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453. Show HN: I Turned DOOM into a Transformer

https://github.com/mottopanikeiku/doomformer

Instead of trying to run DOOM on things, I have instead decided to use DOOM (many, many, many doom games actually) to create a transformer. For a lot of the math required I essentially had to use DOOM game mechanics and voodoo dolls (DOOM is turing complete btw) and exchange them with the actual operations, essentially creating an alternative to NumPy (a 65000x slower one). Thus, I am proud to...

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470. Ask HN: Is it worth reading The Art of Computer Programming now?

Just interested in peoples thoughts. It's been a long term ambition of mine. But now I'm now wondering if it will just be a waste of time.I will probably never really need an in depth understanding of algorithms given I can just prompt "make this efficient". But if you don't understand them, how do you know the LLM is doing the best it can?

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476. Ask HN: How to Keep the Edge as an Engineer?

Hi, for the past few months I've been thinking a lot about my work as a software engineer and how I'll be able to provide benefits to companies I work for in the coming years, given the fast pace of progress of LLMsEvery time I think I found an edge that will help me stay I relevant, AIs seem to get really good at it in a few weeks/months. I'll give a few examples.When gpt-4 was really popular...

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480. Show HN: Open-Source Searchable Job Board for HN's Hiring Threads

https://flaviaouyang.github.io/hackerjobs/hiring/

For a long time I've had a small process that pulled the monthly hiring threads and parsed them for my own use. HackerTube and HackerBooks inspired me to give it a proper UI and open source itIt's a static Astro site on GitHub Pages, MIT licensed.I wrote about the process here: https://www.flaviaouyang.com/blog/hackerjobs-building

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