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Design for iPhone Duo(youtube.com)
2 points by hbarka 7d ago|0 comments
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by hbarka 7d ago
I should have shared this YouTube short: “The most beautiful invention of all time” https://youtube.com/shorts/KW_bvB33kBc
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by hbarka 7d ago
You have to understand 1:√2. It’s not merely folding in half. The test is the folded half has to be the same ratio as the parent. It’s same ratio all the way down. “The mathematical brilliance of A*” https://youtu.be/oQfzSt5
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by hbarka 7d ago
There’s a standard for paper sizes called the ISO 216 international standard, aka A-series paper sizes. You may be familiar with it outside of the American 8.5”x11” letter size. The simplicity, for example, where an A3 sheet is exactly twic
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by hbarka 11d ago
Kintsugi diamonds!
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by hbarka 11d ago
I did this for a few years but it got lonely. Now I draw energy from being around people, and walking to do things has lowered my blood pressure and weight. Subways and regional trains also allow me to live a larger radius.
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by hbarka 11d ago
Just give me a place with safe dense public transportation, walkable places to eat, and nature to relax.
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by hbarka 12d ago
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves beh
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by hbarka 13d ago
Redshift for databases ain’t even here. This is suspect.
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by hbarka 13d ago
> Claude Code rarely searches the web while Codex almost always does I’m trying to understand why they are opposite. I think it is true, I find myself giving a secondary prompt to Claude to “research this” and only then will it fetch. Co
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by hbarka 16d ago
There’s a doctor who goes by Russell Barkley, PhD on his popular YouTube channel and claims to be able to brainscan for ADHD with certainty. Is his claim legitimate?
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by hbarka 18d ago
Thank you. I’m about to ask AI who the price/cost intel providers might be. It might be the answer for creating the idea of leverage with a counterparty. How far to take this proposition of a competitor to the current vendor? The incum
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Ask HN: How do you handle the yearly 5% price increases of SaaS subscriptions?
2 points by hbarka 18d ago|8 comments
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by hbarka 20d ago
Alipay in China for transit and pay is also easy. No card, just a QR on your phone. It can even be a screenshot of the QR code.
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by hbarka 24d ago
It’s difficult to see the difference between a solution looking for a problem and vice versa.
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by hbarka 24d ago
Anthropic’s issue is churn because of the peak verbosity vomit coming out of Opus 5/Mythos/Fable. What the hell did they train it on. The sane model is still Opus 4.6.
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by hbarka 24d ago
South Korea took themselves out of military dictatorships and authoritarians. What’s the problem.
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by hbarka 26d ago
Who knew the human body is multi-fuel.
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by hbarka 26d ago
If you’re on Claude.ai web, you still have preferences tied to your past interactions. That can be edited.
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by hbarka 26d ago
I pruned my Claude.md and it made a difference. There were entries there that evolved from earlier models and Opus 5 could be reacting to it in a different manner.
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by hbarka 1mo ago
Try windmill.dev
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by hbarka 1mo ago
I’m reminded of this D.H. Lawrence poem: Self-Pity I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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by hbarka 2mo ago
> The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models We removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for more advanced models. This is incredible. It’s like Claude learned one of the central ideas in the Tao Te C
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by hbarka 2mo ago
Putting the principal idea of “publicly owned” in its head.
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by hbarka 2mo ago
I know that one. It’s the good ol’ tolerance formula: Tolerance(A) = { 100% if A ≠ B; 0% if A → B } Sprinkle on anything to suit your taste.
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by hbarka 2mo ago
God forbid we put out a pan of dry kibbles for a stray cat or a water pan outside for hiking dogs during hot days. That would be “enabling”.
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by hbarka 2mo ago
> A good part of our sleepes is peeced out with visions, Because of current slang, I read this as “peaced out” then realized it’s “pieced out”. Peace out
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by hbarka 2mo ago
> and I cannot think of a logical reason to not provide that information. The reason is simple. Omission is deception.
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by hbarka 2mo ago
Looks like we are at the end of the frontier-level models at subscription pricing. After this grace period, it will be double the cost at paid-per-token usage. I’m counting on the other models to compete at the subscription level and I need
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Ask HN: What is your AI harness that lets you switch LLM models easily?
10 points by hbarka 2mo ago|10 comments

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