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maurycyon How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code

Maybe not necessarily and the Claude model is fine-tuned for `claude`, so no one can really replicate the experience without unlocking some secret mode in the model. The other comments about editing files hint at this.

maurycyon Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text?

Give it a try on any PDF! This is just 100 LOC, easy to audit.

maurycyon Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text?

I had very good experience with `gemini-2.0-flash-exp`:

https://github.com/maurycy/gemini-json-ocr

maurycyon Show HN: Transform your codebase into a single Markdown doc for feeding into AI

  find . -type f -name '*.py' -exec sh -c 'echo "# $1"; cat "$1"; echo ""' _ {} \; | pbcopy

maurycyon Why has the price of electricity in Europe reached record highs?

Do you mean the other way around?

This map suggests that western France is fine:

https://www.wsl.ch/en/2020/07/new-map-for-radioactive-soil-c...

maurycyon Ask HN: I'm writing a book about white-collar drug use, including tech sector

Source? (not nitpicking, genuinely curious)

maurycyon Writing more legible SQL

Is there indent for SQL?

maurycyon MacBook Pro

This is simply not true:

   Apple said on Tuesday it saw a nearly 30 percent decline in its China revenue in the quarter ending September, the highest fall among all regions, due to tepid demand for its iconic iPhones.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/tech/2016-10/27/conten...

maurycyon Megacities, not nations, are the world’s dominant, enduring social structures

Edward Glaeser?

maurycyon A Man Who Beat HIV for 30 Years

Could you link to the CDC claim that 30% of the US population shows signs of exposure to spinal meningitis? I'm unable to find any references. Personally, I find this quite probable, since antibiotics are already known to reliev some back pain.

maurycyon Cynicism and Experience

Now imagine that you have 20 years of industry experience.

maurycyon Antibiotic Breakthrough Ends 25-Year Discovery Drought

What is the exact name for the survival mechanism you described?

maurycyon The Move from Linux to FreeBSD

It is, hint: time value of money.

maurycyon The laborers of content moderation on Facebook

If anything, the upside is that if we come up with better techniques for detecting unwated content we'll free these people for more productive endeavours.

maurycyon Rock Paper Scissors Programming Competition

My first thought was Core Wars. :-)

maurycyon Why Is Peter Thiel Pessimistic About Technological Innovation?

And badly lost. He's not even a sparring partner for Thiel.

maurycyon A Tour of Machine Learning Algorithms

It depends on your math background, but I've found Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa's Learning From Data the best, although Christopher M. Bishop's Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning is the gold standard. ;-)

maurycyon Language Study: What is a foreign language worth?

Not to dismiss your experience, but The Economist actually is a British journal.

maurycyon Are Bitcoins the New Pogs? (No, really)

It could be argued that in the long term it simply does not matter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_theorem

maurycyon A quick look at the Redis source code

I'd also mention FreeBSD kernel and Niels Provos' code.

maurycyon China's State Press Calls for 'Building a de-Americanized World'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_drawing_rights

maurycyon Ruby Tips Part 4

s/is_int/intable/ ;-)

maurycyon BDD testing for golang: Ginkgo and Gomega

Please no with this Ruby madness in the Go world.

maurycyon GPS signals are surprisingly easy to disrupt

You can make a million dollars in a millisecond.

maurycyon Bash Configurations Demystified

http://blog.flowblok.id.au/2013-02/shell-startup-scripts.htm...

Edit: Not that I recommend the resource, just fixed the link for you.

maurycyon On Severance

The productivity does not depend alone on the worker.

maurycyon Peter Norvig on Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle

I see. Indeed, the rules are so simple it's insulting.

maurycyon Peter Norvig on Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle

I wonder, what if I don't know Sudoku rules at all?

maurycyon How Steve Jobs handles trolls (WWDC 1997)

I recommend reading:

http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/human-centered_design_considered_h... http://pragprog.com/book/lmuse/designed-for-use

maurycyon SICP is Under Attack

Frankly, not that much.

Proof writing depends more on abstract reasoning than knowledge of arithmetics.

Of course, traditionally, it works that way. I would say, though, it's harmful a bit for the reason that the basic math curriculum is so boring, it puts off many brilliant minds.

Mandatory reference: TED Talk, Wolfram on Math Education. ;-)