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Re:Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX on Saturday August 29, 2026 @05:50AM (#49488408)
I code using Codex or sometimes ClaudeCode.

I use Zed to review the code.

CLI is great for most things. Some times, when I am reviewing a PR, I just tell Codex to do a diff between source and target branches in PR, and generate a HTML report. Then I read that, and also review relevant pieces of code in Zed.

I tried using Cursor, many of my colleagues use it, but stopped using it due to clunkiness. And of late, even in there, many of my colleagues use agentic coding. Instead, I prefer the snapiness of CLI (Codex coded in rust, takes less memory per session) and Zed (also coded in rust,) and blazingly fast. Zed is the new Sublime Text if you will.

> “There was never a $BETR without @vishal_better. That demands respect.”

and

> “(Lewis’) thoughts about cost savings were good. His ideas about innovation were not,” Garg argued. “It’s so much easier when we’re this close for someone to come in and say that they could have done better.”

The user of better for Better, had me chuckling in these parts.

Overall, I think, we can safely say that Better has definitely seen some better times.

> I feel like I owe it to the people who participated to keep it online forever. Also as a document of history.

Oh! So its your website. Cool.

Did the money change hands, for this bet, in 2022? How do you ensure it. Or is it honor based?

Its surprising, how this key insight is lacking, even in the best of developers.

It happened fast, as you prompted it just the right way. Another person, who doesn't have all that context in the mind, would fail quickly.

For example I have decades of Software experience, but wont know where to even begin what OP did.

Re:Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision... on Saturday May 09, 2026 @05:55AM (#48073605)
Thanks for your explanation. I did not get it in the first read, and was too lazy to think, until saw your comment.

Just want to point out, that one is actually doing the experiment with a biased coin, then one must ignore all pairs.

e.g in case a coin which is heavily biased, say .9 H and .1 T. One should start with ignoring all the HH pairs, and start only at odd index. Lest, one picks a value like HHHHT (in the case the 2nd HH pair was not skipped, instead they greedily picked up the first HT, which will make the experiment HT biased).

Re:Lessons from 14 Years at Google on Monday January 05, 2026 @09:20AM (#46499021)
Yep. I too felt that. The insights seem genuine. But probably fell into the temptation to use LLM to structure. I feel increased cognitive load with numbered lists, thanks to LLM.
Re:Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @08:32AM (#45965637)
Well its easy to cause damage by messing up the `rm` command, esp with `-fr` options. So don't take it as a proxy for some great skill which is required to cause damage.
Yes, first thing, you must stop driving at crazy speeds. Good thing is is you already know what you need to do :)
I am a curious sort. Always look at bios. Came across yours, and reading your blog. Keep it going! :)
Re:A 10x Faster TypeScript on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @07:14AM (#43342011)
Go compiler tooklit works very well on all the OSes. That would be a consideration.
Re:OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment on Saturday December 14, 2024 @07:14AM (#42416573)
Also reached Master level at Codeforces,well before joining his engineering course: https://codeforces.com/profile/suchir
Re:Learning to Reason with LLMs on Friday September 13, 2024 @11:55AM (#41532382)
>What I mean is that when its generate a response, the computation happens on a snapshot from input to output, trying to map a set of tokens, into a set of tokens. Model doesn't operate on a context larger than the window

The weights in the model have the larger context, the context length size of data is just the input, which then gets multiplied by those weights, to get the output.

Twitter/X human verification workflow fail

I have been having an account since 2015. But Twitter (X) asks to 'authenticate you are a human', and the flow is buggy. Even if you pass 10/10 tests, it continuously shows a screen 'Something went wrong', 'Due to a technical issue, we couldn't complete this request. Please try again' screen.Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/PXsnRIAAnyone else facing this issue?

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Re:The man who killed Google Search on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @11:42AM (#40145745)
For me google search is still useful for weather, stock prices, flight prices, maps, also to reliably navigate to a website(e.g. of a bank).

But for all other (code/health/taxes/so many others) queries use chatgpt. For code occasionally need to go to API docs, if chatgpt (v4) hallucinates. Not very often, but does happen, if the requirement gets complicated, example involve some specific (older) versions of certain APIs.

Re:I Nearly Died Drowning. Here's What It's Like to Survive on Wednesday April 17, 2024 @04:42AM (#40061998)
I searched for Kadin on the page and came to your post. I was hoping to see a romantic end to their story. But that would have been too much Mills and Boon, I guess (sigh!). TBH large part in the middle does read like that, also the author reflecting on whether she has a crush on him. A very poignant long read.
Re:CUDA Is Still a Giant Moat for Nvidia on Monday March 25, 2024 @10:12AM (#39816573)
I wonder where does Mojo (new programming language by Chris Lattner's company) fit in all this? Their promise is to be a super-set of Python (like C++ was to C) and resolve all hardware interface issues.

I know its still in development. But curious to know if someone has played around with it for the kind of needs discussed on this page.

Re:To Delay Death, Lift Weights on Monday March 18, 2024 @05:07AM (#39741732)
You could start with farmer's carry, if you have some free space to walk in the gym. Lift two equal weights on each side, using both hands and walk for 1 minute. Start with easy weights and increase gradually, over a period of days/weeks to a point, where lifting and walking for a minute makes you really exhausted and by the end of the minute you are ready to drop the weights (but don't!).

Edit: Just be careful of back being straight and firm, while doing it.

Re:To Delay Death, Lift Weights on Monday March 18, 2024 @04:45AM (#39741593)
Yes, Peter Attia says this precise thing in his book 'Outlive' and also his podcasts. I stopped using the gripper after that.

I started lifting weights 1 year and 2 months back - whole body compound lifts i.e. deadlift, squats, bench press, overhead press - and results are phenomenal.

Before that had been doing body weight for a decade push ups/ pull ups/ planks, and for some reason thought it was sufficient for me. Only when I pivoted to these (lifting weights) after a chronic pain developed due to excessive running, did I feel the difference.

Overall lifting weights and counting protein intake seems to be life changing. The chronic pain also went away.

> The apple app indeed received it and promptly sent it off somewhere else. What's even crazier is that the apple app shows this info!

Did you try moving the crypto back to your Android wallet? Sometimes they do move to cold storage, or invest into DeFi schemes. It will be hidden in their T&C.

This is understandably shocking. The way I have chosen bitcoin wallets is searching for trusted brands in the space using Google, and going to their website and then installing the app.
Re:What a major solar storm could do on Tuesday February 27, 2024 @02:59AM (#39521359)
Great article. And also perhaps, should we always have the steering wheels in Cars even though level 5 FSD is reached?

Edit: If its not obvious, level 5 FSD will assume permanent availability of communication, GPS, sensors etc to be working at all times. So having a steering wheel backup for critical unforeseen situations should be a good redundancy and safety measure.

Re:Mourning Google on Monday January 22, 2024 @05:08AM (#39087975)
Just wanted to thank folks, who helped me cross 500 Karma points :) ... It may not be a big deal for you all. But it seems to matter to me.
Re:Mourning Google on Friday January 19, 2024 @09:34AM (#39055914)
Good post. But it ended as soon as I was sinking in deep to read it. Not blaming, just felt it ended abruptly.
Re:Cloudflare lays off new hires on Friday January 12, 2024 @09:11AM (#38968120)
For those who don't have access to tiktok here is a tweet which has the video embedded: https://twitter.com/SMB_Attorney/status/1745609324544536778
Re:Tell/Ask HN: HN WebSite is/was down. I'm curious why? on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @09:22AM (#38612417)
Thanks to hckrnews.com site for such times. You can at least read the top articles directly.
Re:Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board on Thursday November 30, 2023 @02:10AM (#38470606)
> We are pleased that this Board will include a non-voting observer for Microsoft.

Satya will know henceforth the happenings and don't want to be shocked again like this.

Re:I deeply regret my participation in the board's actions on Monday November 20, 2023 @09:44AM (#38349000)
If we assume Ilya is speaking the truth and not the initiator of the coup, then the question is who initiated it?
lol... this was more like Dwight did a coup and Michael Scott was forced to.
Re:Sinead O’Connor has died on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:29AM (#36891518)
Yes, I was thinking it's not available in my region.

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