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Show HN: Roundsman – stupid-simple CLI to run Claude across many projects
Roundsman is a Node.js-based CLI tool to make it easy to work on many projects with Claude at the same time. It works like this: 1. Put a `roundsman.json` in any folder you work on…
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Show HN: Touch Trigonometry – interactive way to understand the trig functions
I started to teach myself to code around 15 years ago. At the time I was working service industry jobs (restaurant kitchens, coffee shops) and desperate to change my career and lif…
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Show HN: Global macOS shortcut that rewrites selected text anywhere with AI
I built Spackle, a small macOS menu bar app that rewrites text inline in any app using your LLM of choice. Highlight text, press a keyboard shortcut, and the selected text gets rep…
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Comment #38917498
Plato Design | Product Engineer | Full Time | NYC / Remote (USA) We're building iOS apps for second language acquisition. If you're a full-stack product engineer who wants to use A…
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Comment #31625756
Thanks, I really appreciate the feedback.
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Show HN: Lorblets, a Little Puzzle Game
Lorblets is a little puzzle game I made: https://www.lorblets.com/ Lorblets is a variation on Lights Out. The goal of Lorblets is to turn ON all the lights. Unlike Lights Out (typi…
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Aesthetic | Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer | REMOTE | NYC Aesthetic ( https://www.aesthetic.com/ ) is building tools for NFT creators and communities. About us: We are a team …
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If we're leaving out the sonic weapons from this hypothetical 6-hour Lynch's Dune, would we keep or throw out the heart plugs?
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But if you just do the trial you don't know if you actually got the vaccine or placebo.
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As we would with any drug, we'd start with a small group and scale it to more as it was determined to be safe.
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I don't know. We should follow whatever procedures we follow when testing any potential new treatment.
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Yes, and the practitioners boosting the drug combo have also said that in order to be effective, it should be administered early, similar to Tamiflu.
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This is great. Any plans to add other genres (sci fi, espionage, mystery...)?
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I do. William Langewiesche is probably the best writer on aviation - if you want really deep and detailed analysis.
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Beware, this code is licensed under the GPL.
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I wonder if we might achieve better* results in some systems if we added in these biases on purpose. (I.e. treated them like features, not bugs or even emergent patterns.)
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Whether owned by family or raised as a member of a small herd is immaterial to where the majority of these cattle end up as adults: loaded on transport trucks to concentrated feed …
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Of course — all food has good and bad qualities, the question here is really: Is it unhealthier than a beef burger? With all other qualities being equal or better? For example: Coc…
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My understanding is that the vast majority of cattle (80%?) in the United States is raised in factory farms; the vast majority the meat Americans available to purchase grocery stor…
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> The dogs pawed at the bowl for a few seconds and then gave up, gazing up at their owners as if asking for help. The cats, on the other hand, rarely looked at their owners; they j…
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> most people see it as going backwards or retreating and struggle to get over this psychologically If you return a chess piece to a previous position, it's possible that doing so …
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The article subhead ("animals are no less emotional than we are") is a bit misleading. (The headline likely wasn't written by the author.) This essay is not so much about whether a…
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Fair point! Short answer: Even though our UI is totally platform-agnostic, we have a lot going on under the hood with platform-specific considerations. Examples include our Sketch …