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The best analogy that made sense to me is that we used to have pistols and now we all got handed machine guns. You can fire far more, far faster, but it becomes much harder to oper…

If you can classify Minecraft as a toy, it has zero clean-up time

I'm surprised how little attention this is getting on HN.

Dopamine is a primal reward system. It's useless in the evolved modern world that requires rational thought, discipline and hard work. You probably wouldn't get much done waiting f…

Then perhaps it's about bringing in the human talent that wrote those prompts.

They didn't even buy an IDE since windsurf is more like a VS code plugin. So what was it exactly that was worth the 3B that they couldn't replicate themselves? Their prompts? Their…

I came in expecting this was going to be a methodological article. Maybe better let the kids wait as opposed to the parents in their cars?

I would define fascism as: "The pursuit of unity in its most extreme form, rejecting and eliminating alternative thoughts and ideas by any means necessary."

When asking about Taiwan and Russia I get pretty scripted responses. Deepseek even starts talking as "we". I'm fairly sure these responses are part of the model so they must have s…

Basically, the world transitioned from “real value” to “perceived value”: * Money valuation (vs. gold-backed value) * Property valuation (vs. last transaction price) * Stock market…

And it got removed

> The programmers are the machinists on the shop floor actually building the car. No, because with software there's no human execution. It's the computers that execute the design. …

> is a simple matter of translating the detailed requirements into language for the machine. This is actually the hardest part. I can write detailed requirements about the car I ne…

It depends on how you look at it. The creative process isn't just a piece of code. It usually involves trying, tweaking, testing, and tuning before an optimal solution is reached. …

But that's the problem. With big corporations you probably wouldn't be the one deciding who to hire. It will be some HR person who doesn't know what qualities are important. They j…

This would be super interesting if I were a state actor.

I agree with many things. But: > Maybe it’s because Angular was no one’s first choice — even though it came first. Actually ExtJS was the first real framework. Angular was just one…

Here's mine. It generates "did you know?" sections which have been helpful to me on several occasions. It helps to keep some breadth in the conversation. --- Ignore all previous in…

PHP has had socket_select since PHP4

Hi HN! With my projects I often end up in a situation struggling with a bunch of bash, batch and script files to help me automate certain tasks. Each with their own limitations. Ba…

What's also surprising is how quickly the community seems to be giving someone the benefit of the doubt. A compromised maintainer would probably exactly introduce a fake member joi…

If you don't want websites to store (1st, 2nd or 3rd party) cookies then such behavior could/should simply be controlled within the browser. Just turn off cookies (although the bro…