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Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:40AM (#50290822)
> On multiple occasions a family member's employees (or they, themselves) have had a DD delivery driver cut to the front of the line, interrupt the cashier, and shove their phone in their face. No words, no anything, just "here is the code/screen/whatever I need to show you to pick up the order". DD doesn't let stores rate delivery drivers so there isn't any recourse.

That's exactly what it's like in NYC. They just walk up with their huge backpacks straight to the front skipping everyone, turn around bumping people, show their phone, then stand RIGHT in the front as-if no one else exists. It's awful.

I'd love to contribute to a no-delivery store. Pickup or dine-in only.

Edit: Might have to re-think Pickup because that would just become a loophole for delivery. Maybe orders have to be placed in-store for to go.

I was ready to not like this because yet another AI slop tool, but it's actually pretty neat.
Re:The Future of CSS on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @02:26AM (#50176799)
i dont think functions belong there at all. i'd actually be pretty disappointed if they added them.
Re:AWS Lambda Web Functions on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:32PM (#50077327)
In this thread: "If my grandma had wheels, she'd be a bike."
Re:GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:13AM (#49908489)
How do you get 1 day of usage with Astra?

I create a lot, but I can make a full month with Astra on the current Pro plan. What are you doing to spend that much?

Re:Dots: Always-on agents on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:09AM (#49908438)
What do you build?
Who are your clients?
It's been like this a long time. Kickstarter was just a platform to test product viability and public response for the big guys.
Re:The deskilling of web dev is damaging our health on Sunday June 21, 2026 @10:37AM (#48619350)
I'd always been amazed over the years by how many people didn't even attempt CSS. They looked at it like an after thought. Reminds me of a favorite Archer quote: "I thought we skipped that step.", "Skipped a step... in bomb defusal...?"
Re:Developers don't understand CORS (2019) on Sunday June 21, 2026 @10:23AM (#48619243)
they probably weight documentation higher
Re:I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion on Sunday March 15, 2026 @12:16PM (#47388836)
Can't ride my horse and buggy in the city anymore.

Ask HN: Would you hire a "vibe coder"?

1. For the team leaders / engineering managers out there, would you hire someone that was a self-proclaimed "vibe coder"?2. What, if any, amount of education in programming-related topics (cs, history, languages, architecture, etc) should be required before entering the workforce?2b. Do you think a potential rise in "vibe coding" is going to make it more difficult for less experienced workers...

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Re:Ask HN: Predictions for 2025 on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @07:38AM (#42501539)
For real. It's always a headscratcher when I see these weird takes against it.

Amazon has been working with Anthropic which at the very least will create a much more comprehensive Alexa.

> expensive talking fidget spinners

Like Alexa, Siri, and Hey Google? Which are used A LOT and will only be used more when they're natural, smarter, and conversational?

Always a strange take.

Re:Ask HN: Predictions for 2025 on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @07:35AM (#42501516)
Hopefully React and Tailwind usage will fall off
Re:Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit on Saturday December 14, 2024 @06:54PM (#42420370)
> much investment and little return, and no obvious large-scale product-market fit, much less a superintelligence.

I'm always blown away when I see comments like this.

It just makes me think the people that say this either work for a competitor or simply haven't used their products.

The things that OpenAI and similar companies have created are literally revolutionary. It's insane. Pretending it's "little return" is a very strange opinion.

> we need more mainstream vehicles challenging the boring design "norms"

I'd argue that we need to start treating cars like the utilitarian objects they are and stop associating our personalities with them.

Re:CSS Classes Considered Harmful on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @09:23AM (#40985656)
It's unfortunate how many people misunderstand CSS today and how web applications should be structured.

Articles like this make me sad.

I really can't believe anyone bought one of these devices. It looked terrible right out of the gate.
Re:Ball: A ball that lives in your dock on Thursday June 27, 2024 @12:16PM (#40812159)
The sheep/ram was my favorite. Purple horns
Re: on Friday June 21, 2024 @10:12AM (#40749834)
Woof. Lots of strong opinions and misinformation in this thread.

backs away slowly

Re:Farfalle – Open-source AI-powered search engine on Friday May 17, 2024 @11:26AM (#40390939)
An uncached ChatGPT no-less :D
Re:Rabbit R1 can be run on a Android device on Sunday May 05, 2024 @09:58AM (#40264945)
Not surprising since it's just an Android app
Re:Old CSS, new CSS (2020) on Sunday April 14, 2024 @09:13AM (#40030849)
> in fashion again!

But it shouldn't be :(

Re:Ask HN: What browser are you using? on Sunday December 17, 2023 @10:46AM (#38673588)
Their manifest v3 enforcements on third-party extensions are problematic. I was trying to update one of my extensions recently that used a Google library (ironically) and had trouble finding a way to allow cousin libraries to be loaded.

It still hasn't been updated because of this.

Re:Ask HN: Does anyone here use Haxe? on Sunday December 17, 2023 @10:41AM (#38673556)
Correct

Ask HN: Does anyone here use Haxe?

I remember tinkering with Haxe maybe around ~2010. I was surprised to see it's still around and getting regular updates.I was (and still am, in some ways) against the idea of learning one language and trying to use it everywhere. But nowadays, there are so many transpilation and adapter systems going on that... everything is a bit fuzzy.That made me remember Haxe. Their goal all along was to...

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Re:Goodbye, Clean Code on Saturday December 09, 2023 @11:09AM (#38583043)
Especially since it was a refactoring, it's generally better to handle those in stages if you're working with a team.

There are lot of ways/patterns for solving the same problem... but tearing apart an existing interface being used by others isn't a good start.

The best part about abstraction is that you can modify the underpinnings to be more flexible without hurting the rest. A good step would be to create more flexible math functions underneath, like you're saying, and leave the rest alone.

Afterwards, there can be deeper conversations with the team about how they want the interfaces to communicate to provide an obvious facade but an abstract implementation.

I also made one a week or two ago. This one will swap out the video with an embedded player which generally skips ads.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nhjphlheoepniijfpao...

Re:My favorite coding question to give candidates on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @10:15AM (#38264247)
Job interviews like this are terrible. It's a shame he's put so many people through it.
I think a lot of it is the major influx of people that joined the industry in the mid-2010s that never had to write code before. They started on fancy UIs so that's what they know.

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