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I was such a big sqlite fan that I used it for my data-intensive startup. Once I actually started scaling it up I ran into crippling file system race conditions. This was because w…

OP here. Our marketing head Stephanie talks about three interesting observations that she's made working with AI: that good prompting isn't good enough, how annoyingly PC Claude is…

Re cold outreach: it depends. The bar is abysmally low, and most outreach is just an untargeted spam cannon. Don't be like those people. If you manage to make the outreach warmer, …

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Some of those might be AI accounts that found an ambiguous topic for upvote farming.

Socrates allegedly was opposed to writing since he felt that it would make people lazy, reducing their ability to memorize things. If it wouldn't be for his disciple Plato who wrot…

Depending on the use case, a 10% failure rate can be quite acceptable. This is of course for non-critical applications, like e.g. top-of-funnel sales automation. In practice, for s…

While this is a pretty cool hardware project, I would be quite annoyed to be your partner. No offense, but it almost reads as satire that you want to flash LEDs in every corner of …

Very fascinating, I tried doing the same years ago with a simple Markov chain model. The biggest problem back then was inconsistency. I'd love to read a chapter of the Minecraft or…

An intent-based Linkedin B2B lead finding tool that evaluates tens of thousands of comments in small thematic niches to find prospects that have a certain problem, and are actively…

In central Europe our biggest tarpit are sustainability / climate topics. Even founders that are smart enough to realize the difficulties still pursue these topics because of an un…

> I sincerely doubt that anything great in the history of humanity has been built in the post-lunch afternoon Interestingly, late afternoon is the time that I am most productive wh…

This is breathtaking. I watched a few videos, and am reminded of the alien evolution simulator that I am working on right now. But where my console-based program is crawling, this …

Thanks for sharing! I'm going through the same thing at the moment, and it's nice to read that this pragmatic approach has worked well for you

Wood constructed houses have one of the arguably worst thermal profiles because of their extremely low thermal mass. Basically, they heat up quickly and cool down quickly. In most …

Have you watched at least 15min of the linked documentary? I am asking because I actually chose my language deliberately. I might be ignorant about extremely atrocious evils that h…

No I'm completely vegan by now (though I was vegetarian for a long time because cheese had a strong hold on me). Regarding small butchers / organic farms: a long time ago, I spent …

Not waking up earlier to the fact that the meat section in the supermarket is a product of systemic, gruesome torture of intelligent beings. Like probably many of you who read this…

That makes sense - our plan is to make part of the first chapter available as a demo as soon as it's out

This is actually something we're not super sure about ourselves yet. I think AI art is quite interesting and has a lot of potential for use cases like this course (where we can aff…

Thanks for pointing that out, the p/h3 letter spacing really was a bit too tight - fixed now

Good point, I think nothing can replace the actual experience of learning coding out in the wild. I personally think that the single most important step for a student learning to c…

Hey HN! I'm Fabian, the CTO of Frobocode, and I'm pretty frustrated with the state of affairs of coding courses. 10 years ago, MOOCS promised to give us really good educational con…