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Hey HN! We realised that LLMs are great at generating code for super popular libraries like React. But they kinda suck at using less popular/newly released libraries, forcing us to…

Yes definitely, adding database schemas and queries is on our roadmap for capturing "indirect links" across codebases. We are thinking of something similar to Supabase studio's sch…

Hey there HN! We're Vivek and Si-Yan from Cartograph ( https://cartograph.app ). We've built an AI-powered code documentation platform that automatically generates reference docume…

This is great work! Mechanistic interpretability has tons of use cases, it's great to see open research in that field. You mentioned you spent your own time and money on it, would …

My solution is inspired by this blog post but creates a global attributes file. I documented it here: https://www.vivekkalyan.com/using-git-for-word I tend to prefer markdown for m…

> We aren't sure, but the speculation is that in the process of training, GPT-3 found that the best strategy to correctly predicting the continuation of arithmetic expressions was …

The rules seem pretty clear that consent is required from any persons appearing in any external datasets that are required. The winners scraped data from Youtube videos so I am not…

I prefer the emacs bindings for the command line such as C-A, C-U (mostly due to muscle memory), but have set up my $EDITOR as vim. This allows me to do C-X C-E, which opens the cu…

Can we please stop this meme? Every thread about DDG invariably seems to bring up this (false) statement.

Anyone has thoughts about cassandra and how it compares to mongodb? There seems to be a big enterprise push with azure's cosmosdb, but I've not heard much about it from people who …

I recently learnt that a CPU optimizes instructions by doing things like predicting the results of conditionals. Where can I read more about this kind of stuff? I know basic comput…

my solution is to use pandoc to generate the diffs. Combines the benefits of word formatting but allows me to see the changes in git. (I use it mainly for my resume) I wrote up abo…

created an account after lurking here for 3(!) years now. happy for this to be my first post, as the HN community has definitely been an inspiration towards starting my own website…