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by dvt 24d ago
I did the exact same thing[1] (minus the AI matching)—in fact, using the public HN firebase API, as you can see. So I fundamentally reject this premise. I had it running for years and no one complained and it scored me a few contracts bec
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by dvt 24d ago
> this is creepy AF and feels like a giant invasion of privacy People have been building HN job listing scrapers for years. Heck, I built one over a decade ago[1] (though it's offline now). This is a very common "Show HN:"
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by dvt 24d ago
This is neat! What I would do is I would have a list of tags and make sure every post gets pigeonholed into those because otherwise it might be hard to match tags if extracted on a per-post basis (e.g. I see `large-scale data systems` for a
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by dvt 24d ago
Zitron is an AI doomer and a clear fact-distorter. I follow him because even a broken clock is right twice a day and I do think he's a pretty smart guy. I don't read his newsletter (it's basically word vomit these days), but
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by dvt 24d ago
> hackers, for one Got it, sooo.. SF tech bros. I think that humanoid robots are interesting but the real innovation and product-market fit will come figuring out how to do menial household chores (folding clothes is still very much unso
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by dvt 25d ago
Skeuomorphism is back, baby! Apart from the wonky dragging on some of the knobs, I really like these. Kind of reminds me of teenage engineering.
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by dvt 25d ago
Neat vision, but I can only imagine this thing literally fucking everything up. Like, knocking shit off my table, setting my kitchen on fire, bumping into things like an idiot. Not sure who the market is here apart from SF tech bros with mo
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by dvt 25d ago
Location: Los Angeles Remote: Yes Relocation: Case-by-case Hi HN, I'm an engineer and data professional interested in team-building, consulting and architecting data pipelines. At Edmunds.com, I worked on a fairly successful ad-tech pr
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by dvt 25d ago
You could make the converse argument, too: why don't you borrow and leverage and bet and short these AI companies, if you so vehemently think it's a bubble? The bottom line is that markets are complicated, useful technologies ar
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by dvt 27d ago
You don't, that's why you review it (just how you would handle a real human submitting a paper). The main issue with LLM papers is that they tend to be very dense/circuitous or—because LLMs don't truly understand what th
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by dvt 27d ago
What? Not at all. I'm referring to things like discussing distributions of certain things or probabilities of things as we go towards infinity, etc. These are proper papers, not surveys.
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by dvt 27d ago
Not sure how much frontier math you follow, but probabilistic arguments are extremely popular (particularly in, weirdly enough, number theory), especially for fiddling with the bounds on things, or getting closer to full coverage of vario
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by dvt 28d ago
Have mathematicians become "less savvy" since the invention of the abacus or calculator? The invention of logarithms or analysis? In some ways, the answer is trivially positive. In fact, number crunching was, for most of human his
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by dvt 1mo ago
One of my engineering highlights was Russ reviewing a few of my contributions to Golang (to the core http library). He's a super cool and nice guy. I don't really write that much Go anymore, but it was a fun & cute language wh
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by dvt 1mo ago
> It's not being shipped. What are you talking about? I'm running 1.4 canary (the Rust rewrite) right now. λ bun --version 1.4.0 Hope that helps.
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by dvt 1mo ago
First of all, I'd need to see a diff on that. It's insane to make that kind of claim without backing it up. Second of all, dead code (as in truly dead code: like an if statement that is guaranteed to never be true), is optimized a
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by dvt 1mo ago
> The last three months have not looked good for Bun. Apart from pro-AI or anti-AI posturing how have the last few months not looked good for Bun, exactly? I use it daily and I've seen basically zero regressions. I get it, you don&#
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by dvt 1mo ago
> There are also, of course, trade secrets, but if you didn't surreptitiously gain access to the information and didn't sign any NDA, that's not something you have to worry about. But this is precisely the context of the
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by dvt 1mo ago
Intellectual property does not necessarily have to be copyrightable but, as always, nuanced discussion will get lost in clickbaity headlines.
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by dvt 1mo ago
It's not hard to sell a dollar for 50 cents. Imo, these businesses are pretty clearly not doing well financially (the revolving door of unvested C-levels is a good hint, the constant postponing of S-1s is another).
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by dvt 1mo ago
> This sure looks like a race to the bottom Always has been. My prediction is that both OpenAI and Claude will go bust unless they deliver a killer product. And unlike scrappy startups, they have a pretty serious deadline because credito
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Still Life–facts, quizzes, and questions(still-life-peach.vercel.app)
4 points by dvt 1mo ago|1 comments
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by dvt 2mo ago
> Boilerplate is a sign of a bad language This is true, but I was mostly referring to framework boilerplate (Spring, React, etc.) or plumbing boilerplate. If you've ever written code professionally, you know that most code that you
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by dvt 2mo ago
> Are software engineers really so full of hubris that they thought coding is all that there is to making a product? Frankly, this barely scratches the surface of the hubris of engineers. I personally think AI has been one of the best th
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by dvt 2mo ago
Location:Los Angeles Remote: Yes Relocation: Case-by-case I'm an engineer and data professional interested in team-building, consulting and architecting data pipelines. At Edmunds.com, I worked on a fairly successful ad-tech product an
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by dvt 2mo ago
I am so happy I haven't written a line of C++ in like 15 years. Absolutely disgusting language. Every time I look up one of their new standards, I'm like how does anyone keep all of this in their head (usually on top of stuff li
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by dvt 3mo ago
If you're testing how good LLMs are at compressing information, then I think that's a fair test. Personally, I don't really think that's where their strength comes from (especially considering how much more useful local
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by dvt 3mo ago
One-shotting is a bit of a red herring, imo. Let's say I wanted to build a "Super Dario" meme platformer. I would do some research, find a platformer on Codepen or Github that "feels" good, tweak it to my liking, ch
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by dvt 3mo ago
> Pangram does work It's trivial to see how many people think Pangram is absolute trash[1] (because it is). > You appear to be misinformed about how Pangram specifically works, it is not based on pattern detection of that sort. I
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by dvt 3mo ago
Pangram doesn't work, and I wish people would stop treating it as gospel (but the AI/anti-AI grift is real). Here's a fun paradox: I can literally tell ChatGPT: "Say X" and it will say "X"—so that's a

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