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by sarreph 2mo ago
It’s hard to tell how spontaneous this error is as I’ve only just launched this website, but will try to see if there’s a fix for it — thanks for the data!
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by sarreph 2mo ago
> I also didn't see the notice it was a short story. I'm starting to think perhaps I could have made the callout at the top a little clearer :) Thank you for your words above also.
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by sarreph 2mo ago
Thank you so much. I do indeed plan on posting more work here in future... HN has given me the impetus I needed for that (and more) now!
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by sarreph 2mo ago
> develop a bit more on why keep the friendship with Aaron. Thanks for your feedback (I got similar feedback from my friend and my partner who both write). I agree that this felt like a bit of a hole in the story as I was writing it, tha
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by sarreph 2mo ago
Ah, thank you!
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by sarreph 2mo ago
OP here - longtime HN user. I submitted this story to a writing contest a few months back, but didn’t hear anything from them. I posted it here on a punt and getting front page of HN is 10x the feeling any writing contest could give me! Tha
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by sarreph 2mo ago
Thank you for reading it!
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by sarreph 2mo ago
Ah - thanks! I aim to keep it up!
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by sarreph 2mo ago
Thank you for your kind words!
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by sarreph 2mo ago
Thank you, very kind of you to say!
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by sarreph 2mo ago
Thank you for your kind words.
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by sarreph 2mo ago
I appreciate you referencing Charlie Brooker as he is undoubtedly a subconscious influence on my writing! Thanks for your comment.
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by sarreph 2mo ago
Appreciate the comment :)
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by sarreph 2mo ago
Thank you!
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by sarreph 2mo ago
Thank you very much.
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by sarreph 2mo ago
Such kind words…! I’m so honoured and humbled. Thank you. P.S. - I didn’t use LLMs to write it, no! :)
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My Friend Aaron(rorz.io)
691 points by sarreph 2mo ago|186 comments
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Show HN: Dozenal – Daily Spatial Math Puzzle(dozenal.game)
4 points by sarreph 2mo ago|2 comments
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by sarreph 2mo ago
I disagree. Is 16 px or 14 px a better font-size value for a subheading, in a hypothetical layout? Immediately that kind of decision, where both options are objectively good for 12 px paragraph text, suddenly becomes an issue of taste t
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by sarreph 2mo ago
If you're doing any kind of inference that is multi-modal and non-factual, opinions and biases will affect any kind of assessment of a visual that you provide to a model. For example, a UI / UX professional being asked to appraise
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by sarreph 2mo ago
I have to say: Yes, there is a lot of velocity from Cloudflare pushing out AI-adjacent features as of late. But also: What they've doing with Workers et al. has made them a platform for fully-fledged apps and deployments. I personally
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by sarreph 2mo ago
As someone who doesn't write Zig (but is hoping to soon!), I'm struck when reading this that the new interface seems much more verbose than the old interface... i.e. 6 LoC vs the previous implementation's 3 LoC. I was under t
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by sarreph 2mo ago
> people who are extremely vulnerable to manipulation I think this is a gross over-exaggeration, otherwise dark patterns wouldn't work at the magnitude (majority of the buying population) they do. I say this not disagreeing with you
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Show HN: Karma in Menu Bar(github.com)
3 points by sarreph 2mo ago|0 comments
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by sarreph 2mo ago
What the author is getting at here: > Climbing Mount Everest and getting a PhD are both hard. I wouldn’t say that doing one means you can do the other “no problem.” and here: > Surgeons and electrical engineers may be extremely smart
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by sarreph 2mo ago
One of my favourite things to do with AI video pitch creator products is to put a paragraph of text into the first_name / company_name form fields on their "request a demo" function, to see how ridiculously fast their AI
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by sarreph 2mo ago
It's interesting to see how — even in the 1880s — people were making the same mistakes as companies today: over-engineering to the point of unmanageable complexity ("complexity bad"[0]), and the less solve-all-possible-probl
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Show HN: HN karma in your menu bar(github.com)
1 points by sarreph 2mo ago|0 comments
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by sarreph 2mo ago
https://dozenal.game A daily puzzle game called Dozenal where you solve each puzzle board by creating chains totalling the number 12. My friend and I came up with the idea over a decade a go, and have finally started bringing
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Show HN: KarmaBar – track your HN karma in your menu bar(github.com)
1 points by sarreph 2mo ago|0 comments

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