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   by peterldowns 5mo ago

   Founder is active on HN and the service is high quality. Support is reasonable. Machines are fast and work well. There are a bunch of alternatives, the switching cost is extremely low, pick whatever you'd like.
2. 32.▲
   by peterldowns 5mo ago

   Yup! Still haven't switched off of Github, but considering it at this point. If you're in my shoes, here's some tools we use that help: - https://github.com/sethvargo/ratchet for pinning external Actions
3. 33.▲
   by peterldowns 5mo ago

   Agreed! Been working on infra for an early-stage company recently and it's been awesome using OIDC and IRSA (or WIF if you're on google) for as many things as possible. Basically, there are no permanent keys for anything. Slightly
4. 34.▲
   by peterldowns 5mo ago

   Would make way more sense to just use verification claims backed by government issued IDs, rather than relying on a third party like World(coin). For instance, something like https://self.xyz . It's strictly better than the
5. 35.▲
   by peterldowns 5mo ago

   I see it the same way. Interesting times…
6. 36.▲
   by peterldowns 5mo ago

   Ah ok thanks very much!
7. 37.▲
   by peterldowns 5mo ago

   Oh no not in the public domain, I better not build something cool!
8. 38.▲
   by peterldowns 5mo ago

   I've been meaning to build ~exactly this experience, but for the 1952 Encyclopedia Brittanica Great Books of the World collection and its experimental index Syntopicon [0]. Would love to know more about how you OCR'd or otherwis
9. 39.▲
   by peterldowns 5mo ago

   Why come here to just post AI comments? I don't get the point.
10. 40.▲
    by peterldowns 6mo ago

    This post is garbage slop. Read BLIT instead https://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm Or my favorite of his basilisk stories, different kinds of darkness: https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/ficti
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    by peterldowns 6mo ago

    My very first real tech job in the bay, my new boss recommended I study up on Armin's open source code in order to get better as an engineer. It's been very interesting following his work over the years. I'm extremely curious
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    by peterldowns 6mo ago

    are there any tricks you'd suggest, or starter prompts, for using claude to analyze my own company's services for security problems?
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    by peterldowns 6mo ago

    Thanks for sharing this, going to modify a bit and give it a try.
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    by peterldowns 6mo ago

    If you're not injured you're probably fine, most of the time there's not a big difference. The reason I recommend a local running store is that they can usually help people who are out of shape to get the right shoes, which s
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    by peterldowns 6mo ago

    That's cool. The double watch is smart. I never run longer than a half marathon in training so I don't bother with headphones but most of my serious running friends insist, makes sense when they're running 80-100mi weeks. If
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    by peterldowns 7mo ago

    I listened to TMBG early on in my music life and eventually came to "not particularly enjoy" them. Talking Heads, on the other hand, have only gotten better and better in my opinion. I mean COME ON https://www.youtube.c
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    by peterldowns 7mo ago

    llm garbage
18. 48.▲
    by peterldowns 7mo ago

    I own a copy, never fails to weird people out when they flip through. Highly recommend.
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    by peterldowns 7mo ago

    I was just looking for a linear CLI earlier today. Awesome that the CLI converter uses that as an example. Nice!
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    by peterldowns 7mo ago

    you may enjoy reading Nick Land, he has written about very similar ideas, specifically the idea that corporations and even "capital" can be considered AI in many ways.
21. 51.▲
    by peterldowns 8mo ago

    Ballard covered this theme a few different times in his short stories, I believe before this
22. 52.▲
    by peterldowns 8mo ago

    Sure but I dont want to build my own Github I just want to use a beautiful and faster alternative
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    by peterldowns 8mo ago

    Its a shame Pierre shut down. Wish they could have made it work. Github but made by Linear would be a dream.
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    by peterldowns 8mo ago

    It literally is just a big minimalist computer screen. I drive a taycan and it would be significantly better if they were to remove the massive touchpad and replace it with a cluster of physical controls.
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    by peterldowns 8mo ago

    Agreed with absolutely all of this. Really well written. Right now at work we're getting along fine with Actions + WarpBuild but if/when things start getting annoying I'm going to switch us over to Buildkite, which I've
26. 56.▲
    by peterldowns 8mo ago

    no impact on your application (will review shortly) but your site is down for me
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    by peterldowns 8mo ago

    Opus 4.5 is pretty good about following instructions to not do anything destructive, but Gemini 3 Flash actively disregards my advice and just starts running commands. Definitely recommend setting up default-readonly access for stuff like t
28. 58.▲
    by peterldowns 8mo ago

    I do this but make sure to only have readonly/nondestructive access. It's extremely cool how well it works.
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    by peterldowns 8mo ago

    At CloudX ( https://cloudx.io ) we’re building a new supply-side advertising platform for mobile publishers. Yes, it's ads, and yes, there's AI involved, so stop reading here if that's not interesting to you. It&#x2
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    by peterldowns 8mo ago

    One of the most incredible feats of strength and daring I've ever witnessed. The only thing at all comparable was watching Baumgartner freefall back to earth from the edge of space. Unbelievable!