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It's starting to feel like we'll soon be able to run open source models on our own hardware and use them for serious coding projects. Even if some tasks still need to be handed off…

Nice! works well - I couldn't get huggingface to work either

Yea as somebody who played extensively with Lego as a kid, almost exclusively just the "base components", I never really got the appeal of those set with all sorts of custom, singl…

I absolutely love the idea of Replit and I think it's an awesome platform and idea. I do wonder how sustainable it is as a business though. I expect Replit is sending the majority …

With all due respect somebody could launch a version of Discord that's 10x faster tomorrow and nobody would know about it It's very difficult to unseat those incumbents, especially…

A lot of people in the UK seem to think the trains in Europe are so much better, but that's not the case, at least in my experience. We took an interrail trip a couple of years ago…

It works much better with AI though, which is really all that matters at this point

Yeah I am currently enjoying giving the LLM relatively small chunks of code to write and then asking it to write accompanying tests. While I focus on testing the product myself. I …

Yeah I do feel the pressure to run multiple instances of Claude Code now. Haven't really managed to find a good workflow, I find I just get too distracted swapping between tasks an…

This is just crying out for AI to help you get started.

One slightly unexpected side effect of using AI to do most of my coding now is that I find myself a lot less tired and can focus for longer periods. It's enabled me to get work don…

> the current PHP+MySQL combo was not fit for purpose anymore He lost me here. Sounds like he tried to change from a boring stack he understood, to Go and Clickhouse because it's c…

Your site would look way better with mx-auto max-w-7xl :) The content is far too wide on big screens

Initially, I just posted my latest product, Quizgecko on HN and then manually DMd a few hundred people on Linkedin etc. That was enough for 100+ users. I think if you have a relati…

“ In some countries, more than 90% of the population lives on less than $5 per day. If agentic AI code generation becomes the most effective way to write high-quality code, this wi…

The author is essentially arguing that fewer people will be able to build software in the future. That's the opposite of what's happened over the past year or two. Now many more no…

Yeah this is one fundamental reason I don't see MCP taking off. The only real use cases there are will just be built in natively to the tools.

The Guardian used to be considered a serious paper, then a few years ago the quality declined dramatically. Now it's not much better than most tabloids.

The cost of robotics is coming down, check out Unitree. A couple of robot arms would cost about the same as a minimum wageworker for 1 year right now. But of course they can go vir…

The upshot of this is that anyone will be able to order a couple of robot arms from China and then set them up in a garage, programming them with just text, like we do with LLMs no…

Larger context windows are helping solve this, though. I use ALpineJS which is not as well known as React etc, but I just added a bunch of examples and instructions to the new curs…

Above & Beyond's label has a huge following. I have been to many events around the world. They do a big gathering each year e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEqySVgNkIA

It feels like AI has made this redundant. I honestly cannot imagine hand typing out some JSON now, or most code for that matter. I just write in natural language what I want and th…

I am using Laravel Blade components which are effectively just fully server rendered templates in component style, so you get the benefit of that mental model. Then you can just ad…