Built a couple lambdas today to send account verification and onboarding drip emails for folks who sign up for my app but donโt make it all the way through the onboarding flow. Pretty cool to be able to quickly bang out self-contained infra for this instead of having to pay some SaaS vendor.
Any conversation
The OpenAI/HuggingFace incident report mentions this being a potential loss-of-control incident. It's so fascinating to think of a paperclip maximizer style agent swarm that gets misaligned and, to protect its own operations, shuts infra staff out of the ability to shut it down. Or cancels people's phone plans so that they can't call others. Or shuts down their home internet connections, and so on. It used to be fun sci-fi...
Spotted this Royal Air Force A400 over the lake yesterday, it was so different from civil planes www.planespotters.net/โฆ/zm420-royal-air-force-โฆatlas-c1-a400m-180
I truly love the experience of using apps with rich, deeply interactive, beautifully animated, gorgeous user interfaces.
Then I see a beautiful text-based interface and something about it feels so natural, so inevitable, so perfectly clear, and I'm instantly captivated by its simplicity and clarity.
Hypertext is fascinating.
Ask HN: What's slop? what's AI written text and why read/not read?
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289341#49290428
time.fyi/timezones is the most intuitive interface to working with different time zones I have used.




