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by firefoxd 2y ago
Slightly relevant, I made an animation of the HN traffic I got from a #1 post. https://idiallo.com/blog/surviving-the-hug-of-death (sorry not mobile friendly) There is a surprising number of bots. It will be fun to set
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It's pretty impressive that we have self-driving cars that takes us this far with Just cameras. But it probably won't get any better than this without a revamp. That said, what if we make these self driving tools fully available t
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Here is an example of a stupid idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43563580 To answer your question, Yes.
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Double yes
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We Need Self Driving Tools, Not Self Driving Cars (2024)(idiallo.com)
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Thank you. That's the kind of energy I'm looking for.
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Show HN: Proxy AI – AI so you don't have to(getproxyai.com)
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Surviving the Hug of Death, A visualization(idiallo.com)
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Hot take: you suck at CSS because you never bothered learning it. A long time ago, everyone in my team kept making excuses why they hate css. I went to Lynda.com and found a pretty good class. I can't remember the instructor, but it wa
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I'm glad he is back to making approachable projects. It was a boon for me during the pandemic. I particularly love the fake windows to light my closet that looks like daylight.
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I had this insight that I thought was evident. "AGI is an interface problem". It made sense in the context. But when I decided to write about it, my initial idea and example were pretty weak. The more I wrote the more I found coun
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Kudos! We've encountered several customers that hated their help desk but couldn't move away. We've even considered building our own since we were in the business. But here comes the hard and most important part that Zendesk
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I've tried to do so with a $9 pocket pc, but ended up frying it by accidently short-circuiting it. I wrote a visualizer for the traffic that I think people will appreciate [1]. I will post it next month once I add it on github. It was
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I didn't really want to link them. But here @sympa_fr on youtube. Note it's in french.
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I was sent a YouTube video that was blatantly fake. Five seconds in I closed it and moved on. But I got curious. I went back to the video and checked the channel. It has 7.4 million subscribers. It uploads 4 or 5 times a day. At least two 3
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That's also why AGI as defined today is an interface problem. Imagine we've actually achieved it, and the interface is a chat prompt. It will be really hard to differentiate it with the current tools we have. For writing, the canv
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DeepSeek is sorta kinda Open Source(idiallo.com)
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My employer picked vwo over my own custom in house ab testing tool [0]. I was so pissed! Congrats, yours was the better tool. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23471050
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Not at all, the same way the US government does not ask Facebook or other media to produce specific content. However they still send take down requests and guidelines. TikTok being a foreign entity was under no obligation to conform to the
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To me it is a time-sink that drowns our brains in a perpetual state of climax. Every video is designed to bring you to climax, and before it is done, the next video is loaded only to do the same. It is addictive and breeds impatience. The m
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This morning I felt the urge to download TikTok for the first time. I did, but I didn't bother creating an account. There is a passage in the book Life of Pi, where Pi's family is gathered and ready to leave India for Canada. And
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Our systems took 8 hours to back up. Then it grew to 12 hours [0]. The system was a side project by an intern fresh out of college. Over the years, it grew into a crucial software the company relied on. I joined over 10 years later and was
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It's hard to form a comprehensive opinion about a subject without writing about it. My blog helps me do that because it forces me to research the stuff that I believe to be true and write concisely about it. If the blog helps you form
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I had my day job. This was something I did just to help. I did not request any payment for the work I did. The DEI teams where in house while I was an outside consultant.
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I wrote about my experience working as a software developer and being black in the industry and I was lucky to have it published on BBC [1]. What immediately followed, every large company reached out to have me work as a consultant for thei
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Wait til you see how they asked employees to comeback to the office... https://www.vice.com/en/article/dont-mess-with-us-webmd-pare...
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Yet, my ex co-worker who has been convicted of murder and is serving life without possibility of parole has his account untouched [0]. It's surprising because his case was all over the news and tabloids. Not so Fun fact: a second cowor
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2025 calendar is the same as the 1969 one(old.reddit.com)
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Fun fact, soundcloud uses links. React can use links and still be dynamic. The problem is without it, you break the browser history, you break long press menu on mobile, you lose the link preview in the status bar.
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The fundamental problem with React and the like, is that it forced developers to unlearn the anchor tag. If you can change the url via js why use an actual hyperlink tag? Over the years, I'm seeing more and more unlearning of fundament

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