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pcarolan

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    Comment #47954955

    Thanks for all your open source work. You changed the industry for the better. Are you thinking of building a Github competitor? I would find that very appealing.

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    Ask HN: How do you manage your child's screen time?

    I’m a single parent to a 13-year-old who just got an iPhone, and I’m finding Apple’s parental controls leave a lot to be desired. I'd like my kid to engage in activities outside of…

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    Comment #47212811

    If you’re going this far, why even have a cli? Just have your agent grab the openapi spec from the server and set envvars. It can curl its way around happily. Security? I don’t see…

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    Comment #46871300

    Hipcamp | Product Engineer | Full-time | REMOTE(US,CA) | hipcamp.com We’re looking for a Senior Product Engineer to join Hipcamp and help build the core product experiences that co…

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    Comment #46048671

    As I'm on vacation, I took a couple days to put together an idea I've had bumping around in the back of my head for a while. What if you could write pure ruby methods and ask an ll…

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    Comment #45727226

    I mostly agree, but why stop at tests? Shouldn’t it be spec driven development? Then neither the code or the language matter. Wouldn’t user stories and requirements à la bdd (see c…

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    Comment #43876164

    You can. It’s called multimodal and basically is just picking a shipping container off a train car with a crane and putting it on a truck platform or a ship. 1 platform supports al…

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    Comment #43781326

    I’ve noticed my kid (12) primarily uses group chats over social apps. Some of his chats have several dozen kids in them. It could be social media got so bad that the protocols beca…

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    Comment #43677432

    Right. And if you use OpenAPI the agent can get the api spec context it needs from /openapi.json.

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    Comment #43488159

    Yeah, I had more luck with just giving an ai the openapi spec and letting it figure everything out. I like a lot about MCP (structure, tool guidance, etc), but couldn't it just hav…

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    Comment #42651865

    Lost my wife to brain cancer (gb4). After sifting through the noise, here’s what works based on stat sig research as far as I know: 1. Radiation 2. Surgery, awake craniotomy to red…

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    Ask HN: What seems obvious to game developers but not to web developers?

    Over the years it seems the web is becoming more interactive however it feels miles away from an average game’s interactivity and real-time nature. What concepts seem totally natur…

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    Comment #42001730

    Leverage is also about timing your market which is a matter of local and overall trends. You can use google trends to figure out when the global market trend is in your favor: http…

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    Comment #41153969

    Do you have a good resource for getting a system started? Particularly outdoors / backyard scale?

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    Comment #40257827

    Daniel Shiffman taught me to code for the first time in a way that totally shifted the way I thought about coding from utilitarian to fun and creative. I wonder how many lives he's…

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    Comment #39696629

    How does this theory hold up when your trade partner doesn’t give you equal access to their markets and has the potential to use this media platform to spread disinformation? I don…

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    Comment #39493132

    Much love your way. I lost a partner that went through it. Modern antidepressants and anti-anxiety medication did seem to help. You are brave to talk about it and I hope more peopl…

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    Comment #39184991

    Work from office mandates may serve as a proxy for companies on the decline. When things are going well, companies are more willing to take risks that could impact the top line, wh…

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    Comment #38926388

    I grew up in Michigan during the rust belt era. Nice cities don't always get better, they can get far worse. What turns them around is 1) a commitment from the community to do some…

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    It’s likely a lot more more. These are the markdowns they have to make. They’re hoping the rest will come back but many won’t.