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  1. Ask HN: How do you model temporarily invalid data structures

    Say you’re making a chess game. A valid board only has one piece per square, or zero. But, you have an algo that generates boards by moving pieces around and during that algo you may move a piece on top of another and…

    5 points 5
  2. UC Berkeley economist explains California’s 'mystery gas surcharge' (2022) (abc7news.com)
    2 points 0
  3. Astrolabe (en.wikipedia.org)
    1 points 0
  4. Read Technology's Founding Documents (scottantipa.com)
    1 points 0
  5. Read Technology's Founding Documents (scottantipa.com)
    1 points 1
  6. Ask HN: iPhone 17 buggy for anyone else?

    From slow responses to taps,janky UI artifacts, weird animations that dont quite match up. Tapping on a photo in messages has an obvious half second delay before it opens. I upgraded from an old XS and this doesnt feel…

    1 points 1
  7. Ask HN: What is the most impressive test suite youve ever worked with

    Did it have near 100% coverage or did it make tradeoffs on what to test? Did it include UI tests which are notoriously difficult, and if so how did it handle issues like timeouts and the async nature of UI? Did it have…

    3 points 3
  8. Tariff Engineering (en.wikipedia.org)
    3 points 0
  9. YAGRI: You are gonna read it (scottantipa.com)
    329 points 160
  10. Ask HN: Anyone in Barcelona? Im visiting from San Francisco

    My info in bio, around all week!

    2 points 1
  11. Ask HN: In Barcelona from San Francisco, Meetup?

    I’ll be in Barcelona all week and would be interested to meet some other programmers! scott@scottantipa.com

    1 points 0
  12. CNN Lite (lite.cnn.com)
    5 points 1
  13. Crafting Great Commits (scottantipa.com)
    2 points 0
  14. V-Shaped Skillset (scottantipa.com)
    1 points 0
  15. Ask HN: Would you want to join a Slack instance for job seekers

    It would be a slack instance for people seeking tech jobs, so we could have channels like #backend-senior and #frontend-junior etc where you can discuss tips for interviewing, practice questions, etc.

    3 points 6
  16. Amateur Mathematician Discovers the Largest Known Prime Number (smithsonianmag.com)
    1 points 2
  17. Ask HN: Slack Community for Job Seekers?

    When Ive been job searching I’ve thought it would be nice to discuss the process, what to study, etc with other job seekers in the same industry. There could be channels based on role, level etc. If you think you’d be…

    1 points 1
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  19. Speedo-Shaped Skillset (scottantipa.com)
    8 points 13
  20. Ask HN: Naming convention for a percentage stored as a value from 0 to 1

    Say you’re storing a percentage like “state tax”. You store it as a decimal: 0.4 means 40%. What do you call this type when you need to name a db column or a variable? Technically it is not a percent until you * 100.…

    2 points 4
  21. Ask HN: Whats your favorite book on API design?
    2 points 2
  22. A New Trick Uses AI to Jailbreak AI Models–Including GPT-4 (wired.com)
    3 points 0
  23. Ask HN: Experience using your user's Google Drive instead of a database?

    There are several apps that will let you use their service without creating an account or storing any of your data with them. You sign up with google or dropbox etc, and the app will read/write everything to your…

    50 points 45
  24. Invisible details – Building contextual menus [2020] (linear.app)
    1 points 0
  25. Science reveals how not to spill your coffee while walking (nbcnews.com)
    17 points 15