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    Comment #48789028

    > Yes, Claude Code uses Bun. In fact, Claude Code relies on it as a core dependency and ships as a self-contained Bun executable. I... somehow did not know that.

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    Comment #48788952

    Piggybacking onto a second/different "just a suggestion from a user": The VS Code extension needs love. I'm sure you guys are aware but it feels like it is neglected. GitHub Issues…

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    Comment #48622231

    I think I've read from a few different sources that the Claude Code $100-$200/mo plans are subsidized so hard that it's basically $2k-$8k/mo in "would-be" equivalent API token usag…

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    Comment #48612869

    The company I work for, the code Opus 4.8 is able to generate, is higher quality than what was left behind by 10+ years of contractors that have come and gone.

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    Comment #48612529

    > Just stop caring about quality. I'm not so sure this is true anymore. It may have been years ago but... can you honestly say "the Bun project was fully AI written, therefore the …

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    Comment #48611542

    I know a ton of people absolutely hate this level of "LLM code + LLM PR description + LLM PR review" but my boss would have an orgasm if I was able to use AI half as well in our or…

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    Comment #48564823

    I'd like the see the author achieve the same setup but with Nix

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    Comment #48562827

    I must have tried to write the same "perfect" IRC client from scratch in C a dozen times growing up...

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    Comment #48513425

    Did open source phones win? No, iPhone is pretty dominant. Did open source operating systems win? No, MacOS/Windows are pretty dominant. Does open source... cloud hosting, social m…

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    Comment #48271659

    > email service provider (pissmail) I'm sorry this happened to you.

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    Comment #48269530

    This is a foothold business living entirely at Apple's discretion. edit: more research > Chert is in the Sendblue/Blooio lineage, which runs genuine Apple software on real Macs log…

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    Comment #48250502

    I wonder how many "behind the curve/not super modern" corporations were using Bun or Deno to begin with. Part of me thinks it's a mild overreaction. It's not like people audit ever…

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    Comment #48170065

    > Well and uber cut the driver pay in half and doubled the price Devil's advocate: * inflation caused everything to go up to some degree since then * if it was "that bad" as you sa…

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    Comment #48169114

    > Frontier AI companies are selling at a loss. How big/deep of a loss? I feel like I read this every day for years that Uber did this same "idiotic, losing" strategy (how it was pi…

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    Comment #47986116

    Might want to add how this compares to other products in the space. Some that come to mind that are potentially tangentially related/similar: https://github.com/evidence-dev/eviden…

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    Comment #47875384

    Have you tried NixOS/flakes? What was your reaction?

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    Comment #47741583

    I wish they would just rip the bandaid to stop everybody's entitled whining. "We're sorry, what we were able to give you for $100/mo before now needs to be $200/mo (or more). We mi…

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    Comment #47741553

    I wish people would pay more attention to: * Anthropic is in some way trying to run a business (not a charity) and at least (eventually?) make money and not subsidize usage forever…

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    Comment #47654586

    How big of a handicap on performance is the external enclosure for something like an RTX5090?

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    Comment #47642955

    > Running DeepSeek V3 (685B) requires 8×H100 GPUs which is about $14k/month. Most developers only need 15-25 tok/s. > deepseek-v3.2-685b, $40/mo/slot for ~20 tok/s, 465 slots total…

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    Comment #47480070

    Can you help me understand why devenv is needed instead of a shell like this/what is gained? { pkgs }: pkgs.mkShell { nativeBuildInputs = with pkgs; [ # build tools cmake ninja gnu…

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    Comment #47480064

    really good question. right now I have bought into the Nix koolaid a bit. I have NixOS Linux machines and then nix-darwin on my Mac. I use Nix to install Brew and then Brew to mana…

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    Comment #47469528

    The world doesn't need a dozen JS runtimes. The world doesn't need a dozen JS engines. The world doesn't need many dozens of Linux distros. The world doesn't need a handful of BSD …

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    Comment #47468431

    > What’s next for Deno? Who cares? Why does the world need so many fringe tools/runtimes? So much fragmentation. Why does every project have to be a long-term success? Put some stu…