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rho4 commented on Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end) pdfwithlove.netlify.app... · Posted by u/pratik227

pratik227 · 24 days ago

Just to be clear, I’ve been contributing to the open-source community since 2020, and I have no intention of misleading anyone. The use of the word ‘love’ isn’t about branding off another product-it’s simply a tool I personally needed, so I built it. If you’d like, you can also check my GitHub to see my work.

rho4 · 23 days ago

I meant it more as feedback, to be aware that some people might have this reaction. I do believe it is sincere in the beginning.

rho4 commented on Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end) pdfwithlove.netlify.app... · Posted by u/pratik227

rho4 · 24 days ago

I developed an aversion to "with love"-marketing. I've seen too many products come full circle from idealistic "ad-free-forever" "will-never-sell-your-data" "open-source-forever" "customer-first" student-times to selling out everything.

rho4 commented on What happened to WebAssembly emnudge.dev/blog/what-hap... · Posted by u/enz

rho4 · a month ago

The author makes beautiful concise statements that make me feel like he has a deep, big-picture kind of understanding of computing.

I think this person would be very satisfying to work with, because decisions would be based on a discussion of tradeoffs, and an awareness of similar technologies and approaches throughout computing history.

rho4 commented on I don't care how well your "AI" works fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-d... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

davidmurdoch · 3 months ago

This just happened to me this week.

I work on the platform everyone builds on top of. A change here can subtlety break any feature, no matter how distant.

AI just can't cope with this yet. So my team has been told that we are too slow.

Meanwhile, earlier this week we halted a roll out because if a bug introduced by AI, as it worked around a privacy feature by just allow listing the behavior it wanted, instead of changing the code to address to policy. It wasn't caught in review because the file that was changed didn't require my teams review (because we ship more slowly, they removed us as code owners for many files recently).

rho4 · 3 months ago

Ouch, so painful to read.

rho4 commented on Java Decompiler java-decompiler.github.io... · Posted by u/mooreds

Sanjay_22_xd · 3 months ago

What is the use of decompiling, is there any real time use case?

rho4 · 3 months ago

Or when you're too lazy to hunt down the sources, both for internal and external dependencies. Just Ctrl+click the method and have a quick look at the decompiled implementation, usually good enough.

rho4 commented on I don't care how well your "AI" works fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-d... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

rho4 · 3 months ago

And then there is the moderate position: Don't be the person refusing the use a calculator / PC / mobile phone / AI. Regularly give the new tool a chance and check if improvements are useful for specific tasks. And carry on with your life.

rho4 commented on What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription nmil.dev/what-you-can-get... · Posted by u/nmil

rho4 · 3 months ago

I like the AI-disclaimer :). This might become a thing for blog and news articles: (c) all words written by <editor> on <date> without AI. And then there will be a robots.txt directive that allows collection of this self-declared human material for AI training. And a google search option: "ai:no" :)

Posted by u/rho4 3 months ago

Why does AI not know my name?

rho4 commented on The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful arnon.dk/the-trust-collap... · Posted by u/arnon

ModernMech · 3 months ago

Trust collapse is real, I don't trust anything anymore. Take this article for instance, I don't trust it because of the random bolding. Does that mean it's AI generated? I don't know but I've seen lots of AI generated content and it has random bolding, so when I see it, I immediately don't trust it. And I don't have the time to verify anything, so whether or not this article was written by the author or AI, it's gone on the "not credible" heap for me, just because of the bolding. It's not a strong signal but it's a signal, and due to the volume of slop, I must filter on whatever signals I have to maintain any chance of finding genuine human work product. Maybe I miss something genuine and important by filtering this way, but it's the best I can do.

rho4 · 3 months ago

Well said. Sad how that reflex starts kicking in for HN comments as well (ps I'm not getting any signals from your comment).

rho4 commented on Developers are choosing older AI models augmentcode.com/blog/deve... · Posted by u/knes

confirmmesenpai · 3 months ago

I am already at that point. when I need to search something more complex than exact keyword match, I don't even bother googling it anymore, I just ask chatgpt to research it for me and read it's response 5 min later.

rho4 · 3 months ago

Yes, I feel the same recently with Google results. But I think I would still like to see the immediate 10 results, along with a big button "Try harder - not feeling very lucky".

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