On a similar note, does anyone notice the issue of most official temperature readings in different climates often reading 5+C lower than what is actually observed locally?
Readit Newsreustle commented on US to rewrite its past national climate reports france24.com/en/live-news... · Posted by u/mdhb
How do you plan on handling dopplegangers? They looks extremely similar (if not twin-like), yet they should each own the rights to their image and features.
Not sure why you're downvoted, it's an entirely valid question.
What we'll probably see is, celebrity look-alikes will be contacted to license out their own "features".
reustle commented on Coding agents have crossed a chasm blog.singleton.io/posts/2... · Posted by u/simonpure
I'm personally still in the "smarter autocomplete" phase when it comes to LLMs, as I don't trust the vibe-coded "agents" and the outputs they produce to control my computer. But that aside, this part stood out to me:
> I don’t even look at the code anymore - I describe what I want to Claude Code, test the result, make some minor tweaks with the AI and if it’s not good enough, I start over with a slightly different initial prompt.
Honestly, does the author and anyone else using this workflow find this way of working enjoyable? To me programming is not entirely about the end goal. It's mostly the small bursts of dopamine whenever I solve a particular problem; whenever I refactor code to make it cleaner, simpler, and easier to read; whenever I write a test and see it pass, knowing that I'm building a safety net to safely refactor in the future. And so on.
Yes, the feeling of accomplishment after shipping a useful piece of software, be that a small script or a larger part of a system, is also great. But the small wins along the way are the things that make me want to keep programming.
This way of working where you don't even look at the code, but describe the system specs in prose, go back and forth with an extremely confident but highly error prone tool, manually test the result, and repeat this until you're satisfied... doesn't sound fun or interesting at all.
Just remember, you can continue to do artisanal programming as a hobby or for your own projects. But if you have an employer, they're paying you for functional and secure features, not lines of code.
A simple explanation of what this does, shown somewhere on the page, would go a long way.
reustle commented on Lieferando.de has captured 5.7% of restaurant related domain names mondaybits.com/lieferando... · Posted by u/__natty__
GrubHub did exactly the same in the US.
Up to 23,000 domains [1], and listed some restaurants on Google Maps without their permission [2]
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/grubhub-registered-23000-dom...
[2] https://www.wired.com/story/ghost-kitchens-mystery-grubhub-l...
GrubHub was purchased from Thuisbezorgd.nl (Dutch) by Wonder Group (Marc Lore) a few months ago.
reustle commented on Show HN: A web browser agent in your Chrome side panel github.com/parsaghaffari/... · Posted by u/parsabg
Can this be used to automatically remove the plethora of cookie banners/modals polluting the web?
uBlock Origin will do this for free
Historically, NOAA's redesigns are pretty good.
They focus on presenting a good amount of data in a pretty simple way.
Because of the nature of what they do there will always be a ton of data to present or display. At least in my opinion, NOAA does a great job here.
Their UIs have always been simple, easy to use, and reliable. Some data gets buried but that's the nature of it.
The water.noaa.gov redesign (the last 2-3 years) is considerably less usable on mobile. The old site was old, sure, but they were too interested in making it look and feel new, that they didn't prioritize the basic functionality.
I'm sure the team is well-intentioned, but it should have been done more thoughtfully.
But the standard servers should be hosted by the service provider, like mcp.slack.com as a counterpart to api.slack.com
Why should I be self-hosting ANY local MCP server for accessing an external service?
That is being done as a stop gap until official servers are released. Ideally you are writing a server for your own product/service, or custom local work.
i.e. I wrote a server for water.gov to pull the river height prediction nearby for the next 24hr. This helps the campground welcome message writing tool craft a better welcome message.
Sure that could be a plain tool call, but why not make it portable into any AI service.
Here are a few more:
- https://github.com/wong2/awesome-mcp-servers
- https://cursor.directory/mcp
But as mentioned above, there is an ongoing discussion for the Anthropic registry https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/registry
reustle commented on The longest train journey is epic – but nobody's ever taken it bigthink.com/strange-maps... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
I did this route (sans the new Laos line, which was a bus at the time) in 2014.
The world really was a different place.
Shout out to 'The man in seat 61', couldn't have done it without it.
I finished it in 2019~, same with skipping the Laos section that didn’t exist. I contributed a bit to Seat61 from rural local stations in Myanmar while it was still open.
https://reustle.org/rtw shows my map around the entire planet. Next time by moto!