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Re:The Xkcd thing, now interactive on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @11:05AM (#47234476)
I would like to have online multiplayer version of Jenga game based on these mechanics
Re:We're Losing Our Voice to LLMs on Thursday November 27, 2025 @11:29AM (#46070778)
In one of the WhatsApp communities I belong to, I noticed that some people use ChatGPT to express their thoughts (probably asking it to make their messages more eloquent or polite or whatever).

Others respond in the same style. As a result, it ends up with long, multi-paragraph messages full of em dashes.

Basically, they are using AI as a proxy to communicate with each other, trying to sound more intelligent to the rest of the group.

Ask HN: Vibe coding with reusable components to reduce hallucinations?

Idea: Instead of pure “vibe coding” (just letting ideas flow into code), what if we first vibe code a bunch of reusable components with well-defined, predictable APIs between them? Then we ask AI to vibe code using only these components.The hope: by constraining the building blocks, we reduce unpredictable hallucinations that often happen when vibe coding an entire monolithic codebase from...

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Re:I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file on Monday August 11, 2025 @10:34AM (#44864579)
This. Working with plain notes during the last 10 years and it could not be better.
Re:At 17, Hannah Cairo solved a major math mystery on Friday August 01, 2025 @03:52PM (#44761629)
This is the most impressive thing I've seen in years.
Re:Fast on Wednesday July 30, 2025 @02:41PM (#44737994)
Pavel Durov (founder of Telegram) totally nailed this concept.

He pays special attention to the speed of application. The Russian social network VK worked blazingly fast. The same is about Telegram.

I always noticed it but not many people verbalized it explicitly.

But I am pretty sure that people realize it subconsciously and it affects user behaviour metrics positively.

Ask HN: Explaining popular technologies basing on the early commits

I am thinking about making videos explaining how popular technologies were built starting from the early commits.Usually the very first versions are quite easy to follow and see how the core was built and how it was developed.For example, the initial commits of Ethereum or Vagrant or even Linux are quite easy to comprehend.Then it is easy to follow how the tool was evolving looking through the...

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Doing Something X Times

One friend of mine said that the best concept that he learnt is the idea of "doing something X times".X could equal to 10 or 100, e.g.:- send 100 emails to check the conversion- do 100 cold outreach connections to evaluate the effectiveness- launch 10 projects to see which one runs better.- try 10 different marketing channels to figure out the best one- etc.I found the idea quite useful. Do you...

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Re:Ask HN: DAO startup with shares based on commits on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @09:23AM (#43844885)
I considered using AI to evaluate more complex cases, beyond merely counting lines of code. However, the idea might be somewhat naive.

Ask HN: DAO startup with shares based on commits

What do you think about the new kind of model to build startups together (disclaimer: I am just thinking loudly)It is a DAO on blockchain. - When investing money directly you receive some shares of equity - When doing commits to repo you receive some shares as well - Other activities (like marketing, copyrighting, etc.) could be measured and converted to shares as well

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Re:Quality-of-Life in Tetris Games on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @09:29AM (#43631835)
I like the design of the blog a lot
Re:WikiTok on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @03:13PM (#42937950)
I think that the project has a potential.

I am a big fun of Wikipedia and sometimes TikTok (a "guilty pleasure"). I would be happy to have an app/web site like this but with

- more smart feed based on your activity/attention (was mentioned in other comments);

- maybe more fancy way to present information (not sure if it is feasible to implement). Currently just a text snippet and image do not seem like super engaging.

Re:Is it possible to become a one-person unicorn? on Thursday January 30, 2025 @04:09PM (#42882209)
Here is the original link to Sam Altman's statement

https://x.com/alexisohanian/status/1752753792058294725?s=46&...

Re:Is it possible to become a one-person unicorn? on Thursday January 30, 2025 @04:07PM (#42882193)
I'm just trying to elaborate on Sam Altman's idea that one-person unicorns are comping https://x.com/alexisohanian/status/1752753792058294725?s=46&...
Re:Is it possible to become a one-person unicorn? on Thursday January 30, 2025 @04:03PM (#42882162)
I am assuming that lots of things will be automated (maybe even using AI). Like the legal things, support, payment processing and so on.

I'm just trying to elaborate on Sam Altman's idea https://fortune.com/2024/02/04/sam-altman-one-person-unicorn...

Re:Is it possible to become a one-person unicorn? on Thursday January 30, 2025 @03:44PM (#42881986)
Are they 1-person projects? Also, Minecraft was build solo by Notch, I guess.

Is it possible to become a one-person unicorn?

Is it possible to become a one-person unicorn? (e.g., to build the company that is worth $1B)Let's do the figures.1) Let's count for simplicity that project valuation equals to 10 Annual Revenues. That means that the annual income should be $100M, and monthly income is ~$8M2) $8M means 400'000 clients paying $20/month.3) 400'000 paying customers means 20'000'000 total users. (since average...

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Literature and Programming Are Similar

1. Both are about texts2. Both types of texts are processed by some interpreter (either CPU or human mind). In the first case we get the sequence of actions as a result, in the second case we get a sequence of the images.3. In both cases the creator is like a God who creates a kind of universe "from scratch". No any limits for creativity.

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I am also interested, my twitter is @sergeyzavg
Re:How many of these accounts do you guys have? 6? on Saturday November 08, 2014 @05:36PM (#8578355)
12
Try to use https://www.kimonolabs.com/, it seems that it is what you are looking for.
Yes, I have just noticed. It will be really great if you will make pull request of version which is compliant to you old version!
I think it should work on it, it doesn't use PHP 5.3+ specific features.

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