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I don’t think it’ll necessarily pop. The excess supply could even induce additional demands in not just LLM or AI but in other verticals. The margins of hyperscalers and infra prov…

Presumably a common argument for sending a trained human expert in place of a robot is because a human can exercise much better judgment on what to explore and dive deep into on si…

I remember reading a research about using a projector like headlights with a high resolution camera that can capture the position of each raindrop and selectively turn off projecti…

Here’s my experience: just yesterday I had to tackle this task that’d have required a backend engineer and a frontend engineer several days, so I tasked several Claude code agents …

Yay thank you!

Lots of fun questions! Can you make it so that I can open each one in a new tab? Also if I navigate back to the main view I lose my scroll position.

If you’re using it with a local model then you need a lot of GPU memory to load up the model. Unified memory is great here since you can basically use almost all the RAM to load th…

Yeah it’s all trade offs. If it means I get to where I want to be faster, even if it’s imperfect, so be it. Humans aren’t without flaws; prior to coding assistants, I’ve lost count…

I take a fairly optimistic view to the adoption of AI assistants in our line of work. We begin to work and reason at a higher level and let the agents worry about the lower level d…

I’ve not used duckdb before nor do I do much data analysis so I am curious about this one aspect of processing medium sized json/csv with it: the data are not indexed, so any non-t…

My understanding is food delivery companies take a huge cut (like 30%) so restaurants are forced to raise their prices significantly or risk losing customers. Even with that cut, f…

iirc there was a startup doing the same thing called sourcetable? How does pane compare to it?

The author makes a good point about language capabilities enabling certain libraries to be written, just as DSL makes it easier to reason about problems and implement solutions wit…

I think this question can be answered in so many ways - first of all, piling abstraction doesn’t automatically imply bloating - with proper compile time optimizations you can achie…

If we sees ourselves less as a programmer and more as a software builder, then it doesn’t really matter if our programming skills atrophy in the process of adopting this tool, beca…

That’s really awesome to have a viable self bootstrapped project! Did you have to spend a lot of time maintaining it or deal with customer support after the initial launch? A low m…

What’s stopping other Unix-like systems from adopting the everything is a file philosophy?

> For almost 70 years, American companies could deduct 100% of qualified research and development spending in the year they incurred the costs. Salaries, software, contractor payme…

Vivpage is a vim-like wsyiwyg webpage editor. You can use quick shortcut keys to navigate around, perform selection, insert/edit/delete elements/styles, and it comes complete with …

Paul Graham once described the quality of being formidable in a startup founder. If they say they'll get something done in 2 weeks, they'll get it done in 2 weeks, even if poorly d…

We're just trapped in the present day tech zeitgeist. Taking a step back and looking at things on a longer time scale, you'll see there has always been good people to keep things i…

Storage aside, is the anti glare screen on the 512 GB model worth it?

I actually have been wondering if we can skip drag and drop even, and build a CRUD app with a markdown like language.

I actually have a different hypothesis. There's no cap on interesting stories, but rather there's a cap on how long a submission can be noticed. The more submissions there are bein…