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podnami

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About podnami

Creator of podnami.com - helping you find great technology podcast episodes.

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    Comment #49216620

    A collection of 30k-250k apps? Like individual unique apps?

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    Comment #48803717

    What is the point of actively choosing a web framework in the age of LLMs?

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    Comment #48581176

    I’ve spent time doing software at VW and a few of its subsidiaries, and this matches my experience. Compliance is everything, and SAFe (Scaled Agile) is deployed as a blunt instrum…

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    Comment #48151122

    Coding on the go is definitely a use case. Especially if you want something answered or make a big decision on an architectural change but need both docs and get informed about tra…

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    Comment #47895909

    This is snark. Since when has a junior level dev managed to debug and deploy say a cloudformation stack and follow up with notes under 3 minutes?

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    Comment #47879700

    They lost me at Opus 4.7 Anecdotally OpenAI is trying to get into our enterprise tooth and nail, and have offered unlimited tokens until summer. Gave GPT5.4 a try because of this a…

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    Comment #47699401

    Do you have to know Assembler to be able to write code in Java? With the point being that you rarely know the underlying mechanics - and the same if true for vibe coding.

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    Comment #47205186

    What happens before the probability distribution? I’m assuming say alignment or other factors would influence it?

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    Comment #47205168

    I would assume this is from case to case, such as: - How aligned has it been to “know” that something is true (eg ethical constraints) - Statistical significance and just being abl…

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    Comment #46894374

    Is your prediction that most people actually like to use software?

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    Comment #46892177

    If you’re working in engineering, find an exit. AI is coming for you.

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    Comment #45602435

    You can just ask AI

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    Comment #45418194

    Hey man, take a step away from the keyboard. Instead imagine the every day person. Would they rather click, scroll, swipe and pull out credit cards across multiple websites - or ju…

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    Comment #44801120

    Wow this was actually blazing fast. I prompted "how can the 45th and 47th presidents of america share the same parents?" On ChatGPT.com o3 thought for for 13 seconds, on OpenRouter…

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    Comment #44020631

    You can do this using OpenRouter; they accept USDC I think

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    Ask HN: Should bots actively be banned on HN

    I saw the top comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43970837 and started thinking if there are rules against using bots to write comments. Personally I wouldn’t have spot…

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    Comment #43971057

    Make a cool product video. It’s easier for people to grok the basic value prop for a product (and it forces you to think about it) vs needing to read product specs. It’s definitely…

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    Comment #43918636

    Often the wants dissipate over time. One craves sleeping in, having a coffee and not arguing with your spouse. Sure if you push people they might confess about abandoned dreams, bu…

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    Comment #43891996

    How is this not better for engineers than having to maintain a LinkedIn page or a PDF-based resume?

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    Comment #43820157

    Checkra, an inline assistant for UX, copy and conversion feedback right on your site. It’s easy to set up with a tiny JS snippet and free to use - no account needed. We’re using it…

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    Comment #43661929

    Do we have insights on whether they knew that their business model was at risk? My understanding is that OpenAI’s credibility lies in seeing the potential of scaling up a transform…

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    Comment #43592567

    Isn’t it a democratisation of communication? I mean before social media the friction between you and your soapbox was much bigger.

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    Comment #43391499

    Wondering how they’re educating the market about federated learning at scale. It’s still a nascent technology and fairly hard to wrap one’s head around.

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    Comment #38450759

    Google and Facebook didn’t have a moat (Remember MySpace? They had network effects too), but they were first in creating a culture where they approached data capture and utilisatio…

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    Comment #38323009

    There are examples in cryptocurrency, where ZK proofs are all the rage. One use case is validating ownership of some amount of currency without knowing the actual amount, or verify…