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Re:Verified Spec-Driven Development (VSDD) on Saturday February 28, 2026 @03:18PM (#47199755)
Short take: replace TDD with BDD, and might add DDD as a spice. Otherwise this is a fairly good article.

Why not TDD? Since a lot of developers use LLMs to create tests today, plus a lot of the training data contains information on how to do this. Making it something that it either can figure out to do by itself or that it will cheat. Both equally bad.

A somewhat controversial take is that you should simply avoid writing tests which the LLM can produce by itself, similar to how we in the last week removed the agents.md file.

Re:1 Dataset. 100 Visualizations on Sunday November 24, 2024 @12:09AM (#42226040)
100 visualizations, and still room for more! Which really tells us how hard this is.

At least one or more alternatives I can come up with is to use the map more. Adding colors to the countries.

Another similar to #76, but show miniature to each heritage site.

Re:Show HN: Easy-to-use curl command to send email notifications on Thursday November 22, 2018 @01:39PM (#18511685)
It doesn’t support all characters typically allowed in an email, e.g., “+”
Awesome, easier to trick around and make metro UI like web design.

Though I think this could be easible compiled directly from bootstrap, just by stripping rounded corners and gradients. Or is there some other new ingredient?

Survived? It is down now, and it was down when it hit the front page the last time… But true, I don't belive that it has started to burn or anything.