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chickensong

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About chickensong

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    Comment #49249344

    You've missed the point. I enjoy cocktails, and I even think the linked page here is nice, both in cocktail selection and page design, but I don't think it particularly belongs on …

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    Comment #49239445

    I feel the same, but it's an unavoidable cycle IMHO. Any subculture that becomes popular gets diluted by more average people, and the content becomes more basic and banal. You can …

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    Comment #49207177

    777-FILM "Hello, and welcome to Moviefone!"

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    Comment #49207066

    In Northern California the number corresponded to POP-CORN, so if you wanted to know the time you called popcorn, and got a lovely lady's voice: "At the tone, the time will be...".…

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    Comment #49162747

    I like to use a handful of stable shell scripts as the entry points, this way you can change the tooling under the hood without having to update related callers. E.g. you can break…

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    Comment #49139054

    I know I read HN for the world news and recipes...

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    Comment #49077762

    It's not illegal if it's through a licensed channel.

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    Comment #49055197

    On its own, yes, but not in context. I think one of the problems with Claude's stock output is it assumes the reader has a firm grip on the context of the output, which is often un…

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    Comment #49055011

    I don't like the memories, but I value them. I do a regular sweep of the memories, extract to harness or docs, then delete them.

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    Comment #49054937

    People make fun of the language, rightfully so in some cases, but also it's often quite effective language. "load-bearing seam" communicates quite a lot in very few characters.

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    Comment #49051094

    > Sorting requires a model of how your org actually behaves: trust relationships, hallway knowledge, the consequences of past decisions. Almost none of this is written down. This i…

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    Comment #49003824

    This is peak old man yells at cloud. There's so much good radio to be had since the arrival of the internet. Not even talking about online-only, but actual radio stations who also …

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    Comment #48981673

    There are a lot of Muggles in the world.

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    Comment #48965792

    > Windows 3.1? It was only 6 3.5” disks. Well ackchyually... Windows 3.1 was just a window manager, you needed another 3 disks for DOS, and if you wanted that sweet networking supp…

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    Comment #48961897

    It is indeed funny/sad to see the rancor created by our own inputs. You can't escape the AI police on HN right now. There will always be someone leaving a shallow complaint or accu…

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    Comment #48960720

    A portion of the leading edge is already talking to their computers. First it was wiring up Wispr to your agent, now you can just enable voice mode in Claude. That paradigm shift j…

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    Comment #48955029

    I enjoy some battlestation pics, but this feels like an oddly uniform collection that makes me feel like I'm looking at a stock art catalog. I'm not sure if it's a narrow demograph…

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    Comment #48951347

    > But Anthropic is a leading company that makes cutting-edge AI which will kill people. It’s literally a matter of life and death and at this point But Stihl makes cutting-edge cha…

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    Comment #48944382

    HURF DURF

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    Comment #48942625

    > Does the LLM become another interface to computing? It already is.

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    Comment #48937049

    Very cool, thanks for the write up on the recommendations. I'm always hungry for new music and I have a somewhat patchy last.fm history going back to 2005. I'd love to check out yo…

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    Comment #48910458

    Very interesting! I'm considering Meilisearch but have zero experience with it, so I appreciate your response, thanks. I've used Elastic in the past, but trying to avoid it now. I'…

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    Comment #48900780

    1. I'm interested and would like to know more! Will you be publishing it? How do the recommendations work?

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    Comment #48900276

    Do your crawlers respect robots.txt and have a fixed IP pool that can be blocked?

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    Comment #48900236

    Where do you get your data from?