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ivcatcher

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    Comment #46684543

    Understood! I will not use any ai tools here, even only for translations. I realized It’s a good way to keep real persons and human generated ideas in this community by limiting ai…

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    Comment #46677723

    Added https://calquio.com/finance/simple-interest

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    Comment #46677027

    Great feedback, I'll add to dev pipeline.

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    Comment #46676961

    Yes, It was written by AI because I'm not a native English speaker, I don't want to make any grammer issues. ( this reply is not by AI :-)

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    Comment #46675913

    Totally agree. I have my day job, and vibe-coding has simply brought back the joy of building things for me. It should be about passion and creativity, not about scamming people or…

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    Comment #46675561

    You're right that this is simple compared to what real engineers build. I have a lot of respect for people like you who write things like custom math libraries for cross-CPU determ…

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    Comment #46675436

    Ha, you got me!

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    Comment #46674568

    $100 did feel steep at first. I tried other models but Opus 4 with extended thinking just hits different — it actually gets what I'm trying to do and the code often works first try…

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    Comment #46674559

    Thanks! Honestly I've been feeling that too — finding stuff is getting annoying even for me. Search is coming soon. Good call.

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    Comment #46674108

    Fair call — it did kind of explode from one calculator to 60+ I’m a real person (long-time lurker, finally posting), but I get why it looks sus. Things are changing fast, and I’m j…

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    Comment #46674028

    You're absolutely right too.

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    Comment #46673993

    Yeah, you're right — that part is pretty rough. I wanted to help people actually understand compound interest (it's kind of life-changing once it clicks), but I got lazy and let AI…

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    Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back

    Quick background: I used to code. Studied it in school, wrote some projects, but eventually convinced myself I wasn't cut out for it. Too slow, too many bugs, imposter syndrome — t…

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