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osener

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    Comment #49004073

    how is enabling ever bigger and more expensive to produce forms of entertainment making modern society better? remove all that and we won't lose anything. we'll always find a way t…

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    Comment #48990376

    If you find this interesting, also check out their UI library called Bonsai that built on top of Incremental: https://github.com/janestreet/bonsai/ Libraries like React are pretty …

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    Comment #48842839

    Smart people have been falling into this trap as long as LLMs have hit production. Supposedly early internal versions of GPT-4 had "sparks of AGI" but the public version was "dumbe…

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    Comment #48395876

    In my experience restricting programs that can be expressed is a good thing, even more so with agentic engineering. The more guardrails there are, strong typing/TDD/computer use/..…

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    Comment #48061748

    Surprised to see Clojure/ClojureScript come up on socials more often all of a sudden. I used it professionally for a few years around ~2012 and like many others moved off JVM and m…

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    Comment #48048125

    Ah I just switched to using https://github.com/uxjulia/crossink-reader Not sure what KOReader is but the fonts included in this one and the overall reading experience is solid.

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    Comment #47961702

    This is the official announcement: https://research.ibm.com/blog/granite-4-1-ai-foundation-mode... It is not the researchers' fault that some slop got posted here instead.

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    Comment #47904292

    It is common amongst French, Dutch etc speakers where saying "it said x" sounds unnatural.

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    Comment #47364114

    This announcement mentions Node.js a couple of times. Does it also support Bun as a package manager and a runtime?

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    Comment #47321375

    > Cost remains an ever present challenge. Cursor’s larger rivals are willing to subsidize aggressively. According to a person familiar with the company’s internal analysis, Cursor …

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    Comment #47072121

    There are fast fashion attempts at this like adding elastic material to every fabric so they can get away with having fewer sizes and cuts thus less unsold inventory and availabili…

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    Comment #47045347

    This is some next level nitpicking. It's like criticizing XCode or Idea config of someone, instead of their product (or more popularly whether their website hijacks the back button…

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    Comment #47008301

    Ok so it is not going closed source, they are just going to extend it as they need to drive Zed features. Totally understandable for an in-house UI framework, this is why you’d bui…

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    Comment #47008278

    For years I thought I had a faulty touchscreen and started relying on dictation more and more. Seeing this video saved me from going insane. They must have crunched the numbers and…

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    Comment #47005300

    > We ignore for these purposes Zed's GPUI which the Zed team has transparently, and understandably abandoned as an open source endeavour Do you have a source for this?

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    Comment #46985558

    I understand your perspective. However, those trades, and most work in general, differ from art. Art is vital to our society, yet the current reward system optimizes for the worst …

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    Comment #46872450

    When I tried it last year, their edge compute infra was just not there yet. It could not do any meaningful server-side rendering because of code size, compute and JS standard const…

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    Comment #46286194

    I have a confession to make. I hope ChatGPT starts writing only short sentences. Punchy one-liners. One thought per line. So marketers finally realize this does not work. And stop …

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    Comment #46159730

    Listen to the sound of HN hawks erupting with joy when they realize they can blame JS, React, RSC, Rust, Cloudflare, and the cloud all for one outage.

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    Comment #46081219

    I knew plenty of office workers managing just fine using OpenOffice 10-15 years ago. Today people are much more reliant on real-time collaboration, polished cloud and mobile experi…