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sprobertson
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About sprobertson
https://github.com/spro/
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Comment #48614141
Much better than your current demo image! The default vignette is too obviously digital
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Comment #48144806
or easier, open ~/.claude/projects/[project]/[session].jsonl (excluding the system prompt)
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Comment #47608243
The official one doesn't work for me on mobile but this does: https://artemistracker.com/
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Comment #47592306
it likes mentioning itself in commit messages, though you can just tell it not to.
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Comment #47580465
Pretty much everyone saying worktrees but I lean heavily on hot-reloading of both backend and frontend (to actually see what I'm doing) so it's too annoying to deal with dependenci…
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Comment #47558335
yes: > skip all the gratuitous affirmation and tell me when I'm wrong
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Comment #47360530
Yeah the UX itself is clearly slop
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Comment #47316347
You're certainly not alone, though it's not that much worse than usual over the last 5 years https://telliott.me/posts/is-github-getting-less-reliable/
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Comment #47240209
Sure, but use the tool for the job IMO. GPTs are much more complex so should demonstrate a much more complex task.
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Comment #47212218
This kind of thing is pretty easy to do with a much leaner model https://docs.pytorch.org/tutorials/intermediate/char_rnn_gen...
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Comment #47163611
No - it costs $0 already
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Comment #46966591
It seems like everyone commenting here is already part of the hivemind. So maybe someone can answer an important question that I'm not getting at all from the docs: what does this …
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Comment #45872329
I printed the casing just to see - it actually does fit in my levi pockets (front and back), but looks and feels a bit ridiculous to actually walk around with
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Comment #45842728
> software dev is a job for me that needs to generate income sir, this is a hackernews
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Comment #45616283
Who's the designer? I assume the same as agents.cloudflare.com, finally something that looks creative and not based on purple gradients
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Comment #45573282
not for the standard hosted APIs using structured output or function calling, best you can get is an array
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Comment #45355075
And #1 on the jobs chart
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Comment #45285596
Here's the screen recording version of a long exposure (thanks for the nerd snipe) - https://gist.github.com/spro/7599415b0e47de65311557b3454771a...
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Comment #45144775
my first instinct was "the slow one is struggling so it must be doing some heavy work"
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Comment #45020341
Yeah good call, I missed that. I don't think there's a correct answer here, but it could be another step of the read or write. Either it would do another lookup of "my daughter" ->…
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Comment #45001746
It's been asked a few times, here are some links to get you started: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36370684 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30752540 * https://news.…
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Comment #44978518
You might want to put your actual username in those links. Would also be good to see an example PDF or at least screenshot in there.
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Comment #44976108
As a simplified example: (memory) [2023-07-01] My daughter is 10 (memory) [2024-05-30] My daughter turned 11 today! System prompt: Today is 2025-08-21 User prompt: How old is my da…
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Comment #44918346
FYI using pagination erases your filters Would be good to have the "play" button above the fold on the detail page
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Comment #44892042
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1912530