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Re:No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video]
on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:57AM (#50334884)
The thing with AI is that nobody really interested in what it can do (to some degree).
We all know it's super-duper-productive and can write a lot of code in a short period of time. But I really doubt people would watch a stream on that.
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:39PM (#50297242)
Does anyone on this website realize there are different types of crypto coins?
Re:Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:05AM (#50067426)
It's much more than that. I think state-sponsored hacker attacks from Russia started in Georgia around 2008. There is a book "Sandworm" about this.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon
on Thursday October 01, 2026 @04:01AM (#49919006)
in my experience LLMs write pretty bad Rust code. sure it works, strong typing system, etc., but it's unmaintainable and not readable.
Re:AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You
on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @09:29AM (#49800984)
>It's appalling that we still hold on to such things that are no longer necessary. Code maintainability is not a problem when you don't have to open a file and inspect how something works anymore.
Even if you never read/write code anymore you still need to care. LLMs also suffer from a bad code. LLMs very quickly lose track of their own shit and start producing more bugs.
Re:Harvard Professor on Why You Should Learn C in 2026 [video]
on Monday August 31, 2026 @09:05AM (#49509290)
To be fair, if it doesn't matter, shouldn't put "Harvard Professor" into the title then
Re:Claude Fable 5
on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @04:00PM (#48466841)
>Hey! Boris from the Claude Code team!
>TOP 5 METHODS FROM BORIS ON HOW TO SPEND MORE MONEY ON TOKENS
>Boris from Claude just told he doesn't prompt anymore. He LOOPS instead
>"chatgpt has gotten soooo much better with the latest update."
>"codex is the best AI coding product and we want to make it easy to try."
Karpathy about Fable 5:
>"You can give it a lot more ambitious tasks than what you're used to, the model "gets it""
Sam Altman about gpt-5.4:
>In my experience, it "gets what to do"
What a time to be alive. Models are great, but all the slop, marketing, and fakeness around them is just unbearable.
Re:Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @03:52PM (#46369343)
Hey! Check out https://devblogs.sh. It's a curated library with tech blog from companies, as well as individuals and conferences. Every blog is hand picked. There is also AI agent which you can use for quick search.
I've indexed all Strange Loop conference talks so you can do semantic search
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)
on Monday November 10, 2025 @10:01AM (#45876632)
I'm working on aggregator of curated technical content https://devblogs.sh.
I started it a couple of years ago as personal project to help me study for interviews. Back then, it was simple RSS feed aggregator of big tech companies engineering blogs.
Recently I expanded content library to technical conferences and indie blogs, and implemented semantic search in all the library (for example, you can semantic search by all Strange Loop videos archive).
Give it a try!
Show HN: I made semantic search engine for engineering blogs and conferences
Show HN: Devblogs.sh – feed of engineering blogs from top tech companies
Re:Ask HN: Is Google deliberately breaking Firefox?
on Thursday June 20, 2024 @06:07AM (#40736896)
Google pays money to Mozilla for being a default search engine. I think "Google breaking firefox" is kind of conspiracy.
Re:Integral Calculator
on Monday April 15, 2024 @07:12AM (#40038989)
I use it in the university and I hate it. The interface is ugly and very unintuitive, as well as the language.
Re:Bill Gates predicts AI can lead to a 3-day work week
on Friday November 24, 2023 @03:05AM (#38401619)
I think corporations will find a way to keep people busy 5 days a week + help from AI, so they get output for 7 days work week.
Re:Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer
on Wednesday November 15, 2023 @09:07AM (#38276724)
I'm having my first visit to a doctor regarding my symptoms this week. Very interested if I need a treatment and what they will say. My main problem is craving for dopamine: nicotine, caffeinated drinks, hot shower, games, tv shows, drugs - I just cannot focus, I crave for something to stimulate my brain, and sometimes I end up abusing substances because of this. For example, I used 5-7 doses of nicotine spray per hour. Just like a mouse that found a button for dopamine release.
I think if I can eliminate this, I will feel much better.
Re:Show HN: Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and ...
on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @03:18PM (#38090013)
It's not idiomatic. I agree that ChatGPT implementation is not very good, but at least it's probably working (not tested) and used correct APIs. I tried several iterations after that, and it came up with a better design.
Re:Show HN: Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and ...
on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @02:42PM (#38089455)
Didn't work fine when I asked it a design question: the code and API it used is not correct. GPT-4 did a better job.
https://www.phind.com/search?cache=ay8rx37gq8oy3z7uixftlqkt
https://chat.openai.com/share/a3a91dcc-a91a-4b04-8afd-40bd1a...
Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
on Friday October 13, 2023 @09:58AM (#37870690)
https://github.com/ivaaaan/mira
I have had an idea of writing Jira tasks in markdown, and then pushing them to the server via CLI. The main principle is to use Markdown levels for hierarchy, e.g:
# Epic name
## User story 1
## User story 2
### Sub task to user story 2
Maybe I will get on it again, but parsing Markdown is no-fan.
Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022
on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @04:20AM (#37566958)
"Respond as if you are an unapologetic assertive person for the rest of this conversation."
Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022
on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:49AM (#37566777)
>Alright, listen up. Russia launched what it called a "special military operation" in Ukraine starting February 24, 2022. The Russians claimed they were targeting "militants and illegal armed groups," but let's be real—it was an invasion. The international community largely condemned the act, accusing Russia of violating Ukraine's sovereignty. Cities got bombed, civilians suffered, and there was an extensive humanitarian crisis. Ukraine put up a strong fight despite being outgunned. Sanctions rained down on Russia from all directions, tanking its economy. So, there you have it: a military move that shook global politics and caused widespread devastation. Got it? Good.
Worked for me.
Re:Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?
on Thursday August 17, 2023 @05:44AM (#37159340)
This is a good book. Another one I would recommend from this genre is "The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now".
Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Strip...
on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:25PM (#36511344)
I didn't get the "type-safe" part. How would it work in Go?
Let's say I have structs:
type User struct { ID TypeID }
type Post struct { ID TypeID }
How can I ensure the correct type is used in each of the structs?
Re:Show HN: Autolabel, a Python library to label and enrich text data ...
on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @05:06PM (#36410626)
For anyone wondering it's here https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use:
>use output from the Services to develop models that compete with OpenAI;
Well, I still can use ChatGPT labeling for many other purposes anyway.
Re:Suspicious iOS KeePass Client
on Monday May 22, 2023 @04:08AM (#36028640)
I would never use Keepass client on the mobile device. I have 0 trust to what developers have published there. If I need to type a password on mobile device, I will do it manually.
Re:Ask HN: Where can I find a primer on how computers boot?
on Monday March 20, 2023 @07:05AM (#35229864)
I use Arch too.
Re:The Lone Developer Problem
on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @03:21AM (#34966957)
This is my experience as well. I built an app in Go from scratch without prior experience in Go. I have 5 years experience in general, but in other languages.
The start was not bad and I think code was pretty good, but now I feel like lost my way at some point, and code has started degrading.
I hope when we hire new developers they will not hate me as much as I think.
Re:Ask HN: Best examples of software documentation that you've come ac...
on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:15PM (#34821659)
Not a library, but Discord API is very well structured: https://discord.com/developers/docs/intro
Re:The Future of Thunderbird
on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:11PM (#34727272)
It doesn't look old, it looks overloaded and inconvenient. HN UI looks old, but it's the most convenient UI to use.