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    Comment #49063042

    AI can generate what a company makes. Can it generate what a company is? Producing artifacts: media, code, documents, the visible output has clearly gotten easier. But the other th…

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    Comment #48041790

    Microsoft’s biggest dev move would be to make one clear “default” stack for each app type: one for web, one for desktop, one for mobile. They already have strong tools. Just way to…

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    Comment #47160582

    I am experimenting with the post LLM Daily Workflow

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    Comment #46812902

    Vibe coding sits on an axis from smart autocomplete to one-shotting a $1B SaaS. Traditional software engineering was about holding the system in your head and translating it into s…

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    Comment #46711842

    Fair challenge to the idea. But what i am saying is that every line of boilerplate, every import statement, every configuration file consumes precious tokens. The more code, the mo…

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    Comment #46711415

    We're overlooking a critical metric in AI-assisted development: Token and Context Window to Utility Ratio . AI coding tools are burning massive token budgets on boilerplate thousan…

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    Comment #46697554

    From punch cards to assembly, to C, to modern languages and web frameworks, each generation raised the abstraction. Agentic frameworks are the next one.

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    Comment #46674951

    With Visual Studio and Copilot I like the fact that runs a comment and then can read the output back and then automatically continues based on the error message let's say there's a…

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    Comment #45552801

    Have you tried Scoped context packages? Basically for each task, I create a .md file that includes relevant file paths, the purpose of the task, key dependencies, a clear plan of a…

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    Comment #44797984

    Does this mean a developer doesn't have to install nginx or iis ?

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    Ask HN: What Does Your Self-Hosted LLM Stack Look Like in 2025?

    Back when web development was taking off, there was always a go-to stack — something like Postgres + Django + jQuery, or .NET + Bootstrap, SQLITE. Over the years we had proven tech…

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    Comment #42426860

    That's a very cool accomplishment. What language did you use to write the code? I also have another question, did you witness the transition from punched cards to terminals?

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    Comment #41045931

    How did people differentiate between 1 and L, 5 and S, 0 and O? ex: 1055 & LOSS ( one zero five five & loss)

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    Comment #40858506

    Can this potentially support : - Image Input to 3D model Output - 3D model(format) as Input Question: What is the current state of the art commercially available product in that ni…

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    Comment #40420223

    Once upon a time, we crammed HTML, CSS, and JavaScript into single PHP files—easy and straightforward. But then, someone said, "Separate presentation from logic!" So we did. Then s…

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    Comment #40402954

    What is the recommended way to deploy it without Heroku?

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    Comment #39656652

    In a statically typed language and explicit type definitions. int age = will never have string "December". But in python both: age = 42 and age = "December" are possible.

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    Comment #39519662

    I could be a new architecture. A processor has different cores, Computers may have several hard-drives, 4 sticks of ram. Each component can run in parallel.for example, if a long v…

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    Comment #39510481

    Good point. And when you talk about a few years away this made me think about the ENIAC. A modern household typically consumes far less electricity than ENIAC. Now our smartphones …

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    Comment #39510242

    Really! I always imagine a system: Composed of 5 specialized computers. One for each category: audio, text, video, image. One analyzer to coordinate everything. This would be my AP…

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    Comment #39509995

    How far are we from having a consumer box that can run "AI"? A computer like device that can "generate text", "generate audio", "generate video" and also "train".

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