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Re:Claude Opus 5 on Saturday July 25, 2026 @09:23AM (#49047394)
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
Re:Show HN: Atlasphere – Live Infrastructure Diagrams on Thursday June 11, 2026 @12:14PM (#48492361)
Cartography[0] might be of interest to you. It creates a graph of Cloud resources.

[0] https://github.com/cartography-cncf/cartography

Re:How I write software with LLMs on Monday March 16, 2026 @08:21AM (#47397987)
I have tried prompting with a bunch of typos in Claude Code with Sonnet and found it to be fairly tolerant.

It has always done what I meant or asked me a clarifying question (because of my CLAUDE.md instruction).

Re:</> Htmx – The Fetch()ening on Friday November 07, 2025 @11:04PM (#45854038)
It isn't!

Source: I use both. :)

Re:Ask HN: Which books do you consider real gems in your field of work... on Saturday September 17, 2022 @06:05AM (#32876269)
I got hold of this book after reading your comment and it's already one of my favourite books.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022) on Friday September 02, 2022 @08:12AM (#32689642)
Does Datadog hire remotely in Canada?
Re:Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang on Friday May 06, 2022 @05:23PM (#31289739)
Interestingly, I have always heard Go is simple, but not easy.
Re:Ask HN: What's the best CS or software engineering book you've read... on Sunday July 11, 2021 @03:25PM (#27803888)
Definitely! I can't count the number of times I've suggest it or someone suggested it to me!
Re:Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself? on Sunday June 13, 2021 @11:27AM (#27493375)
I'm going to take a few hours out over the next few weekends and go through this. Thank you for sharing!
Re:Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself? on Sunday June 13, 2021 @11:20AM (#27493326)
Could you please explain more about how the Decoder ring works? And how it's data is maintained?

Thanks for sharing!

Re:Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself? on Sunday June 13, 2021 @11:12AM (#27493276)
OP here. A very similar tool I built prompted this question.
Re:Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself? on Sunday June 13, 2021 @11:10AM (#27493266)
Yes! Is there any way to make this happen? Or rather is there enough interest?

Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?

Posted by themantri on Saturday June 12, 2021 @03:29AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am looking for tools that you might have built to scratch an itch or quell a regular annoyance. My main motivation for asking is to looking a different things people may have built and a secondary motivation is to learn how they went about it. I'm also interested in tools which are small scripts or a bunch of commands piped into one another that have boosted your quality of life.Thank you.

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Re:Performance comparison: counting words in Python, Go, C++, C, Awk, ... on Friday March 19, 2021 @12:56AM (#26510263)
Could you please share the one-liner? Thanks!
Re:Show HN: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server on Sunday March 07, 2021 @10:05AM (#26376336)
Yes, please.
Re:Ask HN: Go programming language is over ten years old. What do you ... on Friday November 06, 2020 @12:24PM (#25009298)
https://www.joyfulbikeshedding.com/blog/2019-03-14-what-caus... is a pretty interesting resource about this.

Ask HN: What are some problems solved in unrelated domains?

Posted by themantri on Monday October 19, 2020 @07:17AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Elaborating, what are some problems that were being experienced by one industry or domain but were solved elsewhere and were adopted by the industry plagued by the problem? Even better if the answer was really obvious for the people who solved it or solving it involved cross-domain knowledge.For context, I recently heard having a breadth of knowledge (along with depth in chosen areas) is really...

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