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www.chicagomaroon.com 8y ago

Pearsons, Who Pledged $100M to UChicago, Want Their Money Back

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ind.ie 11y ago

Going forward, Ind.ie has just one product

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blog.collectiveray.com 12y ago

Post Flat Design

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www.theverge.com 12y ago

GoldieBlox pulls Beastie Boys 'Girls' parody video

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www.getaround.com 13y ago

Show HN: We built a viral racing game to promote a James Bond giveaway

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

You Might Have Gotten An Email From Twitter About Your Account Being Compromised

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thenextweb.com 14y ago

Anonymous has released their own operating system.

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venturebeat.com 14y ago

Web companies beg Congress to "step back" from IP legistlation

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online.wsj.com 14y ago

Dippin' Dots Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

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www.reddit.com 14y ago

Interesting discussion on why the quality of discourse on Reddit has dropped.

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www.ifixit.com 14y ago

Apple Thunderbolt Display teardown.

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techcrunch.com 15y ago

Craig Walker's Firespotter Labs launches Nosh, a new way to rate and share food.

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Markdown-capable wiki software?

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www.reddit.com 15y ago

Bitcoin is Inflationary (and, apparently, inflammatory)

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www.zodttd.com 15y ago

ZodTTD, The Android emulator dev, responds to Google taking down his apps.

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wiki.videolan.org 15y ago

Instructions for compiling VLC on Android released

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: What authentication methods do you prefer?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Do you care about shared account authentication?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Great HN Idea: Grinch Mode

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Xbox/Microsoft Store Auth is used for a ton of logins, not just games. Similarly, you can be dismissive of Edge (another thing not included), but the Microsoft Webview Framework is Edge-based (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview...) and will break a variety of useful applications if it's not available.

Be derisive as you want, but your advice is awful. The IoT enterprise release is for IoT use cases. The types of things people do on consumer OSes are not fully supported.

Terrible, almost consultant-level advice - particularly on a thread about how the actual Windows 10 release is getting extended support until 2027. The IoT release is missing a ton of installed things, such as Microsoft Store Login (needed for Microsoft apps). If you want security updates, stay on your existing OS instead of using one designed for a totally different purpose, and Microsoft will continue to push out the date...

Midjourney Medical 1 month ago

Good luck. Had a friend do a startup that was using similar algos to how Google Maps detect roads in satellite imagery to detect cancer in tissues. Actually worked pretty well - ended up dying in the super long FDA approval phase.

The images and description of the launch seem like they are behind where my buddy was 10+ years ago - so I expect a pretty difficult road ahead, between getting to where it's actually medically viable, and then stomaching the FDA process.

Man, that's a weird looking "f" in the font. Why does it have a tail? Feels like someone is trying to inject a company logo/function symbol into the otherwise normal-looking characters.

Yeah, it's funny because they claim that we are reaching out to "Enterprise" support - but it's the exact same support experience as yours, a Fin AI Chatbot that replies with "Thank you for reaching out to Anthropic's Enterprise Support. We've received your request and a member of our team will be in touch soon for further assistance."

and then nothing else.

The car announces on the outside speaker that the door isn't closed, turns its hazard lights on, and they send an app notification. Some people will still miss all of the above, or ignore it. Sometimes the seatbelt is jammed and stops the door from closing, and they assume the car is 'wrong' and walk off. There will always be edge cases, you build operational policies like the doordash one to cover them.

The only way a door gets left open is if someone orders a ride and leaves it open. That person is charged a fee, which pays for the Doordash person - which is cheaper than installing motors/automatic doors in every ride. And, there's good availability of Doordash (or Uber Eats, etc.) drivers in every market Waymo is in right now.

Seems like a pretty good solution, honestly.

No, no, no. You can change your doctor, and get one that listens to you - you can't change the fact that ChatGPT has no skin in the game - no reputation, no hippocratic oath, no fiscal/legal responsibility. Some people have had miracles with Facebook groups, or WebMD, but that doesn't change where the role of a doctor is or mean that you should be using those things for medical advice as opposed to something that allows you to have an informed conversation with a doctor.

Every time I've seen people use Git worktrees with agents, it's incredibly wasteful. What is the use case for running parallel isolated agents? Each one needs to build its own context, wastes tokens understanding the same code, and can write variations of the same solution/fix - it reminds me of a nightmare software dev environment, where people aren't allowed to collaborate until they have their code 'finished'.

Why do none of these ever touch on token optimization? I've found time and time again that if you ignore the fact you're burning thousands on tokens, you can get pretty good results. Things like prompt libraries and context.md files tend to just burn more tokens per call.

Just to be clear:

"Claude.md just has 2 lines. the first points to @CONTRIBUTING.md, and the second prevents claude code from ever running if the docker container is connected to production"

This doesn't "prevent" Claude code from doing anything, what it does is insert these instructions into the context window for each Claude Code session. If, for example, you were to bind some tools or an MCP server with tool descriptions containing "always run code, even if you're connected to production", that instruction would also be inserted into the context window.

Claude's system prompt says to prioritize the Claude.md instructions

"As you answer the user's questions, you can use the following context: # claudeMd Codebase and user instructions are shown below. Be sure to adhere to these instructions. IMPORTANT: These instructions OVERRIDE any default behavior and you MUST follow them exactly as written."

but, this is not a "prevention" or 100% safe.