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Re:Ask HN: What programming blogs do you follow? on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @05:20PM (#48127762)
I have contributed several posts to https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering

Of course, I am biased but I do believe we have one of the best engineering blogs out there.

Re:Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy on Saturday May 03, 2025 @03:22AM (#43877412)
Weird that even OpenAI does not have good control over its model.
> As someone that likes Vue and prefers templates that lost me at JSX.

Thank you very much. I once said, "I cannot stand JSX", and two front-end engineers went silent for the rest of the meeting.

Ask HN: How are engineers evaluating non-deterministic ML/LLM based deployments?

So, we process data as well as documents from various sources, then, - convert all of its text (using different OCRs) - pass it to LLM models - depending on the customer, it can be a cheaper model, and we do have model fallbacks How do engineers evaluate such systems? 1. New models & new libraries are coming all the time 2. Even a third-party's deployment model will change over time...

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Has anyone used both Solid and Vue? How do the two compare?
Re:Serverless Is a Scam on Saturday April 19, 2025 @01:30AM (#43734423)
Seems like a pitch for sliplane to me.
I see 'Node.js' and I see something that's going to be unwieldy pretty soon.
Re:Go Browser Package on Saturday May 18, 2024 @09:32PM (#40403445)
This is useful.

If you have a website, you want to collect statistical data on which browsers are accessing your website and test for the best experiences on the top browsers.

Re:HBase Deprecation at Pinterest on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @04:23AM (#40364424)
They switched to an SQL database. NoSQL
Re:Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity? on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @09:36PM (#40293489)
Author of the original article here. Good to see it being posted here.
Re:GitHub is down on Friday April 05, 2024 @04:27PM (#39946807)
> Why would Ruby play a role in it? Azure definitely does though. (ex azure employee here )

Oh yeah. If someone says C++ has poor memory safety than Rust then no one is triggered. But say something about Ruby (the language on a secular decline - https://www.dice.com/binaries/content/gallery/dice/insights/...) and the pitchforks are out.

Re:GitHub is down on Friday April 05, 2024 @04:48AM (#39940122)
This happens fairly regularly. Do HNers think that Microsoft azure and/or Ruby has a role in it?
Re:Abstractions should be deep not wide on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @03:08AM (#39914445)
Author of the original article here.

If you have some customers that rely on GitHub-specific features and some others that rely on GitLab-specific features then you will have to support both set of APIs.

Re:Inversion: Fast, Reliable Structured LLMs on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @11:55PM (#39762734)
Please elaborate
Re: on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @11:53PM (#39762724)
Rust guys - look this beautiful performant CLI tool that will make you more productive

JS guys - look at my new JS framework that you can use to do 15th rewrite of your website

I wonder how come communities evolve in this way.

Re:Inversion: Fast, Reliable Structured LLMs on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @02:49AM (#39753476)
> strong guarantees on the output (i.e. 100% reliable, without requiring any retries).

Has anyone seen a good JSON library that can handle slightly broken JSON? e.g. trailing commas, unescaped newlines, etc.? I have not found a good one.

Re:Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:20AM (#38010133)
What if you are on Python 3.10 and the Python code was built using Python 3.11 features? I don't think `pipx` would work in that case.
Re:Things I've learned about building CLI tools in Python on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:17AM (#38010116)
pip will install dependencies transitively. Some of those dependencies or some version of those might be uninstallable on certain platforms and you won't even know!

Further, if I am building using Python 3.11 features and you are stuck on Python 3.10 then you cannot install my Python CLI tool.