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Yeah, I really should have included :-) Fun to see this post from the deep archive get some interest - thanks for reading!

Author here… I wrote it, I used Claude for proofreading/editing as mentioned at the end. Anyway point is, real human here! I do still read the code _except_ when I am consciously v…

Author of the piece here :-). We are not building coding agents and focused on quite different stuff… I am just trying to share my personal experience as a software person!

Author of the post here… Cool to see this back on HN! I was trying to provide instructions that anyone could use regardless of platform, hence the choice of web tools (both those l…

admin/admin worked for me

>This year’s Advent of Code has been brutal (compare the stats of 2023 with that of 2022, especially day 1 part 1 vs. day 1 part 2). I enjoyed completing AoC this year. While it wa…

I've been making wine at home in California for the past few years. Finding grapes on Craigslist/via friends, picking them myself and fermenting/storing/bottling wine in my basemen…

I added an 'almost' caveat to the text - thanks for the note.

Hi folks, article author here. I just wanted to stop by to say I'm delighted so many folks enjoyed the piece. I really did have a lot of fun :-)

(Stripe CTO here) That's a reasonable question. We wrote this RCA to help our users understand what had happened and to help inform their own response efforts. Because a large abso…

(Stripe CTO here) Thanks for the questions. We have testing procedures and deploy mechanisms that enable us to ship hundreds of deploys a week safely, including many which touch ou…

I'm Stripe's CTO and wrote a good deal of the RCA (with the help of others, including a lot of the engineers who responded to the incident). If you've any specific feedback on how …

(stripe head of engineering here) I hosted the open house in Dublin, thanks for coming and sorry to hear about your experience; even if it doesn't end up being a fit, we always wan…

Does the combination of hypothermic state and medically induced coma (“hibernation”) have a prolonging impact on life expectancy? The lower metabolic rate would intuitively suggest…

If you already use pocket, then Pocket 2 Kindle https://p2k.co/manage/home is a good service to send stuff from your reading list, nicely formatted to your Kindle. I wrote somethin…

I've made a preview PDF available at singleton.io/alpha/Journal.pdf also.

The broadcast currently contains 758 articles, of which 676 are Wikipedia pages. The remainder are: - 15 gutenberg texts (e.g. Moby Dick, Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm, ...) -…

Posting to see what HN make of this. A friend backed the Lantern Indiegogo campaign yesterday [ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lantern-one-device-free-d... ] which sounded exci…