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    Comment #49006684

    It works well in Germany. For products too, at least what I tried. The last time I did a very German product search (association-management software) the first hit was a comparison…

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    Comment #49006651

    It’s enough to add a `?` to any Kagi query to get an AI answer. I like that I can choose for which queries I use AI and for which traditional web search.

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    Comment #48502025

    Yea, usually the next step is starting a Kickstarter campaign and then rug-pulling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVsqIjAeeXw

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    Comment #48446689

    Wrapping this [1] in a skill will help a lot: Also add this [2] and `zig fmt` to your buid.zig. [1]: https://github.com/rockorager/zigdoc [2]: https://github.com/rockorager/ziglint…

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    Comment #48446608

    In Zig, function arguments are not wrapped in `.{}`. `.{}` is the syntax for creating a struct or a tuple. This is used as a pattern for allowing optional arguments (options struct…

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    Comment #48424817

    The whole field of evolutionary psychology is in a replication crisis, and there are several newer studies that did not find any evidence for any changes in 'mate preference' acros…

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    Comment #48335794

    nitpick: The language is pretty stable, what changes is the standard library.

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    Comment #48020344

    The big loss for the Zig community would be if they stopped donating to ZSF. They have estranged themselves from it for a while.

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    Comment #47946876

    NLnet is also a great Dutch initiative. It's great to see that smaller, more nimble countries are leading the way in Open Source and digital independence.

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    Comment #47325318

    > it's just gaining more control Yes it is! And if you control everything, you won‘t make mistakes.

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    Comment #47321748

    The takeaways at the very bottom of the page are valuable: > Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s at now, as wel…

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    Comment #47296105

    Singletons are global variables in a suit. Don‘t use them.

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    Comment #47296081

    Also, why isn‘t there a native client for all platforms? Could they not just let the AI auto-translate the code?

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    Comment #46741658

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    Comment #46741639

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    Comment #46615053

    Behind the Bastards did a two-part Podcast on him: https://youtu.be/8nyEkHqP65c?si=oorC_viWbnZLH-wb

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    Comment #46316275

    They block agressively. Not only based on IP adresses. If you visit the site with a privacy-focussed browser or in private mode they will also tell you your IP is blocked.

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    Comment #46311681

    https://archive.ph/3nsGi

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    Comment #46076754

    Containing the giant switch statement in a byte code interpreter or a tokeniser.

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    Comment #46067844

    And this kind of behaviour is a red flag for people who actually go digging through the GitHub profile. Like techical people in the last stages of a hiring process.

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    Comment #46067024

    Check out this dude: https://github.com/GhostKellz?tab=repositories He's got like 50 repos with vibe-coded, non-working Zig and Rust projects. And he clearly manages to confuse peo…

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    Comment #46003481

    Yes. This is a bad law, but somehow still a better one than the UK got...

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    Tell HN: People putting AI-generated fake projects on GitHub

    I was recently looking for a QUIC library for Zig and found zquic¹. The readme tells me it's perfect, 'PRODUCTION READY! ' and ' Ultra-high performance'. It all reeks of AI, so I l…

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    Comment #45357528

    If HTML is a programming language, why not SVG? If SVG is a programming language, why not PNG? Is your image viewer just an interpreter executing PNG code? Maybe being a programmin…

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    Comment #45259205

    Christmas is a good time to update usually.