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by etler 7mo ago
There are many use cases where having a value stream is very useful. I do agree having a separate simpler byte only stream would make sense though. I think the current capabilities of web streams should be kept and an IOStream could be adde
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by etler 7mo ago
React is slower than the alternatives, but next.js is really really slow.
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by etler 7mo ago
I don't like AI writing because it's bad writing. It's convoluted and inefficient and doesn't get to the point. If someone writes something that feels like AI, it doesn't matter if it was or not because it's st
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by etler 7mo ago
If someone uses AI to help them write, and they reviewed it, and it's high quality writing, I don't care how much they wrote by hand. But, if I can tell it was written by AI that's just a proxy for telling that the author did
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by etler 7mo ago
It used to be better? I use android daily and was given an iPhone for work, and using it is incredibly painful because of the keyboard. I was wondering how people have been putting up with it for so long. When I've asked other long tim
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by etler 7mo ago
If my devs are writing that much code they're doing something wrong. Lines of code is an anti metric. That used to be commonly accepted knowledge.
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by etler 1y ago
Very good questions! I still need to flesh out the patterns. While streams of streams are common in functional programming environments, I simply haven't seen them in class based streaming patterns anywhere so they're things to fi
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Show HN: Higher-order transform streams: 10x faster AI with recursive prompts(timetler.com)
4 points by etler 1y ago|2 comments
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by etler 1y ago
I describe it as a word granularity search engine. Lossy encyclopedia is a great analogy too and fleshes it out.
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by etler 1y ago
They cited the demo of a port having performance issues several months before release. That seems like a complete non story to me. It's brand new hardware and nobody has experience porting to or optimizing for its specific specificatio
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by etler 1y ago
I think there is a need for the AI counseling use case, but it should not be provided by a general purpose AI assistant. It should be designed by professional psychologists and therapists, with greater safeguards like human check-ins to ma
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by etler 1y ago
Apple has vertical integration between their hardware and operating system meaning they have way more control. They can adapt their software to enable them to optimize their hardware in ways competitors can't.
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by etler 1y ago
For the Linear example, I would argue that adding too much flexibility would make the tool worse. Rigid workflows are consistent making them more robust and scalable. They work consistently needing less guidance or intervention. When you fi
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by etler 1y ago
The call was being relayed to the pilot by the flight supervisor. While he wasn't "on" the call, I think it's fair to say he was "part" of the call. He's still getting live tech support and trying to troub
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by etler 1y ago
I think there's just some nuance to the scenario. The pilot wasn't directly on the call, but was participating in the call with the flight supervisor relaying the information. I'd compare it to being in the room with someone
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by etler 1y ago
I use AI 90% for research, learning, and prototyping. It's increased my interest because before, I felt that I didn't have time to do all those things, now I can expand my knowledge so much faster that it makes greater challenges
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by etler 1y ago
Working on the same thing :) Glad to see more people working on this too! https://www.timetler.com/2025/08/19/unlocking-rich-ui-compon...
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by etler 1y ago
The value of generating framework components is that you can integrate the rendering with those frameworks. I've been working on a library to do exactly with a custom MDX pipeline: https://www.npmjs.com/package/rea
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by etler 1y ago
I've been working on a similar project using MDX as the parser to enable runtime static JSX tags in markdown: https://www.timetler.com/2025/08/19/unlocking-rich-ui-compon... I'm curious why you deci
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by etler 1y ago
No and yes. MDX parses JSX so it's compatible with any JSX runtime, not just react. You're right that MDX executes arbitrary code because it supports the `import` and string interpolation of MDX and performs unsafe evals. Because
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by etler 1y ago
MDX does needs to be done at compile time because MDX contains unsafe evals in its syntax via imports and string interpolation. I created a library for runtime MDX because of that: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-ma
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by etler 1y ago
The components are standard react components so once it is rendered they can set their own state and effects and load in their own data. I hope I understood your question correctly?
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by etler 1y ago
Author here. I'd love to see it! I settled on this approach after not finding any other ways to do it, but it's definitely not the only way. I'd like to see what other approaches people might come up with.
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by etler 1y ago
Friendlier doesn't necessarily mean gassing you up. This is a very narrow interpretation of the complaints.
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by etler 1y ago
I think the framing of these models are being "intelligent" is not the right way to go. They've gotten better at recall and association. They can recall prior reasoning from text they are trained on which allows them to handl
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by etler 1y ago
That's really fun! I love minimalist sandbox ideas like this.
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by etler 1y ago
I find it's incredibly helpful for prototyping. These tools quickly reach a limit of complexity and put out sub par code, but for a green field prototype that's ok. I've successfully been able to test out new libraries and do
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by etler 1y ago
I've lost count of how many "Migrating from X to Postgres" articles I've seen. I don't think I've once seen a migrating away from Postgres article.
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by etler 2y ago
They also scrape and cache sites on behalf of the user too. I understand why media sites are upset about their lack of control over their content, but that's just how the internet works. Sites and services proxy requests for their user
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by etler 2y ago
It was dumb of Perplexity to specifically say that they follow robots.txt, and then not respect it immediately after. I doubt it was a consciously malicious decision as it wouldn't make any sense to try and get some good will from that

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