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by hombre_fatal 5d ago
Once you price out similar specs for a Windows gaming build, I don't know how much better you'll be doing, and it won't have unified memory so you'll be "paying twice": once for RAM and again for VRAM. $250 jus
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by hombre_fatal 5d ago
Harnesses try to solve a wide range of complex, open-ended UX problems, so there isn't a perfect one. CC might be the best one I've used if I give each major UX aspect a rating 1-5 and then average them. For example, it has a dece
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by hombre_fatal 6d ago
I'm generally impressed with the code that Fable/Opus is writing for me these days; I would be proud to have had the same foresight had I implemented the solution myself. And Fable's architectural design is pretty much always
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by hombre_fatal 6d ago
That's separate from LLM usage though. By this point, if you care about a quality product, you should learn how to leverage LLMs for that like running automated audits for correctness and performance opportunities. There isn't a m
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by hombre_fatal 8d ago
Agreed. I haven't written a line of code since last November when AI had the big shift into something good. The average HNer would imagine me scrolling TikTok while I periodically swivel to Claude to type "continue" while my
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by hombre_fatal 14d ago
Javascript's async-everything is really unique in a domain where async is almost always bolted on to synchronous-everything in some sort of incompatible subecosystem.
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by hombre_fatal 16d ago
Sure, but this subset of user was going to otherwise reuse their password and be susceptible to cred-stuffing. The point is to stop the attack and prevent users from accidentally hosing themselves.
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by hombre_fatal 16d ago
This is pretty cool as a next-gen mini replacement. The one downside of my iPhone 13 mini is the rare case where I do need more screen. I couldn't spend $2000 on a phone, but I don't mind the direction.
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by hombre_fatal 17d ago
To know what you're getting. No further reasons needed.
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by hombre_fatal 17d ago
No, I don’t only want personal blogs and content that’s supported by ads. And you should know how to bypass paywalls by now.
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by hombre_fatal 18d ago
The posts that gain traction and hit my feed are filtered to be the best results, but I don't see what that changes. So are the Minecraft posts. Either way, you'd have to do more work to claim that providers are specifically optim
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by hombre_fatal 18d ago
You can also randomly generate a password for the user on the form they'd normally type one in on registration. Add a "Regen" button to give users more visceral control over it before they submit the form.
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by hombre_fatal 18d ago
Attacks have been distributed for quite some time if your service has any loot worth attacking. You have to handle the case where every request comes from a unique IP address.
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by hombre_fatal 18d ago
Well, I’d say LLMs scale up the underlying starting point. It’s still shocking to me pre-AI how often people would ship code they didn’t bother to run once, relying on some QA stage to report an issue. With AI the solution to it is also tri
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by hombre_fatal 20d ago
> That’s the problem, these tests can’t tell you how good a model is anymore because it’s trivial for labs to optimise for exactly these tests by the next release. But they don't prove the claim. Are the models amazing at recreating
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by hombre_fatal 20d ago
Orwell's bad sentence uses harder words than it needs to, but it reworks the bible verse into direct claims. Needing better reading skills to understand the bible verse just shows that it's not a good way to communicate. If an HNe
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by hombre_fatal 21d ago
Good questions. > why did it write so much to begin with? It's an incremental project covering a complex domain. At any time, the code has to stay balanced in a spot that addresses correctness and performance across things like pty
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by hombre_fatal 21d ago
Because we have evidence otherwise, and even the worst code can be refactored by LLMs. That a high velocity project might accumulate technical debt isn't interesting to me if LLMs can also pay it back or if you can decide to work at a
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by hombre_fatal 21d ago
Like real life, you want to accrue debt strategically. When you're experimenting, vetting ideas, mapping out the requirements, exploring solutions, then technical debt keeps churn cheap. e.g. You don't want to overly commit to sta
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by hombre_fatal 21d ago
I did. Just about all of the findings were re-verified to be good and then implemented by a rigorous pipeline of clankers, and the project was improved. If it weren't for me insisting that I manually sign off on the solution of every f
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by hombre_fatal 21d ago
How? Because it found too many opportunities to improve the code beyond what we'd want to review as a human? Each file is a list of findings that includes the justification/verification of each finding in the same file. This is ju
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by hombre_fatal 21d ago
Trivially debunked with the prompt "find technical debt to fix". https://github.com/danneu/danterm/blob/749942ffa1198f520c8b7... Here's the result of a prompt that specifically looks for correc
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by hombre_fatal 21d ago
This is a good example of what LLMs save us from. Everyone likes to pretend that LLMs are only capable of writing mudballs, but it's trivially debunked by using LLMs yourself to refactor code, pay back debt, and fan out agents to look
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Show HN: DanTerm – a fast macOS terminal emulator (compare with Ghostty, iTerm2)(github.com)
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by hombre_fatal 23d ago
I can’t imagine how many shortcuts I would have taken as a kid/teen or stressed uni student if AI were an option. I can see even a well-meaning student stuck in this aspirational cycle of “I’ll do it myself next time, but right now I j
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by hombre_fatal 25d ago
I don't think there's always obvious linearity with learning, especially not these days where you have more options vs. elders copying programs from magazines line by line or however the legend goes. How responsible was fiddling w
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by hombre_fatal 26d ago
I like a lightweight ADR system. e.g. docs/decisions/README.md (index with a blurb about each decision), docs/decisions/01-some-lesson.md (some architectural decision/pattern that you or the agents discovered). ADR
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by hombre_fatal 26d ago
LLMs change this since you can get them to create a wrapper for some software you want based on a hash, and then bump it when you want to update it. The end goal is that you have a reproducible, immutable build contained in some git-diffed
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by hombre_fatal 28d ago
That's what delegation looks like, but it needs a better process. They could be committing plan files alongside any nontrivial change to application code, and the plan file can have everything you'd care about, like the invariants
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by hombre_fatal 29d ago
Agreed, but what "prevents" it is that making a good keyboard-driven UI takes a lot of taste, extra effort to build it, and it must be revisited any time the UI changes. It's duplicated work. Ideally all GUIs/TUIs are us

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