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Show HN: Tree Dangler(jasonthorsness.com)
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by jasonthorsness 11mo ago
While maybe the model could do everything from first principles every time, once you have a known good tool that performs a single action perfectly, why not use that tool for that action? Maybe as part of training, the model could write,
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by jasonthorsness 11mo ago
I used Gemini CLI and a few rounds of Claude CLI at the beginning with stock VSCode
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by jasonthorsness 11mo ago
I used Gemini instead of my usual Claude for a non-trivial front-end project [1] and it really just hit it out of the park especially after the update last week, no trouble just directly emitting around 95% of the application. Now Claude is
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by jasonthorsness 11mo ago
The community can make whatever UI it wants, using the API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API I wrote one for myself: https://hn.unlurker.com Or there are various ways to restyle the main site with a browse
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by jasonthorsness 11mo ago
Had to read the article to find how the mice were lifting! "To access food, mice were fit with a small collar around the shoulders that required them to lift and set down the cage lid in a squat-like motion, which activates concentric
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by jasonthorsness 11mo ago
AES-GCM sensitivity to nonce reuse is a tricky implementation detail. Here they acknowledge it but then don’t share their solution - and in fact the header contains 16 bytes for the nonce instead of the expected 12 bytes and they do not sha
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by jasonthorsness 11mo ago
"Starting today, GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max will replace GPT‑5.1-Codex as the default model in Codex surfaces." Wow, I spent last weekend using a tag-team of Claude and Codex and found Codex to more often get better results (TypeScript phy
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
I tried this as well at https://github.com/jasonthorsness/ginprov (hosted at https://ginprov.com ). After a while it sort of starts to all look the same though.
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
Both of my kids wanted to need a glasses prescription
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
It was early. Social acceptance will happen like it did for phones (although I still get weirded out looking at a bus full of people all staring at a device).
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
When I started programming debuggers were very good. Windbg for example was incredibly powerful, you could debug the Windows kernel, boot process, run scripts, author plugins, anything. And yet here decades later this list about debugging d
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
I don't wear glasses but that's the primary form factor I can imagine. Already socially and legally acceptable, non-audible communication channel plus low-volume audio, points in a direction that generally matches attention. And p
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
Yeah the encouragement of shadowing is a little weird (learning Rust coming from Go where it is sort of discouraged)
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
It’s great that these reproducible builds are possible and this is an incredibly thorough and careful validation. Thanks!
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
Lots of articles about how solar panels are even less expensive than traditional fence panels; it's incredible. If I had a suitable property I would be installing them even in Seattle area where it's cloudy and dark for a signific
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
Thanks for the book recommendation! Heard about it a few times now so I'll check it out.
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
Money alone cannot win the race; it will require a strong vision, courage, and luck. OpenAI and XAI and Anthropic (though underfunded) seem to lead in those factors so far.
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
NaNs aren't always equal to each other in their bit representation either, most of the bits are kept as a "payload" which is not defined in the spec it can be anything. I believe the payload is actually used in V8 to encode m
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
The 6-hour counter is most certainly, painfully true. If you work with an AWS rep please complain about this in every session; maybe if we all do they will reduce the counter :P.
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
Some reasons for this: 1. Free software is developed for the developer's own needs and developers are going to be power users. 2. The cost to expose options is low so from the developer's perspective it's low effort to add hi
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
Ahh it got me, Alaska air web site has an Azure outage banner
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
Using a single DBMS for many purposes because it is so flexible and “already there” from an operations perspective is something I’ve seen over and over again. It usually goes wrong eventually with one workload/use screwing up others bu
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
the entire page has horizontal lines washed over it
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
One thing I have observed (but this is in B2B) is that developers can be a lot more cautious around asking for money than they should be. Sales can often tell customers they need to pay and they will pay. Complaints about cost are part of t
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
This attitude doesn't reflect poorly on the users. Outside any kind of charity situation, if you pay for something that is free it makes you a sucker. You need to make sure users understand that paying makes them savvy/smart or ot
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
Apparently some sizes are cursed! It would be great to repeat the author’s tests on other CPU models
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
EVs often have great acceleration, so I would think it would be a natural fit for the sports car market. Even the ordinary ones are a lot more fun to accelerate on a freeway onramp than an ordinary 4- or 6-cylinder gas engine.
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
Article makes a huge deal about humming/buzzing but there’s no way that’s a real thing right? What would be the reason it would go beyond like any HVAC-ish thing on a large building? Lost me at the first sentence :(
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by jasonthorsness 1y ago
I’ve had a heat pump with backup gas in Seattle area since 2016. Great to have AC and heat; the gas comes on when house needs to be warmed quickly. I like constant air circulation and have it set so fan runs even when it doesn’t need to hea

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