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by codingdave 6mo ago
This gets a hard NO from me. Even aside from the hardware aspect of it, or the ick factor of biometrics to use the web, or possibly launching it and getting full adoption, or the fact that it absolutely could have the data spoofed, or that
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by codingdave 6mo ago
> find communities where the problem already lives and share your story genuinely. Yes, That is the lesson that I wish more creators would learn and follow. Good marketers already know this and do it. That is why they pay attention to w
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by codingdave 6mo ago
I'm not saying those are the greatest mice in the world, but that is a history museum. It shows old stuff, with all the warts. Dismissing it as a "piece of shit" because your wrist hurts is missing the point of why it is on d
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by codingdave 6mo ago
Actual Title: "GitHub availability report: February 2026"
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by codingdave 6mo ago
Only in some industries, and only on modern stacks. Those of us who work on legacy platforms in enterprise environments don't need it at all. On the contrary, the younger folks who use it can't get good info out and are trashing s
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by codingdave 6mo ago
So who has done the math on the price point where offshore coders are cheaper than LLMs? They both need good specs, guidance, and validation of their work. So it seems to me that when the effort to manage people vs. the effort to orchestrat
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by codingdave 6mo ago
Show HNs have been getting slammed/spammed with low-effort projects, often from new accounts, often more about trying to do marketing than engage with the community. Because of that, there was definitely discussion of putting some limi
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by codingdave 6mo ago
Most of the prior projects I've seen that used public github data for anything along these lines suffer from the same flaw - Many coders' work is private. You can't see it to include in the system, so what you are really rank
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by codingdave 6mo ago
"Someone". Yeah, it was you, according to the username on the commits. If you are trying to show HN something, just do a "Show HN". It is really weird to say "Someone open sourced..." about your own work. Perso
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by codingdave 6mo ago
We do see it - patreon, buymeacoffee, donations of various kinds. Games with microtransactions. Shareware has just evolved.
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by codingdave 6mo ago
> The LLM will suggest changes (design, architecture, functionality, ...) to your code, but will roughly use your pseudo code style. So it will change your architecture, but keep your line-by-line logic? Is this like a self-driving car t
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by codingdave 6mo ago
Bodies acclimate. You'll go up in altitude one day and get quite sick, then the next day or another day you'll be fine. Spend a week there and you'll feel better. Drink water, stay hydrated, and it will go more smoothly. So u
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by codingdave 6mo ago
What an odd take. I think most any dev knows what we mean when we say 'sanitize'. Trying to re-define the word and thereby imply that we are censoring content is pretty far off from reality.
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by codingdave 6mo ago
This may be a bit of a tangent, but I don't agree with being all-in on agentic coding. Look at the bigger picture. In many other industries, LLM-based solutions are in place. They were embraced, implemented, people learned what works a
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by codingdave 7mo ago
No, that sounds like what consultants would do on an integration project, but not at all how software development works. Sure, you call APIs - after you write them. Which comes after you define what connections are needed between various la
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by codingdave 7mo ago
> but the advertiser may still be charged. Oh, no. Anyhoo... But in all seriousness, ads are one of the main reasons quality has decreased online. If AI breaks the ad-driven economy and forces the internet to be something else, ya know..
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by codingdave 7mo ago
Isn't this old news? We've known for many years that cross-posting similar content decreases SEO results. And nowadays, with Google becoming less and less important, why even play the SEO game at all? It always was a bit of snake
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by codingdave 7mo ago
I do still enjoy it, but only because I'm so deep into it that I don't need to work all the time, and can pick and choose exactly who I work for, work with, and what tech I work on. If I were younger and less established, I would
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by codingdave 7mo ago
Sure they do. You just need to spell it out in business terms, not tech terms: "Reduced incidents by 80%", "Decreased costs by 40%", "Increased performance by 33% while decreasing server footprint by 25%" Simpl
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by codingdave 7mo ago
> I'm convinced someone out there has figured out the playbook for turning cloud credits into serious money. Yeah, the cloud provider figured that out. They shell out credits fairly freely to almost anyone who asks, knowing that on
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by codingdave 7mo ago
HN Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for cur
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by codingdave 7mo ago
> I created the first AI that earns its own existence, self-improves, and replicates—without needing a human. What a terrible, absolutely awful idea. The entire point of AI safety is not doing that .
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by codingdave 7mo ago
MBTI has been debunked for humans, why would it be meaningful for LLMs?
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by codingdave 7mo ago
Wow, that is a harsh way to learn an important lesson. You always need to control the ability to execute your disaster recovery plan.
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by codingdave 7mo ago
Do you know for a fact that your suggestion was the reason it was changed? If so, a bullet point might be in order. If not, you are being quite presumptuous by claiming it. Either way, be careful about putting lists of details in your work.
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by codingdave 7mo ago
> Every great project was once called a bad idea What a concise explanation of 'survivor bias'. Well done! The problem is that every bad idea had someone behind it saying it was a great project, and the number of such bad ideas
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by codingdave 7mo ago
AIs not being able to crawl my SPA is a feature, not a bug.
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by codingdave 7mo ago
Copyright law is not a contract, no. It is statutory. Contracts require agreements and "consideration" in order to enforce the contract. Copyright does does not require these things. So to your second question, I'd argue yes,
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by codingdave 7mo ago
Anthropic is in the business of using your data to train future releases. There is no contract in place to protect your data, especially for free users. SaaS subscriptions come with contracts. They are not the same.
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by codingdave 7mo ago
It is a nice UX, but with a fatal flaw: Tiles are supposed to be free when there is a side free, but you instead have it coded to be free when the top or bottom is free. Your app, your rules, so if you intended to do that, cool. It is just

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