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codegladiatoron Manus AI 100M USD ARR

And now Perplexity has mailed all of those "free" users to add a "card" (wont charge now) to continue with its free pro offer. Apart from airtel perplexity ran a lot of college based programs where students were basically referring each other for money.

codegladiatoron Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English

vlc

codegladiatoron Publishing your work increases your luck

Well the "software" folks started it, I met a full stack engineer the other day, that word used to have some meaning as well.

codegladiatoron How to Reproduce This Book with LaTeX

Is this LaTeX Quine ?

codegladiatoron Inverse Parentheses

llm generated comment

codegladiatoron Structured outputs create false confidence

https://github.com/josdejong/jsonrepair

might be useful ( i am not the author )

codegladiatoron Claude in Chrome

Its a "tool call" definition in their code named 'execute_javascript', which takes in a "code" parameter and executes it. The code here being provided by the LLM which is not sitting locally. So that code is not present "in the plugin binary" at the time when chrome store team is reviewing it.

codegladiatoron Claude in Chrome

That's the javascript included in the plugin crx. This is about code retrieved over API being executed (so that code being run cannot be approved by chrome webstore team)

codegladiatoron Claude in Chrome

How did chrome webstore team approve use of eval/new function in chrome plugin ? Isn't that against their tos ?

  Execute JavaScript code in the context of the current page

codegladiatoron Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem

been using iterm for 10 years. Didn't update recently. claude code is the only new factor in my setup. I can visibly predict as i am using claude code when its about to happen (when conversation goes above 200 messages and then uses sub agents leading to somehow infinite rerendering of the message timeline and they seemingly use a html to bash rendering thing because ... ) so yeah maybe you are right iterm is not able to handle those rerendering or maybe the monitor is broken.

codegladiatoron Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem

Not on GPU, I think it's just paged memory. You are right claude-code isn't running the model locally. Today I've had to kill it 5 times till now.

edit: https://ibb.co/Fbn8Q3pb

that's the 6th

codegladiatoron Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem

Its vram or something makes the OS completely busy even I have only 32 gb ram. task manager shows 100+ gbs forcing to terminate

codegladiatoron Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem

> With Opus 4.5, Claude Code feels like having a god-level engineer beside you. Opinionated but friendly. Zero ego.

Who keeps forgetting variable names and function calling conventions it used 4 seconds ago while using 136 GBs of ram for the cli causing you to frequently force quit the whole terminal. Its not even human level.

codegladiatoron Ask HN: What hard problems are still underexplored?

There is a reasonable argument that your question is at least NP, and plausibly NP-hard or harder depending on how you formalize the verification oracle.

codegladiatoron Measuring political bias in Claude

their cli agent only takes 136 gbs of ram and is now giving head to head competition to chrome browser

codegladiatoron Claude Is Down

happens all the time

codegladiatoron Ask HN: I underestimated how lonely building solo can be

Is this a monthly post now ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44766031

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45260596

codegladiatoron Debug like a boss: 10 debugging hacks for developers, quality engineers, testers

Logging is a hack now ?

codegladiatoron TigerBeetle and Synadia pledge $512k to the Zig Software Foundation

There is always a burden of deployment of assets

codegladiatoron Programming language agnosticism is the only way to move forward in life

Each passion project should be built in the language most suitable for that project, not based on love.

codegladiatoron AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1

They haven't listed SES there yet in the affected services on their status page

codegladiatoron Reasoning LLMs are wandering solution explorers

Yeah I don't know what your definition of human is, but in my definition of when comparing something to an average human, knowing a name is an innate quality. If a human is consistently forgetting names I will think something is wrong with that human that they are unable to remember names.

codegladiatoron Reasoning LLMs are wandering solution explorers

It cannot be both. A system with superhuman capabilities cannot make basic mistakes consistently. (like forgetting a name as it moves from generating 1st line to 3rd line).

LLMs are a great tool, but the narrative around them is not healthy and will burn a lot of real users.

codegladiatoron Reasoning LLMs are wandering solution explorers

The problem is that this "comparison" is being used both ways, on one hand LLM leaders tell you "smarter than the smartest", and then it makes very pretty obvious mistakes and the leaders are like even an "average" (dumb) humans can/will make the same mistake.

codegladiatoron Ask HN: Feel stuck and overwhelmed by tech choice

Across the last 18 years I've been working on many different projects with different material systems; my journey looked like wood framing → steel → reinforced concrete → precast → mass timber → structural steel → composite materials → modular construction + all possible foundation types (from shallow footings to deep pile systems with geotechnical analysis).

I have a lot of projects I want to design/prototype quickly, but every time starting a new structure I feel stuck and paralyzed with many choices, end up reading engineering journals and CE forums for 3 days on all possible material and structural system options and find myself exhausted even before breaking ground.

I know I should just pick one system and stick to it, but it's very hard. I spent most of my career working exclusively on residential concrete construction and I know that system inside out. I was efficient and could estimate quantities quickly. With the rest I feel like everything is at the same level of unknowns and I have zero engineering judgment.

Do you happen to experience the same and how do you fight it?

codegladiatoron "Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces

Well myspace didn't have any issues, did it ?

codegladiatoron The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algorithms

This is pushing the limits to identify the boundaries

codegladiatoron The unreasonable effectiveness of modern sort algorithms

Good read. Reminds me of the 1 billion row aggregation challenge, especially the perfect hashing part, all the top entries all used it.

https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc

codegladiatoron Git Diagramming "The Weave"

that depends on what you mean by "can" and "git" and "handle" and "recursion"

codegladiatoron Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtime, zero build step

> ```markdown-ui-widget { "type": "button-group", "id": "plan", "label": "Plan", "choices": ["Brainstorm", "Review", "Launch"], "default": "Brainstorm" } ```

      markdown-ui-widget-html-version-long
      <button-group id=plan label=Plan choices="Brainstorm,Review,Launch" default=Brainstorm />