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Comment · 1 month ago
I wonder if they could have accomplished this with spaCy
Comment · 1 month ago
Do you use them for coding with your harness or do you use them in production? I found the latency distribution on OpenRouter to be unusable for DeepSeek v4 Flash.
Comment · 2 months ago
Couldn't the US buy back more bonds through QE than any foreign country could sell?
Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
>> "but practically speaking [they] are broke"

> How do you know this?

They were not claiming a fact, they were posing a hypothetical.

Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
Reminds me of Borges
Comment · 4 months ago
Two years ago, I started a new company, and decided at the outset to avoid using any heavy JavaScript SPA framework. We stuck to simple server-rendered html and only use progressive-enhancement style JavaScript.

Our app was fast, and simple, but it also came at a cost: we were limited in our ability to take rich UI elements off the shelf with an npm package. We had to do a lot more work to provide a rich user experience. Everything took longer, and the user experience was worse as a result. We cared, but sometimes you don't have time to carry through.

The company failed, and I don't think react would have saved it. But I can tell you first hand that righteous adherence to "simplicity" didn't help either. It's always a trade-off.

Comment · 4 months ago
That's interesting. Every evangelical with whom I've spoken seems to be willing to give Israel carte blanche
Comment · 4 months ago
> It's very likely that at some point they had to explicitly tell Claude "don't worry about that and just make an assumption",

Non technical folks vibe coding aren't explicitly telling Claude anything other than "Accept"

Comment · 4 months ago
The city of Corpus Christi, TX is currently considering options for desalination plants—all of which pump their brine into the shallow water inside the bay or the ship channel.
Comment · 5 months ago
Not unique to software engineers, but a significant factor is that many technical founders are highly specialized. As a result, they use language from their field, draw on cultural context from their field.

Even in this article:

> The marketing playbook for technical founders is just open source logic applied to business.

It's a challenge for us to cross the chasm and meet others in _their_ context. I think that's critical for marketing to be effective.

You would see the same if you hired a medical doctor, or a geologist into a marketing role.

Comment · 5 months ago
Wow. Never thought I'd see J&J's come up on HN, but as soon as I saw the title, I was intrigued for exactly this reason. I was there too in the early 00's. Small world.
Comment · 5 months ago
I know the Chernobyl fallout had a pretty significant impact on agricultural in the region, but I don't think I've ever heard about anything similar in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, or Colorado. Why not? Surely there is less agricultural activity on the American West than in Eastern Europe, but is that the only reason?

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