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robbles commented on Show HN: Spegel, a Terminal Browser That Uses LLMs to Rewrite Webpages simedw.com/2025/06/23/int... · Posted by u/simedw

robbles · 2 months ago

I'm curious whether anyone has run into hallucinations with this kind of use of an LLM.

They are pretty great at converting data between formats, but I always worry there's a small chance it changes the actual data in the output in some small but misleading way.

robbles commented on Show HN: I built an under-the-door fan duct to lower bedroom CO2 lepekhin.com/2025/06/22/D... · Posted by u/bizzz

nancyminusone · 2 months ago

Software people will do anything but learn to use traditional CAD...

Just kidding. But would you mind sharing what you find so compelling about CadQuery?

As a mechanical person, these code to CAD tools make as much sense to me as suggesting you should write programs with a compass and straight edge.

robbles · 2 months ago

I've used OpenSCAD for a few small projects. The main draw for me is avoiding all the "fiddly mouse stuff". I figure it's a trade-off between simple stuff being more complicated, and complicated stuff being easier to bulk edit and organize.

robbles commented on Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work capjs.js.org/... · Posted by u/tiagorangel

robbles · 3 months ago

This is a neat idea.

I don't know enough about the underlying proof-of-work stuff to comment on how effective this could be, but I think it's pretty funny that the UI examples say "I'm a human".

I guess "there's only a few of me at most" or "I could allocate enough computation to this that I'm probably not up to no good" don't read as clearly.

robbles commented on Long live American Science and Surplus milwaukeerecord.com/city-... · Posted by u/thinkalone

zrobotics · 3 months ago

Send them an email asking for a quote. For a small business like this, I'd expect they can probably ship it to you but the complexities of quoting shipping internationally means they don't have it on the site. Yes, shipping APIs are readily available, but implementing them costs more than the shoestring budget they likely have for the site and would also require integration with their inventory software. I'd be willing to gamble that they are likely using a homegrown WMS that is a combination of excel sheets and several layers of scripts from former and current employees who can write code but aren't professional developers.

I've consulted for similar size businesses, and shipping integration was always the reason to not support international shipments. Send them an email, you'll almost certainly hear back from a real person and if you let them know what you want to order they can probably make it happen.

robbles · 3 months ago

Good to know, thanks for the explanation!

robbles commented on Long live American Science and Surplus milwaukeerecord.com/city-... · Posted by u/thinkalone

robbles · 3 months ago

It's a pity they don't ship to other countries than the US. I looked through their website and saw some fun stuff, but no international shipping.

robbles commented on Terminator: Hasta La Vista, Shell github.com/steipete/Termi... · Posted by u/tosh

robbles · 3 months ago

I'm probably just not thinking through the problem fully, but: Wouldn't this be better solved inside the coding assistants? They're the parent process and should be able to tell when a sub command has hung.

robbles commented on Show HN: Roons – Mechanical Computer Kit whomtech.com/show-hn/... · Posted by u/uncial

robbles · 4 months ago

This is incredible, love how much further you've taken it than just the proof of concept as well.

This is probably just my opinion, but I kept thinking that a better word for "drive" given the domain would be "clock". It's basically a binary clock signal driving these, right? Maybe "clock drive"?

robbles commented on Show HN: Rabbit Holes rabbitholes.wiki/... · Posted by u/amanmathur

robbles · a year ago

I opened this on a mobile device, and it only shows the top and bottom topic buttons. I was pretty confused until I tried turning on "desktop site" in Chrome and saw the left/right buttons. Having only a linear track of topics kind of undermines the overall idea!

robbles commented on The effect of daily usage of Mouthwash on the oropharyngeal microbiome microbiologyresearch.org/... · Posted by u/_glass

Always42 · a year ago

In the past i have struggled with having canker sores. After much googling l read there is an ingredient called sls that's in most toothpastes and it can cause canker sores in some people. I use sls free toothpaste and now i'm good. Less is more

robbles · a year ago

What brand of toothpaste do you use for this? I often struggle to find a toothpaste that's SLS-free but still has fluoride.

robbles commented on Optimizing the Lichess Tablebase Server lichess.org/@/revoof/blog... · Posted by u/cristoperb

robbles · a year ago

> here are the empirical distribution functions (ECDFs) with 30ms added to each response time

> The added constant seems artificial, but it's just viewing the results from the point of view of a client with 30ms ping time. Otherwise the log scaled x-axis would overemphasize the importance of a few milliseconds at the low end.

I thought this was interesting - maybe it's a standard practice I was just unaware of but it seems like a smart trick.