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by abahgat 3mo ago
I bought a pretty powerful desktop computer for gaming in late 2025. It came with an RTX 5080, which I started using to run some local LLMs and run some experiments (most recently, I was trying to get agents to get better at playing Zork I)
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by abahgat 3mo ago
I can see how this is a great building block for what Zed is doing around collaboration. One thing I would really love to see, however, is a way to better attach code review comments to the specific version of code they were left on. I find
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by abahgat 3mo ago
Some programming is the equivalent to designing a factory, some programming is the equivalent to carving out wood pieces. I've worked in large organizations where a small number of staff+ engineers were approaching programming as f
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Show HN: The nearest hospital to every place on Earth in a single S2 range query(abahgat.com)
2 points by abahgat 4mo ago|0 comments
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by abahgat 4mo ago
To be fair, shipping these guidelines as AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md in the repo that contains the assignments will make it so that agents will pick this up without needing students to opt in explicitly. Seems like a reasonable first step to m
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by abahgat 6mo ago
I totally fell for the "obscene memory" trap myself. My first encounter with suffix trees outside of a textbook was for an ITA Software 'Instant Search' puzzle. The requirement was sub-0.1ms search on a large string data
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by abahgat 6mo ago
Author here. It’s a very hopeful time for interactive learning. Coincidentally, it is inspiring that both OpenAI and Anthropic released these improved visualization capabilities just this week. Using Gemini's canvas for chord progressi
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by abahgat 7mo ago
Hi HN, I wrote this post after an experiment over the holidays. I had Claude write a cross-stack feature touching our database, cloud infra, mobile app, and the embedded application running on our hardware devices at work. What would usuall
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The Velocity Paradox: Why 100x faster code doesn't mean 10x faster shipping(abahgat.com)
1 points by abahgat 7mo ago|1 comments
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by abahgat 6y ago
The original architectures are based on Google's offering by many of them generalize well beyond GCP.
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Cloud Solutions Reference Architectures(showcase.withgoogle.com)
1 points by abahgat 6y ago|1 comments
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by abahgat 14y ago
I was asking because if you optimize for pitches response rate, you end up with better pitches but not necessarily good matches between candidates/companies.
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by abahgat 14y ago
I'm curious: in "Every pitch received improves our personalized matching algorithm, making pitches get even better over time." how would you distinguish a "good" pitch from a "bad" one?
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How Facebook Finds The Best Design Talent, And Keeps Them Happy(fastcodesign.com)
3 points by abahgat 14y ago|0 comments
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by abahgat 14y ago
That's neat. Too bad it doesn't work on Windows, though.
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by abahgat 15y ago
I tend to agree with this point of view: whiteboard interviews fail to predict how you will write real code once you are hired, your actual code is definitely a better indicator. Asking candidates their github usernames is starting to seem
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by abahgat 15y ago
That is exactly what I was wondering: what you say must be true, but I could not find any equivalent of what you see here for any other profession. But maybe it is just because I write code for a living...
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Wat(destroyallsoftware.com)
512 points by abahgat 15y ago|98 comments
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by abahgat 15y ago
Sounds like a smart idea, to me. Since I started using Alfred on my Mac I'm able to control almost everything from the keyword and I'm faster at almost everything. Being able to guess the user intentions from the context would be a great ad
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Darpa uses competitive crowdsourcing to revive destroyed documents(blog.microtask.com)
1 points by abahgat 15y ago|0 comments
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Twitter Hedge Fund Beat Market In Its First Month(mediabistro.com)
2 points by abahgat 15y ago|0 comments
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by abahgat 15y ago
I'd be curious to know how much of this applies to non-native English speakers. I guess their native language can shape the way they build sentences and influence the way they communicate in different way. Or, maybe, they just attempt to co
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You Create Bluebrain’s Landscape Soundtracks - location-aware music albums(dirt.asla.org)
1 points by abahgat 15y ago|0 comments
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by abahgat 15y ago
I guess that one of the advantages of such an approach is standardization, in particular if your company is big. Once you get a significant number of candidates, it may become more important to have some "objective" and quantitative way to
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by abahgat 15y ago
Absolutely correct: GitHub just put a GUI on top on that, although it is a very neat one.
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by abahgat 15y ago
Keeping it free would perfectly make sense on the long run too, IMHO. It could attract a lot more users to githubcom and FI.
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by abahgat 15y ago
I used Tower for a while, and I didn't have the chance to test Git for Mac yet (will do later today when I'll be using my Mac). One thing that Tower can do quite well is dealing with multiple remote repositories (e.g. github + heroku). If G
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by abahgat 15y ago
Well, their web app tracks the history and changes of your repo hosted there. It means you see them only after you perform a push. On the announcement they say: > But those things are only great after you've pushed your code to GitHub
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by abahgat 15y ago
And the fact that you can make people confirm their email address before finalizing their registration.
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by abahgat 15y ago
Thank you for pointing it out! I started working on Dinosaur Island ( http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php?puzzle_id=19 ) just to build that opportunity, actually. It is kind of a "toy" example, though, so I was interested in hearing

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