leverage scales in a way, because larger pools of money (corporations, groups of investors) mean larger bets.
But leverage also doesn't scale, because larger pools of money tend to make smaller bets over a larger surface of the market, since being wrong in a big way with leverage can wipe you out.