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The library tree view is so terrible. - You cannot shift+click select to easily add playlists into a folder. - Any podcasts you follow cannot be moved into folders to tidy things up. They just clutter the sidebar. - You…

I thought Lisp was suppose to be simple in that: it's all just lists. I thought everything would just be s-expressions, and be consistent, so it would be easy to read to figure out what is going on. But it seems like…

I find it really useful to learn about programming by discussing code examples. There is a ton of code out there, and also blog posts, but I find it especially motivating if there is someone to discuss/debate with.…

It feels like a technology that didn't have such a resource-intensive tech-tree leading up to its discovery, so someone could have just discovered Transformers and Attention back then. Would anything be that different…

There are so many naysayers out there, but you have to admire the amount of free publicity he has generated.

I was just thinking the other day how everything Meta has put out on the frontend, I felt compelled to use it because of the hype. But I've ended up being frustrated by almost all of it. It really feels like Meta has…

Technical founders usually have deep conviction behind an idea and need to build the proof-of-concept themselves. It feels like it's kind of assumed a founder would be a CTO/manager type. But usually you take the role…

Especially in computer programming, I find that you really can take as much time as is given. You often can see people spending weeks on something that could be done in under an hour. The scope seems to grow with the…

There is so much churn in software. For new kids its easy, you just pick up the latest thing. But for older folks, over the years you've placed bets on longevity of stuff, invested in the ecosystem, only to see those…

I want to use TS/JS for computer vision stuff. What is the best approach? Any good ports of opencv? Is WASM a possibility?

There are a lot of apps out there that seem so stagnated in terms of shipping product features. Even obvious and easy stuff. And for apps that you look at them and think: there really isn't all that much functionality…

Building UI used to be fun when there were limited choices. You would use bootstrap and sass/less or css modules, and just get things done. Now there are just so many options to choose from and such a feeling of FOMO.…

I find that I have far more topics I would like to discuss, than people to discuss them with. I will often have a thought or a question, but find it difficult to find the right venue to have a discussion about it.…

A lot of the foundational layers of software are quite old. Kernel: Linux/Darwin, Compiler: GCC/LLVM, Database: Postgres/MySQL/SQLite, Browser: V8/WebKit. The more low-level, the older it gets. The industry is still…

I often have a thought or insight and I want to have a conversation about it with interested people. Usually the quality of discussion is best on HN. Sometimes you get a good response to an Ask HN, sometimes it doesn't…

I've looked around and can only find gitscout. My biggest complaint with github.com is that it is slow. I would love it to be a macOS app with everything feeling instant, and more organization features like Asana. You…

I have been looking for a way to deploy every commit to its own URL. Vercel (Now.sh) did this quite well, but they focus on serverless now. The problems I always find are: - slow builds - CI platforms not caching docker…

Whenever I'm designing a schema I always find myself wanting to just make everything a many-to-many relation because it makes things flexible and safe (referential integrity). But then there is always this feeling that…

A big part of web development is picking the right trends to be on. A large, active ecosystem allows you to be more productive. Instead of rolling you own, you get to use a well-tested library. Instead of guessing the…