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The Gospel According to forever list My terminal has ceased being a tool and has become a digital confessional. I approach the prompt seeking a status update on my code, but the Great Silicon Oracle demands more than…

I increasingly see programmers choosing Next.js to build simple single-page websites or basic CRUD apps. This feels like an over-engineered approach where the complexity of maintenance outweighs the benefits.

I am tasked to build a customer support chat. The AI should be trained with company docs. How can I be sure the AI will not hallucinate a bad response to a customer?

If so, what is your experience? Is it a big project (lots of data, lots of users, lots of tx)? Thanks!

I am guessing it can be used as an agent through a plugin in your IDE: to find bugs/fix code, to suggest changes/improvements, to insert snippets. Is it more than that?

I know, I am too lazy too read the TOS. What if I implement the idea and turns out to be quite successful? Will the owners of the AI come asking for their share? Say is something more tangible than and idea, maybe a…

I build chatbots. I have a profitable feature idea that I have already implemented but it needs be completed with a couple of tweaks on their end. Any clues how to contact them? I tried Meta's dev support channel with…

With soaring gasoline prices I see a lot of people recommending switching to lower octane gas and add fuel tabs to compensate. But I found this online:…

This is one area of IT that I am not familiar with. How expensive/hard is to setup my own saas to issue certificates to be used in digital signatures? What are the hw/sw investments and minimum team of professionals…

I thougt we should all just tell him how thankful we are for chasing his impossible dreams and inspire us to keep moving forward!

Self driving cars are here and a racetrack is a (super) simplified version of city roads, i.e. maximizing speed on a lap w/out crashing should be a simpler problem. Just like computers playing Go, can't they beat pro…

I want to part ways with passwords, should I send my users a login link (via email, chat or sms) that contains an OTP? Is it safe? What known attacks are out there?

2-3M users plus I need to host it in-house. What is my best bet?

I am increasingly downgrading my phone: social apps are gone, email is gone, most IM apps are gone. I may end up with a tiny Nokia that runs a basic browser. In this back-to-basics plan I'd like to keep reading HN posts…

Are reads accurate 100% of the time (a given fingerprint producing the same ID for all reads)? Is there a chance for collissions (2 different fingerprints producing the same ID)? Can it be physically hacked (for example…

I am not sure I understand bitcoins correctly. Say ransom-ware attacker asks for 10 bitcoins to be sent to address 123. Then the attacker wants to convert the bitcoins to dollars. On the bitcoin exchange he buys x…

After Parse.com shutdown announcement I have been testing a few other BAAS providers of Parse Server. I am not interested in other BAAS solutions like Firebase, just Parse Server in particular. I have tested for a few…

Login to Digital Ocean. Create a server from snapshot (a saved security-cooked-in server image). Done.

Not much into walled ruled social networks anymore. I only have 450 karma points but will barter my login credentials for a pint of ale, say $5 through Paypal?

Is it even possible to do a good estimate? All IT departments I've worked with are behind schedule. All projects, medium to large, that I've worked on were delivered late. Seems like making detailed specs and being more…

This past weekend there was a trail running event which I missed b/c I am not on FB anymore! Since closing my FB account I wonder what else will I be missing; sadly, it seems a great deal. I always tell my clients: own…

Help me figure this out please! Is it like a secret game cheat hidden until I do a sequence? Like say find and follow someone who has a Hermit The Frog on a bike profile pic, tap it, long tap it, tap it, tap it, voila!…

There are real trends and fake troll trends. The goal is to identify the latter and either kill it or mark it as dubious so the audience can outright ignore it. Fake profiles used to pump a troll trend are very…

Seems like dem hipsters will finally take over the world, no?