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I think this article makes a valid point. However, if AI coding is considered gambling, then being a project manager overseeing multiple developers could also be seen as a form of …

Hi, I'm watzon. I have been working on this for a while and just realized that I hadn't posted about it on Hacker News yet. Pindrop is a fully free and open source alternative to p…

Hey HN! I built Pindrop, a menu bar dictation app for macOS that's 100% open source and truly Mac-native. Unlike cross-platform alternatives (Handy, OpenWhispr) that use Tauri/Elec…

Absolutely concur. Build times are an issue, support is a problem, and I've fallen out of love with a lot of the "magic" you get from Crystal and Ruby. I'll take explicit imports o…

I opt for meth heads

I've been using Crystal for some 6 years now and it's still my favorite language. It definitely has issues; it's not perfect, but it really hits a good balance between being a fast…

Care to explain more? Having been using Ruby for about 8 years and Crystal for about 4, they actually have an extremely similar syntax and are also semantically very close. To the …

I mean, why would it be? We train ourselves on copyrighted material all the time.