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Pretty annoying user experience trying to test out the model on the official Qwen site. You get an immediate popup with "Security Notice: For security purposes, please add a paymen…

I've just been reading The Making of Prince of Persia (highly recommend [1]) and it's amazing how the journal feels exactly like today's startup scene. But everything is dated 1989…

My lord people accept a little bit of whimsey in your lives.

TBH I was a retool power user for years, but I feel like they completely missed the vibe code train. It's so much more annoying to go drag boxes around and type out little JS snipp…

FYI we've built this internally and it was a pain, so I was excited to check out what you've built to see if it was a good fit for us. But your landing page + video was just slop c…

Seriously. We got 116 github dependabot alerts this week. Half of them for dev dependencies.

I feel like it's also been overrun by a lot of spam. As someone running a company, I get 2-5 unsolicited "vulnerability reports" per week. Half of them are an LLM finding some bad …

It's cheap at $4/1k, but I'm hesitant to even benchmark this one again since the previous versions were all "98% accurate based on internal benchmarks of 4 pdfs" and ended up falli…

The fact that the top comment [1] sparks a thread debating how CORS does / doesn't work is a great argument in favor of the original title. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…

Agreed! If you're a 20+ company in SF you're required to offer commuter benefits (up to $340 / month). That's usually things like caltrain / muni. But I would definitely sponsor a …

That's literally not what he said. He's saying the majority of people supporting border controls are not racist, but the vocal minority are the ones who "boast about arrests" / "ma…

I'd wager that even if you didn't nerd out on computer architecture, just living through progression of CDs -> mp3s -> ipods -> streaming gives kids a better grounding than the iPa…

As someone who grew up in the 90's, I think seeing the live progression of tech was really helpful for my own understanding. For instance we saw: - CDs moving to Mp3s moving to the…

Sure the consumer won't consume 10x more, but they're still going to reach for the better products. And let's say that work is correlated with quality. Company A wants to spend 10x…

Yea it's always been competition that's the issue. Greed too. But complacency is really difficult as a business owner. In the world where someone can take your cake by working 25% …

> If a junior makes a mistake and it will not be caught in time they will automatically learn. I think this sentiment applies well to junior software engineers (with mentorship). B…

Just dropping here because it's an excellent read on US port automation https://www.construction-physics.com/p/do-us-ports-need-more...

Yea worth it. The original implementation ended up being the most complex, and also not a great UX. But I didn't really get it was a worse UX until I built it and tested it out a b…

As I read this, I'm also working through a pretty dense feature that took a fair bit of iteration. The end result is actually significantly less code than it was about halfway thro…

This feels like a weak argument to me. At the end of the day, nearly all cash flow, good or bad, moves through banks. And unlike speculative investing like VC or public equities, b…

Exactly my take as well. This would have been the right diversification move a decade ago. Uber did invest early in self driving back in 2015, but in 2018 there was a fatality whic…

As a personal nit, I really dislike the term "two sided marketplace" It should just be "marketplace". The term implies the existence of a "one sided marketplace". But isn't that ju…

haha yea was pretty surprised by that too. wondered if it would be based on my auth session, but nope! Although now it's a fun battle to see if I can convince my eve to deploy Doom…

Boom, eve got Doom running for me on my VM and even spun up a public site https://api.eve.new/api/sites/eve-doom/