gitmagic's comments

On: Nook Browser

[gitmagic]

> When enabled, they provide helpful tools such as chat assistance, summaries, up-to-date web insights, and more.

I find this sentence to be a little odd. Who are “they”?

[jb1991 → gitmagic]

The previous sentence introduces the subject.

[petesergeant → gitmagic]

AI features, presumably

[amitav1 → gitmagic]

The AI.

On: Supercookie: Browser Fingerprinting via Favicon (2021)

[gitmagic]

What is the live demo supposed to do? I just get stuck in an endless redirect loop with a counter going from 1 to 18 and then restarting. I’m using Safari on iOS.

[waitwhatwhoa → gitmagic]

This was fixed after we reported it a few years ago while working on the paper.

[hekkle → gitmagic]

Look at the Github repo:

- The last update was 2 years ago.

- It says that MS Edge 87 is affected. The current Version of Edge is 142.

This is no longer an issue, but it is interesting thinking about how long the NSA knew about this before the general population did.

[dizhn → gitmagic]

Android/Firefox it showed me my unique ID after the first 18. Then there was a button to try again ans that put me in the same loop you're having.

[QuantumNomad_ → dizhn]

Safari on iOS. It goes to 18/18 and then starts over from 1/18 again for me too. I had not pressed any retry button, this happened the first time I visited the page. And I wasn’t even in private browsing mode. Just navigated to it normally.

[int0x29 → dizhn]

FireFox for Android private browsing mode gets stuck in the loop 100% for me

On: Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux

[gitmagic]

> Then here is someone writing an entire functional Teams client with Claude.

According to the README it’s just a wrapper of the web version, with some additional stuff on top.

On: Show HN: Tommy – Turn ESP32 devices into through-wall motion sensors

[gitmagic]

Looks cool! Does it work outdoors too? And can it be battery-powered?

[mike2872 → gitmagic]

Yes it works outdoor too. Although experimenting with device placement is crucial for good results. I think there are different battery powered ESP32 you can buy. I have some of mine set up with small power banks.

[sterlinm → mike2872]

What type of battery life do you see when running these off of a power bank?

[mike2872 → sterlinm]

I'm connecting them to a 10000 mAh powerbank which lasts 2-3 days I think. But I think it's pretty specific to the board you have.

On: AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time

[gitmagic]

I’m using DeepSeek V3 to do automated crypto news analysis and my last accuracy report [1] showed a 98.5% accuracy so I find the results of this article very surprising.

[1]: https://mimircrypto.com/accuracy

On: "Be Different" doesn't work for building products anymore

[gitmagic]

> So what does work?

I would add hardware products to that list. While they also have become somewhat easier and cheaper to create, the threshold is still much higher than for software and SaaS products.

[makeitdouble → gitmagic]

An asterisk to this: SEA competition is way fiercer than people in the west give it credit for.

There's more and more product that I wish existed, and one search in AliExpress returns me what I exactly wanted plus some more. 5 years ago the product just existed and quality was meh, nowadays it's pretty much on par.

I had to recently look for camera gear, and the amount of adapters or quirky tripods is just great. Ulanzi for instance is a pretty well known brand at this point.

On: Product Hunt is dead

[gitmagic]

This. I got more spam than actual users when I launched on Product Hunt. Pretty sure majority of people on PH are just there to promote their own services and products.

On: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

[gitmagic]

Looks like he renamed it to "4 Counts | Wrist Tempo", but the screenshots are still using "Lagree Buddy".

On: GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search

[gitmagic]

I’ve been thinking about this as well. Instead of making websites, maybe people will make something else, like some future version of MCP tools/servers? E.g. a restaurant could have an “MCP tool” for checking opening hours, reserving a table, etc.

[diabllicseagull → gitmagic]

I hope none of this happens and web stays readable and indexable.

[timeinput → diabllicseagull]

I sure hope it stays readable, but it seems like it would only become more indexable with machine friendly formats.

[rossant → gitmagic]

Same. Websites won't disappear but may become niche or something of the past. Why create a new UI for your new service when you can plug into a "universal" personal agent AI.

[recursive → rossant]

So I can get reliable answers.

Why create a fancy infrastructure for for this new universal thing, when the old thing already does it more reliably and with less steps?

On: OpenRouter is down

[gitmagic]

Been down for ~50 minutes now and there's no information other than the automated notice on their status page.

[euazOn → gitmagic]

FYI, they (oddly enough) communicate mostly through Discord, and they have said they are investigating the issue at 10:30am UTC - 13 minutes after the first user reports.

[rozenmd → gitmagic]

Frankly I prefer that than a green tick and "All Systems Operational"

[baq → rozenmd]

yellow: "volcano has erupted under the datacenter and it's being flooded with lava. engineers are investigating"

red: "datacenter has been subject to multiple nuclear strikes. next update in 30 min"

[euazOn → rozenmd]

Could that be due to contractual clauses for uptime in SLAs?

[gitmagic → rozenmd]

True, that happens far too often.