LilBytes's comments

On: AI Is Facing a Crisis

[LilBytes]

It's satire. The inverse is the truth.

On: 'Exploding' Tunnock's teacakes cleared by tests to fly again

[LilBytes]

I moved to Australia and forgot they existed until I found them in the "Foriegn Food" aisle and my house has been stocked with them every day since.

They've been my favourite sweet for as long as I can remember.

On: An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

[LilBytes]

Yep and most of us are already using Subnet routers it's not technically much harder.

Finding a cloud or VPS provider with free or cheap bandwidth (egress and ingress) is likely the biggest issue.

On: Firefox Is Finally (Re)Adding Support for Web Apps

[LilBytes]

Can I get an invite too please?

[AndroidKitKat → LilBytes]

Sent one to the email in your HN profile. Cheers!

[LilBytes → AndroidKitKat]

Thank you x

On: Imagine telling 2010 devs that in 2025, collapsing a div would require $8/ month

[LilBytes]

The company in question:

https://jsfiddle.net/

[nativeit → LilBytes]

“Collapse Sidebar” is a PRO feature.

On: The Pain That Is GitHub Actions

[LilBytes]

ADO is painful, GitHub has its warts but it's got much more community support from services like depot.dev and others.

On: The Pain That Is GitHub Actions

[LilBytes]

Yeah it's a difficult problem, templates help, then put the templates into another repo that is managed by a specific person and imported into others. Not sure how that work in a monorepo, I expect those controls wouldn't.

The problem is it's still possible to work around those controls unless you create some YAML monstrosity that stops people from making the mistake in the first place.

On: Celebrating the timeless allure of Tintin's aesthetics

[LilBytes]

Some guys I grew up with dubbed TinTin with Northern English. It's exceptionally crude, but never ceases to make me laugh.

https://youtu.be/6iV5YrLYhCA

[pvo50555 → LilBytes]

You know those guys? My friend and I used to come to tears to these during the old DubToons days. It's the only reason I know what a Middlesborough accent is. We still quote them!

[LilBytes → pvo50555]

Aye! We went to Teeside College together. I think it's been renamed Teeside Uni now or it's something else.

Can't find it, this is going back 19 years ago now. I grew up in Hartlepool and went to college there.

On: My little sister's use of ChatGPT for homework is heartbreaking

[LilBytes]

Not OP but I'm 16 years senior my youngest sister, when she was a wee child I did exactly this.

Voices were like personas for me.

On: New era of slop security reports for open source

[LilBytes]

This isn't anything new, not something to celebrate but it's certainly going to continue to increase.

Daniel (cURL) owner and maintainer went through something similar as LLMs just started, it's covered in his blog post here:

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/01/02/the-i-in-llm-stands-f...

Comically covered by The Primeagen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2HzKY5imTE&t=1206s

Previous conversations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38845878, 121 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38840907, 8 comments