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by bobbiechen 8mo ago
I like this a lot. I've seen similar categorization demos on things like Hacker News submissions, but categorizing random links from random people is much less useful than finding the relevant functionality from a codebase (that presum
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by bobbiechen 8mo ago
Speed is a courtesy, sure. I think polish for the sake of polish is bad, and the AI powered polishing is worse. See also: https://x.com/ClickHole/status/2020915972979425699
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Testing 80 LLMs on spatial reasoning on grids(mihai.page)
2 points by bobbiechen 8mo ago|0 comments
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by bobbiechen 8mo ago
(creator here) +1, the different digits add trivially as you say. I also thought it was fun that when you overlay digits, you do get 1+4=5, 1+6=7, 1+8=9, 2+6=8, and 2+7=9 . That one I only found accidentally after a bit of playing, so the d
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by bobbiechen 8mo ago
Neat demo. I work in this space of bot detection and unfortunately it is trivial to write scripts (or prompt AIs) to insert human-like keystroke and mouse movements. I did so in this demo with about 5 seconds of Cursor use (around 4:25): h
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Show HN: A custom font that displays Cistercian numerals using ligatures(bobbiec.github.io)
171 points by bobbiechen 8mo ago|40 comments
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by bobbiechen 8mo ago
Important too, a fully loaded salary costs the company far more than the actual salary that the employee receives. That would tip this balancing point towards 120k salaries, which is well into the realm of non-FAANG
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by bobbiechen 8mo ago
As the joke goes, Do you think [big tech company] understands consent? > Yes > Ask me later
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by bobbiechen 8mo ago
"A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it." - Max Planck
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by bobbiechen 8mo ago
We're full circle to "Programming by Demonstration" (1993) https://acypher.com/wwid/ or Pygmalion (1975), though this iteration probably works better :)
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Dealing with Bots: A COAR Resource for Repository Managers(dealing-with-bots.coar-repositories.org)
1 points by bobbiechen 9mo ago|0 comments
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by bobbiechen 9mo ago
(author here) I believe I had checked first in this case, which is why it was surprising. Sorry not to mention that in the post. This was in San Francisco, and there were multiple cars shown on the map. In my experience, I usually don'
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The behavioral cost of personalized pricing(digitalseams.com)
96 points by bobbiechen 9mo ago|63 comments
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Fix your robots.txt or your site disappears from Google(alanwsmith.com)
162 points by bobbiechen 9mo ago|80 comments
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by bobbiechen 9mo ago
https://bobbiechen.com/ https://digitalseams.com/
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by bobbiechen 9mo ago
Too humble to mention that you're the creator :) thank you Ben! In my opinion, Slack is the application that really popularized the command bar/palette in the mainstream.
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by bobbiechen 9mo ago
(author here) Thanks for posting! I need to update/post a follow-up with a couple of notes since I wrote that post: * Ben van Enckevort, the original creator of the Slack quick-switcher with Ctrl/Cmd-K, showed up in the StackOverf
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by bobbiechen 9mo ago
I'm very excited to be interviewing people who are creating interesting things with software for upcoming blog stuff at digitalseams.com ! As I've grown older, I've found myself more interested in people and their stories and
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Computers that used to be human(digitalseams.com)
64 points by bobbiechen 9mo ago|20 comments
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New year's resolutions are arbitrary, and that's okay(bobbiechen.com)
1 points by bobbiechen 9mo ago|0 comments
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by bobbiechen 9mo ago
Back when I was applying to college, there was the idea of "yield protection": a college might decline overqualified students to optimize for their "yield" (the percentage of admitted students who accepted). The yield mi
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Why Big Companies Keep Failing: The Stack Fallacy (2016)(techcrunch.com)
101 points by bobbiechen 9mo ago|99 comments
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Arnaud Benard's website is automatically generated by AI every day(arnaud.ai)
3 points by bobbiechen 9mo ago|1 comments
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by bobbiechen 9mo ago
(click the floating calendar at the bottom-right to view past versions)
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by bobbiechen 9mo ago
My thought as well - the infra already exists through MTurk, as well as the ethical and societal questions. You can already pay people pennies per task to do an arbitrary thing, chain that into some kind of consensus if you want to make it
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Most Americans didn't read many books in 2025(yougovamerica.substack.com)
5 points by bobbiechen 9mo ago|0 comments
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by bobbiechen 9mo ago
I'm a mise en place hater personally, since I make a lot of things that are essentially stir fries or stews where some ingredients need significantly more time. Sure, go for it on more complicated recipes, but it's really overkill
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San Francisco identities from government meetings(walzr.com)
4 points by bobbiechen 10mo ago|0 comments
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What conspiracy theorists get right (2023)(tomstafford.substack.com)
13 points by bobbiechen 10mo ago|1 comments
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by bobbiechen 10mo ago
There are lots of people pretending to be Google and friends. They far outnumber the real Googlebot, etc. and most people don't check the reverse DNS/IP list - it's tedious to do this for even well-behaved crawlers that publi

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