benkarst

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  1. We are still at a point where not many popular libraries are have accessible ways for their docs to be indexed and used by gen AI. In the meantime, we must do it ourselves. This repo is new and small, but as I continue…

  2. It's the biggest company in the world yet they can't hire engineering teams that don't make stuff worse. SwiftUI has got to be one of the worst frameworks I've ever seen and it breaks all the time. Who was the genius…

  3. I want to spend about $5-10 per person, to have my user demographic download the app and basically tell what worked and what needs work. Posting on Fiverr lead to a couple responses but none are in the target…

  4. I've been browsing this site on average, a couple of times a day for 5 or 6 years. Suffice to say, it's not what it used to be. I have absolutely no hard data no back this up but my intuition tells me there are a many…

  5. Zoom has a 65B billion dollar market cap with a sales of 622M. The PE ratio is at 1300. Comparatively, Microsofts PE ratio is around 30. As a software engineer, I don't see their product as particularly unique or…

  6. If all apps just went away along with their data but all the tools to build them still exist, what would be the first app you'd create?

  7. Many people have watched AI compete with humans in Chess, Go, and Dota 2. Do you think we'd ever be willing to watch AI compete with AI? If so, what would the game be?

  8. I've been coding web and mobile apps for 12 years and I've worked on countless forms. It seems like there should exist a formal way to define them (field names, data types, validation, endpoints, etc.), compatible with…

  9. A is for Array (medium.com)
  10. I was wondering if there are any good open source projects for premium learning platforms like Udemy and Coursera.

  11. I've been using HN for about a year off and on. Here are some of the features I never use either because they are hidden or not useful: 1. Search 2. Hide

  12. I have a db with about 600,00 records (each one having about 0-3 relationships) and I've found my select statements are twice as fast using a postgres array to store foreign keys in a many to many relationship. Some…