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We had to memorize this back in grade school. It still gives me shivers every time I read it.

Many years ago, I was leading a team that implemented a hyperfast XML, XSLT, XPath parser/processor from the ground up in C/C++. This was for a customer project. It also pulled som…

In a past life I had a Wall of Shame of headlines on firmware update fails. The lesson was you built firmware updates upfront and right into your development process so it became a…

Feel like we're revisiting heuristic planning and General Problem Solving by Simon, Shaw, and Newell.

100% agree with statement of problem. Only partly on-board with the possible solutions. There are many other ways, and most likely not a single solution to fit all. Kudos to CF for…

One of the main points of using a UUID as a record identifier was to make it so people couldn't guess adjacent records by incrementing or decrementing the ID. If you add sequential…

Was going to ask how much all this cost, but this sort of answers it: > "Managing Cost and Usage Limits: Chaining agents, especially in a loop, will increase your token usage signi…

> You MUST include the ENTIRE conversation history in each prompt to Claude, not just the last message. > ALWAYS include ALL messages from the beginning of the conversation up to t…

Any post about IoT security that doesn't mention or link to Shodan ( https://www.shodan.io ) is missing a lot of context. It's way worse than you think. Also, with tools like Chip …

Wonder if the rules will protect the information providers or the consumers.

HN has been a daily read for last 15 years. Appreciate the information flow. Incidentally, after years of lurking, applied to the latest YC batch. Didn't make it, but will try agai…

Relevant Calvin and Hobbes: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1991/11/29

> Hacker News > You'll finally stop checking egg prices at Costco and instead focus on writing that definitive 'How I Built My Own Super App Without Getting Rejected By Apple' post…

Costco people recommended showing up early. Went there right at opening in the morning and there was plenty. To their credit, they haven't raised their prices. Also, shocked to see…

Lattner left Apple a long while ago. He's been working on Mojo, a different (Pythonic) language and runtime: https://www.modular.com

I didn't mean to send you down a rabbit-hole since you've already built an awesome-looking platform. Just googling, came across a devkit: https://ameridroid.com/products/pinetime-s…

Awesome work building it all from scratch! Hate to be that guy, but was using something hackable like a PineTime ( https://pine64.org/devices/pinetime/ ) and doing a direct BLE con…

I remember talking to techie friends about this a couple years ago. With the advent of AI screeners, it would only be a matter of time before candidates figured out how to craft an…

On semi-related news... Santa Cruz Wharf’s fallen restroom becomes an unlikely tourist attraction: https://archive.ph/k1lwt

Back when I was consulting, I always made sure to stay in touch separately with three people: a) The internal project owner. Usually a VP or Director. b) The owner's assistant/gate…

Relatives were asking for a basic explainer. Here's a good one by Hannah Fry: https://youtu.be/1_gJp2uAjO0

I'm a little confused. The baked-data model is so you DON'T have to generate a thousand static pages. But this solution does exactly that. Not complaining, mind you. My kid is tryi…

When you went from Jekyll to Kubernetes, it was must have been like when Ted Kaczynski first learned about battery-operated timed fuses. Enjoyed the read. Looking forward to when y…

Built an app when the iPhone first came out. Spent 2 months building the core app and another 3 months working to reduce the number of taps and remove road-bumps in the UI/UX flow.…