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When docs become performance art, everybody loses (2025)(passo.uno)
2 points by theletterf 6d ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Microsoft Comic Chat (1996) for ChatGPT(github.com)
3 points by theletterf 10d ago|0 comments
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Project NOPE: An observatory for human – AI relationships(nope.net)
3 points by theletterf 15d ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How do you kill time while LLMs work for you?
2 points by theletterf 16d ago|3 comments
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Tech Needs Humanists More(passo.uno)
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by theletterf 19d ago
Logged in to Archive.org profile, where you're supposed to manage "subscription". The site lets you donate recurrently even when unlogged, obviously.
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Tech needs humanists more than ever(passo.uno)
6 points by theletterf 19d ago|0 comments
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by theletterf 19d ago
They do, but require that an incident is raised claiming fraud, etc. I guess they want to avoid misuse of this feature.
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by theletterf 19d ago
Not if Google Pay has been used as the transaction agent. It's not a Google Play subscription.
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by theletterf 19d ago
Just did. Not possible in Spain.
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by theletterf 19d ago
Well, you can't if you paid using a debit card, like I did. Silly me.
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by theletterf 19d ago
It clones the skills repo if not present and relies on the git last commit as the "version".
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by theletterf 19d ago
Be careful: paying with Google Pay is extremely easy and the default setting is monthly recurrence. If you're not logged in, the only way to cancel (as far as I know) is by sending an email, which is incredibly precarious.
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by theletterf 19d ago
We keep the skills in a repo, where an agentic workflow runs biweekly to check if their content drifted compared to the docs and opens PRs if they did. The repo is also a Claude plugin. The biggest problem is keeping skills up to date acros
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Gompertz–Makeham Law of Mortality(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by theletterf 20d ago|0 comments
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Writing Docs in LLMese(passo.uno)
2 points by theletterf 20d ago|0 comments
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by theletterf 21d ago
Ah, a fellow thalassophobic. Yeah, no, I'm not going to swim in the vast ocean at night, thanks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassophobia
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by theletterf 25d ago
Docs engineer here. Nice to read about writing style: would you consider creating a writing benchmark at some point? I guess y'all are painfully aware of the load-bearing issues (pun intended).
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Model Intelligence, Cost, and Speed(model-pareto-frontier.pages.dev)
1 points by theletterf 26d ago|0 comments
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Write the Fucking Manual(wtfmbook.com)
2 points by theletterf 27d ago|0 comments
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by theletterf 1mo ago
Seeing all the questions in this thread, I strongly recommend Dachary Carey's post on the topic of agent-ready docs: https://dacharycarey.com/2026/02/18/agent-friendly-docs/
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South Korea's Child-Hating Society Locks Playgrounds, Silences Children(chosun.com)
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by theletterf 1mo ago
I think it's easier to serve those bits as Markdown to agents only through content negotiation.
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by theletterf 1mo ago
Agreed on the first experiment, that's why the post says it hit the ceiling. The others are not saturated. I'd love to find a way of making the first experiment more discriminating.
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by theletterf 1mo ago
Code doesn't explain best practices, architectural concerns, and so on. Best combo? Docs + code.
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by theletterf 1mo ago
Indeed. Another thing worth exploring is how much the position of instructions matter; Claude claims to read docs as a whole unless they're very large, though it might be that it only grabs the first lines of a doc sometimes, in which
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LV-ROM(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by theletterf 1mo ago|0 comments
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by theletterf 1mo ago
I wonder if there's room for a Linux distro á la Microsoft Bob. :) http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html
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Does whispering to agents in docs help?(passo.uno)
2 points by theletterf 1mo ago|0 comments
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by theletterf 1mo ago
On one hand I'd love to browse the site; on the other, my PTSD would prevent me from doing so.

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