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It's great to produce something for free but if it wouldn't have been more then a couple of hours work to verify each of these tools, write tests etc. Even better would have been to produce a open source library
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Ah, this is the problem - the HN community is sensitive about picking up indications that an LLM has either generated or processed the language in a post. As ericbarrett said, it's far better to write in your own voice. Mistakes in English matter far less than that! Past explanations: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I realized It’s a good way to keep real persons and human generated ideas in this community by limiting ai usage.
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Using an ad blocker just shifts the cost of creating/providing content onto people not using ad blockers. The enshitification of the internet is largely driven by people ad blocking, as is incentivizes more click bait, more ads, and sloppier cheap content. For engineering/software related content, the impact is immense since the audience is largely people ad blocking. I won't name names, because they fear backlash fr…
> The enshitification of the internet is largely driven by people ad blocking This is unfairly putting the blame on only one rational actor in a prisoner's dilemma. Content providers are free to put their content behind a paywall with no ads, but they choose not to. They choose not to because people don't pay for content when they can get it from other providers who don't use a paywall. Consumers then are left withou…
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> If this is true, you weren’t a very good programmer. There’s much more to code quality than refactoring working code. Yup, my conclusion exactly. With that said, most code I have seen in private sector is almost objectively horrible (and certainly subjectively). Code manufactured with the current best tools such as Claude compares favourably. Companies rarely have the patience to pay for well manicured, elegant cod…
The thing is good code doesn’t cost more than bad code in the long run. In many cases it doesn’t even cost more in the short run. And it usually has nothing to do with being manicured or elegant. A good engineer will tell you how to spend 25% of effort to get to 90% of the result you want. With maintainable code, and importantly with less code that touches fewer systems. A bad engineer will deliver exactly what produ…
Despite having worked with or managed hundreds of developers over the years, I don't think there were more than, maybe, 5 that I would not gladly swap for a claude-equivalent. Diligent, able to produce good code when adequately supervised, and devoid of a desire for work life balance :-)
Most software devs are just mediocre, they learn to code late in life, they work 9-5, and often stop learning as quickly as they can.
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Please don't be hostile to newcomers. That's a way to destroy this place. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How do we know if newcomers are real? I thing bigDinosaur is reacting to the fact that OP’s entire post and replies appear LLM generated.
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Is it a shallow dismissal if the work doesn’t work?
Whether the dismissal is shallow is in the eye of the moderator. I have seen that before, so I am not going to touch that.
`Professional Calculators
Free, accurate, and easy-to-use tools for finance, math, and everyday calculations.`
So yeah, fuck this. Website looks 99% similar to the many shadcn themes available, has some errors in the calculations and then have a new account propagating 'ohhh look at me, I did all this with Claude/GPT/my aunt's raspberry pi running X, AI is amazing. All Hail AI.` is tiring and I'm just going to assume it is either paid marketing, people invested directly or indirectly in these companies or just sycophant idiots.
Also, anyone knows an extension or website where I can just filter submissions if they include AI or LLM or Clause in the title? Getting really tired of this shit.
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This is such a... unique angle. Of all the things to get angry at AI for, web crawlers and the impact on cloudflare outages are the ones that really grinds your gears?
Not unique at all. eg a few days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608840
The context here is it's a HN post about someone being excited about AI bringing them back to coding, in response to a comment on that HN post with someone else being excited about the useful things they've been able to do about AI.
In that context, it's a unique choice to respond with a load of confrontational and rhetorical questions about AI being bad because crawlers and cloudflare outages. It reads like the they just wanted 2 excited programmers to feel bad about themselves for using AI. It's not really the sort of response I'd expect here.
Slightly moving into the other direction, after 17 years of science and tech optimism I see myself turning into a Luddite more and more. First observation was that communication and social aspects of software seems crucial for success and proliferation. And next came: that technology seems inept to solve any socio-econimic problems, but rather aggravates them.
It's not technology that is the problem. It never was. It's Capitalism, always was the problem and always will. It's insane how Capitalism curtails innovation.
Made with care for accuracy. I'm not sure how you can claim this on the footer of every page when you're vibe coding these calculators.
This is more than just a bad side project - it's borderline malicious. How confident is the OP that every single one of these 60 calculators work all the time, with all edge cases? Because if someone is on your website using your calculator, they are putting trust in you. If it's wrong, it could have downstream impacts on them. I hope every single one has a comprehensive set of tests with good edge cases. But realist…
In the end, my feeling is there needs to be transparency in how bulletproof-tested a product is. IMO even a calculator that might be wrong can be useful if it's the most convenient option and the user knows the risks (though to be clear, that is not the philosophy I am employing in my personal project).