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by kayge 1y ago
A couple of recent front page articles with an alternate perspective: "The Mac app flea market": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45246971 "I launched a Mac utility; now there are 5 clones on the App Stor
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by kayge 1y ago
As an example: Take a look at the URL of this page ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45261163 ). Add 1 to that ID value (45261164) in your address bar. Hit Enter, your browser will GET whatever exists at the next ID.
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by kayge 1y ago
Not quite as immersive as their deep dive into the Visual History of Rickrolling [0] but still a neat and interesting project. [0] https://pudding.cool/2021/07/rickrolling/
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by kayge 1y ago
Maybe they aren't, they could just be hosting these interviews as a fresh source of data for Claude to slurp up! ... sorry, I shouldn't be stirring up conspiracy theories this late on a Friday.
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by kayge 1y ago
Arrrgh I remember an interview where I got this lucky... and I ended up failing it miserably. It was a python-heavy position, and I had been watching some Peter Norvig videos in the weeks beforehand to prepare. They asked me to implement so
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by kayge 1y ago
It's open source; fork around and find out ;)
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by kayge 1y ago
Hopefully they'll skip this[0] part: "...once we can rollback some of Halliday's ad restrictions, we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures!" [0] https://w
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by kayge 1y ago
My hot dog with a smiley face got a 64%, I'm sorry. Semi relevant Silicon Valley clip (maybe nsfw, language) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACmydtFDTGs
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by kayge 1y ago
Hello! I am a big respectable VC firm. Here is a blank check and a unicorn hat, congratulations on your new AI startup.
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by kayge 1y ago
Thanks for this :) I had never heard of Elo until I noticed this morning that the new Chess course in Duolingo gives you an Elo ranking after a few rounds against Oscar. Probably would have skipped right over this story and comments otherwi
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by kayge 1y ago
Don't forget Titanic (1997)! :D
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by kayge 1y ago
If only 'shibboleet' had caught on -.- https://xkcd.com/806/
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by kayge 1y ago
The "No True Scotsware" problem? :)
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by kayge 1y ago
I'm sure this won't count as 'novel' or a 'thought', but I had an interesting conversation with Claude where I asked "If you, Claude, were given the ability to go out into the physical world to see and hea
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by kayge 1y ago
> if we believe Lucio Russo's account Lucio = light/luminous Russo = Russian Looks like yet another disinformation attempt by the Russians, disregard! ;)
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by kayge 1y ago
OnlyPlanes
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by kayge 1y ago
Some of them were a bit hard to swallow
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by kayge 1y ago
As someone who wishes they could realistically afford private school for their kids (public school leaves a lot to be desired for 'gifted' kids these days), I think you've got good points but I land on the other side. Using s
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by kayge 1y ago
When I saw the headline I was definitely hoping for some fun new tool for the IBMi server I maintain, but I knew the chances were slim :)
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by kayge 1y ago
Same, and FWIW I just recently noticed that [flagged] stories will continue showing up on the 'Top X' feeds (if they're popular enough), but they drop off if you're browsing the 'Homepage' feed.
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by kayge 1y ago
Thanks for this, I'm interested in hearing more anecdotes about Americans traveling abroad recently. I'll be in Italy and Greece for a few days each starting late next week and I'm curious (maybe slightly nervous) about how i
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by kayge 1y ago
Here's a real one: “The county has, for whatever reason, also refused to produce the network routers. We want the routers, Sonny. Wendy, we got to get those routers, please. The routers. Come on, Kelly, we can get those routers. Those
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by kayge 1y ago
The /active page is helpful, thanks! I also just recently realized that the 'hckr news'[0] interface doesn't hide or remove flagged stories if you're using the Top 10/20/50 view options, so if something is
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The Old World Is Dead(green.spacedino.net)
20 points by kayge 1y ago|1 comments
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by kayge 1y ago
I'm going to guess it was something along the lines of this [0]... wow now I kind of want to buy one of their larger versions for the back of my car to remind tailgaters "Yes I CAN go even slower" when I'm already going
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by kayge 1y ago
I did! And it started to make me wonder whether the same shenanigans could be applied to make any interesting Calvin minus Hobbes strips ... but my guess is it wouldn't turn out quite so dark https://screenrant.com/15-d
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by kayge 2y ago
Would you say they "spared no expense"?
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by kayge 2y ago
Counterpoint: in Despicable Me the moon was shrunk and brought down to Earth with almost zero consequences... so maybe it would be just fine!
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by kayge 2y ago
I can always count on an eye-roll from my wife when I have the rare chance to drop the "I've not yet begun to defile myself" line, haha... ah great now I need to go re-watch Tombstone
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by kayge 2y ago
And don't forget Doc Holliday in Tombstone, such a great role

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