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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: MCP server for long-term memory?

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Useful AI tools that changed your daily life?

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Svelte Summit Fall 2023 [video]

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lists.gnu.org 3y ago

Tree-sitter merged into Emacs master

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Fixing performance New allocator and compressed depth – (Asahi Lina M1 GPU)

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github.com 3y ago

Mona Sans, a variable font from GitHub

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old.reddit.com 3y ago

PSA: I3-gaps has been merged into i3

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github.com 3y ago

Catppuccin: Soothing pastel theme for the high-spirited

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determinate.systems 3y ago

Using Nix to run software with no installation steps

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twitter.com 3y ago

Native Linux GPU Driver for Apple M1

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explained-from-first-principles.com 3y ago

Number theory explained from first principles

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www.vice.com 3y ago

Cam Site Offers Hans Niemann $1M to Play Chess Nude

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github.com 3y ago

Cursorless – A spoken language for structural code editing

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www.zsa.io 3y ago

The Platform – A tenting system like no other

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github.com 3y ago

Kindelia: A minimal peer-to-peer computer that isn't a cryptocurrency

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news.ycombinator.com 3y ago

Ask HN: Where can I find high-quality paid developer learning materials?

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Eelco Dolstra – The Evolution of Nix

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github.com 3y ago

Remove –my-next-GPU-wont-be-Nvidia

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github.com 4y ago

Josh: Just One Single History

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tauri.app 4y ago

Tauri 1.0 Release

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mullvad.net 4y ago

Experimental post-quantum safe VPN tunnels

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discourse.nixos.org 4y ago

NixOS 22.05 Released

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github.com 4y ago

Lamdu – towards the next generation IDE

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github.com 4y ago

Hasura/kriti-lang: A minimal JSON templating language

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datatracker.ietf.org 4y ago

DNS over Dedicated QUIC Connections

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lichess.org 4y ago

Hackers Leak Lichess Source Code

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arxiv.org 4y ago

Some title containing the words “homotopy” and “symplectic”, e.g. this one

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christine.website 4y ago

Nix Flakes: Packages and How to Use Them – Xe

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www.mozilla.org 4y ago

Firefox 97.0

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rainway.com 4y ago

Rainway: Interactive App Streaming for Everyone

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Codex Resets 4 days ago

Is Claude also doing something like this? I saw my Fable limit resetting earlier than expected.

Is anyone using non frontier models as secondary models for coding tasks? What's your setup? I'm on the Max 20x plan for Claude but I still want a secondary, maybe fast model for offloading some tasks and parallel development.

Any recommendation for a cost effective subscription service?

Chess invariants 2 months ago

Chess is a lot trickier than it looks. It has so many rules: castling, en passant, pawn promotion, pinning, the discovered check, and the deadlock case of stalemate.

Nit: Pinning and the discovered check are not really rules, but rather names of tactics.

Are you building something that is novel, truly challenging, and meaningful? And looking for someone who thrives at really hard problems?

In the era of agents, the only real skill is thinking for yourself. That said, some background: master's in pure math, did research in AI/ML before LLMs, scaled early stage startups from scratch, been an open-source maintainer, and have a lot of peculiar interests.

I want to work with colleagues with a high degree of situational awareness, a solid understanding of cognitive biases, and an open mind. We will not get along if you have a strict opinion on how I should work.

Most recently I built data infrastructure for manufacturing at a startup in Germany. Before that, spent 3 years building and scaling a security data platform (open source, from early stage).

Happy to work in founding/staff engineer roles, or anything intellectually stimulating enough.

  Location: Berlin, Germany

  Remote: Yes

  Willing to relocate: Maybe, depends on how ambitious it is.
 
  Technologies: Pretty much anything at this point, any stack, all stack. Previously worked in web, machine learning, crypto. Favorite tech: functional programming, Nix, Emacs, but I work with whatever the problem needs like Typescript and Python and whatnot.

  Résumé/CV: https://shayon.work/cv.pdf

  Email: hi@shayon.work

I have a Fuji X-T5 camera which I haven't really used, and have almost no workflow for.

Could someone explain what this software does?

And I'd also appreciate any software and workflow people use.

Would prefer Linux software, but macOS is okay if the quality/ ease of use is too different.

One week ago I was on the hunt for an open source model that can do diatization and I had to literally give up because I could not find any easy to use setup.

We're truly living in reality that is much, much stranger than fiction.

Well, at least there's one company at the forefront that is taking all the serious issues more seriously than the others.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 10 months ago

Looking at the chart here, it seems like Sonnet 4 was already better than GPT-5-codex in the SWE verified benchmark.

However, my subjective personal experience was GPT-5-codex was far better at complex problems than Claude Code.

I would not be comfortable sending my bank info passwords and all sorts of other sensitive data that I input and see on my screen to Gemini. How much is the qualitative performance difference with a local model?

6+ years shipping full-stack products, doing ML since 2018 before the LLM hype, maintainer of 100+ NixOS packages because I believe software should actually work.

  Location: Berlin, Germany
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: London/UK, SF/NYC/US
  Technologies: TypeScript, Python, React, SvelteKit, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, 
                PyTorch, TensorFlow, Effect-TS, Nix, Emacs
  Résumé/CV: https://shayon.work/cv.pdf
  Email: hi@shayon.work

Currently Senior SWE at an early-stage cybersecurity startup where I built the entire frontend platform from scratch and architect complex web applications with heavy real-time data processing across distributed, user-controlled nodes. Before LLMs were cool, I was doing deep theoretical ML research (Inverse Reinforcement Learning) with an MS in Math.

Why I'm different: I single-handedly shipped our main product frontend from scratch, then scaled the team by hiring 3+ engineers - the kind of 0-to-1 execution that early-stage startups need. I tackle ambiguous problems with unconventional solutions, build tools that don't exist yet, and code across the full stack. Deep into Nix/NixOS and Emacs, heavy open source contributor.

Looking for senior/staff roles with real user impact, significant technical ownership, and complex problems to solve. Want passionate colleagues who love their craft and maintain their dotfiles with pride.

I wish some radical team just says fuck yes, we're gonna make Emacs fast and actually accomplishes it.

It's definitely easier with LLMs now, but still considerably hard.

Does anybody know of a cross-platform LLM-frontend with sync that is also open-source? I am currently using the web version of LobeChat on macOS and Android, but it's quite slow and has some features missing.