curious_curios

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by curious_curios 19d ago
I love the effort to help modernize go code! I feel like it might have been better if they leveraged the Analyzer framework to get this stuff into `go vet` and `go fix`, which would be infinitely easier for LLMs and developers alike to use.
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by curious_curios 24d ago
Alternative take: I have not met a serious craftsperson software engineer who did not deeply care about some KPIs. They might not have called them KPIs, but there were numbers they tracked constantly. In the example of being asked what test
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by curious_curios 1mo ago
Improv believe it or not.
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by curious_curios 2mo ago
Though with gas, maintenance, insurance on top of the car payment, that $700 is probably the floor of car ownership.
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by curious_curios 2mo ago
Many of the open weight models are trained on outputs from these models (distillation)
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by curious_curios 4mo ago
I would love for this book to be updated with all the work on adding generative AI to the software engineering workflow at Google.
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by curious_curios 4mo ago
The Enchiridion is perhaps the most distilled and practical manual of practical stoic philosophy and one I wish I had discovered earlier in life.
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by curious_curios 4mo ago
While cool sounding, the project is two weeks old and contains lots of made up terms. It’s safe to say it’s a figment of an AI’s imagination.
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by curious_curios 5mo ago
This is pretty standard for specification documents, probably more accurate to say AI sounds like them than the other way around. Ignoring the particular technologies used (OAuth/JWT) it looks like they’re adding more auth to the devic
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by curious_curios 6mo ago
Reading between the lines I suspect the following: - We’ve already demonstrated breaking 2048-bit RSA in tightly controlled lab environments - It’s expected that will be possible at scale by 2029 - The US expects to have around 2 years of s
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by curious_curios 8mo ago
Not to be confused with Pharo, the immersive programming experience: https://pharo.org/
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by curious_curios 8mo ago
Generally they do it via bitemporal modeling in databases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitemporal_modeling
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by curious_curios 9mo ago
“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” - Bjarne Stroustrup
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by curious_curios 9mo ago
Whoever wants to write the underlying engines for virtually every browser: Apple and Google. They both have their agendas that they try to push via them.
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by curious_curios 9mo ago
If their experience mirrors my own there will be a follow up post, “Why having 50 individuals on your cap table is a pain, I should have gotten them into a syndicate”
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by curious_curios 10mo ago
https://www.themotte.org/
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by curious_curios 10mo ago
Depends on how you define big, but there’s Gemma, Phi, OLMO, Mistral and GPT-OSS that are all competitive and can run on commodity hardware.
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by curious_curios 10mo ago
A lot of it comes down to the context and a prompting strategy tailored to the particular model. I don’t believe the current benchmarks really take those optimizations into account. I’ve personally been getting better results with Gemini as
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by curious_curios 10mo ago
I at least respect them for reporting them. It feels like lots of cloud providers don’t, or begrudgingly.
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by curious_curios 10mo ago
I've actually been getting a lot of mileage out of textproto: https://protobuf.dev/reference/protobuf/textformat-spec/ Well typed, simple syntax. Maps are annoying though.
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by curious_curios 10mo ago
Given that AWS, Azure and GCP are all recording 20-40% YoY growth, no, I don’t think they’re losing ground. As for startup credits, they’re still handing out $100-200k like candy if they deem you a serious startup. There was a lot of abuse
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by curious_curios 10mo ago
When you fly in an airplane do you care what engines they’re using? Do you care what avionics subsystems are installed and what SoCs they utilize? What makes this situation any different? It’s just that LLMs are the new hotness. That will f
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by curious_curios 11mo ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798827
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by curious_curios 11mo ago
Mail/calendar/chat
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by curious_curios 11mo ago
If you have a moderately successful app, sdk or browser extension you will get hit up to add things to it like this. I think most free VPN services also lease out your bandwidth to make their money as well.
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by curious_curios 11mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231024
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by curious_curios 11mo ago
- Get into a reputable accelerator program, you’ll build your network. - Find meet ups in your major metropolitan area. - Your 2nd and 3rd degree networks are bigger than you imagine, you can absolutely get a warm intro. - Forgo all investm
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by curious_curios 1y ago
If you’re getting value from it, keep adding it! Two cases where this advice breaks down: - If the telemetry boilerplate code starts hampering your ability to read and reason about the underlying business logic code. - When your observabili
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by curious_curios 1y ago
I think you meant the Go 1.25 release notes?
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by curious_curios 1y ago
- Ads - Paywalls - Subscribe pop-ups - Obvious AI slop - Dead links - Information already out of date

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