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news.ycombinator.com 4mo ago

Tell HN: OpenClaw is getting ~75 pull requests an hour

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news.ycombinator.com 6mo ago

Tell HN: GitHub has experienced issues 60% of days this year

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www.theregister.com 2y ago

Google Search results polluted by buggy AI-written code frustrate coders

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github.com 5y ago

Brackets, a code-editor from Adobe that paved the way for VSCode, reaches EOL

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cwiki.apache.org 6y ago

Sites, Applications, and Systems That Are Powered by Tomcat

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venturebeat.com 7y ago

Umbra Composit could scan the world in 3D to the detail of single grain of sand

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medium.com 8y ago

YES I Compiled 1M TypeScript Files in Under 40 Seconds. This Is How

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www.youtube.com 8y ago

Bitcoin as Explained by A.I

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howdy.petetnt.xyz 9y ago

Show HN: Sheriff Generator, an App for Creating the Hottest Emoji Sheriff Memes

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jenkins.io 9y ago

Jenkins Security Advisory 2017-04-10

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www.youtube.com 9y ago

The Best Sound for MS-DOS Games – Roland MT-32

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powerplay.hockey 9y ago

Powerplay.hockey – data-driven NHL recap/live feed site

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

GitHub contribution graphs now show reviews too

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blog.brackets.io 9y ago

Brackets 1.8 is now available

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store.steampowered.com 9y ago

My Summer Car Is Now Out on Steam Early Access

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github.com 9y ago

Show HN: Get an users Instagram feed as an ASCII version to stdout

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blog.stackoverflow.com 10y ago

You Can Now Download Stack Overflow’s 2016 Developer Survey Data

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

Sega Saturn CD – Cracked after 20 years

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steamcommunity.com 10y ago

Steam updates web browser component to Chromium 49

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

Hitting This Block for 416 Years Crashes Paper Mario

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github.com 10y ago

Express applying for incubation under the Node.js Foundation

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Unlike Steam keys, there are no ways to distribute Playstation keys outside of Playstation platform. By removing retailers and second hand markets, what exactly would make Sony or any other publishers to continue offering any deep discounts on their products on a closed platform, especially when their biggest competitor Xbox has dropped the ball heavily.

Luckily we have had the perfect paradigm for this kind of mindset for decades: proprietary software. The spirit of open source is already essentially dead due to it being co-opted by companies and individuals working only for their own gain, and for it to rise again we probably need a total reset.

This does not mean that Slack’s engineering investment was wasted, because Slack also built enterprise sales infrastructure, compliance capabilities, data security practices, and organizational resilience that a fourteen-day prototype does not include.

The LLM-agent team argument also misses the core point that the engineering investment (which actually encompasses business decisions, design and much more than just programming) is what actually got Slack (or any other software product) to the point where is it is now and where it's going in the future and creating a snapshot of the current status is, while maybe not absolutely trivial, still just a tiny fraction of the progress made over the years.

A Tour of Oodi 3 months ago

Kino Regina, the movie theater mentioned, is owned and operated by the Finnish Arts and Culture Agency and does not only show classics, but also a lot of contemporary movies of note, right up until recent releases. It has modern hi-grade digifilm equipment but is also equiped to show film from eg. 70mm and cinemascope formats. They also host concerts and seminars.

Personally I’d like to thank you for raising the point, it seems that tsc members are willing to ram the PR through regardless as per jasnell’s LLM analysis that honestly seems like a hostile gish galloping attempt than an actual honest analysis.

GPT-5.4 5 months ago

Whoa, I think GPT-5.3 Instant was a disappointment, but GPT-5.4 is definitely the future!

Write-only code 5 months ago

That’s the conclusion you get when you sit in the board of 20 companies where all the CEOs are telling you the same thing but you don’t understand that you are all just selling the same golden shovel to each other. Obviously this can also be backed by their own experiences too: 100% of code is written by AI, because last time they actually wrote code was in 2010.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 5 months ago

Whoa, I think Claude Sonnet 4.5 was a disappointment, but Claude Sonnet 4.6 is definitely the future!

ai;dr 5 months ago

I agree with the general statement, if you didn’t spend time on writing it, I am not going to spend time reading it. That includes situations where the writer decides to strip all personality by letting AI format the end product. There’s irony in not wanting to read AI content, but still using it for code and especially documentation though, where the same principle should apply.

GitHub has had customer visible incidents large enough to warrant status page updates almost every day this year (https://www.githubstatus.com/history).

This should not be normal for any service, even at GitHub's size. There's a joke that your workday usually stops around 4pm, because that's when GitHub Actions goes down every day.

I wish someone inside the house cared to comment why the services barely stay up and what kinds of actions are they planning to do to fix this issue that's been going on years, but has definitely accelerated in the past year or so.

GPT-5.3-Codex 6 months ago

Whoa, I think GPT-5.2-Codex was a disappointment, but GPT-5.3-Codex is definitely the future!

There’s nothing old internet about these AI companies. Old internet was about giving out and asking for nothing in return. These companies take everything and give back nothing, unless you are willing to pay that is.

Again there's a cognitive dissonance in play here where the future of coding is somehow LLMs and but at the same time the LLMS would not evolve not to handle the operations as well even if we disregard pipedreams about AGIs being just around the corner. Especially when markdown files for AI are essentially glorified runbooks.

Using LLMs at Oxide 8 months ago

Funny how the article states that "LLMs can be excellent editors" and then the post repeats all the mistakes that no editor would make:

1. Because reading posts like this 2. Is actually frustrating as hell 3. When everything gets dragged around and filled with useless anecdotes and 3 adjective mumbojumbos and endless emdashes — because somehow it's better than actually just writing something up.

Which just means that people in tech or in general have no understanding what an editor does.

Don't "no coders" find the concepts described in this article imdimitating?

The article states that whatever the article is trying to describe "Takes about ~20-30 mins. The cognitive load is high....". while their literal actual step of "Googling "ffmpeg combine static image and audio."" gives you the literal command you need to run from a known source (superuser.com sourced from ffmpeg wiki).

Anyone even slightly familiar with ffmpeg should be able to produce the same result in minutes. For someone who doesn't understand what ffmpeg is the article means absolutely nothing. How does a "no coder" understand what a "agent in a sandboxed container" is?

I love how the proposed solution is to essentially gaslighting the model to think that it's an expert programmer and then specify and re-specify the prompt until the solution is essentially inefficient pseudocode. Now we are in a world where amateur coders still cannot code or can't learn from their mistakes while experts are essentially JIRA ticket outsourcing specialists.