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by mg 6d ago
For me, the appeal of HN is the DIY attitude. In that regard AI fits the bill well. Because many of the AI related posts are about tools one can immediately tinker with. While a new type of laptop cooling might become interesting once the l
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by mg 22d ago
> Here’s a book_table tool. It takes a date, a time, and a party size. Call it. Why not offer a simple form that humans and AI can use alike? <form action=book_table> <input type=date name=date> <input ty
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by mg 1mo ago
I use the bookmarklet below. It jumps to the newest story on the frontpage. And when I click the bookmarklet again (or press "n") it jumps to the next. So I just click it until I land on a story I have already seen and know I have
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by mg 1mo ago
My expectation is that AI will give us a way to nicely quantify how productivity is impacted by choice of language. Because we can rerun the same request as often as we like and compare the results. And I expect that it will turn out Python
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by mg 1mo ago
It is actually pretty easy to keep alive URLs if there is a will to do so. Just have tests in place so you can't mess them up accidentally. And convert things that are not changing anymore to static html. One of my first web projects i
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by mg 1mo ago
Cars that are idle 95% of the time are replaced less than once in a decade. Cabs are replaced something like 3x more often than privately owned cars. And when they run 24/7 because of self-driving, that factor will even increase.
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by mg 1mo ago
Because a single autonomous vehicle operating in a shared fleet can replace multiple privately owned cars, the widespread adoption of this technology can’t help but reduce new-car sales volumes. The old "Thing wil
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by mg 2mo ago
Wouldn't a "toxic waste tax" be better than all these individual regulations? Have a sales tax on each product that corresponds to the toxicity of its components. Exempt recycled materials from the tax so companies have an in
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by mg 3mo ago
From the SOTA model providers, I only use OpenAI and Google. And between gpt-5.5 and gemini-3.1-pro-preview, gpt-5.5 is currently leading.
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by mg 3mo ago
Agreed that it is not linear. I wrote my own agent, and it sends data to LLMs in this order: "General Prompts (How to write good code)" + "The Code" + "The Feature Request". This means the KV cache will be used
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by mg 3mo ago
It is the other way round. In an interactive session, adding "Fine, but make the button red" after the model generated a first solution more than doubles the tokens used. As the model now not only gets the original code and the fe
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by mg 3mo ago
Considerations about what goes on in agents internally will probably not be part of software development for long. Personally, I already see LLMs and agents as blackboxes. I give each feature request to multiple LLMs and then compare the re
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by mg 3mo ago
In my current workflow, yes, I read all code. In fact, I usually let multiple LLMs implement the same feature, and then I compare them. I even run my own arena in which I calculate Elo scores for LLMs from my perspective of which one implem
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by mg 3mo ago
How would you detect the presence of bugs in this scenario? I would ask AI. "Did the last commit introduce any bugs or unintended consequences?". In fact I already use this prompt after every change I make manual
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by mg 3mo ago
It would tell me about the changes like a human would. "It changed the plot function so it takes another parameter called linewidth. It also added an input field in the stylecontrols section where the user can ...".
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by mg 3mo ago
you will be surrounded by an ecosystem of devices, none of which stand alone, but are more like portals to interact with your agents I would be really happy with my phone + headphones as the device I use most. But only if
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by mg 3mo ago
I wrote my own tooling around the raw LLMs: I can tick files in Vim, those get concatenated into a prompt. Along with a feature request. Plus an instructions file that tells the LLM how to reply. Plus my general "rules for good code&qu
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by mg 4mo ago
Makes me wonder how many bytes the shortest possible Mandelbrot implementation would need.
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ChatGPT Shopping(chatgpt.com)
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by mg 6mo ago
You can’t import or require() a module that only exists in memory. You can convert it into a data url and import that, can't you?
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by mg 6mo ago
However you look at it, sitting at home doing nothing is not the right approach for engineers to get their company back on track. If there is no money to pay them, they should get shares in the company. So if their R&D is successful, th
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by mg 6mo ago
Why can't that "dedicated development environment" be a cloud VM with a web interface, a GitHub codespace for example? You could put the example code on the filesystem of that VM too.
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by mg 6mo ago
But does the agent have access to a whole computer to write those tools? Couldn't it write them in a web based dev environment?
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by mg 6mo ago
how would claude code work from a browser environment? If you want an agent (like OpenClaw) to write software, why have it use another agent (Claude Code) in the first place? Why not let it develop the software directly? As for ho
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by mg 6mo ago
I wonder if we really need agents to have control of a full computer. Maybe a browser plugin that lets the agent use websites is enough? What would be a task that an agent cannot do on the web?
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by mg 6mo ago
German chancellor Friedrich Merz ... lashed out at German workers to “simply do a little more,” Germany literally pays people to do nothing. A friend of mine, an engineer who works in the German car industry, recently tol
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by mg 7mo ago
What basic office tasks are that? The last time I was excited about the performance of local computers was in the 90s I think. Modern laptops are so insanely fast. Not sure if they are 2x, 10x or 100x faster than I need them to be. But I ne
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by mg 7mo ago
The one thing that interests me most when it comes to laptops these days is weight. So I jumped right into the tech specs section and looked it up. Since this is the "Air" laptop of the company that is popular for thin and lightwe
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by mg 7mo ago
I'm not sure. I have not seen them on any large retailer in the USA like Amazon, Walmart, Newegg, BestBuy etc. Maybe if someone here is in the USA and has bought one, they can chime in and tell where they got it from?
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by mg 7mo ago
I have been maintaining this chart of phones with replaceable batteries available in the USA for 10 years now: https://www.productchart.com/smartphones/removable_battery Man, is it empty these days. The chart used to b

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