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iovrthoughtthis··on Intelligence per Watt: Measuring Intelligence Efficiency of Local AI
What devices and models are people running locally?
iovrthoughtthis··on Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime
This webpage is beautiful.
iovrthoughtthis··on Message your other Claude Code sessions
I hacked this together with a small local irc server
iovrthoughtthis··on Cascading Tree Sitter Queries
apologies, the names is a little tongue in cheek. the goals of this is:

1. create an abstract syntax tree over the tree sitter trees for queries that work across language (function) @f matches functions in any supported language

2. create a smaller (in text) query language based on the semantics of css selectors e.g. in the 'c' language id#Validate -> [((function_definition declarator: (function_declarator declarator: (identifier) @_n0)) @_root2 (#eq? @_n0 "Validate")) ((call_expression function: (identifier) @_n1) @_root3 (#eq? @_n1 "Validate"))]

3. provide some useful commands on top of this to allow humans (and llms) to be able to quickly learn about codebases from the cli

i made this for myself, just sharing it because i probably should

yes i used claude code for most of this

iovrthoughtthis··on If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort
Code review should be a separate function
iovrthoughtthis··on Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
Nah, theres not a technical or business solution to this. Music is cultural and we'll develop new cultural technology to solve it. Vision + regulation would help things move a little faster but the pendulums swing is inevitable.
iovrthoughtthis··on Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
We have to let go of old artists stuck in these patterns and find new, ideally local artists.
iovrthoughtthis··on Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
Yes
iovrthoughtthis··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
A local search indexer that indexes every page I visit (with tools for obvious exceptions) and lets me full text search them.
iovrthoughtthis··on Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds
Is this some sort of paid for PR to divide the category of social media in the face of governments gearing up to regulate social media apps?
iovrthoughtthis··on Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS
html encodes a tree of objects

css applies attributes to objects via graph queries

the queries are tightly coupled to the tree. you must work hard to avoid scatter gun edits now. it doesn't make much sense to have attributes stores in a separate location to their use

it would be like assigning all of your instances attributes using decorators

iovrthoughtthis··on Building a Reader for the Smallest Hard Drive
I suppose its a bit like winning a first person shooter game with aim assist on

It is not an authentic display of pure skill

iovrthoughtthis··on Marketing for Founders
the law of shitty click-throughs strikes again
iovrthoughtthis··on Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people?
I think what breaks first is team / org dependent but ime: alignment & quality standards

I found a mixture of shoehorning the vision into as many conversations as possible and occasional in person meetups (we die roughly yearly) helped with vision. I dont have measurements but my concern for teams decision making dropped a lot and disagreements in smaller discussion settings also dropped.

Standards dropping was secretly alignment too but more around why than what. I found building a culture of excellence helped e.g. "we're here to build software we're proud of, from the code to the experience, and you are the right people do it, so lets build something we're proud of.". You or who ever has to actually believe they are the people to so it though.

Im sure people have more concrete and technical examples.

iovrthoughtthis··on MacBook Neo
Agree, there is a watered down product vision
iovrthoughtthis··on 14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
As I've experienced getting older I've found it's more about the lack of available time and focus.

I don't have the hours of time a young person does and I don't have the focus, there are a lot of other thoughts, emotions and responsibilities competing for my attention.

Would love someone who's aware of the literature to throw their hat in the ring though.

iovrthoughtthis··on The disguised return of EU Chat Control
We iterate.
iovrthoughtthis··on Reporters killed and foreigners barred in Israel's battle for Gaza narrative
You have a lot of comments that start with "OBSERVATION"

What are you trying to communicate here?

iovrthoughtthis··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2025)
Location: Eastbourne, UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: ruby, javascript (js,jsx,ts,tsx), python, golang, docker, sql, cloud

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KCGrf3abcL3L9za3GjMizBaODGr... Email: jasper (dot) lyons (at) gmail (dot) com

I'm a senior engineer and serial technical co-founder with 15 years experience. I've started 6 companies, raised some monies and built teams of up to around 50 people. Looking for short intense projects to pay bills while I focus on building Eastbourne's Music scene!

iovrthoughtthis··on A layoff fundamentally changed how I perceive work
budget based economics may be the worst thing to happen to large organisations
iovrthoughtthis··on O1 isn't a chat model (and that's the point)
this is hilarious
iovrthoughtthis··on Rails for everything
c# (and the project i was working on) destroyed my love of programming
iovrthoughtthis··on US probes Tesla's Full Self-Driving software after fatal crash
at least 10x better than a human
iovrthoughtthis··on Are animals conscious? New research
this could also be the reason humans notice changes
iovrthoughtthis··on Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly
This will push streaming services to lobby governments to crack down harder on pirating.

The issue is that the service users don't exist in a cohesive and aligned bloc, whereas rights owners, rights licensers and streaming service providers sort of do.

Anyone that attempts to change licensing laws will experience way more friction than those who advocate for using the existing infrastructure of law enforcement to reduce pirating.

Things will only get better if streaming companies lobby for changing the way licensing works to support delivery to end users and/or government departments advocate for end user experience.

iovrthoughtthis··on Ofsted inspectors 'make up evidence' about a school's performance when IT fails
this isn't individual devs fault

this is bad practice by service integrators

iovrthoughtthis··on Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known "from the start"
this is crazy

cant help but consider that fujitsu is an SI that competes with infosys and this really undermines fujitsu in the minds of british tac payers...

iovrthoughtthis··on Ask HN: As a first-time solopreneur how would you go about hiring the first team
1. list all the people you know in each of these sorts of roles 2. ask them to either join you or if they know anyone who might be up for it or if they would help you hire someone by being your capability sense checker 3. if you can't drag together a rag tag team then you need to go out and meet more people

previous places you've worked are great sources, as are alumni networks, friends and family.

failing that, go become a part of a community like a runner club, rock climbing gym, music scene, maker space, game jam. ideally you do these thing because you enjoy the though.

be prepared to pay people. don't hire anyone you're not confident in (if you're not sure on someone because of pay then go out and find the money [yes, i am aware this is v hard])

iovrthoughtthis··on Collecting and curating material is good and we should do it more
imo we've not settled on a meta as the game is relatively new, has been changing a lot over the decades, they take a long time to play and lots of the learnings are fairly hidden in companies.
iovrthoughtthis··on Engineering Serendipity: Does Sharing Lead to Knowledge Production? [pdf]
I suspect it will be used in generality haha
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