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Try asking llm to generate plantuml markup (use case, statechart, etc) which has some other diagram types in addition to mermaid markup. Then paste it into the free plantuml renderer. Works pretty well. I also experimented with bpmn markup
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> Preparatory refactoring > Current LLMs, without a plan that says they should refactor first, don’t decompose changes in this way. They will try to do everything at once. Just today I leaned the hard way. I had created an app for my
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I learned more about intellectual etiquette & inquiry from this book than from my teachers and professors. And I learned about the canon of european / western literature.
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What a wonderful article! Thanks for sharing! I’ve been thinking a lot about how research — as both leisure and serious inquiry — is making a comeback in unexpected ways. One sign of that resurgence is the huge interest in so-called “pers
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Side projects? What critical data did you have in them? Honestly curious. I am all in to move away from google, dropbox, etc.
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There are compromises that should have never been made. Just to please the eye. The Blackberry keybord worked fantastically well. It was killed because Steve beleieved that touch screen is always better. Then there are the knobs in cars rep
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I use my openai api key. Only my wife an I use the site. In my case the app sends the summary to my Obsidian vault as well and creates a new note, if I ask it to. I feel like we're in crazy times. I feel like I can implement whatever I
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In the past week, I used Cursor to make significant changes to a larger project, which led me to cancel a contract with a consulting firm. Then, almost spontaneously, I built a digital requests platform with thirty forms for our company—an
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Working with Cursor will make you more productive when/if you know how to code, how to navigate complex code, how to review and understand code, how to document it, all without LLMs. In that case you feel like having half a dozen junio
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Started reading HN nine years ago, when I screwed up my third startup the year before, was devastated, and needed some inspiration. And among the shared news were stories that inspired me again, that made me come back to this site every sin
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Wow, Kagi is just extremely good. Found old friends I couldn’t reach, found product infos where Google would pollute me with ads and garbage. This is awesome. Thanks for mentioning.
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Ever looked into Perplexity? Will check out Kagi.
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Abandoned Chrome years ago. Am using Firefox and never looked back. Same with other Google products: Replaced Gmail with Fastmail, Google Docs with Office365 (yeah, I know, Microsoft).
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All the world moves on to LLM based RAG like search engines (Perplexity and the likes), but in 2025 Europe starts to build a classic search engine to rival Google.
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Is this able to convert pdf flowcharts into yaml or json representations of them? I have been experimenting with Claude 3.5. It has been very good at readig / understanding/ converting into representations of flow charts. So I am
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I am confused. I got an M4 with 64 GB Ram. Did I buy something from the future? :) Now why M3 now? Not M4 Ultra.
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Apple creates excellent hardware but mediocre apps. Look at Reminders app for instance. Try to create a task. And then drag it to another list. Absolutely not a smooth experience. Feels like it‘s not a finished product. Now compare that to
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- Total Global Wealth: $454 trillion - Annual Global GDP: $105 trillion - Cost to Feed Everyone for a Year: $10 trillion The issue is not a lack of money but rather distribution, logistics, and political will.
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> due to "significant financial uncertainty" in higher education, This is directly linked to the new Trump administration's policies. The university explicitly cites potential deep cuts to federal research funding, new tax
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Yeah, lets sell cigarettes and blame consumers for health issues because, you know, capitalism is the best system we have and the burden is on the consumers.
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Do you go to grandma every day to eat calory packed food? Does grandma deploy dozens of scientists who design food so that it has an addicting effect? Dozens of marketing experts who confront you with images to consume the junk? Lobbyists w
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Big food corporations profit from ultra-processed foods that manipulate our natural systems. They design products that override satiety signals using calculated combinations of sugar, fat and salt to activate brain dopamine pathways. Their
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> I’ll define troubleshooting as systematically determining the cause of unwanted behaviour in a system, and fixing it. Or debugging and understanding the reason why a system isn’t behaving as expected. And pinpointing the part of the co
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Actually it has been compromised by Israel, by AIPAC, acting against American interests, creating negative sentiments against Americans across the Middle East and even globally just to support a messianic far right government in Israel.
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It was qctually Israel that wanted to destroy an ally of Iran and weaken Iran. Russia was only defending his ally. It was not driving the conflict.
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Can I use this to convert flowcharts to yaml representations?
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Many past technologies have defied “it’s flattening out” predictions. Look at Personal computing, the internet, and smartphone technology. By conflating technology’s evolving development path with a basic exponential decay function, the ana
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Deep Research is in its „ChatGPT 2.0“ phase. It will improve, dramatically. And to the naysayers: When OpenAI released its first models, many doubted that it will be good at coding. Now after two years look at Cursor, aider, and all the llm
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Trump is just openly saying what the previous governments have covertly been doing: Spying on their allies and enemies alike. Since the Snowden revelations we know that the US is spying on everyone. Not just citizens, but governments, allie
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> He thinks that white collar work will become more like factory work, with AI agents used for end-to-end optimization. Yeah, let’s replace every kind of human work (planning, counselling, engineering, research, plain everything), and le

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