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I love this! Such a beautiful use of some real nerdy math to benefit humans in a way non-nerds would appreciate.

I can’t believe they haven’t already

I like their emphasis on quickly prototyping many variations of a design. That seems useful, even for experienced designers.

This is awesome! 1) I am able to run the model on my iPhone and get good results. Not as good as Gemini in the cloud, but good. 2) I love the “mobile actions” tool calls that allow…

Looks great! I’ve definitely wanted this exact thing before. I will consider reaching for this next time I need to throw together a quick app.

I just deleted my account. The other LLMs are so good that I don't even feel like I'm sacrificing much.

Does relying on larger players result in better overall uptime for smaller players? AWS is providing me better uptime than if I assembled something myself because I am less resourc…

It’s been many years since I built a website using Django. At the time, my favorite feature was that it provided a built-in admin UI with no extra work. So helpful! Now that I live…

I’ve been working on promoting my seating chart app for teachers, Shuffle Buddy, on social media. I had a 1M view pop on TikTok when I first launched and have now been clawing alon…

The solution I built for this is Leopard. It is a Scratch → JavaScript converter. You can take an existing Scratch project and convert it to JavaScript code and then keep working, …

I feel like -r is an old school internet thing. I wonder if anybody has data for trends over time.

I have aphantasia and have long thought that my lack of a mind’s eye might be an asset for programming, much like how a blind person will typically have better-than-average hearing…

The design of this blog post is lovely! Despite seemingly having no right to be. It goes against all of my design instincts, but it somehow nails a vibe while remaining pleasant an…

I was expecting this to refer to different ways to represent the same diff. (For example, you could represent a change from `console.log(“hello”)` as `console.log('hello')` as +'-“…

Totally agree. I’ll also add that although I am often tempted to work alone, sharing my work or ideas or output with someone else boosts motivation a lot.

I don’t know if this is true or not, but it’s clever and interesting regardless.

Complete novice question: Would it be possible to build a language that could read your source code and tell you, at compile time, which expressions have values that depend on RNG?…

As I understand it, the hard part of a masonry layout is ensuring that items are laid out with the first items near the top of the screen and the last items near the bottom of the …

Hi HN! A few years ago, I began creating Leopard, a Scratch to JavaScript code converter. (Since then, I've received help from a few awesome open-source contributors. Thank you!) I…

Completely unrelated, but are you the adhesive_wombat I would listen to on SoundCloud when I was younger?

Or, if that’s too hard, leave the orbit the same but slow the spin down a little so each day is longer. A 0.35% decrease in spin speed seems fine right?

The live-streaming software OBS has a “virtual webcam” feature that can make a generated video feed behave like a hardware webcam. Perhaps something similar is being used to feed g…

Genuine question: Does anyone here have a good sense of how easy/hard it is to moderate a platform like YouTube? My sense is that the answer is VERY HARD, so I tend to give them th…

This doesn’t seem like a very useful characterization. To the best of my knowledge, visualization ability falls on a spectrum, and some are better than others. Aphantasia is a usef…