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Oh, okay, I get the value prop now. Thank you. They should hire you to write their marketing copy, you did a better job than the landing page.

Tana is basically a programming environment disguised as a text editor (in this way, it follows in the grand tradition of emacs you could say)

doh, good point. will fix this, I acknowledge I sort of handwaved the example. thanks for the correction!

one more, for completeness: SELECT 'black' AS outline_color FROM elements parent JOIN elements child ON parent.id = child.parent_id WHERE parent.data_theme = 'light' AND child.data…

yeah I mean, to be clear, I'm less proposing "What if we add even more syntax and semantics to CSS" and more "what if we steal ideas from CSS, notice their similarity to logic / re…

oh this is fun > we copy and reapply patterns in different contexts and that might enable unexpected things yeah, that's exactly what I am trying to do here. Mostly it doesn't go a…

tbh, this started as a connection of two disparate ideas ("hey, this thing looks like this other thing"), and then just kind of explores it in different directions. I think the con…

oh this is neat! Feels like exactly the sort of thing I was gesturing towards. Thanks :)

sure! You can email me at notches_hoses_58@icloud.com (throwaway email), and we could go from there?

I broadly agree with you, so I want to pick your brain a bit: What would your ideal RDBMS / tooling look like, that facilitates 6nf effectively? Do you think it's more a limitation…

Someone has done a ray tracer in DuckDB, so essentially, yes: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/22/duckdb-wasm-doom/

Interesting. Does that mean if you want to say, make an asynchronous http request, you do something like “fire_event(HttpRequestEvent(…))” which returns immediately, and somewhere …

I assume they're doing "Structured Generation" or "Guided generation", which has been possible for a while if you control the LLM itself e.g. running an OSS model, e.g. [0][1]. It'…

Always enjoy Derek Lowe's writing. n=1 here, though I've heard others say the same -- but I (fairly healthy 30s male, vaccinated) found Paxlovid massively reduced symptom intensity…

Trying to make the same transition right now. I’ve got almost 10 years experience with python and data engineering and I’ve been reading tutorials and playing with projects on the …

I'm a bit of a noob here, but if a) a linear SSM (a form of RNN?) is equivalent to Attention without the scaling and softmax; and b) Attention is "all you need" and the thing that …

Doesn’t this effect happen with EVs generally, not just Teslas? (I don’t particularly mean to defend Tesla here, but I wonder if this might be misleading)

Hey, this is neat! Thanks for sharing. I may be interested in collaborating with you on this when I have some free time.

When I see an embedded DSL passed around as strings like this I can't help but think "this could be its own programming language" Then it could have syntax highlighting, auto compl…

They're commoditizing their complement [0][1], inasmuch as LLMs are a complement of social media and advertising (which I think they are). They've made it harder for competitors li…

Reminds me of Heynote, posted to HN recently[0]. In general I think this approach of "super easy capture into an append-only log" is great, especially if it can be paired with feat…

From the title alone, I initially thought this would be about meditation.

Yeah, it's a balance. I love being able to help, and I am generally in favor of asking questions early, but not ones of the form "hey so I ran this code and it errored. Help?" "...…

This is an interesting point, because they are kinda infinite spaces but they also impose a structure on the space, which I would assert is a part of why they are so successful, in…