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ebcode

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About ebcode

Feel free to email me about whatever: @proton.me

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    Comment #49191803

    I’d say the problem is that, at least in the US, the government was conceived as a democratic republic, but private enterprise wasn’t required to follow the same conceits, and so a…

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    Comment #49173430

    Can we get that added to the US Constitution and the UN Declaration of Human Rights?

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    Comment #49153076

    [flagged]

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    Comment #49089891

    What if a single email cost $0.001 cent to send, and it was paid to the recipient? For $10, you could send 10,000 emails. For recipients, every 1,000 emails they get is a dollar in…

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    Comment #49076092

    Have you tried VirtualBox? That’s my go-to for running un-trusted code. Start with a clean VM/fresh install, and don’t put any secrets in it.

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    Comment #49066522

    check out David Ackley's work

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    Comment #49043783

    I tried it on my iPhone but can’t scroll the spreadsheet. still it seems like a fun project.. will check it out on desktop when I get home

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    Comment #49043286

    Here's the original blog post from last December: https://ebcode.com/blog/2025/12/17/sourceminder/ The 15% number is based on two runs from the ./experiment folder, on an instance …

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    Show HN: Sourceminder.org - token-efficient code search

    Hey HN, The code indexing tools released in December now have added capabilities (Rust, Perl support), better token efficiency, easier install method, and a website! The website ha…

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    Comment #48956345

    It’s a tie.

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    Comment #48887094

    https://wettel.github.io/codecity.html

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    Comment #48840404

    And it reads to me like they have some other reason to move on from SWE Bench Pro, but they don't want to say what it is. They say right up top, "~30% of the tasks are broken." But…

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    Comment #48531777

    Still plugging away on SourceMinder ( https://github.com/ebcode/SourceMinder ). I know, I know, everyone and their brother is working on token-saving schemes for LLMs. But I’ve fou…

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    Comment #47835392

    It's still in beta, and I'm hoping to get more feedback, so feel free to post in the issues or reach out directly if you run into any problems.

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    Comment #47834155

    I’m working on a tool that is a more token-efficient code search than grep. I don’t have hard numbers yet, but it’s been working for me to get longer sessions. https://github.com/e…

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    Comment #47480487

    so, “yes false Scotsman”?

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    Comment #47429646

    That’s why we’ve got the tenth.

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    Comment #47255575

    Can anyone tell me what Yegge is on, so I can try some? Is it just money/tokens?

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    Comment #46641639

    too bad about all the ads, this is an excellent comparison of the ends of both Dutch and American empires

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    Comment #46593031

    Mr. Smith (GN) goes to Washington (Palantir).