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It is less about who writes the code, and more about who is responsible for it(danbirken.substack.com)
2 points by birken 7mo ago|0 comments
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by birken 8mo ago
I'd really like to see a regular poll on HN that keeps track of which AI coding agents are the most popular among this community, like the TIOBE Index for programming languages. Hard to keep up with all the changes and it would be nice
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by birken 8mo ago
What kind of headcount do you estimate $1MM/year can reliably support? That's like ~2 engineers at FAANG.
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Show HN: Screwball.ai – MLB stat search in real-time with natural language(screwball.ai)
2 points by birken 1y ago|0 comments
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by birken 1y ago
It is difficult to say this is what consumers want, when right now consumers are getting the best of both worlds: The ease of AI agents without the long-term negative consequences of destroying the publishers who created all the high qualit
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by birken 1y ago
While yes, I am attempting to collect ad revenue from users, and yes, I don't want somebody competing with me and cutting me out the loop, a large part of it is controlling my content. I'm not arguing whether the AI chatbot has th
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by birken 1y ago
The AI isn't "reading the web" though, they are reading the top hits on the search results, and are free-riding on the access that Google/Bing gets in order to provide actual user traffic to their sites. Many webmasters
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by birken 2y ago
A datacenter could consume a lot of water with evaporative cooling. I don't know how prevalent it is, but given how cheap and efficient evaporative cooling is, I'd guess datacenters use it a lot where possible (probably in combina
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by birken 2y ago
Coincidentally I just had a professionally done garage door spring replacement today, and I asked the repairman this question, and here is what he said: 1. The springs lift the door from the bottom, and from each side, which puts less load
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by birken 3y ago
The people who come up with 409a prices have every incentive to make it as low as possible provided it is somewhat defensible to the IRS. I assure you they can get more creative than saying that the last preferred price was at $X, therefore
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by birken 3y ago
And then they'd have sold at the higher value, because the sale price is almost certainly higher than whatever the 409a price was.
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by birken 3y ago
It might not be a 90% discount but it still will be a >50% discount
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by birken 3y ago
And how did that go?
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by birken 3y ago
Self driving electric cars are much better than car shares as they'll have significantly higher usage rates and eliminate much of the need for parking spots in dense downtown areas. If you believe car shares are part of an efficient tr
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by birken 3y ago
I'd just like to note the irony of saying how bad Google is while at the same time saying that Google's general purpose search engine is still better than any of the specific search engines of these individual sites. Perhaps the i
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by birken 3y ago
Generally speaking the people who live in SF aren't comparing SF to Boise, they are comparing SF to other elite cities like NYC, LA, Boston, Austin, etc. And the COL is not 2-3x higher in SF than those other cities. Also as a little st
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by birken 3y ago
You always need somewhere to live, so you can only "sell high" if that means you can "buy low" somewhere else. If all bay area houses go up 10%, then you haven't actually gained anything assuming you still want to l
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by birken 3y ago
I've logged a lot of miles of Comma in a 2023 Hyundai Ioniq and 2022 Toyota Prius Prime, and the built in driving assist of both cars is nowhere near Comma, both in terms of steering and accelerator/brake. Things that Comma handle
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by birken 3y ago
As a very happy user of Comma, I think it is reasonable to say the company is going to fail, but that ignores that the product they created is still awesome. Comma is light years better than any built-in driving assist in any non-Tesla car.
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by birken 3y ago
Well I guess we'll both agree to disagree about the nuances of the early years of Reddit, something neither of us know anything about. Oh well.
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by birken 3y ago
There is a very big difference between giving no credit and giving a fair amount of credit, which might be small. If you listened to the podcast they talked about Aaron in a non-disparaging way, and a way that I'm sure is accurate to t
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by birken 3y ago
If I had to guess as to why his contributions are marginalized, it would be that his contributions were ~16 years ago to a version of the website that is vastly different in scope and scale to the one that exists today. Founders are importa
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by birken 4y ago
I have a very CPU intensive single threaded program that runs about 15% faster on the intel CPU. Other CPU benchmarks out there show my particular processor is slightly ahead of the M2 (and there are faster intel/amd processors than th
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by birken 4y ago
I have a relatively mid-to-top tier linux desktop (i5-13600K, 64 GB ram) and an M2 Macbook pro (M2 max, 32GB ram). The linux desktop comfortably outperforms the M2 in any CPU based benchmarks while also being significantly cheaper (though t
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by birken 4y ago
I got a Moonlander about 3 months ago, and it took me about a month of getting used to the key layout until I was typing at similar speed to a Macbook keyboard (which for me is fairly fast, about 120wpm). The hardest letters for me was shif
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by birken 4y ago
I don't know if all FAANG companies are the same, but your description of the job does not match my FAANG experience at all. It was dehumanizing in its own way because you are such a small cog in a large machine, but nobody worked long
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by birken 4y ago
Changing all images to be lazy loaded is not a good idea for SEO reasons (and perhaps not a good idea for regular usage of the site either). If it were, browsers would just do it automatically. Using hints on your images is only useful if y
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by birken 4y ago
To be fair most people who are driving cars aren't towing caravans, so this seems like an extreme edge case. I heavily use adaptive cruise control and I've never had any issues with it, though I'm always ready to take over in
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by birken 4y ago
I've had a little robot 3 for 5 years. It isn't the most reliable device in the world, but you learn very quickly all the little quirks of how to fix it when it breaks and it isn't too bad. I'm very, very happy with it.
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by birken 4y ago
Additionally, the worst strains on the grid are really measured by the peak loads, so if you change billing a way that makes the peak energy less expensive, and therefore disincentivize people to (a) reduce usage at peak times or (b) in

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