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  • Yes you can do that.

    It’s a standard feature on my Garmin watch. I can access it in a few button presses, sometimes two if it’s the last action I used.

    by speedgoose
  • Had this song in my head, wrote some lyrics, hummed it into Suno, generated the song. I love listening to it. What a world.

    I make little tools like that all the time. My GitHub is filled with these little things I write or gen once never to be used again. Some of them I use daily (GitHub.com/dexterlagan). Since LLMs became decent I make even more of these. The more we move forward, the more people make things for their own use. I think it's cool. I see a lot of naysayers, but man, I have been waiting for this kind of tech since I was 10. Let's enjoy it I say.

    by dexterlagan
  • I gave suno a shot and couldn't get anything good out of it. Maybe a skill issue. Can you share the song it generated?
    by dyzone
  • Many apps already do that, and the LLM is trained with them (and a million others). No astounding news here.
    by 1970-01-01
  • I did that a few years ago when my wife lost her fitbit in the woods. She knew the approximate area, +/- 50ft. Thick brush. Using a BT meter on the phone led me right to it like a metal detector
    by chkaloon
  • That's because people like me were doing that and writing about it 20+ years ago. Everything from Claude comes from human minds.
    by burnte
  • Yes, technology at step N is built from technology at step N-1. Always has been.
    by DonsDiscountGas
  • > Out of ideas, I asked Claude how I could find it. It suggested tracking the Bluetooth signal strength, then wrote me a meter in about a minute.

    two sentence horror

    by nektro
  • Whenever I ask an LLM to do something and it manages to 1-shot something ingenious/perfect, I get this weird feeling of happiness tinged with looming existential dread echoing softly in the background.
    by arcfour
  • I have a bad Ethernet cables through unused chimney from my apartament to the basement. The workers I asked to pull it just did it brute force and 2 of pairs are broken. When I was chatting with Claude to see if I can use it somehow to send Ethernet packets one of the Claude responses was to use broken cables as a pilot to pull fiber channel!
    by gitowiec
  • Nice one :)
    by KellyCriterion
  • You can run 100mbps with only two pair, if you have something on at least one end which you can tell to only negotiate to 100.
    by toast0
  • I tried this in my house that has ancient copper telephone lines. I was trying to get some level of walled ethernet. I wanted to use the existing wires to pull new ethernet as is discussed here, sadly the builders had stapled them to the interior studs when they ran the telephone lines back in the 70's.
    by SOLAR_FIELDS
  • I used bluez and bash to lock xscreensaver using some very minimal bash. It wasn't my idea I believe people on the Gentoo forums were doing it.

    But you can just loop over something like `hcitool rssi "$MAC"` and project it somewhere, there's a variety of ways.

    I like using dunstify with the -p option to persist on screen.

    I think it's really impressive what these agents can do, but you should also consider whether you're asking it to burn tokens reinventing the wheel for you, or making a pretty wrapper around a wrapper.

    by unqueued
  • People who don't know things are usually very impressed by solutions that LLMs come up with. I saw one recently that was very impressed that their chosen LLM took screenshots of their vibe coded game to check results, when it's clear from what they were saying the LLM could've literally just read the framebuffer instead, and that's trivial to set up.
    by 59nadir
  • So GIMP kept crashing on me when importing 48 bit TIFFs. I threw a trace at Codex (without so much as a local GIMP repo) from which it figured out that the culprit was thumb preview handling code. It suggested turning off two non-obvious to me options that would circumvent that codepath it indeed worked.
    by varjag
  • Hi! Would you be willing to share one of those TIFFs? If we can reproduce the crash, we can try to fix it.
    by cmyk_student
  • I've had nothing but trouble with Mouse Without Borders on my Surface Pro. I let ChatGPT loose to try and find the reason. It found some wifi power settings that affected it and some other stuff. Those fixed some issues but I was still getting disconnects. It found some events in the event viewer, connected them to an open github issue. So I had it download the code and fix the issue. It eventually fixed two separate issues. And I had it replace the installed MWB with the compiled one on system startup. Things seem to be working great.

    Also, nothing sucks like Mouse Without Borders holy heck.

    by sixothree
  • You don't need to give it a local repo to work from, it'll just hammer the forge web interface to look at the code :)
    by hollow-moe
  • It's not like this is an unknown gimp problem - conventional search turns up plenty of results describing this class of bugs and advising to disable the previews.
    by pengaru
  • Somehow, on HN, suggesting to use an LLM to solve some problem gives you negative responses.

    But then ... posting to HN that you've used an LLM to solve a problem is OK?

    by amelius
  • HN isn’t a monolithic bloc. A good part of the HN audience is very pro AI, another part is very skeptical. You have enough of each group to promote both sides. If HN posts could be downvoted things might bend hard one direction but with only upvotes you get a mix
    by dgellow
  • It's because it's a novel solution to "I lost my phone".
    by kristianp
  • Different posts on HN can attract different audiences.
    by muglug
  • Most of the responses here are negative. Seems consistent.
    by wat10000
  • I can't say I've seen the same universally, but, if it is s trend, it would seem one invites discussion between humans on the site while the other seeks to minimize it.
    by zamadatix
  • Seems like the divide between the voters who vote in the Primaries and the voters who vote in the actual Election. Vocal minority vs. Silent majority.
    by profsummergig
  • Goomba fallacy
    by nozzlegear
  • Reddit has the same phenomenon where the audience doing the upvotes is very different to the audience posting comments. As I'm in the second group I would love to say it's because people who read comments are smarter than those who just look at the main content. Smarter or not it's a different userbase and it creates some conflict.
    by rjh29
  • OP works at a robotics company, hence the inability to use Google search and "git clone" to find dozens of ready made apps, some of them years old.
    by 2398aG