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Another personal example. I spent around a month last year in January on this application: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/salam-prayer-qibla-quran/id674...

I had never used Swift before that and was able to use AI to whip up a fairly full-featured and complex application with a decent amount of code. I had to make some cross-cutting changes along the way as well that impacted quite a few files and things mostly worked fine with me guiding the AI. Mind you this was a year ago so I can only imagine how much better I would fare now with even better AI models. That whole month was spent not only on coding but on learning Swift enough to fix problems when AI started running into circles and then learning about Xcode profiler to optimize the application for speed and improving perf.

Re:AdonisJS on Thursday June 20, 2024 @12:37PM (#40740595)
So a few reasons come to mind. Firstly, these projects usually do more than one HN posts. And by the time they have thousands of users, they have already done quite a few HN posts by then. Additionally, if you follow a particular scene (JS in this case) then you can hear about these projects quite a lot on tech Twitter. Adonis was being actively discussed a few days ago after Theo posted a video about why there is no Rails alternative in JS-land. I personally remember hearing about Adonis when I searched for a Rails alternative in JS a long time ago.

And lastly, this project specifically has been in the making for a good number of years now. So it makes sense that there are quite a few people out there using it.

I am assuming it would completely prevent ads (so no need to figure out how to filter/block them) as the name of this field suggests that it might be used by YouTube to figure out if someone has a premium subscription or not. Toggling this field would not have led the author to the later protobuf rabbit hole as there would have been no need for it.

From personal experience, we programmers/hackers sometimes like to make things more complicated than they need to be just for the fun of it (and learning experience too!).

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I was curious about the same thing. But turns out you can download (export) the video without paying anything for now. Maybe it will become paid in the future?
I didn't feel as if it was a ripoff. It didn't even register with me that you were referring to Vimeo until I read the comments. Slightly similar font with a different name altogether shouldn't count as ripoff in my opinion :)
Re:Project write-up: Display Spotify lyrics on external display on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @06:24PM (#32419185)
Hi guys!

When starting out with programming, most of the time you don't get to learn about the though process behind a project implementation . I recently did a project and decided to do a write-up detailing the whole thought process and how I went from point zero to a finished project. I think there is a shortage of similar articles so I am sharing it here in case it helps others :)

PiP in Firefox is the killer feature for me.
Re:Preview, the Mac app people forget about on Monday May 09, 2022 @12:06PM (#31315898)
Yes! I was wondering which app it is asking me to preview. These are the times when I wish HackerNews allowed OPs to edit post titles after submission.
Re:Ask HN: Does Microsoft use Teams for internal comm? on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @07:11PM (#31186959)
I work at Microsoft and yup we use Teams internally.
Re:Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup on Sunday April 24, 2022 @01:07AM (#31141440)
I know there is a paid app on Playstore that apparently works. Don’t remember the name. Will have to look it up. I came across it during my research. But there is also this on GitHub: https://github.com/residentsummer/watoi

Give it a try and see how it goes?

Re:Extracting WhatsApp Messages from an iOS Backup on Sunday April 24, 2022 @12:54AM (#31141394)
Same here! Moved to iOS around 2 years ago. I also wasn’t sure how legit the paid migration software were so decided not to waste any money on them. Then I recently realized that being a programmer I should be able to cobble something together if I were to ever make a reverse transition. And that is how this article was born :)
Re:Ask HN: Share your personal site on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @08:22PM (#30939141)
Love this project! I personally had a really good time understanding JPEG format and writing a decoder in Python. It is fairly short and succint. If anyone is interested, I wrote an article about it: https://yasoob.me/posts/understanding-and-writing-jpeg-decod...

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