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It is very noticeable. Funny how it jumps right out when you've seen AI slop often enough. #5 is good and looks "real", whatever that means any more.
It was incredibly refreshing to read an honest story, warts and all, written by a human. And equally infuriating to read a comment about it written by AI.
There are many tells aren't there? There was clearly hard human work and experimentation here, but it's a shame the OP let AI do chunks of the writing. Once you see it, it's much harder to take the post seriously.
Posted by
20wenty on Friday May 22, 2026 @01:52PM
from the show-hn dept.
https://coremem.app
CoreMem lets you build collections of context, called a mem, and share it with any AI agent via URL, a Chrome extension, MCP, Cursor/VS Code plugins, a skill, and more. Instead of re-explaining your project or goal when you switch agents or start new sessions, CoreMem keeps your context centrally organized so that any AI tool can read it.This originally started as a CLI I built that kept pieces...
Posted by
20wenty on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @05:54PM
from the github.com dept.
"Google has made it really easy to create api credentials for own use, just follow these few steps..." As someone who's been through that particular gauntlet a few times recently, I got a chuckle from the sarcasm.
I second this -- I just found the Ben Eater series a month or so ago and put together his computer clock over the holidays. It really helps you understand clock cycles, logic chips, etc, and is a good foundation for the 6502 kit you build later in the course. And learning Assembly before BASIC is the right learning path IMO, if only to understand how CPU registers work at the electron level.
Posted by
20wenty on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @10:21AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://github.com/jbnunn/Invaders
I've had a goal for the past three years to learn Assembly language. This December, I finally put some real effort into learning the language. I followed the tutorials in Oscar Toledo G's "Programming Boot Sector Games" and used Gemini as a tutor to help explain the concepts I was stuck on. It was tempting at points to vibe code some of the trickiest pieces, but I found resisting the temptation...
I have never made it to the end of a Wolfram post, or a David Foster Wallace book. I'm envious of people who can read AND understand these tomes.
Posted by
20wenty on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @12:02PM
from the jeffnunn.com dept.
Do you have details on what "optimise for token usage" looks like in Cursor? Or is your point more about how Cursor manages the context window?
Thank you, thought I was going crazy. Maybe this is the new thing, adding grammatical errors so people won't think the content was written by AI.
I like the idea but it will be hard to build a moat -- if that's something you care about. How about making it more general? "touch grass", "feel sand between your fingers", "hug a tree" ...
I had more about a drawbridge but it was really too much :)
The damage is done. You can't overthrow the king (whether you pledge fealty to iTerm2, PowerShell/WSL, Putty, Hyper ... ) if you have to sign up to get past the castle gates. And in the two years it took to remove the signup, the townsfolk have realized their kings are good enough for what they want to do anyway.
Same opinion on 1Password's great service. I've found them to be responsive and accessible anytime I've needed them. I'm not seeing all the bugs and issues others are reporting, but I have noticed a couple of odd UI changes lately that feel a bit like a product manager is bored and looking for work to do.
For the most part this post was easy to read, and I could feel the collective excitement of the team. I came away feeling like I'd learned something and ready to try it myself. The only time the post gets a little fuzzy is "...store the quantized parameters in a selectable data type, where that storage data type is the same data type as the “computation type” of the mode". I assume "selectable datatype" is the float size of the quantization?
This is like looking at a painting and thinking "what's the big deal, I could paint that." I'm guilty of the same, and yet, I've never painted.
You're not necessarily wrong, but you may also be throwing stones from a glass (Substack) house. Barely made it past the fold before I was nagged with a Substack popup.
Say what you want about him, but George is one of the few people I know that can actually go a mile wide and a mile deep into any field they choose. And he does most of his digging live on stream, so he makes an easy punching bag. Do I think he'll successfully raise a $400M round on a $2B valuation? No, something else will distract him before that - but I'm going to enjoy watching him (and pulling for him) regardless.
That's Insider for you. They're often more concerned with doing exactly that than doing good journalism.
Finally, an interesting article on Insider that doesn't feel like a hit piece.
Reminds me of the George Costanza line from Seinfeld,
Jerry (on Keith Hernandez): Yeah, he's a real smart guy too. He's a Civil War buff.
George: I'd love to be a Civil War buff. What do you have to do to be a buff?
Posted by
20wenty on Thursday April 13, 2023 @08:38AM
from the aws.amazon.com dept.
I believe the original comment was to show some of the sample commit messages in the repo README itself, no?
Posted by
20wenty on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @07:33AM
from the interestingengineering.com dept.
Posted by
20wenty on Monday October 31, 2022 @08:30AM
from the independent.co.uk dept.