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sprobertson

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About sprobertson

Front/back/deep-end developer

https://github.com/spro/

Recent public activity

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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