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yen223

8,229karma·2,954submissions·June 6, 2012
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Just another software guy.

Website: https://weiyen.net

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Things like dependabot or renovate solves the problem of letting you know when security updates are available, letting you have your cake and eat it too.
11mo ago·view thread
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Heh, Malaysia's two-letter country code is "MY". Guess what the national identity card is called?
11mo ago·view thread
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Imagine if only Google has the AI and processing power capable enough to generate Hollywood-quality movies.
11mo ago·view thread
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Building up community support is a thing you can do too!
11mo ago·view thread
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> With foreign key constraints, you have to delete all related records when a parent record is deleted. ON DELETE SET NULL is a thing for a reason!
11mo ago·view thread
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Over a decade, that storage space will 10x more reliably than the car
11mo ago·view thread
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Sudoku is kind of the same, in that the numerical values of the numbers doesn't come into play at all. You can replace the digits with fruits and the game plays the same.
11mo ago·view thread
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Yes. Now that I'm driving more, I miss the mental downtime when riding a train
11mo ago·view thread
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HN allows duplicate submissions after a certain amount of time has passed
11mo ago·view thread
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The first rule of Hacker News comments is it's never the engineer's fault
1y ago·view thread
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My expectation of privacy when in a vehicle with dozens if not hundreds of strangers with cameras is low.
1y ago·view thread
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Sydney lets you use your credit card to tap on to trains and buses, which is very nice
1y ago·view thread
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Agreed I'm not as tied to the cli as other folks here, but even I found the Claude Code cli to be a better experience than this too. I think it will improve, but for now I'm sticking with th…
1y ago·view thread
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> In the 1970’s, Herbert Simon pointed out that when information becomes abundant, attention becomes the scarce resource. Attention is scarce, but what makes it valuable?
1y ago·view thread
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A feature Id like to see is an option to invert the grid, i.e. show the composites instead of the primes
1y ago·view thread
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Perl is just Python with bad handwriting
1y ago·view thread
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Probably not as much as you think: https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ai-energy-demand You are better off worrying about your car use and your home heating/cooling ef…
1y ago·view thread
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As a Malaysian Chinese my ties to the CCP is that I have heard of them
1y ago·view thread
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"You are likely going to see a lot of very varied results posted online from GPT-5 because it is actually multiple models, some of which are very good and some of which are meh. Since the underly…
1y ago·view thread
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How will user-generated content work in a semantic web world?
1y ago·view thread
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It has been pointed out, but GPT-5 is really five different models with wildly different capabilities under the hood. Which model get picked for the task at hand is, for now, not deterministic.
1y ago·view thread
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Re the substantive example, doesn't Claude Code already do this? When I'm vibe-coding scripts or even mobile apps cc can be pretty aggressive about adding targeted logging to solve specific …
1y ago·view thread
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I remember when the Turing test was a thing, until it stopped being a thing when all the LLMs blew past it.
1y ago·view thread
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$15/month means you're competing with the likes of YouTube Premium or Netflix. Not sure what an indie hacker can do that's going to provide that much value.
1y ago·view thread