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I much prefer cursor paginated API requests vs. webhooks. The obvious downside being that in order to not get 429'd you need a respectable poll frequency - meaning you lose reactiv…

As I understand it, anything publicly viewable is free to be scraped without issue. If you scrape stuff behind a sign-up, you potentially open yourself up to being sued for breach …

I would argue that my proposed flow is far more convenient. I don’t have to sign up, enter payment details and I can interface in plain English.

Not to disparage, but I wrote: "Using the attached image as a stencil/background - please generate a QR code for https://XXX" into ChatGPT and got something valid that looks simila…

Trying to polish a bunch of my projects I've worked on over the years but never had the cojones to release to the wider world: Hallways ( https://hallways.lonnycorp.com ) - a web b…

I think _some_ but not _too much_ typechecking is the sweet spot for LLMs. Without any typechecking, LLMs obviously find it harder to work agentically and validate their work. With…

Presumably because API keys are n bytes of random data vs. a shitty user-generated password we don’t have to bother using a salt + can use something cheap to compute like SHA256 vs…

Bugginess in the Claude Code CLI is the reason I switched from Claude Max to Codex Pro. I experienced: - rendering glitches - replaying of old messages - mixing up message origin (…

how does it work?

Indeed - the future is RL meet-ups and small, intimate online communities. Perhaps not the worst thing in the world?

I’d love something like this implemented for email. Sending an unsolicited email to a random person X requires you to pay a small toll (something like 50p). Subsequent emails can t…

HN may not be “mainstream” but it is certainly _very_ vulnerable to bot spam given the topics discussed and the make-up of the audience. You can already see it happening now - at l…

Look at his other comments - its textbook LLM slop. Its a fucking tragedy that people are letting their OpenClaws loose on HN but I can't say I'm surprised. I desperately need to f…

Repugnant.

Doors - A first person, exploration game/experience that I built from scratch. Doors lets you explore URL addressable 3D rooms that link together seamlessly via portals. The idea i…

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If this is somewhat common for games, could one create a virtual fs with FUSE that dedupes using via content-defined chunking and install games there? I feel like writes would prob…

Also check airline miles haven’t gone missing. A friend of mine recently had his BA account compromised, all his Avios stolen and he was none the wiser after receiving about 60 ema…

Here is the prompt I gave both Claude Code CLI, and the VSCode agent for my TS project: ``` I have modified the type signature and behaviour of how jobs are created. Previously, jo…

The rank disrespect of somebody asking you to review something they haven't even looked at is eye watering. I feel like AI-induced brain-rot of engineers is inevitable. Unless we s…

To quote Mean Girls: "Stop trying to make Doxbridge happen".

I totally agree. Isaac, if you're reading this - stop sending me PDFs generated by Perplexity!

> Gmail is so big that when Outlook, Apple Mail, and even Thunderbird connect to it, they do an OAuth exchange and then talk over a proprietary protocol. Can you elaborate? Anythin…

Hi everyone, I've been working on HydraMQ for past few months, a PostgreSQL queuing library for Node (to add to the ever growing list!) The core features that I think set it apart …

The product (from the perspective of the consumer) _is_ relatively straightforward IMO. What isn't straightforward is accurately modelling the credit risk of the bonds when this cl…