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SpaceX shares debut after biggest IPO in history

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Prompting Patterns (Groq Documentation)

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portless.sh 3mo ago

Portless – domains for local development (supports HTTPS and Git Worktrees)

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paddo.dev 5mo ago

Claude Code's Hidden Multi-Agent System

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news.ycombinator.com 10mo ago

Ask HN: Writing Custom Instructions for the AI

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Opera GX [Satire]

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ChatGPT temporarily shut down in Italy

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: What's a Good Coding Test?

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wordplay.com 4y ago

Person running the site had to shut it down. It was out of his control

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github.com 4y ago

Open source SQL database for processing time series data, faster

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Ask HN: Shouldn't we start ti syntax highlight natural language?

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medium.com 10y ago

“If you want something done, give it to someone who is very busy.”

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bitbucket-assetroot.s3.amazonaws.com 10y ago

Bitbucket adds “Ignore whitespace” button

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github.com 10y ago

Show HN: Pipes – thin wrapper around PHP SPL iterators and generators

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imgur.com 10y ago

Twitter: “We've noticed it's hard for your friends to find you”

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thenextweb.com 10y ago

Twitter now lets marketers access every public tweet ever made

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translate.google.com 10y ago

Senator threats flood constitutional reform with automatic generator of amendments

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techcrunch.com 11y ago

Snoop Dogg for CEO of Twitter

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My take is that Anthropic and OpenAI simply are NOT competing on price. 2 big players are often not enough to create tension on price.

Chinese models and open model providers are, indeed, competing on price, and the difference shows.

That's actually a good point. I had Fable available almost immediately under my Copilot subscription and never bothered to use it even to say hello.

But from what I hear, Fable looks like an incremental update, with improved behavior imprinted by training.

Something that you could theoretically approximate by using a good set of instructions and model orchestration (tweaking the session life cycle, using a second model to understand user intentions, using a third model to prevent drift, ...).

If the above is true, the only discriminator would be user effort.

If Fable is dangerous, then we are still in danger right now, and have been for the last few months at the very least.

Cancelled my personal subscription (annual) yesterday.

- they "swallowed" my monthly subscription in January, I had to subscribe (and pay again)

- they promised tools to preview the new costs, they did too little and too badly (you have to click an export button, wait for a mail and click on a link on it, then download their csv which even showed substantial dollar costs for rows with 0 requests)

- models kept on appearing/disappearing/re-appearing-disabled on our company account in the latest weeks

- as of May 31th, I had no clue and could not tell if I would been migrated to token billing, or would have to stay with the moronic new multipliers. News came on Jun 1st, of course

They don't really look able or willing to properly manage their own product at the moment. And yes, new subscription are paused, so I won't be able to re-subscribe.

Quite frankly the only reason to go copilot is to have it in the VSCode chat (and yes, there's some chance to use it BYOK, provided it works).

Besides, their offering even at market prices looks inferior to what you can get elsewhere. You can use DeepSeek and pay pennies, use Fireworks and have the choice to use cheaper open models (which GitHub does not provide, and are actually good and even better than Claude sometimes), or subscribe to Open Router and use virtually anything.

I still have no idea if cancelling my subscription will get any money back, probably not.

The first time I took creatine (6g IIRC), I actually felt the mental effect just 2 minutes later. A pleasurable sensation of augmented presence and (mental) relaxation.

I paused taking that momentarily out of precaution while I wait some physical issue to normalize, but I plan to resume it in some weeks. Also it is considered a very safe supplement.

I don't really understand why the comment has been downvoted.

We actually need more of this, perhaps not in this exact shape, but similar.

It would be extremely cool to be able to write one or two lines of prompt in my harness, and have a light model iterate with me a few times writing/proposing requirements, guidelines and explanations, refining the prompt until it's ready to be sent to the actual LLM.

Lack of specifications in the prompt is (imho?) one of the main drivers that lead the LLMs astray, and it often happens because it's not realistic to always type or even thing every angle before submitting each prompt.

Think of it as the missing link between a single-shot prompt and a skill.

It should be ideally integrated in the chat, for quick access.

This project is probably different in aim, but I still find it interesting.

I was looking exactly for something like that. I tried installing the Linux version and it runs but:

1. it's behind a login wall | 2. tries to download its own OpenCode instead of using the one installed on my machine

I also tried to create a new workspace. It asked what I want to do. I tried with "create user accounts", and it proceeded to create the git worktree (without asking for its name) and sent that prompt straight to OpenCode without allowing me to choose the LLM model.

I plaud the effort - I really do - but it doesn't really seems a great experience for now.

Also for future reference, Copilot - specifically - includes a configuration flag to toggle the co-authorship (see `copilot help config`):

`includeCoAuthoredBy`: whether to instruct the agent to add a Co-authored-by trailer to git commits; defaults to `true`.

This means that, if you don't explicitely configure otherwise, the LLM is specifically instructed to include co-authorship in its higher level instructions.

It doesn't work so well in my experience. I am currently wrapping (or asking the LLM to wrap) the commit message prompt in a script call.

   1. the LLM is instructed on how to write a commit message and never include co-authorship
   2. the LLM is asked to produce a commit message
   3. the LLM output is parsed by a script which removes co-authorship if the LLM chooses to include it nevertheless

Actually what it seems to tackle at its core is discoverability. Which should be built in in each MCP server as it's not that difficult, instead, we see MCP servers with 50+ methods.

Much easier:

    { action: 'help' }

    { action: 'projects.help' }

    { action: 'projects.get', payload: { id: xxxx-xx-x } }
And you get the very same discoverability.

There are other interesting capabilities though, like built in permissions based on HTTP verb, that might be useful to someone.

The issue here is the row based format. You simply can't filter on arbitrary columns with that. Either use an external warehouse or a columnar plug-in like Timescale.

I am creating AI coding framework (a set of skills and scripts, really), since it seems a lot of them don't support copilot.

I don't think what I am doing is really original, but it's shaping nicely.

I am working on:

- feature folders (one folder per feature, with changelog, issues, summaries etc)

- coworkers (cli-agents, with session management)

- agents intra-response messaging

In general the goal is forcing Claude to behave, which is quite ambitious :).

The patterns in the article might be a starter, but there's so much more to cover:

agents role (Orchestrator, QA etc.), agents communication, thinking patterns, iteration patterns, feature folders, time-aware changelog tracking, prompt enforcing, real time steering.

We might really need a public Wiki for that (C2 [1] style)

[1] https://wiki.c2.com/