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Hello HN crew - I am seeing the tendency for people to allow AI agents to access local project & user folders, and beyond (operating system files). I thought to ask the question: How can we best use AI tools safely -…

There is some terminology/jargon associated with AI technology that I'm curious where it comes from. Like "System card", "Alignment", "Safety". Perhaps in this thread, people can share their own "What does X mean, and…

Hello, happy Friday! I am looking to do some in-person "developer boot-up" workshops, and seek your suggestions for "modern tooling". The background of the participants range from motivated newbie ("I heard you can make…

I work with investors and entrepreneurs - and I often suggest starting with an "open-source by default" mindset, including building a community around an open product. Some people don't know about open-source, and…

I'm based out of Colombia, and use Debian Linux (and my iPhone) to access YouTube. For the past several days, I have been unable to view any videos on YouTube without being logged in (I don't have a Google / Youtube…

Hey everyone - We are reviewing the HN Who's Hiring post, discussing & documenting tech trends, and overall talkin' shop and gettin to know each other. Join the video collaboration room (most fun!):…

Hello! What are the best open-source, free pair-programming tools out there? I'm doing collaborative code development & coaching - the students often don't have credit cards or accounts on platforms like Google,…

Hello HN - My goal is to have a high-quality open-source text-to-speech engine running on my Mac. Research has led me to evaluate Piper TTS (https://github.com/rhasspy/piper) - the voices sound good, and it can run on a…

Hola amigos - I just noticed that https://coqui.ai/ is "Shutting down". I'm building a web app (React / Django) which takes a list of affirmations & goals (in Markdown files), puts them into a database (SQlite), and…

Hola amigos - I'm looking for a static-site photo gallery generator, with the "ease of use" of "drag new photos & videos into a structured directory of photos & videos & event dates, turn this into a site I can rsync up…

Hello HN - I'm using VSCodium (open-source VSCode), with the FOAM plugin (similar to Obsidian / ROAM) to create a cross-linked notes/knowledge base. If you haven't tried it out - it's easy to setup, and works great.…

Hola! After futzing with static site generators, and markdown/Obsidian publishing pipelines. I’m trying to get into writing - and making it part of a daily flow. I’ve really wanted to like using Obsidian, but I’m not a…

The title says it all. Once you read this, you'll start seeing it in so many ChatGPT responses, and it'll stick out. A bit of a navel-gazing question, but I'm curious where "sticky" and phrases like that come from? Are…

A friend of mine told me, in passing “I solve $25 million/yr problems for businesses”, and continued another topic. Never got to ask him about those problems! So, I’ll ask here instead. What are some $25M problems you…

I’ve had several recent issues where videos I sent from my iPhone ended up in “tiny” low-res mode for the recipient. It got me thinking- I ought to be able to easyly upload a video to my own server, and them a link to…

Hey HN crew - I'm putting together a "local notes --> publishable knowledge-base site" workflow (it's a git-versioned Hugo site which sits in an iCloud folder. I'm using iA Writer as the main writing IDE. When ready to…

The Team File Share. AKA “How is this still an unsolved problem?” In 2004, I worked at a bank, and our team had a “P:/“ drive. It was a networked file share (probably Windows Server), mounted on everyone’s computer.…

Hey HN crew - Trying to cobble together a DIY portable digital typewriter, terminal. RaspPi, small external USB keyboard, and eInk display. Code in the sun. EInk doesn’t seem to be there yet, but I got to thinking- why…

Hey HN gang- I’ve been reading books lately on improving life (e.g. Atomic Habits, the Artists Way), and what I’m finding is that these books offer so much great “do X action every Y time interval / trigger ” advice…

I’ve been trying to (1) prioritize quality sleep, (2) set a good mindset for the day. I have a playlist of advice/wisdom* audio files that I’d like to shuffle-play when I wake up & go to bed. I’ve experimented with…