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This sounds amazing. Please share!
More testing is better, so far! I'm using the same red-green-refactor TDD idea, and having Claude use Superpowers code review and running Coderabbit CLI on it all before pushing to CI/CD, which also runs a series of tests (mostly security ones). Someone else posted that whenever something broke they would ask 'Why was it built that way?' to try to have the bot fix it's own coding patterns.. as well as adding a regression test to ensure it did not happen again. I also have it do dry-runs and then do live on one item before batching. Catches a lot of things! Oh, and insist that it RTFM's the API if you're using one.
Pandoc is awesome for this: `pandoc input.docx -o output.md` There's more you can do, with style sheets and so on, which you will likely have to dig into for the tables and multiple columns to come out the way you want. You can also extract media files from inside a docx file: `pandoc --extract-media=. input.docx -o output.md`
https://zensical.org/ I have no idea how the search works though!
Both are bad IMHO .. a senior human analyst who accepts a 2 sentence product description? What kind of weird reality is that coming from? I’ve had a client do that too, but it’s the analysts job to ask all the point follow-up questions so they end up with a proper requirements list. That ends up being multiple pages long.. feed that to the AI! I agree the AI as stated above has a bigger coverage, but it’s not doing a better job, it’s being just as lazy and adding a ton of filler to a lousy prompt. Yeah, this set me off. Great topic! Looking forward to reading the discussion. :)
Re:Ask HN: How do you reset an AppleID? on Saturday January 31, 2026 @07:36PM (#46842444)
You're welcome!
Re:Ask HN: How do you reset an AppleID? on Friday January 30, 2026 @12:56PM (#46827580)
Call Apple, in Canada the support number is 1-800-263-3394. In the US it’s 1-800-275-2273
Re: on Saturday January 24, 2026 @06:49PM (#46749006)
Hey, if you would be so kind as to fix all the PDF links to engineering details on your site as well as linking to the patent.. you might get responses.
Can you share some of these protocols? I’m curious as to how I should approach these same issues!

I like to think of it as “we didn’t fall out of the trees all that long ago, in evolutionary terms!”

You can get an RSS feed from https://bookfeed.io with authors you want to track. Been using it for years at this point :-)
Re: on Friday November 22, 2024 @06:45PM (#42218287)
Thanks, I will go have a look, much appreciated!
Re: on Friday November 22, 2024 @10:27AM (#42214561)
Does anyone know of similar apps for walking/hiking trails?
Thunderbird
I find that doing a FaceTime audio call and having them answer on the device.. the requesting screen sharing makes it work every time.

If you do a FaceTime video call they can screen share from inside the call.. but it’s more steps for them.

Ethernet and rsync… or an app like Superduper.
Great article, thank you. Much LOL.

How many usb sockets does it take to power a welder!?

Re:Ask HN: Advice for a new father? on Thursday February 08, 2024 @07:23PM (#39309725)
Set rules, not boundaries. What do I mean by that? When out for walks, we’d tell the kids that they had to stay on the path, they could go as far as they wanted.. as long as we could see them and they could see us. Oh, and keep a close eye on your parents., they are easily distracted. What happened? When they were 2 they went 5 meters.. by 8 years old they go to the curve in the path.. and come back to tell us we had wandered off again!

It was awesome. We never had to yell at them.. they had clear and simple limits.

That worked really well, but we had to learn the hard way not to set expectations we couldn’t absolutely control and guarantee. Let’s go have ice cream and the favourite place.. oh no. They’re closed.. meltdown. Let’s wander that way and see what we find.. much safer. Congratulations! Enjoy it!

Re:Ask HN: App to expand abbreviations across macOS apps? on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @09:55PM (#39297385)
That’s a cool idea.. something perfect for an LLM, as it needs context to be accurate.

You should be able to create a service wherein you select text and it swaps out predefined acronyms and then replaces your text.

It’s not a reliable book store either! Counterfeits, cheap reproductions, fake publishers, ai generated books, pirated content .. as well as co-mingled SKU’s. For physical and e-books!
Re:Ask HN: Science Fiction Starter List on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @12:06AM (#38705646)
Vernor Vinge - A fire upon the Deep, first in the Zones of

Thought Series.

Sarah Zettel - Fool's War

David Brin's Uplift saga

H Beam Piper's Fuzzy series

Paul Sellers for books and YouTube, a great introduction.

Lost Art Press has books and videos, Mortise and Tenon Magazine and online courses.

My feedback as a freelancer.. change the struggles to questions. Instead of "Lost revenue from unaccounted hours" make me think: "Have you lost revenue due to unaccounted hours?" In my mind this makes it clear that this web app can help me solve that problem.

The "& More" needs to link to something.. like a list of all the features you provide beyond the ones mentioned on the home page. Maybe link to the blog page for now? There's tons of great content there.

Does the app support Canadian currency?

Re:Show HN: Resonant – discover and search high quality blogs on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:10PM (#37768303)
Is there an RSS feed available for the home page or any of the categories?
See also Donny Dust's channel where they did a similar process. But he comes at it from the perspective of someone who knaps tools: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS7m6P1__HI
Re:Some Blogging Myths on Thursday June 08, 2023 @09:51AM (#36241893)
I’m curious.. what is it about her blog that makes you feel that way?
Can you give us a walk through of a session?

While I think I understand what is going on, seeing it in action will make more sense. Thanks!

I'd use it.. :-) Primarily i'm looking to compare a user list on a SAAS with a source of truth list to figure out which accounts to add/remove/change etc. Ideally i'd like to know which email address the user was setup with, whether they are using SSO or password to login, what permissions they have and when their last login was.
1Password for all the logins, 1Password Secrets Automation for all the infrastructure stuff.

Each user has their own vault of personal logins and related items, then various groups can have shared vaults with shared logins.

Using it with almost 100 people company wide.. working well so far!

Re:200-year old heat pump technology is back on Sunday February 19, 2023 @11:18AM (#34858857)
Not in Canada.. and this is the first I’ve ever heard of it. Mind you here we have a much much larger country to cover in infrastructure , so it’s cheaper to run above ground.
Re:Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @09:29AM (#34610908)
Please add links back to the source for each knife.

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