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Re:Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @03:01AM (#49975156)
Look at meta, while they went from open to closed, they got better as time went on
I'm a big AI user, and have some minor experience training models, and follow some AI stories - but this is the coolest thing imo. The AI model/weights written directly on the chip!
isn't this the open source dream? Fork it and make it your own
Re:How the words we teach English language learners changed on Thursday August 06, 2026 @04:23AM (#49194004)
It's used in Australia. "who's keen for some beers?", "keen as", etc
Re:How the words we teach English language learners changed on Thursday August 06, 2026 @04:21AM (#49193997)
this is particularly bad
Re:How the words we teach English language learners changed on Thursday August 06, 2026 @04:21AM (#49193994)
You're talking about ignorant teenagers. Is there more proof that large groups of people don't believe languages change over time?
Re:Welcome to Agents Week on Sunday August 02, 2026 @04:38PM (#49148075)
I am surprised that anyone would phrase a planning question in such a way. i.e. "What do _you_ need?" to the AI.
Re:OpenAI Usage Reset 4th time in 7d on Saturday August 01, 2026 @01:05PM (#49136207)
What was the product and niche?
What do you mean by 'completely sandboxed'? and why is setting this up painful?
Unfortunately, in the real world, if you try go for a c# job with java experience you'll run into roadblocks.
Re:Resetting Xbox on Monday July 06, 2026 @03:20PM (#48809261)
> I’ve made the difficult decision to reduce our team by approximately 3,200 ... This will include approximately 1,600 role eliminations today

> we are establishing a Chief Operating Officer with end-to-end P&L responsibility across content, hardware, platform, and services. Helen Chiang has been promoted to this role and will report directly to me

Seems tone deaf to do both of these messages at the same time.

Re:Ask HN: Where is our profession (programmer) going? on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @06:17PM (#48739997)
I'd love to see your prompts for this work. Both issues seem to be easily solved and minor - unless you're looking to one prompt every change.
Re:Ask HN: Where is our profession (programmer) going? on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @06:08PM (#48739922)
From my experience, BAs don't model the solution - they translate and document stakeholder requirements
Re:Your work matters – Build your schedule accordingly on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @05:05PM (#32931517)
That's a great quote!
There is definitely loads to fix and it does sound like the team was inexperienced but they were successful it seems.
Re:Launch HN: Spinach.io (YC W22) – Better daily standups on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @03:40PM (#32916762)
That's fair enough. I would imagine managers would like it though :)
Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @03:39PM (#32916752)
I just use Remix and use React in it's simplest form. Working for me so far but it might not work for big complex apps
Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @03:38PM (#32916734)
Or with Remix Run which is great
Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @03:28PM (#32916623)
Is Svelte still overly dependent on Rich Harris? He's great but that reliance put me off Svelte.
Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @03:27PM (#32916612)
Got a good example of business logic not being in a component? Looking to learn.
Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @03:19PM (#32916521)
Is it that they are global state to react but not to the programmer or his/her code?
Re:React I love you, but you're bringing me down on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @03:10PM (#32916428)
> There are always [] half-finished fix-the-world ideas conflicting with each other,

I work in a code base like this. People's suggestion? Introduce React!

Re:Launch HN: Spinach.io (YC W22) – Better daily standups on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @01:44PM (#32915179)
Sounds toxic-ish! Why pick on someone who isn't paying attention?
Re:Launch HN: Spinach.io (YC W22) – Better daily standups on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @01:43PM (#32915168)
"crush your daily standup" - I am not sure that will be appealing to audiences outside America (assuming the target is dev teams worthwhile).

If I knew the first few mins of a standup were going to be a round table like "what's your all time fav book?", I would just join late.

The worst tech team you've ever seen and yet they are generating 20 million a year? I think you should give them the respect they deserve and understand the limitations they have been under.

My thoughts:

* Get the code in source control straight away

* Get the infrastructure stable and up to date if it's not

* Get CI pipelines set up. As part of this, make sure the code is running through a static analyser. This will give you a backlog of things to work on.

* Organize an external penetration test to be carried out

* Investigate updating and/or consolidating the software libraries used (Jquery etc)

* Choose a page/feature to update on its own. Bring it up to date.

At this point, you should be in a much better state and you will have learned a lot.

Re:Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle on Sunday September 18, 2022 @08:37AM (#32887032)
FF throws an insecure warning so I can't check it out
Re:Ask HN: Who are the technically competent CEOs in tech world? on Saturday September 10, 2022 @11:21AM (#32791429)
> Managing a large company is not something a software engineer could do

That is essentially saying that people who are software engineers have only one set of skills.. which is just false obviously.

Re:Ask HN: Daily users of Mastodon, what do you use it for? on Saturday September 10, 2022 @11:19AM (#32791404)
Thanks!

Who gets the analytics from people's page views, browsing etc?

Re:Queen Elizabeth II has died on Thursday September 08, 2022 @05:53PM (#32772557)
I'll need to thread lightly before I get banned by Dang for not loving the british queen!

If we observed monkeys and saw that one was showered with gifts and jewellery their whole lives because they were offspring of two other particular monkeys.. we would chuckle at that. Not for being the strongest, tallest, biggest, smartest or best at something. Just for existing.

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