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Trader Joe's cashier bells have entered the chat. Ironically, the "request assistance" button and accompanying blinking light on top of your stand at self-checkout are the "self-ma…

I can't help but think that thee's some sort of tragedy of the commons type thing going on here. Probably the wrong metaphor. But: it seems like a lot of what the article is gettin…

Claude Code uses Ink (React for CLIs) which positions text via cursor moves. When you copy text from its terminal output, each line gets padded with trailing spaces to fill the ter…

In other words, it seems substantially less connected to "tools" than Gemini (even in an incognito).

So, yes, but there are random things that it can be disastrously bad at. Like math expressions (especially with units) where it will just give you some random hallucination. Where …

Awesome, looks great! Thanks for jumping into the thread here.

Just FYI OP (assuming OP is the author of the post) there's no margin on your blog. Text goes all the way to the edges. As a related sidenote, I wonder how quickly ChatGPT replaces…

Ignoring industries built on regulatory capture / credentialism gatekeeping like law and medicine [by the way, even those both have continuing education requirements], are there ac…

The fact that in 2024 you can still get sub-1-hour applicable reply from the creator of one of the top web frameworks ever is everything that makes HN amazing.

I've recently found that copy/pasting images just works in a surprising number of contexts: * MacOS: on Chrome, "copy" image, "paste" into Twitter composer on Chrome * iOS: on Safa…

yeah this is not a very good list. if you read "Made in America" (1992) it's clear that the eventual "founding" of Walmart was just a continuation in Sam's entrepreneurial journey …

If you're talking about FTX US, and your son instructed them to sell coins, if the trade was executed he may have been credited to his USD balance. If so, these funds would be vali…

Oddly enough, less than 1 day later someone has launched what purports to be a YC for real estate investing: https://twitter.com/moseskagan/status/1643228164439814144 I have no kno…

Part of me wanted to believe that SVB's failure wouldn't lead to real financial losses for the FDIC. That there was a weird panic bank run, and then the steady hand of a regulator …

I think it's more mark to market vs "par" value trickery. SVB had plenty of assets at "par" value or held to maturity value. But it was insolvent if you marked those to market. So …

It's called "narrow banking" or full-reserve banking. It's been tried, and was rejected by the very same regulators who now had to bail out SVB: https://www.econlib.org/why-does-th…

It's said that no bank (even the best-managed) can withstand a fullscale bank run. So to the extent that the US side of things created a crisis of confidence, that might have been …