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I spend too much time on HN posting comments. I can never predict which will be upvoted, so I tabulated them to see if there was any trend: 68 points on 1 comment about Musk vs. Op…

Yes, after wandering through a few pages trying to find an example that actually did something, I gave up and moved on.

Maybe a lot of the budget is already going to a second level of workers checking the redacting workers' work.

TL,DR: A device that inputs waste heat to force pressure differences in hydrogen, outputting electricity.

Don't only names, addresses, email addresses, account/phone numbers, and illustrations need to be redacted? Couldn't an LLM do at least most of that fast and cheap?

Any time "secret" is in the title, it's not.

Seems like you already received plenty of good advice. It's time for you to move on.

I developed and shipped one product with monthly releases for decades and always simply bumped the version by one: 1, 2, 3.. Anything fancier doesn't really tell you exactly what f…

The only assistant I want is one I can interact with solely by voice. In other words, a replacement for a human secretary.

I have to believe that before starting implementation, they never put mockups in front of focus groups. Otherwise they would have immediately learned no one wanted it.

Before you read this, read "The Elements of Programming Style" by Brian Kernighan and P. J. Plauger.

Has private equity ever done anything good for anyone outside of the investors?

> I was refreshing one of our services. Part of this process was to migrate codebase from Scala 2.13 to Scala 3. My first question was: why?

> The total payload is under 200KB. Just out of curiosity, how big was what you considered Claude's best attempt to be?

In the 70's a Brazilian programmer told me his method was to make his best guess how long something would take, double it, then promise that amount plus-or-minus 50%.

Evoking a vibe is what artists try to do. Visually enticing buyers of your product is what graphic designers do. Either use a designer or copy from the millions of expertly designe…

"Splitting the universe of intellectual tasks" would be a gigantic job. Various AI implementations already fail at so many tasks it seems reasonable for skeptics to claim the AI is…

This is two-wheelers, not cars.

If HN, Reddit, email, Slack and everything else is down for a day, I think my productivity would actually go up, not down.

A number of the new icons were recently critiqued at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45838372

Any time you hear a vendor is being selected "without competitive bidding", you're probably not getting the best solution.

I'm amazed that city, county, state, and federal tech projects never want to clone best-of-show systems instead of starting from scratch. City needs a web site? Clone the best one …

In that thread, someone suggested "Would have been better investing $5M each in 20 new promising directors [instead of Megalopolis]". I think $10k each in 10k promising screenwrite…

I wouldn't call "release a smell" equivalent to "beg for death".