chucknthem

I've been using git spice (https://abhinav.github.io/git-spice/) for the stacked PRs part of graphite and it's been working pretty well and it's open source and free.

How do they make the context window longer? (serious question, I want to learn how this works)

Funny I'm a professional engineer and happily call myself "vibe coding" when writing code these days, it started as tongue in cheek, but now I've embraced it.

Being good at vibe coding is just being good at coding, the best practices still apply. I don't feel we need another term for it. It'll just be how almost everyone writes code in the future. Just like using an IDE.

Not sure why you're downvoted. I've tried Robotaxi a few times and has been great. They still have a safety driver these days and wait time is a big high though.

A few large companies with big cash stockpiles and profit can eat this the first couple years, not so for startups and companies with thin margins.

How are you writing your prompts? I usually break a feature down to smaller task level before I prompt an agent (claude code in my case) to do anything. Feature level is often too hard to prompt and specify in enough detail for it to get right.

So I'd say claude 4 agents today are at smart but fresh intern level of autonomy. You still have to do the high level planning and task break down, but it can execute on tasks (say requiring 10 - 200 lines of code excluding tests). Any asking it to write much more code (200+ lines) often require a lot of follow ups and disappointment.

I feel this way too. It was scary the first couple weeks, but I'm glad I gave it more of a chance. Over time you learn when to trust it and what situations it you need to take over, and then it just becomes a normal part of driving with less stress on me while my brain energy is spent looking for problems instead of keeping up with traffic or in the lane.

Really a human + AI hybrid experience.

Uber has used this tactic many times in their early days. It mostly worked because citizens got used to cheap rides and got mad at their government for taking it away.

Became a fan of Mullvad when I visited China. It was the most reliable VPN app I tested and you can have up to 5 devices per account.

I remember this. Wish I'd kept my little piece of history. Written at a time when people were still optimistic and hopeful about tech.

I wonder if you can train a neuronetwork to have the kind of intuition Ramanujan had. How incredible would it be for math discoveries. Then separate AIs to try and prove or disprove the insights.

They did promote their Chief Financial Officer to President not too long ago. The signs have been pointing that way for a while before that though.

How does it change things if they had their own communications platform and someone hacked that to send this message?

My e-bike uses the same battery cells used in Electric cars, so I have to give credit to what Tesla and the electric car industry has done to make long range ebike batteries affordable.

honestly, the mental math around metric time demonstrated in this post makes me think we should go the opposite way and make everything else base 12 instead of making time base 10. Being divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6 makes a lot of mental math easier.

How do you know? do you have insider knowledge of this or is it just based on what they share publically?

Over 200 GitHub stars already, wonder if it’ll reach 1000 stars first or if Google would issue a take down notice first.

Popularly of this clearly shows there’s demand for it, so I hope Google officially releases an API soon.

The 2nd part of the CVS section was funny too "[...] This experience is why Linus dislikes CVS and for years refused to use any version control beyond uploading tar balls to FTP sites."

It's deadpan humor in written form.

Yep, they have massive energy demand and going full steam ahead in all energy sources.

It's expensive because no investment has been made to scale it up and make cheaper & safer, whereas a ton of subsidies and investment went into scaling up solar and making that cheaper over the past 2 decades.

China will probably make it cheap given the pace they're going building out nuclear plants.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if some large repos at Google or Facebook now get to that many, it's easy to do once you have robots committing code (usually configuration changes).

Uber adopted Bazel a few years ago for their Go and Java monorepos, which is the majority of their code at the time. I doin't know the state of their UI repos.

Interesting to see this discovery today on Satoshi's birthday (April 5th, 1975). Also the 90th anniversary of Executive Order 6102.

2009*

My mom passed away while I was a young adult, she had a mental illness that was going to get worse and I’m the only child. It took over a year to get over her passing, but in hindsight, and as morbid as it is, it was a blessing in some ways because it meant I could focus on my new family and career without putting life on pause to care for her.

What cultural norms do support the inverted population density though? I’m not aware of one that does. Welfare states high on individual independence rely on the young and able to work and contribute tax to support the old. In the same way that traditional cultures rely on the younger generation to support their parents.

I have a rare reaction in this HN crowd. I found the first half completely fascinating. I was born in Yunnan and familiar with some of the region, but left at an early age with little memory of it now. It’s surreal to see this remote region of China written about in English this way. Reading it makes me yearn to visit and see everything for myself!

As a parent who also enjoy lunch with co-workers and in person time, I'm a big fan of hybrid going to work a couple times a week. I'm also the only parent that goes in regularly.

I'm in a small "remote-first" company where there's only a handful of other engineers in the area, most of us used to work in in-person offices. Even just a handful of us is enough critical mass to have a good conversation and even collaborating on a few problems together that would otherwise require more effort to schedule and work through.

It's one centralized entity acquiring another centralized entity, so it's more like the centralized brokers of crypto just became more centralized.

The few "10x developers" I've had the privilege of working with are also multipliers of other people. They can learn, debug and build things maybe 3x-5x as fast as a good developer, but give them 2-10 good developers, they can help each of them solve problems 2x as fast or build frameworks that let them be 2x as productive and that's how they get another 10x.