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Agreed. My frontend/react builds use esbuild, and rebuild fast enough that it feels like hot module reloading

The big money is going to the OpenAI/Anthropic types producing foundation models that have to raise billions on a regular basis. This is money that would normal be spread across th…

I think you missed the parents point. They were saying they don't have the resources for proper defense , my guess is parent would agree about their offensive capabilities

This is some weird takes... - music apps and gapless playback: basically all major car manufacturer software is trash, I'd challenge you to find a car software that's better than T…

Yeah, it really came from scratching my own itch in wanting a quicker/easier way to think through different companies offers. They always present them in slightly different ways I …

It's always a bit confusing trying to understand what each companies offer actually means for your total comp each year. I made a simple tool that lets you input the relevant info …

Just like writing normal software: have it work on different parts of the codebase that don't have overlap, or do the work sequentially. AI is a time compressor, but it's still con…

I read this book because I misunderstood a recommendation and thought it was a business book talking about how companies get people to forget negative information (e.g. dump news o…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster_lift#Safety Their overall rate of accidents is estimated as 30 times higher than conventional elevators Germany saw an average of one deat…

> ...the new Gemini "replacement" is still by all accounts a disaster Small nit: the initial rollout of Gemini was a dumpster fire. It is now quite good. For my use cases, I can't …

You have to remember, HN is fully supported by YCombinator, and has a huge leg up on any possible similar sites. There will always be content thats encouraged to be posted here fir…

I've noticed that while a bunch of developers have played with LLM's for toy projects, few seem to have any actual experience taking it to prod in front of real users. I’ve persona…

I think the best way to understand/appreciate javascript as a language is to A) separate it from the DOM, and B) take a functional programming focus Too many times, when people com…

Hey HN, want a side project idea that's easy, and would be a huge hit? Make a web crawler that hits publicly traded tech companies careers page, once a day, and tracks how often th…

A lot of people here haven't integrated GPT into a customer facing production system, and it shows gpt-4, gpt-4-turbo, and gpt-4o are not the same models. They are mostly close eno…

If you are a hobbyist reading all this, and trying to compare it to arduino or raspberry pi, do yourself a favor and buy one of these: https://www.adafruit.com/product/5325 $12, fa…

planes/helicopters have a fuel source that is orders of magnitude less volatile, and are also able to safely land without power

The case is not trivial, not crazy, but not trivial. It's also the least hard part about putting together a similar package. A non-EE type person could probably get some dev boards…

Fun fact: part of the licensing agreement to use USB, is to have the usb symbol on top of the connector. So unless you're using a cheap unlicensed cable, look for the symbol facing…

To expand on this, if software was like hardware: - when your function calls don't have enough white space between them, they'll some times mix up their return value (crosstalk) - …

Bitcoin is cryptographically secured distributed accounting ledger, that created a novel way to incentivize participation

"Speed of light" makes more intuitive sense when you think of it more as the speed of causality i.e. the fastest physical speed a cause can have an effect The speed of light in a v…

OpenAI will absolutely be able to raise money again, but it will likely never be on the same scale and will also likely have some serious safeguards in the contract language. Wheth…

Honestly, this is the wrong question, but I understand the intent. What you really should be asking is "Where is the online community for your hobby/interest?" The thing with HN, i…

Practical Electronics for Inventors[0] is the go-to book for what you're looking for. Has the right balance of practical application without dumbing things down too much. That bein…