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amdolanon Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?

Thanks for sharing. I recently started using my homemade “competitor” to herde, so it’s nice to compare against prior art.

What do you think could be nicer with a native app? More mouse or visual interactions? Modern design and gui?

amdolanon Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup

> There are other people…

Would you please share a couple? TIA

amdolanon Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns

In that case, the data collected should be subject to strict privacy laws.

amdolanon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)

Location: US Central

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Airflow/Temporal/DAGs, Go, Python, React/Typescript, DB schema design, Erlang/Elixir (hobby), Postgres, Redis, Lua

Résumé/CV: 15 years of experience doing Full stack web services. At my current position, delivered multiple data analytics products delivered to Fortune 100 companies. I am comfortable doing both legacy and greenfield work, and I enjoy building or refactoring maintainable systems so that I may move on to bigger and better things. I'm happy to provide more detail over email.

Email: see profile

amdolanon Shaders: How to draw high fidelity graphics with just x and y coordinates

Seems like the author is planning to publish a coffee table style book and I could not find a store page for pricing information. Seems a bit early. They have a mailing list though.

Really neat site though. I’ll be following.

amdolanon What I learned when I tried installing a wind turbine on my house

https://archive.is/lxSNJ

amdolanon Startup CTO's Handbook

Startup CTO’s Cheatsheet.

amdolanon Indoor wood burning raises women’s lung cancer risk by 43%

Properly operating a wood burning stove will release very little smoke. This is where the center stone is in the range of approx 300-600F (100-300C). The chimney will produce clear heat and there is no detectable smell when standing outside. Much different result than a fireplace.

It’s referred to as double combustion, or secondary combustion.

amdolanon Dara Khosrowshahi had a stint driving for Uber and delivering for Uber Eats

What a world where we’re optimizing for to pass the fucking over to someone else, and the major benefactor is harvesting at scale.

amdolanon San Jose police union executive director charged with smuggling fentanyl into US

Pushing addiction and pushing treatment are two very different things.

amdolanon Amazon reports its first unprofitable year since 2014

Not that I could find from looking at my past orders on amazon.com and trying to go through support.

I didn't think of the Whole Foods angle, I'll look into that, thanks. At least I'll have someone to talk to about it.

amdolanon Amazon reports its first unprofitable year since 2014

I was scammed hundreds of dollars buying counterfeit microphones on amazon[0]. Amazon did not provide any way to handle this other than a generic form. The sellers refused to send my money unless I removed my reviews, which I was not going to do at all. I followed the seller's page around, and after a few weeks they renamed themselves to "Sally's Cosmetics"[1] or something, and I posted more reviews on their page. Eventually they disappeared with one of the Amazon counterfeit seller purges. How convenient for Amazon and the seller.

Amazon is like eBay to me. I value my time and cash too much to get involved.

[0] I know, I hadn't been on amazon in a while. I forgot not to buy music equipment (or anything not disposable) from Amazon.

[1] So counterfeit sellers have sold cosmetics on Amazon, and that should be obvious from the state of the store, I guess..

amdolanon The Problem with Go

With Typescript/coffeescript, there were core language improvements to the language that led to popularity in the JavaScript community. Things like types and arrow functions were welcome additions and gained adoption.

I think that a Go fork would be more like, for example, Go with text internationalisation fixed. It wouldn't be very interesting to a large part of the Go community who is using the language just fine.

amdolanon Can anyone recommend event-driven architecture book?

Designing Data Intensive Applications seems like a good place to start. Some chapters will be applicable.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensiv...

amdolanon Zsh Tricks to Blow Your Mind

Never use sudo with `npm install` as was done in example 6.

I know it's off topic, but it would be good if the author could change that example. In general, one should never use sudo with package managers.

amdolanon Show HN: Rust-starter, a boilerplate to build Rust CLI applications

Here is one built with actix-web that I have looked at

https://github.com/nemesiscodex/actix-todo

My advice is pick a http server that you want to use and search github for Cargo.lock

amdolanon Truck Art in Pakistan (2018)

Perhaps it's a typo, but youtul(dot)be is probably not a link anyone wants to click on.

amdolanon JetBrain's TeamCity May Be Entry Point for U.S. Hack

Russian founders began the company in Prague and opened a Saint Petersburg office soon afterwards.

amdolanon Free Software Is More Reliable (2011)

Lately I've been using sublime merge, works pretty well.

amdolanon Indoor CO2 may reach levels harmful to cognition by the end of this century

I found this on what eCO2 is:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

Re your other questions; yeah I gather there is some experimentation involved, even with out of the box commercial products.

If others have suggestions on chips or products to buy for the household, I would greatly appreciate it! The MH-Z19 looks like an option for me. Commercial products seem too unreliable for the price.

amdolanon How we successfully handled 2.5x traffic in a week

I am loosely involved with one of the language teams. This language team, and others like it, are groups of volunteers and not Kahn Academy employees. I don't have all the details but I know that the teams are responsible for creating the content and uploading the content to youtube. Changing to an alternate host would require more coordination than you might think.

My contribution is that I am helping with automating video uploads to the team youtube channel, which is allowed to have "Kahn Academy {language}" branding.

Shameless plug: If any google or youtube employees can help me raise our API quota please get in touch!!! :)

amdolanon Coronavirus: Dogs to be trained to detect virus

mouse control, for one.

amdolanon FBI to gain expanded hacking powers as Senate effort to block fails

possibly this[1]? Trump encourages Russia to "find the 30,000 emails that are missing."

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNa2B5zHfbQ

amdolanon How Not to Die of Botulism (2013)

I was curious about pruno, and found this poem on the way:

http://www.pen.org/poetry/recipe-prison-pruno

amdolanon DoJ to Apple: we can force you to decrypt

The wording that the link discusses is in the pdf[0] section 1.a. on pg 13. Which, for reasons beyond my understanding, argues the point "Apple is not 'far removed' from this matter". The DOJ is discussing a phone that pre-dates iOS 8.

I think the main argument in the linked document is that Apple has the ability to unlock pre iOS 8 phones, and has done it before. Again, that "Apple is not 'so far removed from the underlying controversy that its assistance could not be permissibly compelled.”

The OP seems wrong but IANAL.

> it doesn't have the technical capability to do so;

Is factually incorrect in this case... Right?

[0] https://ia801501.us.archive.org/27/items/gov.uscourts.nyed.3...

amdolanon Apple’s approach to privacy

Here is some detail I think you'll appreciate: http://www.apple.com/privacy/transparency-reports/

amdolanon Cable Robot Simulator [video]

Looks a lot like University of Iowa's National Advanced Driving Simulator NADS-1 [1]. NADS-1 has an entire dome on tracks, hydraulics and a bunch of other cool stuff going on. I guess it's used mostly for research.

[1] https://www.nads-sc.uiowa.edu/sim_nads1.php

amdolanon The man with 1,000 klein bottles under his house [video]

Good read, as an aside I found this to be somewhat funny :) from your link: http://imgur.com/dTdp2g7

amdolanon Korg and Noritake Introduce Futuristic Nutube Vacuum Tubes

Who is this for? Engineers/instrument designers? Korg to use internally?

This is an important question. I doubt I'll have the chance to use this unless someone in Asia makes a knock off.