Could you add any detail on why Google uses (used?) Irregular? I wouldve thought that type of service would be a core competency that Google needs internally.
Even if you had it internally (which we do), there is so much surface area and it’s such a novel space that you’d want as much testing on it as possible. There aren’t many vendors, and irregular is one.
deshler-ohio-usa fix pushing tonight (its going into the regression fixtures alongside the ones CommieBobDole flagged). stacked-pin dedupe is a real known gap, adding a spiral offset when markers overlap at the same coords. YES please send the 160 cams. email works, hari at sapporosoft dot com, or paste a github gist here and ill ingest tonight. that gets us over 800 in one shot, huge thanks
It sure needs a large enough push from one of few big companies (with their explicit backing) that can bring businesses to support other app store(s). But imho that has to happen in a way that it doesn't create a need to write and publish apps in yet another language to yet another platform. Because if businesses have to do that as well that will be a good way to ensuring it becomes a DoA effort.
I've a feeling companies like Meta, Amazon, Steam are well placed to do this (esp. Meta and Steam). But not sure it will be helpful to them in any way, besides they'd want to ensure their own control and locks.
How do you expect things to be popular without a company with self-interest? Producing a linux phone that people want requires immense capital, they're not just spending that and then releasing as open source forever.
By the time the product becomes "popular", it's then just one more platform that needs to follow investor interest and laws.
Why GNU? I get the appeal of Linux, but Android has that angle covered. What makes GNU a better userspace than Android for phone use? I actually think the Andoid userspace is very good for what it is. If Google's influence were magically removed, Android would be more or less the ideal OS, at least for me.
It's not the same, it does not run BBOS10, and de-Googled LineageOS will have to do for now (for me).
But at least we can get updated internals for the Q20 (and soon the Passport). It'll be the closest we can get to carrying a BlackBerry for some time, if ever, and I'm happy enough with mine that I picked up a spare mainboard
They exist but they need more polish and support from device vendors to be a viable alternative to the duopoly. It should be just as easy for the average phone buyer to get and use a 'Linux phone' as it is to get an Android or fruit phone. This is more or less true now for Linux distributions no matter what the naysayers keep on repeating, the next step is to make it true for mobile devices. There will still be naysayers but... who cares? Let them listen to themselves in their echo chambers like they've been doing w.r.t. 'Linux on the desktop'.
I think that makes sense, but still, you would expect a hunter to know how to hunt. I'm talking about people losing their skills for the job they are supposed to be doing without gaining any new ones
I don't ming a "ASK HN: What's your AI Setup", and then sifting through the 100s of comments on what people are doing. Then I'd scrape all that into my LLM WIKI and start digesting.....
ShareYourAISetup folks create a skill that user can run locally that collects information re their setup, formats it and sends to dedicated endpoint. Result = fairly uniform reports where people share what they're comfortable sharing.
No requirement from given user to spend their time. Users see what the skill does.
I guess atm they dont know what questions they want to be asking
One MCP server for doing automated code quality checking, using Valknut, Jscpd, and Lizard to output scores, combine/aggregate them. That's then give to the model so that it can see if there's a mess of code dupe or if there was significant architectural regression. It's allowed to say "This is worth it" but it ground it a bit and stops really stupid, short sighted, hacked-in features
Another uses https://github.com/thejens/id-token-nicer so that the model doesn't bork a big ID without being noticed. It's told to translate in and out of that as necessary.
I had it write it's own skill for making sure to follow some sane commenting/style guides per language, that way it doesn't just give me massive files with no comments.
Finally, a last one lets Antigravity or Codex call out to local models as workers, for long running background tasks where a cheap, dumb model is fine. Saves on overall token usage.
On top of that, the way people work is notable: Do you use worktrees for agents? Why/why not? Do you have only one subscription? What level? I'm using both Codex at $20/mo and Antigravity at (promo) $5/mo right now. Antigravity's TOS says you MUST use their harness, which informs some of my skill setup/workflow. Do you make your agents.md self modifying, write it yourself, or not use one at all? Do you use a sandbox or YOLO it?
Even just how you prompt matters. On Antigravity/Gemini, I can give it a big list-o-TODOs and have it make a very detailed implementation plan itself, carry it out, and generally do the thing, all unsupervised. Codex, from what I have experienced, isn't as good at that. Doing the planning as a separate step, writing to a file, then telling it to step-by-step it with commits for each step makes it work okay again though.
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