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We desperately need to break Visa's stranglehold on access to the consumer side of commerce. As long as everyone's only innovating and competing on the merchant side of things, we'…

My 2008 MBP had a motherboard failure due to bad factory solder, but you could sometimes fix it by taking the motherboard out and putting it in the oven for just the right amount o…

Friend of mine built a startup around this, allowing non-techies to "query their database using natural language": https://www.blazesql.com/ Not sure how he achieved it (if TFA is …

I experienced this too, when I started reading out loud more. At first, it was just that my eyes would scan ahead a bit from what I was saying, to help me get the right emphasis by…

Siri is how I set timers, alarms and reminders on my iPhone. Every once in a while, I'll try to use it to play something on Spotify via my Sonos, then give up and do it manually in…

Reminds me of this old joke: No ethically trained software engineer would ever write a destroyBaghdad function - they’d write a destroyCity function to which you could pass Baghdad…

The intuition I've built is that you can't talk about a false positive rate being high or low on its own - it's always relative to the actual occurrence rate of positives in the te…

Connecting voyeurs and exhibitionists is already a great business idea - don’t know why we need to add robots to the mix.

I don't know about the rest of Europe, but in Denmark, universities get a part of their funding based on the number of graduates. So the university has an incentive to help student…

I’m not sure if you’re aware, but Claude Code’s built in remote control feature already lets you respond to permission prompts from the Claude app on your phone.

I feel genuinely conflicted: On the one hand I get the "authoritarian overreach heebie-jeebies", that I think a lot of people on HN probably share. On the other hand I'd also reall…

Douglas Adams summed it up eloquently: “I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal an…

Reminds me of this writeup that I read recently about using a different noise function (not Perlin) to emulate terrain erosion: https://blog.runevision.com/2026/03/fast-and-gorgeou…

In case anyone is wondering, the quote "Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water" is an ancient Zen Buddhist proverb. It speaks to …

If I was doing all this ad hoc, it might just be. But I’ve had Claude save this as three “skills” (standard workflows) that chain together (review-branch, triage-findings, apply-fi…

I've stumbled on the same workflow. Except for one thing: If I just do as OP does, Claude Code will tend to overengineer. For example it'll build complex solutions to super rare ra…

As software engineers we’ve now suddenly become a sort of “god of the gaps” - our existence is only justified in the (fewer and fewer) situations where the AI can’t do the job just…

The typescript team themselves rewrote the compiler in Go to get better use of coding agents.

Headquartered in Stockholm, so "bear-yet" should get you fairly close.

So we've basically taken the concept of branch prediction from CPUs and applied it to LLMs?

https://brandur.org/nanoglyphs/015-ruby-typing#ruby-typing

I feel like this article leaves out the latest research pointing to acetaminophen having a negative effect on fertility, hindering embrionic development and potentially also also f…

Not my comment but my guess is they might be referring to the research that shows that intermittent fasting has various health benefits. And one of the most popular ways to do inte…

Remember, having the dot com bubble burst did not prevent the internet from being integrated more and more in society over the next couple decades. What it did was stop the headles…

I used to think the future of version control was semantic: E.g. I renamed a method, while someone else concurrently added another call to that (now differently named) method. Git …