Hmm.. so this is not the same category with computer use or browser use. I love the idea. Well defined and controlled sandbox is really useful.
Off topic but I’m disappointed by computer use and browser use when I tried three months ago. They couldn’t complete many basic tasks. Especially browser use, it easily failed slightly unorthodox website. It can’t find select box implemented by div, stacks in infinite loop when the submit button is disabled, and it even failed to complete the demo in its own readme! I’m okay with open source projects a bit buggy, but a VC funded company, which already has the fancy landing page, provides the service to big corps, and offers paid plans, should at least make sure the demo works.
I grew up on a small village in a small island.
The yogurt lady was an essential part of the community.
Many stay-at-home moms (including my mom) seemed to enjoy her visit.
She and my mom talked a lot, sometimes for hours (I still can't figure out how she completed her job when she spent so much time with one person).
They chatted about recent events, like the daughter of the fisherman gave birth, the great-grandpa of the liquor shop died of cancer, a newly opened restaurant in the nearest town sucked, and sometimes shared even personal struggles or family matters.
It really helped a lot of people combat mental struggles caused by the isolation of being traditional stay-at-home wives in a super rural area.
The only downside was anything you shared with her would be spread in the entire village before dawn.
I love this! Thank you. I spent way too much time on HN this week, so I'd already enjoyed several of these, but this is a great showcase of the content that keeps me coming back here.
Only a couple of those were already in /highlights.
I'm not sure yet whether this is good enough to be an automatic feed into /highlights but I could imagine adding aggregated /favorites pages to https://news.ycombinator.com/lists.
@dang: these are amazing! Real useful gems... I think they are different than the highlight ones, seems like people favorite them because of their utility mostly.
Would love to see it as /favorites in the lists page!
> The only downside was anything you shared with her would be spread in the entire village before dawn
It's a better service than FB or Instagram that depress because people only show their good sides there... As you said, she was an essential part of the community ;-)
> It's a better service than FB or Instagram that depress because people only show their good sides there...
Sadly it's not only that.
Social networks are "half-duplex" where you most likely to broadcast or consume at a time. it's not a true dialog. it made FOMO a thing. and worse, it's not only used for showing good, But it's being used to make complicated world events into bite-size good/bad dividing humanity instead of embracing and considering the complexity.
This is pretty typical of life in small villages across southeast Asia, especially towns along the coast have fish/cashew nuts lady as opposed to the yogurt lady. She was the local news representative and also the beacon of acceptable levels of capitalism -- would price her products with just enough margin for her to enjoy her simple life.
This is a bit concerning. Did you skip everything besides "yogurt delivery", or you don't agree someone talking to you regularly is counter-loneliness?
I've been spending much less time on reviews lately. I used to check if the code was correct and well-written, and worked on my local machine as expected and performed well. But I can't do it anymore. If they can vibe-code, why can't I vibe-review? Maybe something wrong will happen in production, but it's not my responsibility. I also stopped volunteering for on-call (well, I shouldn't in the first place). If I noticed someone reporting a bug in production during non-working hours, I investigated and implemented the solution, usually faster than coworkers. I thought it was my responsibility to contribute to the product if I could, even though it was beyond my job description. Working with AI-generated code really demoralized me and I can't love the product I'm working on anymore.
I agree, but in general those chat apps have relatively bad user experiences for multibillion BtoC company. I used to have a lot of surprises and frustrations while using Claude Code / Desktop, and still encounter issues, but it's the best in major LLM services.
It's funny cause, you know, fixing all those little nitty gritty things should be practically automatic with their own offerings... have your agent put in a lot of instrumentation... have it chase down bugs or dead-end user-journeys... have it go make the changes to fix it...
I've seen these tools work for this kinda stuff sometimes... you'd think nobody would be better at it than the creators of the tools.
But in the stock market, it is almost impossible for companies like Anthropic or any successful startups not to become villains (profit first no matter what). Anthropic especially needs to burn huge amount of money, so they need a lot of funding. The only way to keep founders' idealism is probably to copy Zuckerberg. Divide stocks with and without voting-power and trade only no-voting stocks.
> Surely they know the risks, and surely people will be just as responsible with AI
I can't imagine even half of students can understand the short and long term risk of using social media and AI intensively.
At least I couldn't when I was a student.
