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Re: on Thursday April 23, 2026 @10:14PM (#47884700)
got frustrated with the bloat and the tui shenanigans of other coding agents so i made my own. releasing into the world so i can install for work and get made fun of
Re:AI's Music Taste on Saturday March 14, 2026 @07:57PM (#47382666)
I had AI write a short review and give a rating to a wide range of songs, with some funny results lol
Re:Golb's Law of Laws on Friday January 16, 2026 @09:14PM (#46654641)
This blog post is very important reading ;)

Show HN: LLM-txts I created for developer documentation that does not have it

https://llm-txts.pages.dev/

github: https://github.com/abidsikder/llm-txtsI kept ad-hoc creating llm.txts in my personal LLM use for projects that don't have them so I made this to make it more automated for myself.Hoping to see if the community finds it useful, or can recommend a better tool for this and using long context LLMs that I've missed :P

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Re:Ask HN: NYC Community Chip Fabs? on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @12:29AM (#42113052)
Makes sense that creating anywhere near parity to current tech is out of reach for most people, that's unfortunate but was worth a shot I guess haha

Thanks for the link to tinytapeout! It looks great to actualize once I have a more concrete idea of a chip design

Simulations are the way to go for now I guess, the most interesting part of this exploration is trying to just create strange ISAs I suppose, so it will be nice to iterate faster in the software plane before going to physical

Ask HN: NYC Community Chip Fabs?

I'm interested in experimenting with designing a CPU and GPU, so I was curious what my options are for manufacturing and iterating on this kind of thingFor physical manufacturing, is there something like makerspaces or community biotech labs https://www.genspace.org/ in NYC? I ask about NYC cause that's closer to meOr is simulation the only real way to go as an individual who is...

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Show HN: Math I'm creating, Space Numbers

https://github.com/abidsikder/space-numbers

Hi HN!I had a math idea whose thread I've been pulling on, and ended up creating this concept of Space Numbers. To read about it, see the pdf at the linked repo: https://github.com/abidsikder/space-numbersI'd appreciate feedback and ideas about the concepts, as well as further mathematical topics to take a look at that might be related, thank you all!!

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Re:Ask HN: Creative Coding Communities? on Sunday October 30, 2022 @06:44PM (#33399764)
That's a great one, especially for code ideas
Re:Ask HN: Creative Coding Communities? on Sunday October 30, 2022 @06:42PM (#33399748)
Thanks for mentioning the "demoscene" community! Had totally forgot that word and group but that's exactly up my alley

Ask HN: Creative Coding Communities?

Hi HN!I'm recently starting again [1] on visual creative coding (currently learning TouchDesigner), and I was hoping to find whatever online communities where people share work and their code so that I can contribute and learn.Do you know any online communities? I've found shader.zone so far but was also looking for any others.Thanks![1] I say again since I've done some Processing, moved to...

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Re:Serif Font Is Better for Coding on Sunday June 26, 2022 @03:20PM (#31887037)
Ah, I meant full serif, no monospace. So the letters are using the serif spacing. You're right in that the kerning/spacing is what makes the difference here, I find words in serif much easier to read than their monospace counterparts when coding.
Thanks, that's really helpful! I'll be investigating/reading the code base when writing my own, nice to be able to see some design decisions before starting on my own.

Ask HN: Advice for Racket ORM college independent work

Hi HN!I'm currently working on a rough plan for my college independent work this fall semester that is going to be focused on making an ORM in Racket.I'm interested in the "DSL" programming style of Racket since I've never tried such a thing, as well as building a large project written in a LISP utilizing all the features like macros, as I've also never tried serious LISP programming despite...

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I've been trying to improve my writing, so feedback on the clarity and style of my writing would be awesome, thank you!
Thanks, I'll check those out
> https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Materials-Management-Ste...

Thank you I'll check that out in addition to the Simchi book

> If you're highly technical and would like to learn how to abstract and solve some of the hardest problems in supply chain management, I would actually look into the field of Operations Research. It is basically mathematical modeling and optimization of real world operational and logistics problems.

I recently took the SIAM Math Modeling Works Challenge [1] and actually found that quite enjoyable, so Operations Research sounds great.

[1] = https://m3challenge.siam.org/

> In order for the pattern to appear, there have to be independent actors with cascading delays in the aquisition of information about the future, and a mismatch in the ability to stop production (decelerate) and start production (accelerate).

That makes sense, that's a cool connection between this bullwhip effect and the traffic wave.

> The cars closest to it stop extremely fast but then accelerate slower than they decelerated.

Aaah, so if I understand correctly, since it takes more time for them to get back up to their previous speed, each group of cars receives information to stay stopped for longer than they do to start moving again, and thus the traveling wave effect grows between each group of cars. I'm assuming however, this is the case for each group of cars acting as one unit, and there is no all seeing central coordination of all the car groups on the highway.

> The supply chain parallel problem emphasizes the importance of inventory. Running super lean on inventory can mean lower costs and higher throughput, but it exacerbates the bullwhip effect substantially.

I guess if you don't have that buffer for absorbing shock the bullwhip effect is stronger? I haven't read about what the lean production model is, so I'm probably just talking out my ass here, I'll keep this in mind when I'm reading that Womack 'Lean Thinking' book then.

Wow there are lot of these, I wonder how to sift between all of them.

This one [1] looks interesting just as a story

[1] = https://store.hbr.org/product/do-you-really-think-we-are-so-...

I like that the Wikipedia article has the history included before going into links to more specific topics.

This'll help give me one of those broader level overviews, thanks.

> If you’re interested in a good entry point, undergraduate business business programs often call that first class “Production and Operations Management” or a close variant.

I'll try that search term

> You’ll be able to get some terms to search for there, find a textbook and I’d bet anything that if you started plugging chapter titles into YouTube, you could find lectures.

I'll take a look at the syllabus for that Atahabascau course.

Thanks for that Rutgers SCM MOOC, I'll try it out along with the MITx one.

I'll also look up the syllabi for those programs, good idea.

Wow this looks fascinating, the U.S. Army is probably one of the biggest organizations with very direct consequences for failure in these logistics aspects.

Every once in a while I see HN users post these types of military publications, and a lot of them seem useful. How do you find these in the first place?

I suppose whether or not these books apply depends a lot on where my life takes me. But you are right about the concrete practice, just like with learning a new programming language, the only way to internalize it is to do a project with it that preferably has a real pressure and deadline, i.e. a job.

I'll have to see if I can try and apply the concepts no matter what industry I'm in.

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