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Show HN: I built an extension to integrate my own knowledge into ChatGPT/Claude
Hi HN!

I wanted to share Knoll, a tool that allows you to directly integrate your knowledge across different AI chatbots.

I found that when using ChatGPT/Claude, there were a lot of things I wanted the model know, like docs, notes I had taken, todo lists, group policies, etc. But it’s annoying to have to copy-and-paste info into the context or attach new documents each time.

I built Knoll so that you can add any info you care about once, and the system will automatically add it into your LLM’s context when relevant.

Features:
- Clip any text on the Internet: Store snippets as personal knowledge for your chatbot to reference.
- Use documents as knowledge sources: Integrate Google Docs or Markdown files you already have.
- Import shared knowledge repositories: Access and use knowledge modules created by others.

Knoll works directly in ChatGPT and Claude’s interfaces!

And it’s open-source: https://github.com/dorazhao99/community-lm-extension/
Kaze Emanuar[0] is the YouTuber you're thinking of.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@KazeN64
Made an AI Doodle Canvas
an ai first doodling canvas, where you can co-doodle with AI

please try it out and share feedback if any
The NFLPA functionally only deals with one company (the NFL) so it's not really a great example. Most professional sports leagues have a players' union specific to that league.

The others, though, yes.
This is what I do. Some 5 million files (3 TB) with hard and soft links everywhere to make the files show up in places I hope to find them again.

Ripgrep Anything or whatever it is called is pretty good for finding things, at least as long as I can restrict the search to a not too huge subset of my archive.

I also have org-mode documents full of links to interesting files, and sometimes to locations within files.

A bit messy, but I do not want to have dependencies on any special software. My oldest files have been with me since I first started hoarding on 360 kB DOS floppies.
It begins:

The following four points all should help alleviate initial skepticism:

As all scholars agree, Shakespeare frequently adapted old plays.

Yep, that's true enough.

Shakespeare scholar, June Schlueter, Professor Emerita of Lafayette College and former editor of the Shakespeare Bulletin, and I have already passed peer review, writing for academic presses, confirming Thomas North wrote early versions of three Shakespeare plays.

I hadn't heard that, though it's not impossible. The three plays he lists are not among Shakespeare's best.

Those few outside intellects who have carefully studied the North view have been convinced at both the accuracy and significance of the discovery.

That's not an argument.

Knowing North had written Shakespeare’s old plays has led us to discover a treasure-trove of Shakespearean texts that have generated news reports around the world and praise from many top Shakespearean scholars

This exacerbates my skepticism, not alleviates it.

I'll give him this: he's not arguing that North wrote Shakespeare. But he's arguing that Shakespeare stole his plots solely from North, and that's not supported by the other evidence of Shakespeare's sources. And the weak argumentation doesn't incline me to help him figure out what things he says are supported and which aren't.
So you hit a run of maybe 25 (related) AI-generated images that were grouped together. Images are bundled together and the bundles are randomly selected. You "tuned in" to maybe 3 or 4 bundles and should try again, as that's definitely not a representative sample. The stream is effectively infinite and continuously updating.

For example, you'll find that elder porn is more common than AI-generated porn, perhaps because some older men like looking at older women. You'll even find that rope binding and humiliation and grotesque obesity are more common than AI-generated porn.

But of course, what you call "completely vanilla" is the most common variety of pornography, as you would expect. Obviously that's what most people are looking for.
without even reading the article I'm guessing because Tech Bros have zero creativity themselves and/or have zero media literacy and/or taste
To supplement, this is quite a good read:
https://longreads.com/2015/10/14/i-would-rather-be-herods-pi...
We left when their pricing shot up to $500/mo for what we thought were some basic features. That and they fought us tooth and nail to be able to make local backups of OUR data, I say good riddance.
Is there any reference to pigs being possessed with spirits that predate the New Testament?
There are many many many flaws with the correlative analysis of this paper, and the flaw you have identified is an absolutely key flaw.

Here's a great Odd Lots podcast on that specific issue: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2025-03-13/odd-lots-is-...

It's also interesting to note that the guest identifies lack of supply as the other key thing to fix, but finds that the idea that YIMBY policies could actually be put in place too politically infeasible to consider.
> The reality is that transgender Americans have been doing these things, all these things, for many decades.

Do you have any evidence for that?

For example, do you have evidence of any of these happening in the US before, say, 1990?

- any openly transgender athlete participating in sports on the team of their preferred gender rather than their sex assigned at birth?

- large numbers of children receiving "gender-affirming" hormones or puberty blockers?

- transgender prisoners being housed with the sex they identify as, regardless of whether they actually "present as" that sex?

- a transgender woman being accepted to attend a all-women college?

Maybe all of these happened quietly, so common and uncontroversial that they were totally unremarked upon. But surely there's some evidence that they occurred?

For me it simply doesn't pass the laugh test that a trans woman with a penis could walk into a nude spa in the 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s without anyone batting an eye.
Honestly so excited to see this type of software move to the browser in general. I use Puzzle.io and love it
We must have very, very different definitions of "tech bro". To me, it indicates a very specific subculture and Gates was never part of that.
Article gets at something that's worth discussing: the feedback loops between being a "techbro" and social networking. There is a very low cost to professing to be on team AI, and a big upside in the form of social currency and connections among fellow team members. The "positive vibes" from a shared belief manifest as increased activity, which can cause the algorithms to favor such posts, which then has the effect of further entrenching belief (because you're on record of professing as such) and pulling others in.

People looking to get on the hype train interact with other people of a similar temperament, and end up creating their own reality-distorting bubble of positivity. This is the exact same playbook that the rationalist techies would accuse religious people of falling into!
> On the one hand, this is linguistically correct… if we were speaking Spanish.

I don't see many English words ending in X, so I doubt it's linguistically correct in English either.
Normally you just borrow the word as closely as possible, maybe trying to make it easier to pronounce (see any word the Japanese borrow from English), but here people that didn't speak Spanish, but apparently knew a little bit took over.
You might be interested in rawhide[1] or fselect[2]. (Note: I don't really use them myself, but they seem to offer something like what you're suggesting.)

Also, this is still a find-style syntax, but my bfs utility supports -exclude [3]. So you can write

bfs -type f -exclude -path ./excluded_dir

which is a bit more ergonomic.

[1]: https://github.com/raforg/rawhide

[2]: https://github.com/jhspetersson/fselect

[3]: https://github.com/tavianator/bfs/blob/main/docs/USAGE.md#-e...
Couldn't say -- I'm just making a reference based on second-hand understanding of what the "literal" translation reads like. I hadn't heard about that bit being used as an intensifier, interesting.
The truth is that no study that would generate these numbers plausibly has ever been conducted. There is no country-by-country, apples-to-apples international IQ test database. IQ tests are a diagnostic measure, so if you're going out into the field looking for lots of test results, you're either drafting off large-scale psychometrics work done in and by wealthy countries, or you're pulling from mental and developmental health institutions where tests were administered to diagnose patients.

That's exactly what Lynn did: he has "good" IQ data generated for-purpose by the research communities in developed countries, and just uses IQ data from, essentially, mental health institutions elsewhere. He presents these data sets as apples-apples equivalent.

It gets worse: for what should be obvious reasons, there are lots of countries where it isn't easy to get any such data. Lynn doesn't try; instead, his team takes data from neighboring countries and extrapolates.
I still disagree. People SHOULD be afraid of AI. Not just because it might turn the world into paperclips, but because it can already do this blog author's job almost as good as he can, but at arbitrarily larger volume and 1000's of times faster. It is very likely that in a year or two it will be better than him at his 'witty' and 'cutting' shallow commentary, but even if it's only 85% as good it will be available way way sooner and on every single topic you can imagine. He's toast. A lot of us are toast.

Edit: AI doesn't make Stephen King redundant, AI isn't better than the best humans, or even close. Lets assume it never will be that good (not a good assumption but lets assume.) Most of us are very mediocre, even at things we make our living at. Most software engineers are poor or mediocre (a statistical tautology) and AI is better than a lot of them already. Most authors aren't very good and nobody will remember their work, but they can still find work and get paid for it. A huge fraction of those jobs are just going to go away.
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> One could argue that the past ~century of scientific and technological development has probably beat any other 100 year period

You could make this argument about most centuries. But it's a meaningless argument if the metrics you're evaluating on are implicit and assumed to be well agreed upon by all others.

My reply is the same to the other arguments you've made
The Cicada Principle and Why It Matters to Web Designers (2024)
Very interesting discussion! I did a less theoretical approach a while ago to calculate the same thing: I just go to timeanddate.com, find the city I'm interested in, go to its sun page (example for New York https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/new-york), and find the table that shows the difference in daylight minutes per day. No math or programming needed, just copy-paste and some buttons in Excel.

Not as satisfying as a derivation here, but a quicker way to get the answer.

EDIT: I did a spot check for Rovaniemi, Finland. This city is far north enough that the sun is up all day (66.5 degrees). But the graph on this page seems to be a little bit off: it requires an even higher latitude for that to show up.
It's an intellectual wasteland, to be sure. I think the problem is it became yet another thing to take a side on, which inevitably ends up becoming an end in and of itself.
You're correct, apologies for my previous misinformation. On further examination: the Flare approach, in contrast to wrapped BTC, takes a 'non custodial' approach and instead wraps BTC, xrp etc as FBTC using their FAssets system of overcollateralization + enshrined oracles.

So the Flare network is more decentralized than the wrapped BTC approach, but it's not completely trustless, and introduces more potential attack surface. So in comparison to the wbtc bridging systems, one risk (of custodial misappropriation) is replaced by other risks of data manipulation.

It's interesting to learn about this stuff, but the Flare.network website does a rubbish job of telling visitors what it does.
I'm really sorry. But "Stranded" is what you call astronauts who were supposed to come home after 8 days in space, but ended up spending 286 days in space, because their planned return vehicle was found to have a flaw, and the backup vehicle was too expensive or also wasn't ready (or whatever reason it took so long to get a Dragon capsule up there). I'm tired of arguing semantics with children.
We were but with the models becoming so good, so large, and so cheap, we've largely abandoned it in our long-term roadmap.
From the post: “It is important to us that we don’t generate inaccurate content that contributes to the spread of misinformation on the Internet, so the content we generate is real and related to scientific facts, just not relevant or proprietary to the site being crawled.”

Okay, why should I care if a crawler that is clearly doing something it shouldn’t receives misinformation?
> Aaron Ross Powell isn't an expert or even a highly informed amateur

Yeah, it was a embarrassing how hard he missed this mark while at the same time lashing out at "tHe TeCH BRos" and their inadequacy in taste two times in every sentence...
Google released PebbleOS as open source in January and one of the Pebble founders started an effort to produce a pair of watches using the open source software. This is his website.
Do you have a roadmap? I'm interested (love Linear, hate Quickbooks/Xero, looking for something better, finances are not that complicated) but I want to know what is planned and what is supported now.
That's helpful to hear, thanks
> There's not enough time or space here to be more precise, sorry.

You put it fantastically
I use non-standard SSH ports too. It does not improve theoretical security, but it does improve quality of life from generating smaller logs.
Yup. That’s my plan. Forget all these companies and AI. Just let me talk to people and hear what they think is cool.
>authoritarian is when the government does thing I don't like
University of California orders hiring freeze, cuts
Are you kidding? There are so many VCs here who have the resources to push for fair treatment of immigrants and foreign visitors! HN is the perfect place to discuss this.
Oof. TIL. That’s very disappointing.
A small amount of it does go to your 401(k), yes. A much larger amount goes to executives, largely through stock-based compensation, and much wealthier investors.
You are offering undiscerning nihilism. It’s both false and unhelpful.

Maybe you just needed to vent, I get that. But I must say, HN comments aren’t the always the best place for venting.
VPNs on iOS Are a Scam (2022)
Correct. Async commit transactions add their changes to the WAL the same way normal transactions do. The only relevant change is that the WAL is not synchronously flushed to disk before COMMIT completes.
You basically say that everyone is biased, take the middle.

But I've seen with my own eyes living in dictatorial countries, that there are wild differences in how much bias there are. If one source lies 5% of the facts and an opposing source lies 95% of the facts, taking the middle leaves you with 50% lies, heavily biased to one side. You'd better just go with the first completely and have only 5% lies.

I've read several real scientific historical papers, and I immediately see they don't work like that. They are typically very-very boring, with tons of views and sources mentioned, considered and scrutinized. In fact, that's a good test for how scientific is a paper -- real scientist knows about all the works in their field, so omission of anything is a red flag. So they really strive to include everything available.
I have spent a lot of hours looking at `watch "xsv select ... | xsv table"`.
It set the standard for online matchmaking, had exceptional (if not revolutionary) AI for an FPS, phenomenal level design, and is a definite competitor for the best game soundtrack ever. It is probably Bungie's magnum opus.

So it makes perfect sense that contemporary AAA devs would have no idea it even existed.
I really struggle with this at daylight savings switches when I work in offices where I can see a window. It takes me a couple of weeks to adjust. In one direction I find I work later than I intended. In the other direction I find myself ready to leave and realize it's only 4:30
Requiring a smartphone isn't progress. Offering the option to use a smartphone is progress.
You get a micro inverter, connect panels to the battery and the battery to the inverter and plug the inverter in a normal outlet. In Germany this setup is called „Balkonkraftwerk“ and you can buy the whole kit on Amazon.
Concurrent commits can group commit with one WAL flush (i.e. one fsync/fdatasync).
Good call, the details and a proper readme, here is the repo link for now: https://github.com/lets-qa/Image-Place-Holder-Service
> If it wasn't for performance, what was gained

A new hobby
Interesting project. What makes this an agent? Just looks like an image transform that uses LLMs.
What is the point of just asserting something like this when it's SOOOO obviously an issue with definitions?

Unless you just want to be difficult and disagreeable, the usual format would be "Hypothesis, supporting argument" not just saying the opposite.

Here I'll get you started: Bill Gates wasn't a tech bro because ... (you fill in the ...)

Edit: I think that if you write down your criteria for 'who is' and 'who isn't' a tech bro, we might not agree on those criteria but we can at least argue with evidence whether Bill Gates fits your definition or not.
Finetuning is easy and worthwhile, especially with LoRAs as these Unsloth demos do. The bottleneck then becomes how to self-host the finetuned model in a way that's cost-effective and scalable.

In practice prompt engineering and few-shot prompting with modern LLMs, due to their strong-and-only-getting-better-over-time prompt adherence, tends to be more pragmatic.
Because NASA had planned on the contingency of them joining the next expedition and returning with Crew-9. The astronauts trained for this possibility and NASA prepared for it. Even going as far as to include EVA suit components with the resupply before they arrived.
I'm afraid of it in a very abstract way. I'm sure the danger is real but I feel most people just aren't that scared.

It's like global warming. Global warming will probably make a lot of us toast. Yet I still drive a gas guzzling car and I'm not screaming out of my mind.

It's totally irrational and even I'm like that. Do you sort of get what I'm saying?
Jesus, I don't remember this in Blade Runner
Google's GCP Discontinuation of Services policy requires 1 year advance notice for generally available services; this includes any significant backwards incompatible changes.

I don't think they went against that policy for the past 16 years. I've certainly had services running there non-stop, with little to no maintenance, for about a decade.
I take your point, and I concur. I picked "middlemen" to highlight some assumptions we make about ourselves, that the programs exist for their own purpose and not as means to an end. But you're correct that this is a necessary thing, not something that we've captured.

At our best, we do exactly what you say: take things that people say and make them more concrete and specific. This is something I think a lot of programmers don't realize: it is fundamentally a human job. We are "in the middle" between the people (with their vague, hazy ideas) and the computer (with its very simplistic binary model of the world).

When we think that our jobs are all about computers, we're setting ourselves up to be replaced. Not by AI, but by plain old software written once and then left there.
It's one of those places where each side thinks it skews to the other side. Depending on the time of day and who knows what other variables, you can get downvoted for posting right-wing or left-wing political thought on here. I actually think it's relatively balanced, overall.
Google doesn't have a strong record keeping enterprise products around either. I would expect them to absorb this product, release a similar product based on the technology but fully integrated, then sunset Wiz asap.
Ideally the union wants to deal with the larger entity that controls the studio. Presumably, the studio did not go out of business; rather, it was shut down by its parent company.
How long exactly do you think NASA astronauts typically spend on the ISS?
> they also mainly targeted civilians

How many Palestinians, mostly civilians, were held hostage in Israeli prisons on October 6th? (Hint: over 5,000).

> If you were to kill, rape,

Are you referencing long debunked fabricated accounts [0]? Or do you have any actual evidence of rape?

> and kidnap the proportional equivalent of any country's civilian population

Again - over 5,000 Palestinians were being held hostage by Israel on October 6th, including 170 children [1]. That's a huge proportion of the population.

That's what October 7th was about. That's why they did it - to free kidnapped Palestinians. So, if you were to apply your own logic equally, you would then have to justify what Hamas did on October 7th.

You can compare any statistic you like - kidnappings, murders, torture, rape. Per capita, or absolute, Israel comes out worse every time.

> you are likely to see their military attack you

Most countries attack military targets. Not tens of thousands of children, or every hospital, or record numbers of journalists, and refugee camps. Because the numbers (real people) are unprecedented. Unprecedented.

> and not stop until you at the very least returned the hostages.

Hamas offered to return the hostages on October 9/10 in exchange for Israeli troops not entering Gaza [2].

Netanyahu has scuppered many deals since.

You may live in a bubble, but you can leave it any time you choose.

0 - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-2-debunked-accounts-o...

1 - https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241023-number-of-palesti...

2 - https://www.timesofisrael.com/no-doubt-netanyahu-preventing-...
The fault in the Starliner was known in June 2024 (https://www.space.com/nasa-boeing-starliner-crew-flight-test...). By August 2024, NASA said that the crew would stay until Feb 2025. That was not the original plan like you claim. See also: https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/nasa-astronauts-hea....
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Japan. Wait till you try the trains there!

They're so punctual that delays issue a certificate for employees to present to employers*

* Source: random article
Sounds like it could be very useful to others. Make sure to post it to HN if you decide to publish the source
“ What would an ERG for white people even do? What would you want from it?”

What do other groups get? Support, networking, mentorship probably. A lot of white people could use that help too.
>that is, do pseudonyms actually work?

If pseudonyms didn't work, no one would be proposing the policy that he proposes. And nearly everyone seems to propose it or some variation of it.
Voice assistant is profiling you, just not in the way you expect
How to Do Thoughtful Code Reviews
First of all, there was a lot of interesting food for thought in this post and I love the framework it offers for leisurely research. However; I don't agree with this:

> through audiovisual devices, which ask no discipline of the mind, and which are already giving the room the languor of an opium parlor.

I wish there was concrete evidence provided to support this. I suspect that learning outcomes are going to be more influenced by the quality of the material and the level of engagement of the learner, regardless of medium. Bad content is bad content, whether it's text or audiovisual, and I can passively read a book as easily as I can passively consume a video.