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I know it isn't the original flow state but I get lost in conversations with Claude even when slow. I have a couple of terminals open and work on at max 3 things. A main task, an e…

A non technical domain expert might usually lack thought clarity. They might know what is right once they see it but they seldom know how to reach there, even with AI. They will wr…

I once worked for a unicorn (1B valuation) company where there were there were No mangers, no product managers, no appraisal (30% hike or out) The rule was "I will treat you like a…

Surprised to see HN being bearish on this. I have 10 years of experience. I am a reasonable engineer. I can tell you that about half of the hype on twitter is real. It is a real bl…

If true, this is the funniest thing I have seen an LLM generate.

Wait until he discovers vercel and nextjs.

I am reasonably confident that Smart Phones will take the route of cigarettes. Restricted to adults over 21 years of age.

IIRC from the red wild boar book, JSONs biggest win is that it got the adoption. Getting everyone to agree on a standard was/is/will be the tougher part.

Completely Agree. Both Romans and Mongols have lost/retreated many battles. They just had to regroup and raise another army over and over again. Some of their opponents could not e…

There is a 5000 years old epic called Ramayana which dedicates a significant part of it to a conversation between the protagonist Ram and his guru, agastya. The summary of that ent…

Seriously, what is the advantage of tools at all. Why not implement custom string based triggers. First of all, the call accuracy is much higher. Second, you get more consistent re…

I built exactly this in 2016. I realised that Bluetooth requirement from both parties is too much friction. It worked way better with a QR code. That way there is proof of presence…

This is pretty interesting. I wonder why in my 30 years of lived experience (in India), I never met or heard of anyone being autistic or needing meds for mental health, even amongs…

We use it for lead quality assessment, detecting bad language, scoring language on subtle skills etc Pretty much 5-6 niche classification use cases.

Loved it. Will remember this everytime I add "rounded" in tailwind. :)

what about systems like game engines and softwares like figma. People still use cpp there. Do you see go or go-like languages taking more in this space ?

I have less than 10 yrs of exp and primarily focused on web, JS(node, react) and kotlin. Now I want to try my hand in building low level stuff like parsers, small KV stores and som…

I don't see how a famine due to bad policy is relavant here.

There has not been a single country so far whose GDP and overall wellness decreased with increase in population.