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julianlam

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Co-Founder of NodeBB Inc., modern forum software for the modern web.

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www.npr.org 3y ago

Antigua and Barbuda may vote to remove King Charles III as its head of state

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www.ctvnews.ca 4y ago

$29.7M settlement for Canadians in a class-action lawsuit re: optical drives

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devnull.land 4y ago

The age of the fast self-checkout lane is over

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www.tandfonline.com 4y ago

Walking through doorways causes forgetting (2011)

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placekitten.com 4y ago

Placekitten

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www.pcgamer.com 4y ago

Please stop making Discord servers for things that shouldn't be Discord servers

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devnull.land 4y ago

Wannabe security researchers are the worst part about running a bug bounty

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fastmail.blog 4y ago

Fastmail–Send Later with Scheduled Send

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discourse.ubuntu.com 4y ago

Steam will be a Canonical maintained snap package on Ubuntu

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github.com 4y ago

Repo owner adds protestware affecting RU/BE users

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nodebb.org 4y ago

We Moved from $Exciting_technology to $Boring_standard

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nodebb.org 4y ago

FIDO2/WebAuthn Support for NodeBB

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: In API design; minimal responses or kitchen sink responses?

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Why are comments disabled for the “X is Hiring” posts?

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developer.chrome.com 4y ago

Private Network Access update: Introducing a deprecation trial

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devnull.land 4y ago

Does Hacker News foster deep discussion?

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freshtomato.org 4y ago

FreshTomato

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stackoverflow.blog 6y ago

Ask HN: 10 Years In, Was He Right? “Value of Downvoting; How HN Gets It Wrong”

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blog.nodebb.org 6y ago

A Fast Web Is Achievable

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jamanetwork.com 7y ago

JAMA: 4400 steps/day for lower mortality rate, diminishing returns after 7500

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www.macrumors.com 7y ago

Inbox by Gmail sunset by April 2, suggests in-app messaging

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www.nodebb.org 13y ago

Show HN: NodeBB - [Open Source] Node.js/Redis/WebSocket powered forum software

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Why Tangled instead of something more established like Codeberg, or if f/loss, Forgejo or Gitea?

Just because ATProto vibes?

Forever soup isn't new, of course.

Poor families do it to cheaply make long lasting meals.

My late maternal grandmother used to have a pot of forever soup on the stove, and she would put whatever she had on hand in.

Spare ribs, check. Leftover veg, check. McDonalds fries, gross, but check.

Every time this sort of news pops up, I think "why aren't they incentivising and subsidizing fertility treatment"?

You want to raise the fertility rate, yes?

You could convince an entire population to have more babies the hard way (social or economic pressure).

Or literally just let the people who are already trying, but can't for some physiological reason, have one. They already want children, if they're pursuing fertility treatment, they're already decently well off, too.

To me it seems like a very obvious, targeted solution!

Fly for Less 19 days ago

Yeah Hopper didn't start off as a booking site. Just a private group not affiliated with any airline group.

:)

As a FUTO keyboard user for about a year I'm quite excited for this!

Their local voice transcription is top notch and proper swipe gestures would be icing on the cake.

Now to fix that issue there tapping "Tuesd" sometimes suggests "Thursday"

I think it's interesting that people write off open weight models because they're "a few months behind" proprietary models.

I know LLMs move at the speed of light (especially these past few quarters), but if Opus and GPT "a few months ago" were really like open weight models, then there's really no reason to not switch, especially for those who were using these models a few months ago.

Your codebase didn't change, so use the open weight model. Don't move the goalposts.

I think a particular failing with developers embracing AI is fighting the sunk cost fallacy. While you might not have spent as much time putting together a non-working solution, you still did spend time working with the agent to slap together a non-working solution.

Being able to step back and say "this was a failure and we need to discard the day's work and start over" is still hard with LLMs.

6 months is a joke.

Companies a thousandth their size are giving free or at-cost access for OSS projects.

Respectfully, as an OSS maintainer (not to the scale of nginx or valkey, of course)... if a third-party used an AI agent to rewrite my software in a different language, that gives me absolutely no reason to support that new project.

It is in all respects foreign code in a language I may or may not be familiar with, and worse yet, if I were to take over, I'd be responsible for maintaining the whole black box forever more?

Thank you but no thanks.

MCP is dead? 2 months ago

The reason MCP isn't dead is because practically ~every company on the planet is building an MCP server. I know this because we interact with all of them.

Wow if that's not an echo-chamber comment I don't know what is.