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First impressions are good! Couple of small bits of feedback: - I only had the option to create a worktree from main. I'd like to be able to pick any starting branch. Not a big dea…

There's a lot of negative feedback in this thread, so let me say I'm really excited to try this! I have caring responsibilities at home that means I'm constantly switching between …

Hi HN, I've created https://riddlegrid.com , which is a daily puzzle game with about 10 cryptic clues to solve each day. But rather than being arranged in a typical crossword, all …

What happens if you combine a full Dungeons & Dragons rules engine with an LLM to act as the dungeon master? Until the recent wave of reasoning models, the answer was mostly 'nothi…

This is very cool! It's not as impressive, but here is a video of me writing Game of Life only by speaking out loud to VS Code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NSplhZ0DlY I did th…

A lot of people are commenting about how gpt4 is better than copilot, both in terms of getting it to do exactly what you want and in the quality of response. I've also found this a…

Hi HN, I created Biggles last weekend to let me speak out loud to VS Code and have ChatGPT translate my instructions into code changes. For a lot of code I write I am fluent enough…

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Cogo | Full-Stack & React Native Software Engineers | Full or Part-time | REMOTE | EU Timezone | £47,000 - £75,000 | https://www.cogo.co/ Cogo build tech solutions that help busine…

https://www.ideaflip.com - it's nice and simple compared to e.g. Miro, and nicely recreates the offline collaboration feeling of working around a whiteboard

'if X is true then I expect to see evidence of X' is generally a reasonable assumption/prior. So not seeing evidence of X is evidence that X is false. It's not proof, but absence o…

I was part of creating the initial version of https://www.swapmyvote.uk/ that ran in the 2015 and 2017 general elections. My experience of it was that it was a slow ramp up, but th…

I drive a van, and that absolutely has a blind spot on the far side from the driver, no matter what I do with my head. The problem is that there are no rear passenger side windows …

It's an arbitrary number, but it's nice because one mole of atoms with atomic mass number X will weigh approximately X grams. This is exactly true for carbon-12 (and is what define…

Thanks! You've given me something new to try out :)

Nice post, and very close to my experiences with Dockerfiles for node. To the author: could you elaborate on the differences between carbon and alpine base images please? I can obv…

Not as a direct product offering from us, but we want to make sure it's always easy to get your work in and out of Overleaf/ShareLaTeX, and work offline, via things like git, GitHu…

Thanks for the suggestion! We have played around with pandoc as an option in the ShareLaTeX compiler, but we weren't able to get it working smoothly enough for us to be happy with …

The current plan is to base the new editor on the the ShareLaTeX editor, but bring in the good parts of Overleaf to it.

Yep, there's no way that we'd remove all of this! It's taken us a long time to build up that documentation, and it will continue to be maintained and updated.

Hey, James from ShareLaTeX here. We’re very excited about what this means for ShareLaTeX and Overleaf! The blog post says most of what we wanted to say, but all four founders from …