irrationalfab

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by irrationalfab 5mo ago
Agreed. It is ironic that in the AI race, the real differentiation may not come from how smart the model is, but from who builds the best application layer on top of it. And that application layer is built with the same kind of software the
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by irrationalfab 7mo ago
Interesting! Generating PDFs with properly paginated content is still a pain point in 2026. Do you have a comprehensive integration test suite that can validate the robustness of your implementation?
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by irrationalfab 7mo ago
Prince starts at 2k. This is OSS
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by irrationalfab 7mo ago
Handy is genuinely great and it supports Parakeet V3. It’s starting to change how I "type" on my computer.
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by irrationalfab 7mo ago
Makes me wonder if Micropolis is simple enough that an agent, given many runs and the ability to store what worked, can identify an optimal strategy (like a grid layout) for maximizing score or population even without source access.
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by irrationalfab 9mo ago
+1... like with a large enough engineering team, this is ultimately a guardrails problem, which in my experience with agentic coding it’s very solvable, at least in certain domains.
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by irrationalfab 9mo ago
Agent/MCP/Skills might be "Netscape-y" in the sense that today's formats will evolve fast. But Netscape still mattered: it lost the market, not the ideas. The patterns survived (JavaScript, cookies, SSL/TLS, pr
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by irrationalfab 9mo ago
There's a pattern I keep seeing: LLMs used to replace things we already know how to do deterministically. Parsing a known HTML structure, transforming a table, running a financial simulation. It works, but it's like using a helico
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Claude in Chrome(claude.com)
3 points by irrationalfab 9mo ago|1 comments
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by irrationalfab 9mo ago
Anthropic is positioning Claude in Chrome as a beta feature for day to day use, expanding beyond the earlier research preview. - Pull data from dashboards into one analysis doc - Address slide comments automatically - Build with Claude Code
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by irrationalfab 1y ago
> If those features aren't supported by the widget's hard-coded schema, you're out of luck as a user. Chat paired to the pre-built and on-demand widgets address this limitation. For example, in the keynote demo, they showe
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by irrationalfab 1y ago
This feels like the death of the app, and the rise of the micro-app.
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by irrationalfab 1y ago
Very interesting tech. Ephemeral, high-fidelity preview environments that require zero setup are a key enabler. They let you rapidly validate changes within the complete context of a web or mobile app, accelerating feedback loops and cuttin
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by irrationalfab 1y ago
This nails a real problem. Non-trivial PRs need two passes: first grok the entrypoints and touched files to grasp the conceptual change and review order, then dive into each block of changes with context.
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by irrationalfab 1y ago
Like convex.dev
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by irrationalfab 1y ago
Ironically, LLMs might make it very hard for new frameworks to gain popularity since they are trained on the popular ones.
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by irrationalfab 1y ago
Thank you so much for this!
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by irrationalfab 10y ago
I consider that talk one of the most interesting about programming and I consider it underrated as well.
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Will Apple move away from Intel?(medium.com)
3 points by irrationalfab 10y ago|0 comments
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by irrationalfab 12y ago
Some context: Appie Durán ( https://twitter.com/AppieDuran ) is the dog of Eloy Durán ( https://twitter.com/alloy ), the original author of CocoaPods. Credit goes to Florian R. Hanke ( https://twitter
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CocoaPods acquired!(blog.cocoapods.org)
10 points by irrationalfab 12y ago|3 comments
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by irrationalfab 14y ago
The Silver Searcher is very good for using the terminal as an IDE. I have two aliases which I find very helpful. - Search Obj-C files: alias ago='ag -G ".*\.(h|m)"' - Search Ruby files: alias agr='ag -G ".*.rb"' Also if you ar
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A 3D FPS engine using HTML5 and CSS3 3D transforms by Keith Clark(keithclark.co.uk)
4 points by irrationalfab 14y ago|0 comments
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by irrationalfab 14y ago
Have you seen https://github.com/glock45/iOS-Hierarchy-Viewer ?
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by irrationalfab 14y ago
Interesting twist. Excellent execution. Great MVP.
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by irrationalfab 14y ago
What business model would sustain the cots?
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by irrationalfab 14y ago
Why isn't this open source?
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AppBot - App Store reviews and features straight to your inbox.(appbot.co)
2 points by irrationalfab 14y ago|0 comments
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by irrationalfab 14y ago
Thank you for making this. I like it and I will give it a try, nonetheless the first impression is good. As the other comments point out the copy is very bad. I think that you should improve it and that HN commenters should check things out
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Introducing Live for RubyMotion(irrationalfab.github.com)
52 points by irrationalfab 14y ago|12 comments

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