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What are the new coding primitives?
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Write code like a human will maintain it
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Re:Halt and Catch Fire
on Saturday May 16, 2026 @09:27PM (#48165308)
Author here. I wasn't trying to imply that this is a commonly used phrase nowadays. You can see from the sources I linked, there is definitely history to HCF and even some truth to its phrase. But yes, it was mostly a joke
Re:Halt and Catch Fire
on Saturday May 16, 2026 @08:16PM (#48164982)
I mean, it is the thing that made me go down this rabbit hole. Need to watch it now!
Halt and Catch Fire
Re:Using Proxies in Web Scraping
on Thursday September 12, 2024 @06:37PM (#41526363)
IIRC there are ways to give an authentic-looking fingerprint to browsers used for scraping. But as you said, it's a cat and mouse game
Using Proxies in Web Scraping
Re:One Million Checkboxes
on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @02:30PM (#40802967)
Can't tell if someone is unchecking/checking my boxes or if it's lag and my own previous (mistake) checks coming back from the server lol
Gracefully Handling Third Party API Failures
Why Does Python Code Run Faster in a Function?
Features of Python
Re:Is this duplo train track under too much tension?
on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @10:29AM (#37405687)
> However, as a father, I also don't want broken duplo pieces, so I wanted to make sure the track is not too much under tension.
The asker severely underestimates the amount of force it takes to break a Duplo piece.
Guide to Fine-Tuning Open Source LLM Models on Custom Data
Optimizing Models: Cross-Validation and Hyperparameter Tuning Guide
What Does “2>&1” do on the Command Line?
Instance Segmentation with YOLOv7 in Python
Image Classification with Transfer Learning – Create Cutting Edge CNN Models
Training NeRF Models with Keras/TensorFlow and DeepVision
Implementing SVM and Kernel SVM with Python's Scikit-Learn
Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
on Friday April 28, 2023 @10:38AM (#35741793)
I made a "bot" server for myself, which is really just a server and app framework to host a bunch of scripts. The framework handles:
- Running bots periodically - Receives webhooks - Handles OAuth - Provides a shared DB - Posts updates to and receives commands from Slack
It's not very innovative, but super helpful. I love that I can deploy a new script so easily and already have all the tools I need so I can just focus in the logic. A few bots I have running:
- I run a site with thousands of articles, so one bot checks 10-15 articles per day for spelling mistakes, broken links, broken images, poor formatting, etc. Tasks to fix these are then posted to Notion. - Monitor Hacker News and Reddit for mentions of the sites/apps that I run so I can respond. - Sync calendars between apps without having to make them public - Gather financials and reports from various sources for bookkeeping - Monitor all of the servers we run and sync their status to Notion
Probably at least half of the automations could work on something like Zapier, but this is more fun and I get a lot more control over them.
Re:Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?
on Friday November 25, 2022 @12:50PM (#33744948)
We're running a deal for 38% off ($99 vs $159) for a yearly membership to StackAbuse.com. We have a number of data visualization courses, guided projects, and a pretty extensive course on Deep Learning for Computer Vision.