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Re:RIP Low-Code 2014-2025 on Monday January 26, 2026 @04:10PM (#46771575)
Interesting article -- my take on low-code has always been less about how much initial development time the application takes to code, and more about how it can ease the long term maintenance of an application. With AI tooling it is going to be easy for companies to spin up hundreds of internal applications, but how are they accounting for the maintenance and support of those applications?

Think about the low-code platform as a place to host applications where many (not all) of the operational burdens long term maintenance are shifted to the platform so that developers don't have to spend as much time doing things like library upgrades, switching to X new framework because old framework is deprecated, etc..

I couldn't find a reference to an app on the linked page, could you share more details on the app you use?

Ask HN: Best Use Cases for LLMs

I’m seeking advice on the scenarios where large language models (LLMs) shine and where they may not perform as well.What types of problems have you successfully solved with LLMs? What are some common pitfalls or areas where they tend to underperform?

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re: #1, I’m curious how life guards stay attentive.
Re:Why Is README Capitalized? on Thursday April 11, 2024 @10:59PM (#40009001)
You just sparked a memory of FILE_ID.DIZ, a standard file included in zip archives during the BBS era.

Pretty sure the .DIZ stood for “Description In Zip”

Could you share some examples of settings you customize with this tool? The description on the website seems pretty fairly broad.
Re:Ask HN: Good Books on Philosophy of Engineering on Friday January 19, 2024 @02:31PM (#39059942)
Read through the thread and didn't see references to the translation by Derek Lin, could you point to why you selected that version?

Ask HN: Anyone using or have opinions on "enterprise" job schedulers?

Basically cron but centralized. Useful for organizations with lots of applications because:- Development teams don't have to roll their own solution - Single interface for teams to pause jobs during maintenance windows - Easily see job failures across an entire organization - More advanced job orchestration and workflow capabilitiesThere are many ways to solve this (purpose-built applications,...

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Re:In OpenZFS and Btrfs, everyone was just guessing on Friday December 01, 2023 @01:56PM (#38490682)
What you are describing sounds like the usual backup strategies. Filesystem bugs that silently corrupt your data will also get synced and backed up.
Re:OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns on Monday November 20, 2023 @12:22PM (#38350954)
My guess -- Microsoft wasn’t excited about the company structure - the for-profit portion subject to the non-profit mission. Microsoft/Altman structured the deal with OpenAI in a way that cements their access regardless of the non-profit’s wishes. Altman may not have shared those details with the board and they freaked out and fired him. They didn’t disclose to Microsoft ahead of time because they were part of the problem.
Re:Lima: A nice way to run Linux VMs on Mac on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @12:10PM (#36683063)
Check out what Mitchell Hashimoto (from HashiCorp) does w/ Nix on Mac for developer setup - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubDMLoWz76U
What does AIoT stand for? It is used throughout the document -- Something like "Artificial Intelligence of Things" ?
Do you have a link? Never heard of cheddar.
Re:Turkey blocks Twitter after the earthquake on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @05:02PM (#34716002)
Post reads surprisingly like an auto generated ad for NordVPN
Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @05:44PM (#33901441)
One thing I wish they had done with the much larger address space is make it easy for an individual to get their own block of IPv6 addresses. Letting enthusiasts experiment with their own address space seems like it would help with knowledge / adoption.
Re:Emacs 29 on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @02:16PM (#33806052)
Any chance your configuration is online? Always interested to see how people are configuring emacs, and your typography stuff sounds interesting.
Re:The Age of PageRank Is Over on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @05:48PM (#33539225)
> Making money by selling the product doesn't by itself give them an incentive to produce a better product.

Selling more product / continued subscriptions is the incentive.

For a different application area consider the Minecraft sandbox environment.
Re:Explaining Code Using ASCII Art on Tuesday June 28, 2022 @04:19PM (#31912495)
I wonder if Github Co-pilot or DALL-E type work could be expanded to generate ASCII diagrams (or art) based on descriptions provided.
Re:Ask HN: Imgur Replacement on Friday January 08, 2021 @02:27PM (#25689048)
I use Dropshare (https://dropshare.app) for images / screenshots, may be close to what you are looking for. Point it to an S3 bucket and whenever you clip an image it puts the URL in your clipboard.
Not sure if reference to Storage Wars or not.
Curious if you are familiar with Habitat (https://community.chef.io/products/chef-habitat/) and how this compares?
Re:Toward a “modern” Emacs on Friday September 25, 2020 @07:34PM (#24595118)
I wonder what the appetite for extending the emacs "server" concept is. Treat it like an API and so that you can maintain core editor compatibility, but offer an easy way to implement UI layers that users might feel are more modern.

Could also lead to dedicated "org-mode" clients, etc.. that could leverage emacs under the hood via the API.

Re:BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop on Thursday January 02, 2020 @11:17AM (#21936613)
Sounds like maybe a SIM swap attack? In addition to password changes I would look into Google's advanced protection program (https://landing.google.com/advancedprotection/) and get U2F or FIDO2 setup on your account.
Re:Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners? on Thursday August 01, 2019 @12:46PM (#20585654)
The first level of Super Mario Bros is a great example of learning by exploration.
Re:Tulsa Remote on Thursday November 15, 2018 @10:34PM (#18466155)
Re:My Failed Attempt Switching to Linux on Monday August 28, 2017 @03:04PM (#15119163)
I think the parent poster was referencing the Macbook Air purchased in the article, not suggesting it as a base for new Linux installation.
Re:Ask HN: Good Go codebases to read? on Friday June 02, 2017 @11:03AM (#14470395)
http://exercism.io is pretty good, you solve programming exercise and then can look and see how other users solved the same problem.
Re:Show HN: Dnote – Instantly Capture Your Coding Wisdom on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @10:49AM (#14042455)
Beware of keeping notes without properly escaping them. :)

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