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irrationalfab

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    Comment #47800087

    Agreed. It is ironic that in the AI race, the real differentiation may not come from how smart the model is, but from who builds the best application layer on top of it. And that a…

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    Comment #47214653

    Interesting! Generating PDFs with properly paginated content is still a pain point in 2026. Do you have a comprehensive integration test suite that can validate the robustness of y…

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    Comment #47214589

    Prince starts at 2k. This is OSS

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    Comment #47042225

    Handy is genuinely great and it supports Parakeet V3. It’s starting to change how I "type" on my computer.

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    Comment #46978874

    Makes me wonder if Micropolis is simple enough that an agent, given many runs and the ability to store what worked, can identify an optimal strategy (like a grid layout) for maximi…

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    Comment #46320886

    +1... like with a large enough engineering team, this is ultimately a guardrails problem, which in my experience with agentic coding it’s very solvable, at least in certain domains…

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    Comment #46319495

    Agent/MCP/Skills might be "Netscape-y" in the sense that today's formats will evolve fast. But Netscape still mattered: it lost the market, not the ideas. The patterns survived (Ja…

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    Comment #46319256

    There's a pattern I keep seeing: LLMs used to replace things we already know how to do deterministically. Parsing a known HTML structure, transforming a table, running a financial …

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    Comment #46317307

    Anthropic is positioning Claude in Chrome as a beta feature for day to day use, expanding beyond the earlier research preview. - Pull data from dashboards into one analysis doc - A…

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    Comment #45496090

    > If those features aren't supported by the widget's hard-coded schema, you're out of luck as a user. Chat paired to the pre-built and on-demand widgets address this limitation. Fo…

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    Comment #45495161

    This feels like the death of the app, and the rise of the micro-app.

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    Comment #45429896

    Very interesting tech. Ephemeral, high-fidelity preview environments that require zero setup are a key enabler. They let you rapidly validate changes within the complete context of…

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    Comment #45203664

    This nails a real problem. Non-trivial PRs need two passes: first grok the entrypoints and touched files to grasp the conceptual change and review order, then dive into each block …

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    Comment #44831444

    Like convex.dev

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    Comment #44831438

    Ironically, LLMs might make it very hard for new frameworks to gain popularity since they are trained on the popular ones.

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    Comment #44831405

    Thank you so much for this!

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    Comment #13130213

    I consider that talk one of the most interesting about programming and I consider it underrated as well.

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    Comment #13130212

    I consider that talk one of the most interesting about programming and I consider it underrated as well.

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    Comment #7507955

    Some context: Appie Durán ( https://twitter.com/AppieDuran ) is the dog of Eloy Durán ( https://twitter.com/alloy ), the original author of CocoaPods. Credit goes to Florian R. Han…

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    Comment #5294304

    The Silver Searcher is very good for using the terminal as an IDE. I have two aliases which I find very helpful. - Search Obj-C files: alias ago='ag -G ".*\.(h|m)"' - Search Ruby f…

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