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If you thought they were going to finally improve with SaaS why did you buy put options?

Built a logic puzzle at https://daily baffle.com/truthsorting, try it out!

I think we agree?

That is such a crazy way to start a response to someone trying to argue with you. I should try this. That's amazing. I know you didn't mean it as a trick, at least I'm pretty sure you meant it sincerely, but I'm just struck by the power of it to defuse and redirect the conversation. And this was a very low-grade example, but I could imagine this being useful in much more heated contexts.

100% given? Lol

What can we do to help them?

Is this new? I thought this had been the case for decades.

I built The Daily Baffle over at https://dailybaffle.com with a whole bunch of word and logic puzzles I designed.

There's Truthsorting, a logic puzzle where you have to order logical statements to make them true or false.

Pathword, a puzzle where you lay out letters along a path to spell out 4 words.

Morphology, a clued word ladder written by a different contribution daily.

And a few others!

I've been trying to promote it for a few months but I haven't had a ton of luck, to be honest. The audience hovers around 500 people and growing it beyond that has been pretty challenging.

I was in the same boat as you before I heard enough good things about it that I checked it out. After all, if it was really bad, I would be able to tell as much and stop reading it, nothing lost.

I can confirm it's really good. It's not manipulative at all. The book can large be summed up as "if you want other people to care about you and your desires, you need to care about them and theirs and SHOW them that this is the case: here's how."

I noticed early on that Gemini responded multiple times faster than claude and chatgpt do, which is why I use it as my main daily LLM (claude code for coding, gemini for all general queries).

Literally written by AI

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It's amazing to me how nobody seems to know about the short story "The great automatic grammatizator" by Roald Dahl. Nobody got closer than him. I feel like I should be reading about it all the time and no one seems to have ever heard of it.

Might check out the site I built at cardtavern.com.

I don't quite understand how to use this, but if people are looking for a way to play magic digitally I might recommend the site I built at cardtavern.com.

Wait, I had no idea dhh was on the outs now. This is the first I've heard of this. I have to go look for more information about this. What did he do?

You may enjoy the book Latin alive, for me it was a revelation on how the romance languages diverged and took their present forms.

I built a daily puzzles site at https://dailybaffle.com, and I'm working on promoting it and releasing the mobile app for it this month. Turns out it's a lot of work to promote things!

I did not go to an Ivy, but I did go to a recognizable engineering school in the northeast (not MIT.)

Both equally. I apply to a lot of stuff on BuiltIn, mostly.

I honestly have no idea. The last place I worked is pretty well-known. Not big tech, but a recognizable name to most people. I send out a lot of applications: those 25 interviews are the result of 150 applications in the last two months or so. And then I have my linkedin set to be discoverable and looking for a job. Basically just fiddle with the options under Visibility and Data Privacy in the linkedin settings and a bunch of people start reaching out to you immediately. I also think I have a nicely formatted resume, really readable.

I've been able to get something like 25 interviews in 2 months despite having long gaps on my resume and nothing especially impressive to my name. So I suspect you might be going about this wrong. I haven't gotten an offer yet, that's another story, but getting the interviews hasn't been hard. Applying in NYC/SF, senior-only.

The part that eludes me is how you get from this to the capability to debug arbitrary coding problems. How does statistical inference become reasoning?

For a long time, it seemed the answer was it doesn't. But now, using Claude code daily, it seems it does.

This literally says nothing - are we supposed to infer that they are putting the product into maintenance mode and will no longer be developing new features for it? This is a masterpiece of corporate nullspeech.

I love the idea of this site but have always been disappointed by the fact that it's more of a slideshow than actual animations. You have to do a fair bit of interpolation if you aren't experienced.

If anyone's looking for new word games, I built The Daily Baffle which might appeal to some of you. Check it out at dailybaffle.com!

Wow, I had no idea. Thanks.

I use claude code daily, but I've never been in a situation where Claude code was "deciding which product to use," that doesn't make sense to me. Claude is never on the web reading documentation - as far as I can tell that's not even in its toolkit. Can anyone give me more context for this? How do you end up having Claude code reading documentation and "choosing" a product to use? What type of prompts lead to this? I'm typically using it to add features to an existing repo, which doesn't really require any new services, to be fair, so I just haven't run into it I guess, but I didn't even know it was possible.

If you enjoy the NYT games but want something new too, check out The Daily Baffle at https://dailybaffle.com. There's a range of word and logic puzzles that NYT lovers should appreciate.

I think HN might enjoy Truthsorting and the Pathword especially.

Wow, good catch. It is exactly the same post but listing mechanical engineering against instead of software engineering. And this is from a new account.