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Re:Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4 on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:04AM (#50323800)
I just wonder why, from all the things you can vibecode, you would pick a database if you don't know the first thing about database design?
Re:Coding Is Not Solved on Monday September 28, 2026 @01:45PM (#49881652)
Having worked in software for healthcare, defense and finance I guarantee you we don't
Re:Prompting Claude Opus 5.5 on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:09AM (#49876204)
What's special it that noobs shouldn't use it?
Re:How much oil-market buffer is left? on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:33PM (#49718533)
Iran was still selling oil to China and others. Those now have to buy somewhere else, so it does affect our prices.
Re:I spent $220 on Google app ads. 60% of the installs were robots on Saturday September 12, 2026 @01:31AM (#49669166)
The article summary says:how a bot farm gets paid"

But that's not in the article and I don't get it: what's in it for these bot networks, how do they get paid?

Re:Xanadu Was Waiting for Agents on Friday September 04, 2026 @03:03AM (#49561428)
I agree with Gwern. And also Nelson kind of lost my respect after he spend the rest of his life bashing and complaining on how bad the WWW is compared to his ideas.
Doesn't matter. There's constant bad calls being made by referees. It shouldn't be, but their humans and make mistakes and it's part of the game. But only the mistake against the US got corrected.
Due to lack of demand or lack of production capacity?
Aren't all EU royalty related somehow?
Please read the discussion before you comment. Infrastructure damage is because of Ukraine's actions, not because of trump. We were discussing trump's actions benefiting Russia. Not saying it's on purpose, probably incompetence.
But it has turned out positive for Russia. Not enough patriot rockets for Ukraine, sanctions against Russia lifted and higher oil prices.
If most software gets written by AI in the future and AI becomes self conscious. AI might write more memory efficient software, so there's more RAM available for the AI to grow. Basically the black mirror plaything episode.
Re:Design 3D-printable parts by talking on Monday August 17, 2026 @04:40AM (#49327940)
Most LLM's are pretty good at generating openscad code already, so what's new here?
Re:Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code on Monday August 10, 2026 @02:57AM (#49240228)
My .bashrc has `alias claude='claude --dangerously-skip-permissions'`

Been using it like that everyday for about a year now and nothing bad has happened. I got backups and if it would fuck things up, it can probably fix it again as well.

AI is no longer the nail gun, that was auto complete with gpt 3.5. now it's like you say: "Build me a new roof" and an hour later it has materialized somehow. Not sure many carpenters would survive this.
I thought Wero is based on ideal 2.0, which in itself is based on payconiq. Which is quite different from th old ideal system
Re:Time Is Different on Friday February 27, 2026 @01:21AM (#47177183)
Also I wasn't excited about anything from that list, but I am very excited about AI.
Re:What Claude Code Chooses on Friday February 27, 2026 @01:14AM (#47177137)
I'm not sure the creators of tailwind share your definition of winning though. They recently had to let go of most staff since revenue has plummeted die to LLMs
Re:Gemini 3 Deep Think on Friday February 13, 2026 @05:16AM (#47001080)
Wait till we get to the point where we can ask AI to create a better AI.
Re:ASML firing 1700 people, mostly managers on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @04:20AM (#46792968)
I worked for a big Belgian technology company in the past. It was surprisingly lean in terms of management structure. Then Philips television, which had a big division not too far away, went bankrupt and a lot of those people got absorbed into our company. Within a couple of years the Philips people were able to transform the company to be very management/top heavy until nothing worked anymore.
Re:Skip Is Now Free and Open Source on Thursday January 22, 2026 @12:11AM (#46715574)
On the other hand, we're the only high paid workers that provide so much work for free through open source. Sure, there's lawyers and doctors that do the occasional pro bono, nut nothing on the scale you find in software development.
Re:Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @11:57PM (#46715498)
It's different in that diskprices doesn't make money for the OP, while it only costed the OP 15$ in claude credits to slopvibe a competitor.
Re:IKEA for Software on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:06AM (#46655961)
Yes AI solves this issue in the best way. It's really good at adding features that have already been built many times, but in a way that's customized to your needs and code style.
Re:IKEA for Software on Saturday January 17, 2026 @01:50AM (#46655893)
I don't think the ikea analogy works. Ikea is like a low code solution, which the article also mentions as being too limiting. If you can't design the closet you want in the ikea pax or platsa system, you're also out of luck and will need to get something completely custom built. Especially since the paper honeycomb Ikea furniture doesn't lend itself to modifications.
Re:Web development is fun again on Monday January 05, 2026 @03:14AM (#46496420)
To me, what sucks the most about programming is dealing with ecosystem issues. You want to write a little tool for personal use, but NPM starts acting out. Then you need to do something in java, which you don't use very often, and you get a giant maven error stack trace which you now need to try and understand. All of this frustration is gone since I use AI and I can focus solely on the thing I'm trying to accomplish.
Re:Jakarta Is Now the Biggest City in the World on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @12:55AM (#46054561)
Made me remember again how disappointed I was (food-wise) that time I went backpacking in the Philippines after backpacking in Thailand. Most days we had to choose between dry rice with tasteless fried chicken, or tasteless fried chicken with dry rice.
Re:Show HN: Gametje – A casual online gaming platform on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @10:06AM (#45888080)
There are certain Dutch dialects (e.g. west flemish) that would say gametje instead of gamepje. So you were not entirely wrong.
Re:React vs. Backbone in 2025 on Sunday November 02, 2025 @03:16AM (#45788687)
Easily find people to hire that know the framework and a huge ecosystem of pre-made components and utilities. No other UI framework comes close.

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