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Re:Deno Desktop on Monday June 22, 2026 @05:40AM (#48627930)
But that would be the same argument for using electron? Why use this and not electron?
I had the same issue with a different key on 2 separate macs. A 1 and a 2 year old MacBook pro. 95% of the time I'm WFH using magic external keyboard, which also has the same problem so I bought a new one. Keyboards are a massive problem at apple.
Re:What I've learned about writing AI apps so far on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @07:53AM (#42779561)
I agree. The author seems only happy with RAG, insert nail/hammer quote.

I think of contradictory examples where the article doesn't make sense: LLM Chat products are just the product of training data. Generative coding applications take 1 prompt and generate a lot of code.

What this article did make me think is the existing Chat UI in coding apps are too limiting. Some have image attachments, but we need to allow users to input more detail in their prompt (visually, or by having a pre-generation discussion about specifics). That's why I think product engineers will benefit from AI more than non technical folk.

Also, do you have resources that align with those opinions?

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025) on Thursday January 02, 2025 @04:29PM (#42579148)
Drone startup | Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack Software Engineer | 2 days/week in the office (London, UK) | UNITED KINGDOM citizens only You'd be working with other passionate product engineers who previously worked at Google, Amazon, Helsing, Darktrace and Improbable. You'd be working alongside me in building a modern, ground control station application for drones using web technology. For my project, we use React, Tailwind, drizzle-orm, SQLite, Postgres, maplibre, deck.gl, Node, Python, asyncio, FastAPI and more.

Examples of things we're building: low latency data and video streaming services for collaboration, or intuitive/modern applications for planning and performing drone missions.

If interested, please reach out to my temporary disposal email: [email protected]

We highly value passionate engineers with personal projects or technical hobbies. We also value collaboration: pair programming, discussing, teaching and learning from others.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024) on Monday December 02, 2024 @07:15PM (#42301811)
Drone startup | Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack Software Engineer | 2 days/week in the office (London, UK) | UK citizens only

You'd be working with other passionate product engineers who previously worked at Google, Amazon, Helsing, Darktrace and Improbable. You'd be working alongside me in building a modern, ground control station application for drones using web technology. For my project, we use React, Tailwind, drizzle-orm, SQLite, Postgres, maplibre, deck.gl, Node, Python, asyncio, FastAPI and more.

Examples of things we're building: low latency data and video streaming services for collaboration, or intuitive/modern applications for planning and performing drone missions.

If interested, please reach out to my temporary disposal email: [email protected]

We highly value passionate engineers with personal projects or technical hobbies. We also value collaboration: pair programming, discussing, teaching and learning from others.

Re: on Friday November 08, 2024 @06:15AM (#42085962)
I mostly mean the text editing functionality I guess. Visual Studio Code is the IDE I use
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024) on Thursday November 07, 2024 @07:49PM (#42082937)
Stealth startup in drones | Senior software engineer, Fullstack software engineer | currently remote, but potentially 2 days/week in the office next year (London, UK) | UK citizens only

You'd be working with other passionate product engineers who previously worked at Google, Amazon, Helsing, Darktrace and Improbable. You'd be working alongside me in building a modern, ground control station software for drones using web technology. For my project, we use React, Tailwind, drizzle-orm, SQLite, Postgres, maplibre, deck.gl, Node, Python, asyncio, FastAPI and more. We highly value passionate engineers with personal projects or technical hobbies, over leetcode engineers. Examples of things we're building: low latency data and video streaming services for collaboration, or intuitive/modern applications for planning and performing drone flights.

If interested, please reach out to my temporary disposal email: [email protected]

PS: I value collaboration: pair programming, discussing, teaching and learning from others. One positive signal is that I've gained 27k points on StackOverflow. Bonus points if you've demonstrated positive impact/glue in teams and organisations.

Re: on Thursday November 07, 2024 @02:39PM (#42080090)
Absolutely! Imaging setting a bunch of css styles through a long winded AI conversation, when you could have an IDE to do it in a few seconds. I don't need that.

The long tail of niche engineering problems is the time consuming bit now. That's not being solved at all, IMHO.

Re:Open Source Farming Robot on Sunday August 04, 2024 @09:06AM (#41153266)
This checks out with someone I know who grows their own plants, and me, who doesn't spend time growing plants. We're both not interested in the product.

Maybe it has a niche. Millionaires who want to go on holiday but still like to grow plants. It seems more like a gimmick.

I still use StackOverflow. Not as much as I used too, thanks to GPT, but still multiple times a day. What I find is that I spend less time on SO.

However, IMHO deleting questions you originally wrote in the past is hurting other users more than it is hurting AI training.

Other users cannot write similar answers to yours, because it doesn't add anything and they'd get downvoted or deleted. So if you hadn't written your answer years ago, others could've written something similar. Also, other users may have commented on your questions/answers. Their efforts would be lost/deleted if you deleted your questions/answers.

Thanks for your previous contribution to the community. But I would say the worst you should be able to do is remove your name/anonymise your posts, not just delete them.

Has anyone also used an interesting alternative, Elysia, and understand the differences? Both are quite modern, ergonomic frameworks.
Re:Airplane acquired by Airtable and is shutting down on Thursday January 04, 2024 @01:21AM (#38863734)
I haven't used it, but Tooljet is the open source Retool. Also, there's AppSmith and Budibase. Both open source.

https://www.tooljet.com/

https://www.appsmith.com/

https://budibase.com/

Re:macOS command-line tools you might not know about on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @06:05PM (#36499309)
There is an even longer and useful list on https://git.herrbischoff.com/awesome-macos-command-line/abou...
Re:Drizzle ORM Pricing on Wednesday June 14, 2023 @04:21AM (#36323034)
FYI for anyone who seems this, the website says:

> Just kidding, Drizzle is free and open-source. You can still make your contribution!

Re:GitHub Private Repos Considered Private-­Ish on Sunday June 04, 2023 @10:25AM (#36185836)
What alternatives do you recommend, and why?
Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good on Thursday June 01, 2023 @05:25PM (#36157552)
I've heard of syncthing a few times. I'm trying it now on Android + macOS, seems to work well.

What do you like about LogSeq?

Re:Notes apps are where ideas go to die. And that’s good on Thursday June 01, 2023 @02:38AM (#36148178)
I tried doing that (I pay for Obsidian Sync, and have a lot of plugins so I run only the bare minimum plugins I need on mobile), but app start time and syncing time on mobile makes this quite a bad experience. Instead, when I need to write something quickly, I create a temporary Google Keep note.

When I'm back at my laptop, I merge it into my Obsidian Vault.

Re:Constellation, bringing AI to the Cloudflare stack on Sunday May 21, 2023 @03:21AM (#36018687)
Whilst you're here, when can we expect D1 to be distributed instead of a single instance, and when will D1's API to be stabilised?

Thanks :)

Edit: I just found https://blog.cloudflare.com/d1-turning-it-up-to-11/ so I'll read that first

Re:Constellation, bringing AI to the Cloudflare stack on Sunday May 21, 2023 @03:18AM (#36018679)
Thanks for your reply.

I hit the CPU time limit a few months ago. I was paying for unbound and my account default was on. I guess I also hit the memory limit (128MB).

Perhaps we should reply on: https://community.cloudflare.com/t/long-running-webcrypto-ap... and https://community.cloudflare.com/t/options-for-password-hash.... Though I'm not sure if it will work, certain algorithms might take more than 128MB.

Nice article on optimising tRPC on serverless functions, thanks!

Some of my thoughts: This is a problem that manifests only if you use serverless. also, unfortunately the solution shown is service-specific. The code to split tRPC routers into multiple API routes is different for Next vs. Cloudflare Workers, and so on.

I've enjoyed engineering serverless applications over the past few years, but there are some weird challenges like this one. Other issues (I use Cloudflare Workers) is that it: - runs your code on V8 and not NodeJS, so you don't have the Node APIs (though it tries to add compatibility). - has CPU limit: makes it impossible to resize images or even hash passwords using bcrypt. - Running locally has been a pain (though emulators / miniflare have been developed in recent years).

I would suggest most projects should avoid serverless and stick with conventional technology.

Re:Constellation, bringing AI to the Cloudflare stack on Saturday May 20, 2023 @03:04AM (#36009961)
Its impossible to resize images or hash passwords on Cloudflare workers: the CPU time limit is too low.

I don't see how this makes Cloudflare interesting for AI. I suspect the same problems will exist.

This isn't so different than running onnx in a worker without constellation, and using KV directly?

The negative is it's such a closed ecosystem.

Re:ChatPDF – Chat with Any PDF on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @10:11AM (#35628385)
Please stop the spam and disclose your affiliation with this competitor.
Re:Text Only News Websites on Sunday March 26, 2023 @09:24AM (#35314169)
Genuine question: I wonder why you didn't think to disclose your relationship with the product? I notice this a lot, and it ruins my perspective of the product. Haven't you seen people start their comments with "full disclosure, I made this" type sentences.
Re:You Shouldn't Pay into a Pension on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @08:44AM (#35245388)
(Hi, thanks for reading, I'm the author).

In this case, the article uses the term pension to include "defined contributions", like in https://www.moneyhelper.org.uk/en/pensions-and-retirement/pe....

> Countries have various mechanisms to save for retirement and it’s wise to do so Could you elaborate on why is it "wise to do so"? On paper, these contributions is free money.

In practice, you don't have access until retirement and the law can change at any time. (See article for more disadvantages that are often overlooked or not mentioned.)

How can anyone forecast the economy in 40 years? It looks like people rightfully "avoid trusting the employer", but how can anyone trust the governments more than employers?

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