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Not the OP, nor do I have any relationship to them, but I've had to build or maintain plenty of these in my time and sure, an LLM can knock out a basic one easily, but there are so many edge cases that need to be accounted for that it gets complex quickly.

Congrats on the launch - this looks like a genuinely useful tool. I look forward to checking it out.

I have absolutely no relationship with OpenAI but maybe give it some time before drawing such a conclusion.

Is it spying if:

1. It's anonymous

2. They're telling you they're doing it

3. You can opt out of it

Does this have a CLI only interface?

I build software for contractors (plumbers, electricians, HVAC repair, etc) and they're some of the fastest adopters of these systems. I believe YC has even invested in a few.

Regarding the AI receptionists, from the calls I've listened to, there's still a bit of the uncanny valley/overlapping speech issues that I'm unsure are ever fixable just due to latency.

But for low margin businesses like contracting and (I imagine) auto repair where labor is your most expensive cost, these owners are doing anything they can to reduce their overhead.

Yes! Just implemented these the other day for a long running process that I didn't want to lock a specific row for.

The Qwen3 600M and 4B embedding models are near state of the art and aren't too computationally intensive.

I think that's the point...

I think the opposite is true. Sure, it's technically impressive, but users have been trained for decades at this point to understand how a basic marketing page should look and this isn't it. These kinds of sites are best left as portfolio pages for designers to show off their skills, not for B2B SaaS landing pages.

The company names look like Amazon merchants.

I have a deep love of A* because it was the first complex algorithm I fully understood. In my first data structures and algorithms in college (early 2000's), we had to pick an algorithm to study, code, and write a paper on and I picked A*.

I spent hours painstakingly drawing similar grids that the author of this article made and manually doing the calculations [0]. I still have these notes somewhere, even though they're over 20 years old at this point, because I was so proud of the work I put into it.

At any rate, thanks for this article and the trip down memory lane.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/zRYaodL (apologies for the Imgur link)

Funny quip aside, thanks for bringing Arq to my attention. This looks excellent and isn't enshittified.

Yes.

How are you running the Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B model [0]? Running locally using llama.cpp, I asked it to briefly describe what happened in China during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest and it responded with "I'm unable to engage in discussions regarding political matters due to the sensitive nature of the topic. Please feel free to ask any non-political questions you may have, and I'll be happy to assist."

When I asked the same model about what happened during the 1970 Kent State shootings, it gave me exactly what I asked for.

[0] https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct-GGUF/b...

Symfony 7.2 can work as a micro framework, believe it or not: https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-7-2-simpler-single-f...

It's funny, I've been working with HTML since 1998, and I got 36 (though I do think <font> should've been allowed). I thought I'd do a lot better, but I guess you can accomplish a lot with only a few tags, CSS, and some minimal JavaScript.

The standard Windows Solitaire game is littered with ads - which you can disable for $2.49/month.

My guess is it's shorter and easier to share.

I'm ignorant of what this is: is this the "seed" prompt, so to speak? The prompt the ChatGPT engineers have given itself so it knows what it is and how to respond?

Excellent article, thanks for writing and posting it.

A little harsh, no? Damn dude.

I instantly purchased this. I really love Tailwind and the component/UI libraries they sell. I'm shocked that a CSS library/framework is so divisive. If you don't like it, don't use it!

I'm also surprised that someone ... selling something ... gets such negativity on Hacker News of all places. Again, if you don't like it or it doesn't have value to you, don't buy it!

I paid for it because I love what Adam and team are doing with Tailwind. It's been incredibly beneficial to use as a backend engineer, and the amount of money paid is trivial to the benefits it provides.

Is it widely assumed the thief is North Korea?

Additionally, I'd wager a good majority of their paying customers had no idea the controversy was happening, or weren't going to change their entire office operating procedures because the owners may have some caustic opinions.

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu - It's an odd combination of intense physical activity and human chess (setting up attacks in advance while also trying to deflect your opponents attacks, except using chokes or joint breaks). Grapplers are either freak athletes, 120lb stoners, or business professionals. BJJ is one of the most unique sports/martial arts out there, and I encourage everyone to try it at least once.

I started after enrolling my children in it, and then figuring "why the hell not, I should train too."

This seems shortsighted. There are dozens of reasons you may want to get to know your neighbors: help each other out, become friends, watch a package, babysit, petsit, and so forth. Sure, nothing may happen from an interaction, but it seems one of the unique aspects of living in an apartment complex is that you can easily know your neighbors.

I live in a large neighborhood of single-family homes and know many of my neighbors, most of which have become good, trusted friends.

I agree. From his site it appears he's a "coach" that some executive hires to hold an all hands team building exercise that the rank-and-file completely dread. No thanks.

That's exactly what we do: submitting a search/filter form through a POST request which creates a record in the database representing the search/filter criteria and then redirects to the same endpoint with the ID of that record. The endpoint looks for the ID in the query, attempts to load the same record, and if found, executes and returns the search results.

It works very well, is completely transparent to the end user, has automatic query logging, and provides a clean URL that can be easily shared.

Great to hear some people still follow the KISS method. I've done the same for years and this very simple setup can scale to tens of millions of (database intensive) requests per week.