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Re:Ask HN: What're You Reading?
on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:16AM (#49908523)
Claude tokens
Re:Agents need control flow, not more prompts
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @06:10PM (#48055797)
you know it really depends on what you're trying to accomplish and if it's possible to describe it with deterministic control flow
Re:Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual mach...
on Saturday April 18, 2026 @11:07AM (#47816495)
This project is very cool! One readme nit: "Pack a stateful virtual machine into a single file (.smolmachine) to rehydrate on any supported platform." For awhile I thought this meant that you could rehydrate a machine's memory like you can with a firecracker vm, but as far as I can tell you can't? It's stateful == disk?
Re:Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation bet...
on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @05:09PM (#47341912)
You’re absolutely right!
Re:$30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than...
on Sunday February 22, 2026 @09:35PM (#47117365)
It’s impossible to disengage the deployment of technology with the way the technology was deployed. I’m not saying anything that I’m not saying. I believe that there could have been a world where deploying technology in all these classrooms had a positive effect
Re:GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs
on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @07:20AM (#46870085)
The increased review burden is also happening inside companies. It’s genuinely hard to keep up with the volume. I was a little surprised to see my comment downvoted. I’m not saying we shouldn’t be able to delete slop PRs. Of course we should! I’m saying that the pr should change at least _somewhat_ in response to how much programming is changing.
Also worth stating that I have been ranting about contract first reviews for 10 years and it’s not just in response to llm written code.
Re:GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs
on Monday February 02, 2026 @10:20PM (#46866031)
They need to talk about how the pr itself should change. The text diff just is not the right thing to center. We should be using ai to chunk changes into reviewable bytes and to align on semantics and contracts.
Re:Ask HN: Why isn't there competition to LinkedIn yet?
on Monday December 22, 2025 @07:32PM (#46360997)
Network effects
Re:Feedmaker: URL + CSS selectors = RSS feed
on Friday September 19, 2025 @06:33PM (#45307556)
Not the same but this gives me an idea… what if there was a map reduce for doms as a web primitive. Like imagine if I could make a dom (or feed) that was some selection and transformation of another dom
Re:Obsidian Bases
on Monday August 18, 2025 @07:28PM (#44946448)
Because the data is front matter you can get it into other systems pretty easily but an sdk for executing the views seems really key
Re:Quickshell – building blocks for your desktop
on Saturday August 09, 2025 @09:58AM (#44846498)
Neat! What OSes does this support?
Re:I made my AI think harder by making it argue with itself
on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @05:47PM (#43838422)
I feel like itd be cool to try prompts based on an adversarial justice system… attorney agents arguing both sides, a judge ruling on “the law”—adherence to instructions etc
Re:Data centers contain 90% crap data
on Sunday April 06, 2025 @10:29PM (#43607005)
Not my area of expertise but I don’t think storage is a big deal, relatively speaking. It’s all about the compute
Re:Five Nurses who work on the same floor at hospital have brain tumors
on Saturday April 05, 2025 @10:18PM (#43598441)
I’m surprised the hospital said they were confident it was safe. I wonder what gave them confidence? I’m struggling to think of what data I could have on hand that would convince me it was really safe. Also, to folks saying that randomness is clumpy… did you read the article? I think a bunch of nurses that notice they are all getting sick (and then FIVE of them getting brain tumors) should be taken quite seriously. I’d start with the assumption that there IS an environmental problem and then figure out what it is.
Re:Generative AI Hype Peaking
on Monday March 10, 2025 @02:54PM (#43324398)
Idk I used Claude Code recently and revised all my estimates. Even if the models stop getting better today I think every product has years of runway before they incorporate these things effectively.
Re:Show HN: Leaflet.pub – a web app for delightful documents
on Friday March 07, 2025 @08:55PM (#43296818)
consider tldraw :)
Re:Show HN: Leaflet.pub – a web app for delightful documents
on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @07:58PM (#43274863)
I really love the ui exploration!
I wish canvases had edges connecting nodes
Re:Matt's Script Archive (1995)
on Sunday March 02, 2025 @08:34PM (#43237374)
CGI bin babbbyyyyyy
Re:Show HN: I Built a Visual Workflow Automation Platform – FlowRipple
on Saturday February 22, 2025 @10:25AM (#43139785)
i think it's a function of recency and points
Re:Show HN: Subtrace – Wireshark for Docker Containers
on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @09:12PM (#43110271)
This is such a cool product! I was looking through the docs and I think this could be a lot more prominent. Thanks for building in public!
Re:AI Tool Found My Autoimmune Disease After $100k and 30 Hospital Visits
on Monday February 10, 2025 @12:25PM (#43002735)
RAG + analysis on health data has huge potential. We need to tread carefully, obviously, but I have also used these models + RAG on personal health data at times when the docs were scratching my head. It was very helpful, although I approached it a bit differently. In my case it was my infant in the hospital for breathing / eating issues. I took data from the network tab in mychart and added context additional context, then asked Claude questions. My main goal was to be prepared for rounds in the morning. I wanted to understand what types of information each test was going to give me.
It was pretty good! Unsurprisingly, it did hallucinate sometimes or miss some nuance. But, I knew I was talking to something that did that. It was helpful for me, even with errors. I didn't, however try to just say "hey given all this what's going on with my baby"
On another topic:
If I were you, I'd make this thing speak FHIR or some other common format. That'd make using this thing in an ecosystem of other tools a lot easier. There are even FHIR graphql apis you could just polp on top maybe.
Re:Show HN: Ultra-portable Gantt chart tool
on Sunday January 12, 2025 @09:27AM (#42673767)
Reminds me a little bit of https://markwhen.com/
Re:Litdb – type safe SQL for JavaScript/TS
on Thursday December 05, 2024 @09:40PM (#42335678)
nit: i feel like this is a typesafe sql query builder and not typesafe sql. i'm always on the look out for _good_ typesafe sql which i have yet to encounter.
Re:Show HN: Embed an SQLite database in your PostgreSQL table
on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @08:46AM (#42183353)
I’m trying to think through when I’d reach for this over jsonb… I guess the fact that there’s an enforced schema? And that you could do aggregations on your SQLite db? Or maybe if you wanted to send the whole delete db to a client??