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by sillysaurusx 3mo ago
For western reference, ¥100,000+ is $615+, or €540+. Not cheap. I managed to find a room in SF for like $250 when I was looking, though you’d have to reserve it a week in advance. Is Tokyo really that expensive now?
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by sillysaurusx 3mo ago
Thanks for doing this. I had no idea the system prompt was embedding things like "avoid abstractions; three similar lines of code are better than one helper." Stuff I disagree with. Is there a way to modify these prompts e.g. by p
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by sillysaurusx 3mo ago
perhaps
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test
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test
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
Gosh hacker news is so disappointing nowadays. You show a project, you say hey, this is hard, I’m proud of it, and someone comes along and tells you that ackshually it was easy because you used a few prompts. You have no idea. Try to redo w
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
My ex and her bf have been doing this thing where they match any word. For example, "Cardio? I hardly startio." You can do this too now. You’re welcome. (It’s surprisingly hard to think of a motivating example.)
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
It was fun, and I like a challenge. I enjoy Lisp, and I retracing pg’s steps was gratifying. Today most things are complex, and they don’t last very long. I wanted to pick apart something that’s lasted since the birth of the internet. Viawe
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
No, it’s not. I used LLMs. It was still hard as fuck, and LLMs can’t actually help you when you’re trying to reproduce someone’s graphical design (specifically the pg buttons). If you think it’s easy, or even possible without investing mont
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
I spent about a year copying pg’s site: https://github.com/shawwn/pg Result: https://shawwn.github.io/pg/ If you think it’s easy, it’s not. The closer you want it to be pixel perfect, the exponent
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
They do. It’s how I was banned for researching barbiturates.
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
I too was banned. Two key details: 1. I was unbanned via their appeal form, but 2. I had created a new account in the meantime which I’ve used since. If you need a debit card, use Mercury https://www.mercury.com . You can create
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
Good. My 4th grade cursive writing was a waste of time. Studying anything else would have been more beneficial.
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
> The general idea that written forms can be categorized by systems built with Claude could be applied to other as yet undecipherable languages could be used by other interested investigators just with what is discussed here. Could you r
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
(I haven't tried this out yet.) My use case would be to take a snapshot of each HN story. This is surprisingly hard, because most websites prevent bots from doing that. For example, Claude has a lot of trouble reading HN's front p
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The person you replied to isn’t the same person that was called a shill, by the way.
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
You’re right. HN asks for a crawl delay of 30 seconds. So if you want to be a good citizen and you have a thousand comments, that’d take about 8 hours. Not too bad. You can do it by including your “user” cookie. (You can get that by examini
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
Sorry. My goal was to show the community this new URL trick by linking to useful examples. As far as I know it’s not documented anywhere. I’ll slow down.
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All Gists Discussed on HN(news.ycombinator.com)
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Discussion of GitHub repos on HN(news.ycombinator.com)
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
Unfortunately no, not to my knowledge. Only your account can see how many points your comment has, so the only way to build this would be to scrape your comments (10 at a time) from /threads?id=AnimalMuppet and then sort them by points
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See HN comments that link to specific sites
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HN comments with links to HN(news.ycombinator.com)
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
To show comments containing links to foo.com, visit /from?site=foo.com&kind=comment. For example, to see all comments containing links to x.com: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=x.com&kind=comment Or all
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
Doesn't that mean your org could find someone 10% as productive as you and fire you? We seem to ignore that side of things. Concretely: if you can do 90% of your work with AI, someone else can also do that same work, making you interch
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
It’s been 28 minutes since it was submitted. Chill. The algorithm needs time to work. It’s a feature, not a flaw, that posts can skyrocket to the top of the front page. It’s why HN has fresher news.
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
I appreciate the response. The trouble with economics is that if you get the incentives slightly wrong, people will relentlessly exploit the difference. So when I ask "but this, but that," I’m asking "have you thought of thi
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
> For example, all essays from paulgraham.com Not the same thing, but I made a clone of pg’s website which can be used for exactly that: https://github.com/shawwn/pg https://shawwn.github.io/pg/
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
My eighty year old father brought up OpenAI unprompted a few months ago. At this point it’s hard to find anyone who hasn’t heard of OpenAI.
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by sillysaurusx 4mo ago
I wonder how the stock markets will react tomorrow. I know someone who turned $6k into $150k by buying options on war related news. The logic is that the markets will almost certainly go up, so bet big at a time like this. It sounded like a

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