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What if the trend of open models being a few months behind the frontier continues to hold true?

Wouldn't it be nice if anybody could cure their cancer from home, all you have to buy is some time on the mainframe and send off an order to a chemical company

I also feel like state-sponsored inference is inevitable. Just like fiber and 3G, I suspect Asia will get there ahead of the west yet again.

I've accidentally come across some AI music on Spotify, most were pretty meh, but a few were good enough for me to favourite and even follow the artist because they seemed to have a knack for knocking out stuff I liked

I've tried creating AI songs myself with Suno and Minimax, the melody is usually pretty decent but the lyrics tended to be distractingly boring and cringe. I think there is a significant factor of style and taste there that makes is so that given what I imagine are the same tools, that artist is able to create things that I much prefer to my own

Out of curiosity do you think I'm AI? XD

Show HN: Du, honest – an APFS-clone-aware disk usage analyzer

https://github.com/cheapsteak/duh

I've tried pretty much every disk analysis tool (baobab, daisydisk, du), and found them to choke if1. you create a lot of worktrees in your workflow2. you use pnpm, uv, and Postgres 18 clone-based database branchingThey all think I used 1T+ of my SSD that is only 500GB, because they don't know about APFS clones or hardlinks, they think my node_modules or venv in each worktree takes up 2GB, even...

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Show HN: TBD, a Mac-native CLI-forward coding agent multiplexer

https://github.com/cheapsteak/tbd

Inspired by Conductor, dmux, claude-squad, agent-deck, and Git Tower## What makes it different:(Aside from GUI) A core tenet is -- everything a user can do manually, must be exposed via CLI for agents/automationBest paired with something that lets agents in different worktrees talk to each other (e.g. https://github.com/cheapsteak/agent-channels)## Background:I used and loved Conductor for...

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Re:Pre-Commit Lint Checks: Vibe Coding's Kryptonite on Friday January 09, 2026 @10:05PM (#46562362)
would PostToolUse be a better place to do it than pre-commit? (trigger on `"^(Edit|Write|MultiEdit)$"`)

for lint issues that are autofixable, the tool use can trigger formatting on that file and fix it right away

for type issues (ts, pyright), you can return something like `{\"hookSpecificOutput\":{\"additionalContext\":$escaped},\"continue\":true}"` to let the edit complete but let Claude know that there are errors to fix next turn

Re:How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM on Friday October 17, 2025 @09:39AM (#45616698)
I wonder if the start of the causal chain (or at least the intended audience) might be book publishers rather than people in Amazon
Re:Vibe Specs: Vibe Coding That Works on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @05:07PM (#44448842)
wrt checking the generated spec files in

does that not get a bit cluttered after a while? do you ever clean up old ones?

Re:Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:44PM (#42935893)
I'm predicting that Test-Driven Development may be having a comeback

English behaviour descriptions -> generated tests

Use both behaviour descriptions and feedback from test results to iterate on app development

Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @01:00PM (#42066418)
Telling people to stop being losers is a not winning strategy; might feel good, wouldn't do good.
The open source and free platform be able to handle the patchwork of regulations that are now in place that differ between city to city
Re:AWS Amplify Is a Grift on Monday April 10, 2023 @02:00PM (#35515248)
Curious what you've found to be reliable / would recommend?
Re:Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro on Thursday October 06, 2022 @07:59PM (#33115762)
> You don't let your phones sit on their chargers while at 100% battery, do you?

Yup guilty, I'm a bit neurotic about keeping things charged in case I need it later, didn't realize this affected battery life

TIL, thank you

Re:Google Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro on Thursday October 06, 2022 @11:21AM (#33109391)
How's the Pixel 6 holding up?

I've had battery discharge problems with the Pixel 4 and 5 just a few months out of warranty. Hope that's been fixed in more recent generations?

Re:Optimize your pull requests for reviewer-happiness on Monday July 26, 2021 @10:48PM (#27968085)
Wrote this a while ago and continues to feel relevant as I'm reviewing pull requests from newer teammates and staring at force-pushed commit trying to figure out what changed between now and when I last reviewed it

(Title in submission is the title I originally intended and submitted to freeCodeCamp. Their editor changed it to what it is now ("How to" and "keep your code reviewers happy"). I then edited it back to what I originally submitted. The editor then overrode my edit and reverted it back )

Re:Capturing Reality is now part of Epic Games on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @11:52PM (#26420404)
To save people a click

Perpetual enterprise local license dropped from 15k EUR to 3.5k USD

Lowest tier pay-per-input cloud credits dropped from 20 EUR for 8k megapixels to 10 USD for 14k megapixels

Re:WebAssembly Studio on Thursday December 31, 2020 @06:03PM (#25598238)
Curious whether source maps and breakpoints still work?
Re:GitHub Codespaces on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @10:49PM (#23099156)
Do you have link to the developer productivity analytics? Or is it stuck in video form at the moment? Very curious
>Better support for usage without Webpack/Babel/front-end build tools

It looks like it's reasonably easy to setup run-time JSX compilation by using a service worker with babel to intercept and transpile .jsx files. I imagine the performance tradeoffs would be similar to using Vue with string templates? Could be faster actually since you could memoize/cache in the service worker

Re:State of JavaScript 2019 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @10:19AM (#21835570)
How would you compare it with Create React App in terms of ease of use and build/dev speed for front end projects?
Re:State of JavaScript 2019 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @02:06AM (#21832679)
I've rarely seen a technology so eagerly embraced by both bleeding edge tech enthusiasts and also enterprise behemoths (granted, tech behemoths, but still)

Having API documentation that is guaranteed not to go out of date with your code. Having a shared standard for describing your endpoints in a machine-consumable way. Being able to automatically generate typescript types from any schema (correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think there's any tooling that would do the same for arbitrary REST APIs). Being able to get autocompletion when writing queries for free ^ Those were all things I didn't know I needed until I started using them, and like Typescript, it feels painful to go back to not having them

Re:State of JavaScript 2019 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @01:47AM (#21832593)
I had the same misunderstanding, thanks for pointing that out
The amount of money required to adequately do what the world wants facebook to do might exceed the amount required to fund the 3rd party org

If the org is not as competent as people wish it to be, the blame is somewhat insulated

Heads up that the article's first link to your site is broken

The link is showing up as https://sourcesort.com/interview/browserless.io instead of https://browserless.io

Re:Introduction to Svelte on Thursday August 15, 2019 @04:52PM (#20709534)
https://npmcharts.com/compare/react,vue?interval=7&start=500

Vue adoption does seems to be tapering

(Naively looking at download counts)

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