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If you can use a typed language, you want guardrails. Unit tests aren't enough you want integration tests with headless browsers if applicable. It can automatically catch many of its own mistakes earlier.
Be opinionated on your rules files for how you want it to organize the data and code (I built a scaffold template I use all over https://github.com/victusfate/scaffold, fork it make it your own)
If it edits tests you need to push back on why. I'm seeing it too often go to switch case vs simple inheritance. It's too slow sometimes for simple one line change.
Posted by
messel on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:26AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://boomerang-news.com
Got bummed out with ads on swipe left android news so I cooked up my own. Open source so you can see what was vibed up (and maybe why).
https://github.com/victusfate/boomerangAlso separated out the cloudflare friendly collaborative filter bits in case anyone has need of just that for their own projects
https://github.com/victusfate/ricochetBeen trying to push how far I can go with a dark...
Posted by
messel on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:20AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://voidhorizon.net
Vibed out over the weekend and built a multiplayer space game. It's uses the host + KV signals to coordinate shared state. The first version was a 2D rendered board, the latest iteration is built on 3djs and uses hubble space images as embedded backgrounds.There's proc gen midi music (optional).Reach out with any questions and have fun!
Posted by
messel on Tuesday March 12, 2024 @01:11PM
from the amazon.com dept.
Long time ycombinator news member sharing my latest book. It's designed for devs who can hit the ground running with python, and it's what I wished I had back in 2017 when I started building ML applications professionally for clients and startups.
The book source code is OS and available here
https://github.com/victusfate/HackersGuideToMachineLearningS...ps I used to share blog posts here 14 years back from victusspiritus
Greetings!
Long time ycombinator news member sharing my latest book. It's designed for devs who can hit the ground running with python, and it's what I wished I had back in 2017 when I started building ML applications professionally for clients and startups.
I leveraged chatGPT as an assistant for descriptions and ideas about ML models. The book source code is open source and available here https://github.com/victusfate/HackersGuideToMachineLearningS...
Posted by
messel on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @04:00PM
from the 812142374009.gumroad.com dept.
Yeah it's updated regularly with third party data + fresh crawlers. We do miss closures/relocations sometimes. We also sometimes mix up the content for place descriptions on multipage pages (saw that recently with a friends test recommendation for Peking duck, at a place that didn't carry it).
AP English - the last hold out for human intelligence
Bonus points if you tie this to a cryptocurrency that is "staked" by data owners (you and I). Sounds like a reasonable core idea to build on, good luck!
We do a ton of data plumbing at my current startup https://welco.me/ . Ps we launched our 2.0 app today
Welcome's a travel app (iOS currently) which helps navigate new destinations on the fly. You can leave tips, ask your friends for tips, skip boring stuff, or lock in your favorites to have Welcome sweat the planning while you wander and enjoy. If you go off plan, no biggie. The app adjusts to wherever you are and picks out the best venues.
Here's a writeup on Techcrunch with more details https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/11/welcome-launch/
Posted by
messel on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @10:24AM
from the show-hn dept.
I'd go with 1 brokerage, Index fund most of it, keep 20% cash for misc investments (ethereum). Hire a trustworthy accountant.
It's only money. Now you have some, congratulations. Get back to focusing on the things that matter!
I like to think of what you folks are doing as the evolution of universities which often lead to inverted outcomes (massive debt, no work).
How can I best get a friendly dev involved (he has shipped a c# VR game and worked a bunch of custom js scripts)?
Just thinking about how many simultaneous breakthroughs occur, and expertise in so many areas is mind boggling. In contrast there are slower periods/cultures too, ie hunter gatherer societies.
You could spend one life to become an expert doctor only to have all that knowledge made obsolete by time.
I believe I remember potty training but my parents said I learned at 13 months. I'm likely misremembering using a tiny plastic toilet in the bathroom from that age to 2-3.
I can almost certainly remember the daunting climb onto a full sized toilet between age 3-4.
Brilliant. Physical ownership is still a thing.
Focused on Information Theory in grad school at Stony Brook in 1996/97, and enjoyed Nam Phamdo's courses. Sadly after reading 8-9 pages I feel like much of this review is over my head now. The words make sense but the concepts are pretty dense.
I do remember the algorithms (Huffman coding), but the high level concepts are harder to remember - information being directly correlated to randomness (entropy). Information is the unknown (random?) message, that sounds more like noise. Channel capacity makes sense: based on noise there's an upper limit on how fast you can communicate bits and groups of bits.
When I review GitHub usage like this, I can't help but feel the statistics don't represent which language I can best express my ideas with, and which are my most important projects (ie many work repos have very few stars)
I'll give these a look, I also highly recommend Amber diceless (based on Zelazney's books)
This is keeper, I'm at 350+ ideal weight around 230-240lbs (6'7") and looking for something to shake up my consumption that makes sense. I regularly exercise (20hrs/week low-medium impact) but eat fast foods
The stretch is that in the future blackhole state can be changed and send information back in time? Not seeing it.
I hadn't known until today. Need to think over a dev tool analytics with (mostly hidden) prompt. Looking at apt get analytics now as a comparison
Definitely, that's what I got out of it. Actually a pretty interesting win, telling tales. There's a market for this flavor of fiction and it'll spawn businesses and generate revenue like any other.
This was a fun puzzle and learning challenge. Glad to see the next generation is still suffering with null terminators :)