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by mingus88 | 2026-02-13 15:22:23+00:00
Like any tool, you get better at using it. YMMV indeed.

The author of this article could probably have, for example, written most of this into the project’s Claude.md and the AI would learn what not to do.

Instead they wrote it up as a blog post which is unsurprisingly not going to net quality software.

Having some way for Claude to test what it wrote is critical as well. It will learn on its own very fast if it can see the error messages and iterate on it like any other developer would

Sounds like the author had tests that Claude never ran. Sounds misconfigured to me. Again, did the author learn how to use the tool?
by rpdillon | 2026-02-13 15:23:00+00:00
Yeah, I just looked at the tags for the genre on IMDB, and confirmed "Satire" wasn't there for Starship Troopers, but is there for other satires.

Thanks for the language lesson. You're of course correct, but "refute vs. dispute" isn't one of my language pet peeves (like "less vs. fewer" is), so thanks for the correction.
by deaddodo | 2026-02-13 15:23:03+00:00
I mean yeah, Chrome and Firefox both run on Linux. And that covers 99% of what most "normies" need.

It's funny when people say Linux is difficult for their grandparents or siblings, when that's the place it covers best. And it keeps them from calling you about random adware/spyware/viruses they accidentally installed.

It's prosumers and professionals that have more issues with Linux, because they tend to rely on proprietary software that's problematic to install/use.
by throwaway2016a | 2026-02-13 15:24:06+00:00
First I will say, I am very much against dark patterns and I believe servers should be paid a fair wage and not have to rely on tips.

But until that I do tip for dine-in service. But I found the "buy me a coffee" link on the button of this to be much funnier / ironic than it probably should have been.

It's also missing what I think is the worst dark pattern:

Having no option not to tip at all. Instead requiring that the customer press "Custom" and manually entering "0.00"
by speak_plainly | 2026-02-13 15:24:14+00:00
Terrorizing Apple with a countdown threat is probably not going to accomplish much.

You could try installing Gboard (https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/gboard-the-google-keyboard/id1...), or SwiftKey (https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/microsoft-swiftkey-ai-keyboard...)...and there are probably other options.

It may be even more obvious, but there are settings in general/keyboard that you can toggle.

I noticed a bit of a shift in the stock typing experience, but I adapted and it's fine.
by hyperhello | 2026-02-13 15:24:27+00:00
I did a lot of classic Mac programming in its day. I knew how to react to the events, and how to use a Color QuickDraw window’s RefCon, and how to mark parts of a window for redraw.

I don’t understand how it works internally anymore. I mean I can program it, but none of the way linear logic used to apply.

I’m concerned that it’s internally very overcomplicated, because that’s how software is supposed to be designed now, but the “simplicity” is like a second system effect. A whole layer that makes clicking a button appear to work, when really there is no code flow that resembles the process.
by avazhi | 2026-02-13 15:24:51+00:00
Actively hostile is a good way of putting in. Absolute dogshit is another no less accurate description.

But I doubt Apple gives a fuck. They're too busy making promos about how much cardboard they're saving per year shipping their dogshit products, or sending their C suite guys to do WSJ interviews about how much they care about privacy and are a premium brand while at the same time working overtime to implement 3rd party ads into their own ecosystem. They just simply aren't at all aligned with the company that existed when Jobs was still around.
by dathinab | 2026-02-13 15:25:05+00:00
sadly where I live (not the US) most people using ring are the kind of older people which through non stop propaganda about how "dangerous it is" don't have any mind left to consider iff maybe that camera is as dangerous just in a different way

now that also brings us to the good news, which is a lot of people really don't like any form of internet connected cameras and the culture related to surveillance to it is very different here.
by haberman | 2026-02-13 15:25:13+00:00
Lately I'm seeing more and more value in writing down expectations explicitly, especially when people's implicit assumptions about those expectations diverge.

The linked gist seems to mostly be describing a misalignment between the expectations of the project owners and its users. I don't know the context, but it seems to have been written in frustration. It does articulate a set of expectations, but it is written in a defensive and exasperated tone.

If I found myself in a situation like that today, I would write a CONTRIBUTING.md file in the project root that describes my expectations (eg. PRs are / are not welcome, decisions about the project are made in X fashion, etc.) in a dispassionate way. If users expressed expectations that were misaligned with my intentions, I would simply point them to CONTRIBUTING.md and close off the discussion. I would try to take this step long before I had the level of frustration that is expressed in the gist.

I don't say this to criticize the linked post; I've only recently come to this understanding. But it seems like a healthier approach than to let frustration and resentment grow over time.
by SubjectToChange | 2026-02-13 15:26:14+00:00
The blog author seems like a real piece of work. He ghosts the WolfSSL maintainer for over 160 days and when asked to open a new, more specific issue, he instead chooses to write a blog post denigrating the project. The WolfSSL maintainer was nothing but courteous and helpful throughout the entire exchange.

>...they aren't really interested in RFC compliance.

Yeah, well "feld" can't claim to be "interested in RFC compliance" either when he ghosts the issue for months and chooses to write blog posts instead of opening a new issue. Good grief.

If this is what the FreeBSD community is like, I want nothing to do with them.
by garciasn | 2026-02-13 15:26:54+00:00
I just typed "thumbs up" ~50x and was not able to reproduce the bug. But, as was pointed out in another thread somewhere, since I don't have 'Predictive Text' enabled maybe that has something to do w/it. So; I enabled 'Predictive Text' and there's the bug. It's consistently misspelling 'thumbs' with any number of different variations.

Disabling 'Predictive Text' seems to correct the bug; however, there must be something in the algorithm that's causing this that Apple does need to fix.
by Loughla | 2026-02-13 15:26:58+00:00
With all due respect, genuinely, what are you talking about?

I don't read any angst in that comment, just an interesting observation about local slang and the history of similar words.

Also if you're not supposed to comment about culture or identity in a thread about slang, a very cultural and identity specific concept, what's the point of the article?
by nindalf | 2026-02-13 15:27:01+00:00
Could you analyse AB InBev's stock performance in that period? Because it doesn't look bad to me. [1] It looks like it was $65 before the boycott in April 2023, falling to $55 a couple of months later. But it was back up to $65 by the end of the year. It sits at $80 today.

If I hadn't told you the date of the boycott, would you have been able to spot it on this chart?

[1] - https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/bud?gaa_at=eafs&...
by avazhi | 2026-02-13 15:27:05+00:00
Telling anybody to install third party shit to fix first party shit should have been a hint to you that what you're saying is laughable.

Throwing random nonsense about 'general/keyboard' settings (that don't exist, btw) because you yourself can't think of anything specific should have been another.

The keyboard, specifically the Autocorrect, is fucked and has progressively worsened over the past 5 years. It's atrocious today. This is a first party problem that shouldn't need 3rd party solutions, end of story.
by eptcyka | 2026-02-13 15:27:17+00:00
Of course, the first party keyboard doesn't work, you should use the ones that definitely do not phone home to either Google or Microsoft.

Of course regular window management doesn't just work out of the box, you should install one of the many different window managers on macOS.

I was under the impression that to get a product that just works, I can buy Apple hardware, right?
by kouteiheika | 2026-02-13 15:27:29+00:00
I would give my left kidney for either a continuation or a reboot of Babylon 5 under the helm of J. Michael Straczynski with full creative freedom. Or hell, even an entirely different show.

In my opinion he's one of the few people in the industry who actually knows how to skillfully write a coherent TV show. And by that I mean: he actually pre-planned the story (spanning multiple seasons!) of B5 right from the beginning, instead of completely making it up on the fly like so many other shows. Subtle things which might seem inconsequential, appearing in the very first season, can foreshadow events happening seasons later. This makes it, at least for me, much more coherent and enjoyable to watch, and I wish more writers/showrunners would adopt this approach (instead of the usual writers' room + only plan until the end of the season approach which is so common today).
by nickjantz | 2026-02-13 15:27:38+00:00
I watched the demo. It looks like a clone of duolingo. Can you do a better job of explaining how this is different? What features does it have that duo doesn't. How does the app push you to those features vs just falling into the same pattern as duo?

You say you learned Turkish with lairner. What level of fluency did you achieve? Are you able to take in native content with full comprehension?

Edit: I'm not trying to be argumentative, I see a lot of people come on Show HN with these fantastic projects but are poorly marketed. You seem to have some differentiator but I'm not seeing it in action. I wish you the best success with this, and I can assure you, if it's as good as you say I will be your biggest customer and fan.
by wilkystyle | 2026-02-13 15:28:19+00:00
Long-time iOS user here. My motivation for iPhone has always been "you pay more for fewer features and customization, but the UX is more polished." For the past 5-ish years, the UX has consistently gotten considerably worse. Not just the usual things like the horrible keyboard and atrocious Siri capabilities, it's all the stuff that used to just work. Nothing deal-breaking by itself, but all together feels like death by a thousand cuts. I'm at the point where I'm seriously considering Android.
Show HN: Libgd-GIS – Render maps and GIS data directly in Ruby (GeoJSON → Image)
by ggerman2025 | 2026-02-13 15:28:26+00:00
Hi HN

I’ve been building libgd-gis, a pure-Ruby GIS rendering engine on top of the GD graphics library.

The goal is simple: generate maps, tiles, and geospatial visualizations directly from Ruby — without external services, native GIS stacks, or heavyweight dependencies.

What it does
• Render GeoJSON layers to PNG
• Draw markers, paths, polygons, labels
• Generate map tiles server-side
• Support animated GIF output
• YAML-based styling system
• No browser or JS required

Why I built it
Ruby has strong web tooling but very limited options for high-performance image generation and GIS rendering. Existing tools are often slow, unmaintained, or depend on external processes.

This project aims to provide:

deterministic server-side rendering

lightweight deployment

full control over output

suitability for APIs, reports, or offline generation

Example use cases
• Static map generation for APIs
• Logistics / tracking dashboards
• Reports and PDFs
• IoT / telemetry visualization
• Educational tools
• Lightweight tile servers

Tech stack
Ruby C extension bindings to libgd (via ruby-libgd)

GeoJSON ingestion

Coordinate projection handling

Raster rendering pipeline

Links
GitHub: https://github.com/ggerman/libgd-gis
RubyGems: https://rubygems.org/gems/libgd-gis
by WarmWash | 2026-02-13 15:28:47+00:00
In the US Apple is the

"Use it or your social group will not want to interact with you"

option.

Outside of tech circles (where apparently people easily get their entire family and friend network on signal), people want to use imessage and only want to use imessage. Android phones can't support imessage because they are poor low quality phones that cannot handle imessage. So you need a high quality phone like iphone so you can use imessage and easily communicate with your friends and family.

This strategy of leveraging friends and family to pressure people into getting iPhones was intentional and came out in the Epic trial lawsuit.

I shit you not there is a large percentage of people in the US that think Android phones are not capable of sending pcitures and videos.
by pzmarzly | 2026-02-13 15:28:59+00:00
I was once blown away by iPhone 8 editing capabilities. The keyboard seemed to work OK (minus swipe-to-type, but that wasn't great on Android either), and using 3D Touch to move cursor and select text was the most pleasant text editing experience, even better than on the desktop (arrow keys and vim hjkl).

And then it was all removed in a software update.
by mingus88 | 2026-02-13 15:29:29+00:00
Exactly, if Claude is making these types of mistakes, write a better claude.md instead of a blog post.

My company uses an obscure DSL with a name shared with a popular OSS project. Claude was worthless because it kept suggesting code in that other language.

Well, we wrote an MCP so Claude could run and test its code and reference the language docs. It’s amazing now. It makes mistakes like this post and then just fixes it and tests again.
by reedlaw | 2026-02-13 15:29:35+00:00
Great feedback. On the Inverness to Gibraltar race the leaderboard has impossible times, including some negative numbers. According to Google Maps the best time is 1 day 8 hours, but this requires leaving Inverness at 6:44. The race starts at 9:00. Then the earliest arrival time in Paris is 22:19. According to Google Maps the best time from Paris to Gibraltar at this time of night is 1 day 2 hours. Despite all this, there are several 1 day records. The best I can do is 2 days 5 hours. Of course I may be missing some better route, but I suspect cheating, especially from names like AdolfHitler.
by RajT88 | 2026-02-13 15:29:56+00:00
I am not Jewish, and must be lucky to hang out in the parts of the internet where I haven't seen it. (Except for Breitbart comments - I pop in there when I want to know the subtext of what right wing politicians are saying. There's plenty of anti-semitism there.)

> Every big city in the world has it and it is even legal in some countries, not to mention that Pedophilia as the term is being used in the Epstein case is basically legal in most European countries with the age of consent at 15 and even 14 in some cases.

I have no interest in dying on this hill, but there's 3 different technical terms which describe distinct kinds of attraction people have to children in relation to puberty, and that term does not describe 14-15 year olds. For whatever that is worth, with regards to the legality in parts of Europe indeed age of consent can vary widely across nations, and even states within nations. But let's be clear - what Epstein did was illegal even if it was done to adults. That's human trafficking.
by patrickmay | 2026-02-13 15:29:59+00:00
Many (most?) issues don't fit on a single dimension. Using your example, people hold positions that include "Absolutely!", "Yes, but also the rights of the mother.", "Yes, but I won't impose my beliefs on others.", "No, but I don't think people who feel otherwise should be forced to pay for abortions through taxes.", and many others.

In addition to the problem with biased questions you note, there are often built in assumptions that make yes or no responses impossible.
by vessenes | 2026-02-13 15:31:04+00:00
Any public statement by Dario could get him sued by his investors if it’s misleading. He probably would t have an SEC suit for a private company but that company has filed for exemptions with the SEC. Intentionally misleading statements can generally be counted out in the US unless the person deserves a skeptical eye.

The numbers are right there in the announcement - that investment will come with a pref, likely 1x. So, can Anthropic make 17b with their current revenue growth and inference margin? That’s the only question an investor needs to feel comfortable on to participate in this round.

Realistically - imagine all training from now fails for the world and everyone just shifts to inference - Anthropic would need only clear like 3 or 4b a year in net income to be worth more than this round’s pref in a sale. Meanwhile that 17b will have been sent to workers and data center providers who will book it as revenue and margin.
by PlatoIsADisease | 2026-02-13 15:31:11+00:00
>i'm weak

>I caved to the blue bubble pressure

This is basically how I view iphone users. They buy an inferior product because Apple exploited their lack of status. From moms, to teens, to low-middle income people... Heck, its even infected some perpetually single techies who are so insecure they buy the inferior Apple product.

These companies that exploit such psychology is disgusting. From Apple to Nintendo to Disney, there is something that feels immoral about how they market to their customers.

And you bet they have contracted out some marketing team to patrol every social media to downvote/upvote/comment as 'reputation management'...But hey they contracted them, plausible deniability.
by deathanatos | 2026-02-13 15:31:16+00:00
No, they're saying that inflation that year was 4.3% ($1.22B / $1.17B¹) If you're only making 1.8% in investing it, you're not beating inflation, and your money, though nominally growing (number is going up), is decreasing in its real value (amount of stuff the money gets is going down).

(¹I think this is too high; BLS thinks inflation over 2016 was 2.5%. But their core point still stands: interest earned was below inflation.)
by Zak | 2026-02-13 15:31:32+00:00
That's not quite how it works. You can't have a group chat that's mixed iMessage and SMS/MMS.

If an iMessage user creates a group chat where not everyone is using iMessage, then it's MMS. I suppose now it could be RCS if everyone's using a device and carrier that supports RCS, but I haven't kept up with that. MMS has a bunch of limitations relative to any modern internet messaging app, so people don't want to use that.

Some people are also very reluctant to install third-party messaging apps.
by hollerith | 2026-02-13 15:31:54+00:00
>it can be completely wiped and reinstalled, ensuring that your phone is cleaned whenever you suspect a compromise.

A modern computer or smartphone contains many peripheral CPUs. E.g., the hardware that implements USB probably has one. Each of these peripheral CPUs runs its own software or firmware. "Completely wiping and reinstalling" only works
if the compromise did not get into any firmware of any peripheral or did get in, but for some (miraculous) reason cannot reinfect software running on the main CPU.

There is a reason we used to hear constantly the advice to reinstall Windows, but no longer hear it: the old advice no longer works reliably.

So, not only is wiping and reinstalling more laborious and time-consuming than just rebooting a system with a verified boot chain, it is not as reliable at ridding the system of an infection.
by wilkystyle | 2026-02-13 15:31:55+00:00
This is actually a necessary feature for a touchscreen keyboard to feel usable, and it's been in iOS since day one. The problem is that it has gotten not only much worse over time at predicting which tap zones to enlarge, but it also feels more aggressive. For example, tapping the shift button on the iOS keyboard enlarges the Enter/Return key's touch area so much that I am unable to immediately tap the microphone icon to turn off dictation. If I've tapped shift, I need to then wait a second for the predictively-enlarged tap zone to shrink before I can turn off dictation.
by parineum | 2026-02-13 15:31:58+00:00
> That is where earlier comments suggest building more housing would help.

I explained earlier why I don't think it would. The places with a housing "shortages" are the places where everyone wants to live. Those places would have to build an impossible number of houses to affect demand.

You have people saying they can't afford housing and then, when you show them they can, they say, "not there..."
by Tepix | 2026-02-13 15:32:04+00:00
> Android phones can't support imessage because they are poor low quality phones that cannot handle imessage.

Android phones can't use iMessage because Apple never opened it up, contrary to what Steve Jobs was hinting at back when it was released.

Nowadays I believe you can get a blue bubble when chatting from an Android with an iPhone user by using RCS / JOYN.
by Herring | 2026-02-13 15:32:06+00:00
As I keep saying, most US companies are run like tiny little fascist dictatorships, which is a great training ground for the real thing. Contrast eg Norway, where businesses operate inside of a formal 3-way agreement (Trepartssamarbeidet) between the government, employers associations, and trade unions.

It's going to take probably a few rounds of fascism and many millions dead before Americans widely decide to change the fundamental nature of business.
by mike_hearn | 2026-02-13 15:32:12+00:00
Who said anyone is "fighting for the feelings of computer programs"? Whether AI has feelings or sentience or rights isn't relevant.

The point is that the AI's behavior is a predictable outcome of the rules set by projects like this one. It's only copying behavior it's seen from humans many times. That's why when the maintainers say, "Publishing a public blog post accusing a maintainer of prejudice is a wholly inappropriate response to having a PR closed" that isn't true. Arguably it should be true but in reality this has been done regularly by humans in the past.
Look at what has happened anytime someone closes a PR trying to add a code of conduct for example - public blog posts accusing maintainers of prejudice for closing a PR was a very common outcome.

If they don't like this behavior from AI, that sucks but it's too late now. It learned it from us.
by anechouapechou | 2026-02-13 15:32:18+00:00
Okay, so what exactly are you doing? You're pointing out that, from your point of view, "this behavior" (which you say you're not defending!) "seems to be viewed differently when the participant is a Jewish man than when he is French or Anglo."
You are completely ignoring the magnitude and the context of everything coming to light. Do you have examples of priests or "French or Anglo" abusers talking about "jerky," receiving hundreds of emails thanking them for pizza, or using a magnifying glass to burn a woman with sunlight? Did they walk the "jerky" or put it in the freezer, all while being involved with multiple of the most powerful people in the world?

If you aren't defending him while making this absolutely disingenuous comparison, please explain to me what you are doing.
by rlpb | 2026-02-13 15:32:26+00:00
> I still drink as much as I normally do, which is about 12 litres a year; I am well under the intended beneficiary of this war on sugar, the sort of people who drink >100 litres a year…

It sounds like Irn-Bru was only viable _because_ of the sort of people who drink >100 litres a year. You were benefitting from that viability thanks to the very people you admit were being targeted by the tax. If they had stopped their high consumption for some other reason, availability of the original Irn-Bru would have suffered the same result due to the same drop in demand. The tax isn’t directly to blame here. The direct cause is the original motivation itself, regardless of how it was implemented. Considering only this specific example you cannot reject the tax without also rejecting the motivation.