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oxlint and some general ast-grep rules have pretty much been an absolute necessity for any of my LLM based code generation. I started down this path after looking at what coderabbit suggested in https://github.com/coderabbitai/ast-grep-essentials
Re:U.S. State Department Pauses Immigrant Visa Applications on Thursday August 27, 2026 @07:13AM (#49462884)
Probably a good thing for many migrants. I mean who would want to migrate to a country that's so hostile towards anyone that looks and prays different.
Re:How Compaction Works in Pi on Thursday August 13, 2026 @11:30PM (#49294467)
Ampcode used a handoff feature for a while that I found genuinely useful [1] and then they removed it. Anecdotally, I felt it worked better than compaction.

[1] https://ampcode.com/news/handoff

Having run a small social media SaaS for a while, the amount of AI bots (and I say AI bots because the comments and direct messages sent by them definitely read like AI), was staggering.

I'm thankful for Cloudflare and I don't think I would have had the resources to deal with it any other way.

Re:Ask HN: Am I the only one getting so many cursor ads? on Sunday August 02, 2026 @05:45AM (#49142783)
I see it all over Reddit. I don't really interact with them enough to know what the content is but anecdotally yes.
If this means that Google will do eventually do age verification then I think I trust them more than I trust Persona.
Re:Three of our worst VC stories on Friday June 05, 2026 @09:02PM (#48420336)
As bad as these VCs seem to be it's something to see Prince socializing with other bad actors like Maguire while lamenting the bad actors in the space.
This looks like something worth trying and I'm glad it's open source. I've been using https://github.com/openchamber/openchamber for a few months now and I'm pleased with its features. Their web based pwa and locally running cli is similar.
Re:I made my phone slow on purpose on Monday June 01, 2026 @12:56PM (#48359435)
I have a few hacks that work for me, documented here: https://open.substack.com/pub/theperfectlycromulent/p/how-to...

tl;dr Don’t keep your charger handy. Don’t have a good charger. Lose your phone (at home). Don’t have a phone case. Have a phone case.

Re:MCP Is Dead on Sunday May 31, 2026 @03:34AM (#48343785)
As much as I like to hate MCP, it has a place in its accessibility outside terminal based agents and in its ability to wrangle data before it’s consumed by the agent requesting it.

Sure you can use a cli tool and jq. Most cli tools that interact with third party providers are just APIs so you could argue it could be replaced with a curl.

Re:I'm Tired of Talking to AI on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @07:47AM (#48292794)
I mean this is an article coming from an SEO company that's really just trying to advertise its services in the end. Their methodology seems very loose.
I'm still astounded that Polymarket, as a feature, is embedded inside Substack. Not a third-party plugin but baked into the platform. YouTube is one thing. It's practically ubiquitous in terms of video sharing but Polymarket?
Re:Jensen–Shannon Divergence on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @01:11AM (#48275266)
Currently piloting the use of JSD for a synthetic audience survey application, measuring how closely the synthetic response distribution matches a human panel.

Been knee-deep trying to understand this world, so seeing this on Hacker News today is kind of scary.

Re:Show HN: A context-aware permission guard for Claude Code on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @08:05PM (#47344379)
I worked on something similar but with a more naive text matching approach that's saved me many many times so far. https://github.com/sirmews/claude-hook-advisor

Yours is so much more involved. Keen to dig into it.

Ask HN: When is it ok to drop support for a platform?

I recently started a role in a startup focused on building an audience specific social media product. There's a lot to do here and we have a native Android app, a native iOS app, as well as a rather heavy Rails stack. There's also a heavy reliance on third party services that are just costing us way too much and if we want to run lean, I need to replace them or get rid of them entirely.There's...

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I lost my dad the same way in Fiji. At the time I chalked it up to it being Fiji, long considered a third world country. I guess it could have happened anywhere.
Have implemented Statsig in two companies as alternatives to LaunchDarkly and loved it both times. Going to be interesting how their other big customer deals with this purchase i.e. Anthropic

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