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I remember reading it in 2006 or so to better understand pathfinding algorithms for my data structures and algorithms class.

Absolutely agree. I could easily afford to hire a lawn crew to cut my lawn, but I enjoy doing it every weekend or two for similar reasons. I have a little under half an acre to mow…

I suppose I'm spoiled by the Symfony framework which has a robust Secrets Component [0]. It allows you to generate a public/private key for each environment: test, dev, and prod (b…

Not the OP, nor do I have any relationship to them, but I've had to build or maintain plenty of these in my time and sure, an LLM can knock out a basic one easily, but there are so…

I have absolutely no relationship with OpenAI but maybe give it some time before drawing such a conclusion.

Is it spying if: 1. It's anonymous 2. They're telling you they're doing it 3. You can opt out of it

Does this have a CLI only interface?

I build software for contractors (plumbers, electricians, HVAC repair, etc) and they're some of the fastest adopters of these systems. I believe YC has even invested in a few. Rega…

Yes! Just implemented these the other day for a long running process that I didn't want to lock a specific row for.

I built the HTTP request catcher that I wanted to use. Every other one I've dealt with is slow, bloated with ads, or doesn't let me easily see a listing of past requests. Thus, htt…

The Qwen3 600M and 4B embedding models are near state of the art and aren't too computationally intensive.

Hi HN, Like everyone, I'm working on an product that uses LLMs to extract data from photos and documents. Part of the processing pipeline is extracting data from PDFs as raw text o…

I think that's the point...

I think the opposite is true. Sure, it's technically impressive, but users have been trained for decades at this point to understand how a basic marketing page should look and this…

The company names look like Amazon merchants.

I have a deep love of A* because it was the first complex algorithm I fully understood. In my first data structures and algorithms in college (early 2000's), we had to pick an algo…

Funny quip aside, thanks for bringing Arq to my attention. This looks excellent and isn't enshittified.

Yes.

How are you running the Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B model [0]? Running locally using llama.cpp, I asked it to briefly describe what happened in China during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest…

Symfony 7.2 can work as a micro framework, believe it or not: https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-7-2-simpler-single-f...

It's funny, I've been working with HTML since 1998, and I got 36 (though I do think should've been allowed). I thought I'd do a lot better, but I guess you can accomplish a lot wit…

The standard Windows Solitaire game is littered with ads - which you can disable for $2.49/month.

My guess is it's shorter and easier to share.

I'm ignorant of what this is: is this the "seed" prompt, so to speak? The prompt the ChatGPT engineers have given itself so it knows what it is and how to respond?

Excellent article, thanks for writing and posting it.