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I installed a terminal emulator on my iPhone. I ssh’d into my server. I installed Claude Code on my server. I had Claude whip up a page and an API. I tunneled those to localhost. I opened the page in my phone’s browser.…

On Friday I woke up realizing that I could not take the weekend off as I’d planned, even though I’d already worked over the previous weekend, because I had to turn on the CUDA flag on our new inference service.…

My limited understanding of “the stack” is: Physical substrate: Electronics Computation theory: Turing machines Smallest logical/physical parts: Transistors, Logic gates Largest logical/physical parts: Chips Lowest…

Prior work really appreciated. At some point someone is going to build an AI that knows things. RAG does not appear to be enough. Maybe it will be as conceptually simple as a knowledge base glued to an LLM. First, a…

OK, this happened in October of 2022. I was flying over Texas and there was something in the air that was billowing black smoke. My partner saw it as well but neither of us captured an image of it. The object appeared…

I have 10 years’ worth of journals. My handwriting is not great! None of the off the shelf solutions come even close to recognizing my handwriting. Can you think of anything better than just opening every single file…

Hi HN, have you ever seen anything like what I'm describing or have ideas for how to build it? Essentially I want to have a fully split keyboard with each side resting on / attached to a tray which is mobile. This way,…

no

Would you support legally regulating content recommendation algorithms in a similar way to gambling and narcotics, two other categories of behavior-hijacking products?

yes

I'm probably 10 years away from starting a family. I want it to be very intentional and give my children the best life I can. I want to take advantage of genetic screening or even enhancement if it's available at that…

Someone important to me is in a job search as a marketing designer with experience and interest in e-commerce + tech. As an engineer, I'm aware of courses, books, methods, and tools for hacking the technical job search…

I'm in my late 20s, just started my career proper as a developer. I got into a big tech position, leaving behind startups and the chaos of my early 20s, for now. When I started school at 18, I was full of excitement and…

This is going to be a very cynical post. If you just want to sneer at me, please just save us both some time and skip it. My current position has left me questioning much of what I thought about my career, tech…

I'm a backend engineer doing fairly standard CRUD development in Python, serving enterprisey customers. Imagine that I wanted to move into another area where I get to work with robots, biotech, space tech etc. on a…

A lot of development is just getting requests at some endpoint and transforming them to submit to some other endpoint, combining with information from 3rd parties, etc. One reason I'm a bit tired of this work is that…