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by arendtio 3mo ago
I am not exactly sure, but my gut feeling is that Cursor existed before Claude Code was released, and the term vibe coding existed already at that time. EDIT: Okay, Andrej tweeted about Vibe Coding on February 3rd 2025, and Claude Code was
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by arendtio 3mo ago
Why is there so much buzz around bun? Can't we just go back to node + npm + vitest + vite?
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by arendtio 3mo ago
I think it just takes time to integrate it into existing structures, which is a good thing in this case.
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by arendtio 3mo ago
> intentionally trying to mislead people Is a bit hard. But I agree that the field is moving very fast and that it is hard to find studies that are up to date on the latest tooling.
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by arendtio 3mo ago
Maybe "using AI" is not sufficient by itself. Maybe you need to use it in the right way/setup/environment.
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by arendtio 3mo ago
I think the potential productivity gains are real, but they have a cumulative effect. Currently you can speed up the coding easily, but other tasks, like analysing logs in production for errors, still delay you. Once you add that capability
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by arendtio 3mo ago
Honest citizens think like that; others wonder what the punishment is, even if it is illegal. I mean, maybe paying a fine vs maybe getting access to a popular domain? At least corporations seem to work like that. Not following the law seems
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by arendtio 3mo ago
Everyone should know SIMD, okay, but please don't introduce that kind of code into my codebase for a linear 5x improvement. If you work on a performance-critical application, that's fine, but most of the time we use some interpret
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by arendtio 3mo ago
That is why I call good pens like my Fink [1] a thinking tool. I always wonder if it is nature or nurture, but I am sure that writing helps me to think in a straight line. [1]: https://www.stefanfink.de/en/writing-instr
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by arendtio 3mo ago
> Coming from a design background From a UX perspective, it is very weird to place the toggle button for the right panel at the top of the left panel... After I gave up to find a way to close the right panel, I found that button a few mi
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by arendtio 3mo ago
Well, not E2EE, but I like Photoprism very much for the self-hosted photosharing use-case. In fact, I tried Ente a while ago and am always impressed by their communication skills, but from a product side, I prefer Photoprism. I have a local
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by arendtio 3mo ago
AFAIK, Cursor does some kind of indexing locally. So they don't have to upload all files, but can still search through them in order to find the relevant _parts_ that they upload so that the model can use them.
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by arendtio 3mo ago
You can argue that it is somewhat disrespectful, but only to a low degree. Since everybody knows who is meant, and the disrespect fits the context, I think it is totally fine to just use the forename.
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by arendtio 3mo ago
I also like to take a look at https://cursor.com/cursorbench While in the past months Composer 2.5 was a lot better than I had expected a year ago, and the GPT 5.6 family does a good job in terms of cost for performance, I
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by arendtio 3mo ago
And those bot protection mechanisms and ad-enforcement layers that terrorize humans are okay or what? Yes, I accept that many pages don't want me there and just don't use them anymore, but it sucks. I am not saying that forks like
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by arendtio 3mo ago
Just curious, is there anything here that requires Fable? I mean, can't you build the same thing with Opus/GPT-5.5?
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by arendtio 3mo ago
Reminds me of the time I built a BabyButton, which was built in a way so that a baby could use it. Instead of the normal click behaviour, it was using the touchdown event, because that way the kid saw that something happened, and there was
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by arendtio 3mo ago
It's like asking why a car needs a red color ;-)
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by arendtio 3mo ago
I am always a bit pissed when I see people using 'MVP' in a different way than how Eric Ries uses it (I know there are other definitions, but I never saw one that made more sense). > First, a definition: the minimum viable prod
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by arendtio 3mo ago
So true. Maybe a case for the EU? I mean, they like creating laws limiting the power of big tech. Maybe there should be a law that requires all services that are used by public institutions and commercial transaction providers to be transpa
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by arendtio 3mo ago
Credit where credit is due: Mr. Trump does a good job of showing the world why you should not give the state too powerful surveillance systems. The problem is not if you have done something ethically wrong ('I have nothing to hide&#x27
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by arendtio 3mo ago
> Evaluations also show that it has a much lower ability to perform cybersecurity tasks than our current Opus models. It seems being incompetent is a feature now...
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by arendtio 3mo ago
Well, for Arch Linux, there was the unofficial version from the official binary in the AUR already... (Not sure what you mean by 'no arch based distro support').
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by arendtio 4mo ago
How did you check? Like looking at the results or at the actual implementation? I mean, I know that it mostly chooses Composer, but I wonder if it is hard-wired or if they have a logic that just selects Composer most of the time?
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by arendtio 4mo ago
I didn't know that I was color blind, but thanks to those charts, I think I need to see a doctor... I mean, you can read them even without the colors, but who on earth thought that those are a good set of colors? Oh, I forgot it was pr
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by arendtio 4mo ago
What is the difference from Cursors 'auto' mode?
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by arendtio 4mo ago
So I need a better setup to see HN with all its true colors? SCNR
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by arendtio 4mo ago
Maybe try Firefox. Most of the time, things seem to be optimized for Chrome, but with this, I actually had the impression that Firefox ran a bit smoother, but I tested it on Linux.
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by arendtio 4mo ago
Actually, calculators were banned in my school until 10th grade or so. I understood the reasoning at the time and still think it was a good thing. But I think the AI topic is a double-edged sword. Those tools can help tremendously when used
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by arendtio 4mo ago
Why not make a Show HN? In this thread, it feels a bit misplaced, even though it looks cool.

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