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Re:From zero to a RAG system: successes and failures on Thursday March 26, 2026 @09:53AM (#47530487)
Thanks for an interesting read! Are you monitoring usage, and what kind of user feedback have you received? Always curious if these projects end up used because, even with the perfect tech, if the data is low quality, nobody is going to bother
Re:Ask HN: Personal History from Account Data? on Thursday November 23, 2023 @03:42PM (#38397291)
If you have a Mac that syncs your iMessage data, you can search through your messages with any SQLite library. I don’t remember the exact path off the top of my head but it’s probably something like ~/Library/iMessage

Experience Following Individuals in Tech?

Aspiring to give my aimless tech career some direction, I'd like to get more involved in some tech communities. I've determined part of that is following individuals who are already where I want to be (but that assumes I know where I want to be).So my question to HN is, who do you follow and why did you start to follow them?

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I ask my father for a lot of investing advice and then he goes and asks his advisor. I can’t believe I failed to consider that I could just get my own. Thanks for the response.

Pick the better investment: personal finance or career progression?

I know the answer will be “it depends,” so let’s consider my situation. I’ve been in the workforce for over a year now and am well adjusted to the daily routine. I have paid back all my debts and substantially contributing to retirement using the common vehicles. For the last few months, I’ve dedicated a significant amount of my free time to researching investment opportunities and very little...

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Re:A small notebook for a system administrator on Friday February 01, 2019 @11:02AM (#19055175)
> All of them imitate the MacBook Air: thin, shiny, glamorous, and they all critically lack ports.

This is the sentence before. IMO you’re being way too harsh. He is clearly trying to emphasize that the average consumers has lost their need for ports, thus, most lightweight computers aren’t sufficient for the author’s line of work. But OMG the author doesn’t know the proper context of Instagram! This whole article loses credibility! Listen to yourself.