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by whycombinetor 6mo ago
Previously posted in 2022 as Obsidian Canvas before being open sourced in 2024 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34066824
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by whycombinetor 8mo ago
"Free encyclopedia service founder disparages competing free encyclopedia service" See also entry for "encyclopedia salesman"
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by whycombinetor 8mo ago
Now AI is summarizing your daily progress from your commits and AI is writing the planning docs (with HITL). And version control makes it a historical record of your planning process. Keeping detailed planning docs doesn't take your wh
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Olympics.com cookie acceptance button text: "Yes, I am happy"(olympics.com)
3 points by whycombinetor 8mo ago|2 comments
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by whycombinetor 8mo ago
As a person who wants to consume LESS human slop in my news feeds, this seems like exactly the wrong direction.
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by whycombinetor 8mo ago
Yea, this project gives less "my contract partners will benevolently read my diary after I die" than "enabling and incentivizing my closest friends to hold a vote to redistribute all my assets amongst themselves"
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by whycombinetor 8mo ago
Every local tree listing that I've clicked is incorrect. I'm guessing bad municipal data. But this seems useless if it's all wrong.
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by whycombinetor 10mo ago
It sounds like AI summarization tools would be beneficial. You can just have the conversation, not fill out any forms afterward, then your partner can either watch the recording or read the AI summary of the relevant customer needs from the
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by whycombinetor 10mo ago
Are other phrases of the form "ending ____ness", where ____ is a racial qualifier, also acceptable, then? Someone using that term could similarly argue that they're not advocating for the eradication of ____ people - just the
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by whycombinetor 10mo ago
It's a poor metaphor. Real tolerance necessitates intolerance - see Marcuse. What is a browser going to do, send malformed HTTP requests and name-and-shame any server who refuses to respond? Servers vs. browsers is not the same type of
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by whycombinetor 10mo ago
What a bizarre bait and switch. Starts talking about browsers allowing malformed HTML and uses that to draw conclusions about allowing certain types of people.
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by whycombinetor 10mo ago
What do you mean when you say building crud apps should be automated?
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by whycombinetor 10mo ago
Third party benchmarks like terminalbench exist. W.r.t code changes especially small ones (say 50 lines spread across 5 files), if you can't get an agent to make nearly exactly the code changes you want, just faster than you, that&#x
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by whycombinetor 10mo ago
Would you mind sharing a motivating use case for those of us who don't think S3 is complicated or unreliable? Doesn't S3 already include HTTP upload capability? Are ML engineers really avoidant of basic operations like "HTTP
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by whycombinetor 10mo ago
This is the first time I've seen an ad presented as a bullet point in a list of otherwise-salient bullet points. Nefarious.
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by whycombinetor 10mo ago
Is it? The article is exclusively about federal income tax - spefically the variable part that you have to calculate yourself, not the constant % that's automatically withheld from your paycheck (FICA).
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by whycombinetor 10mo ago
Pedantry: the article claims "Paying taxes is a universal experience", but only 60.4% (2024) of American households pay income tax.
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Ask HN: Who else got pwned by the Next.js RCE?
12 points by whycombinetor 10mo ago|6 comments
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by whycombinetor 11mo ago
Don't all the major coding agents have CLI mode now? Cline CLI. Opencode CLI. Codex CLI. Gemini CLI. Claude Code CLI. Etc.
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by whycombinetor 11mo ago
I recently asked grok-code-fast-1 to read the SST OpenTUI readme and docs (gave it the github link), and to write an implementation plan for an OpenTUI usage mode for my Rust CLI stdin/stdout app. It fetched the readme. Fetched a coupl
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by whycombinetor 1y ago
I'm sure the patrons at dive bars love businesspeople walking up and asking you to listen to their startup idea or review their designs for a corporate rebranding.
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by whycombinetor 1y ago
Yes. For the same reason that the Yoneda lemma and the Cayley theorem are almost meaningless tautologies once you fully understand what they're saying. "Every small thing (of a certain type) is able to be expressed as a subcase of
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by whycombinetor 1y ago
Okay, if you want an aggressive animal that is interested in the fight, we can pick hippos.
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by whycombinetor 1y ago
This isn't about what humans have done at other times or in other places. The author wrote "At any time, in any location, under any circumstances", so the statement can be proven false with one single counterexample - e.g. a
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by whycombinetor 1y ago
Must not live in the Sundarbans
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by whycombinetor 1y ago
"We (humans) are the scariest animal in the woods. We’re the scariest animal anywhere. At any time, in any location, under any circumstances, if there’s a human present then that’s the scariest motherfucker in the woods." Has this
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by whycombinetor 1y ago
My American brain: "The legislature is a branch of the government!"
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by whycombinetor 1y ago
Without naming, there seems to be >1 VC-funded companies building "open-source" products, with paid-enterprise or other more sinister business models, where they claim to be open to contributions and have a full CONTRIBUTING.md
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by whycombinetor 1y ago
LMGTFY without the snark
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by whycombinetor 1y ago
Modern LLMs are also "essentially only trained to predict the next word, based on what they've seen on the internet."

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