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gusmally

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    Comment #48634650

    This was such a fun read, and wigglegrams are still popular on tumblr (although tumblr is no longer popular!) To the people pointing out the lower quality of the author's wigglegra…

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    Comment #48631668

    The multiple uses of "it's worth X" made me question the authorship, for one

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    Comment #48497539

    lmao! thank you for the update; i was wondering why it was no longer viewable.

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    Comment #47977403

    Since you seem interested in the ins and outs of English, I want to say that "retort" has a connotation of anger or sharpness. Your response reads more like a "rebuttal" to me. Thi…

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    Comment #47869822

    Such a fun site, thank you! I was surprised that Seedream4 passed the mermaid test since it's hard to tell whether they are in the water or submerged, and the mermaid has something…

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    Comment #47459909

    Maybe it's less risk for them to offer the individual features. That way if people get inadvertent results, it's easier to blame the user, not the tool/company

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    Comment #47212027

    I guess we work in very different places!

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    Comment #47197150

    > When circumstances eventually require that understanding, when something breaks in an unexpected way or requirements change in a way that demands architectural reasoning, the org…

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    Comment #47197117

    With the free time gained from not manually writing code, documentation should be part of the workflow. I should start doing this.

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    Comment #47172877

    you don't think LLM impacts on productivity were a factor at all?

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    Comment #47172862

    For real. Very worried about when other CEOs follow suit and there is a flood of people into unemployment.

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    Comment #47172829

    Square payment processing?

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    Comment #47146220

    Which ones have you compared it against?

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    Comment #46993621

    Who are your competitors? What makes you different?

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    Comment #46993591

    I don't have a macro-level answer for you but an interesting anecdote: we opened a job for a Software Designer and looked at the first 9 applicants. All of them were in need of H-1…

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    Ask HN: Are you using an agent orchestrator to write code?

    In a recent interview with The Pragmatic Engineer, Steve Yegge said he feels "sorry for people" who merely "use Cursor, ask it questions sometimes, review its code really carefully…

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    Comment #46650529

    It's a great post, I will use it for the same. Thank you.

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    Comment #46618820

    what do you mean?

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    Comment #46279390

    I also didn't understand the point the authour was trying to make about this method being superior at allowing a learner to remember things under pressure.

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    Comment #46199988

    Oh my god this article was bursting with them! >It is not a “Platform.” It is a library. >It isn’t a heavy observability platform. It’s a simple Python library

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    Comment #45838795

    Yes! They are extremely susceptible to user influence, based on what I have read and experienced in personal use. If your initial message contains a seed, e.g., "Should I break up …

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    Ask HN: Recommendations for specification management software?

    Does your team have a spec management system you enjoy using? I've used Jira way back in the day, but I'm wondering if there's anything people are buzzing about now. Every time I c…

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    Comment #44800824

    They restarted Claude Plays Pokemon with the new model: https://www.twitch.tv/claudeplayspokemon (He had been stuck in the Team Rocket hideout (I believe) for weeks)

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    Comment #44250360

    The NYT recently did an interesting review of Canada's program: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/01/magazine/maid-medical-ass...