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nocoboton Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter

i really have been enjoying pi a lot

at first i thought i was goring to build lots of extra plugins and commands but what ended up working for me is:

- i have a simpel command that pulls context from a linear issue

- simple review command

- project specific skills for common tasks

nocoboton Ask HN: What is your dev set up like?

i use tmux with one open session per project I'm working on.

inside the session using nvim for edits, terminal panes for running tests / commands etc, and increasingly pi as a coding agent instead of claude code.

i sometimes toy around with orchestration projects like capy.ai or conductor but haven't really been impressed.

probably worth noting that usually all code i push will have been written by me. even if LLMs can output the same i find it's usually faster to implement it myself compared to convincing myself that the LLM output is correct.

nocoboton Ask HN: What software subscriptions are worth paying for?

mullvad, 1Password, fastmail for me

nocoboton Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening

reminds me of this image board that has been around for a while. similar idea, it’s only open every 12 hours

https://chakai.org/tea/

nocoboton Ask HN: Will there be software roles in the coming European defense sector?

helsing is already hiring for roles like that

nocoboton Interview with gwern

is it really? this is the most common example for context free languages and something most first year CS students will be familiar with.

totally agree that you can be a great engineer and not be familiar with it, but seems weird for an expert in the field to confidently make wrong statements about this.

nocoboton An Interesting Zero Knowledge Use Case?

another EF project is https://semaphore.pse.dev/, which basically allows users to prove membership of a group without revealing additional details about themselves. it's useful but also simple enough to understand the whole code-base in a reasonable time.

nocoboton Frank Stella has died

minimalist painter, youngest artist ever to receive retro @ MoMa

nocoboton I'm no longer involved at Signal

can someone explain why dhh has such strong feelings about katherine maher?

nocoboton The Disappointing Tea.xyz

Max Howell (creator of homebrew) is also behind tea.xyz

imo that give them some more credibility or at least makes me think that they probably are well intentioned

nocoboton Ask HN: What have you bought or sold using a cryptocurrency?

1) selling

2) my work as a contractor

3) usdc

4) ~11k usdc

5) 2021

6) via email i guess

7) went smoothly, I sent a regular invoice and withdrew via a centralized exchange. Fees for me were lower than receiving an international bank transfer

8) yes

9) the UX is quite bad still, I don’t want to evaporate my salary by mistyping an address. paying ppl in crypto also leads to some pay transparency, I could see how much everyone was making

nocoboton Ask HN: Any hardware startups here?

this sounds like an interesting product and the team clearly has impressive credentials.

I am very sceptical of crowd funding however, I think these are largely terrible investments for consumers while explicitly targeting people who are not accredited investors.

what made you go that route instead of pursuing VC funding?

nocoboton Ask HN: Best Course for Leetcode Questions?

When I was in college I used interview cake a bit and enjoyed it. It’s free for students irrc.

In general I think most of the interview prep industry is kind of a grift.

nocoboton CircleCI Layoffs

but hey, they get to keep their laptops

nocoboton Using ChatGPT as a Co-Founder

> How about the team - I need some minions to build this business.

very accurate co founder impression

nocoboton Ask HN: How do you overcome feeling completely lost in life?

great advice, but seeing crimethinc linked on HN is always wild

nocoboton WikiLeaks is struggling to stay online as millions of documents disappear

it's the world economic forum. but the way it's used here it seems like more of a stand in for vague economic antisemitism

nocoboton Iroh: A New Implementation of IPFS

looking forward to playing with this!

FYI: the github link (when clicking from the docs, not the landing page) is broken

nocoboton Ask HN: What prompted you to convert from non-vegetarian to vegetarian?

I have been uncomfortable with eating animal products, for both ethical and environmental reasons, for years now.

There wasn't one event that prompted the change, it was a very gradual process.

I'm not 100% vegan or vegetarian because I sometimes eat canned sardines and eggs but I'd say 95% of my meals are vegan. IMO it's not so helpful to think in terms of strict categories when discussing diet.

nocoboton Ask HN: How to Compete in a Global Remote Work Environment?

I think it's a bit too early in the conversation to discuss that; I need to learn more about the team/role and would love to discuss it when we get closer.

nocoboton Show HN: WorkOrPay – Set goals, form contracts, pay a penalty if you fail

this reminds me of beeminder.com

I like the idea of adding financial incentive to stick to habits etc, but i would be uncomfortable with having to deposit money, why not just take a CC and charge it if I break the contract?

also: what prevents me from just lying about whether I did the thing I promised to do?

nocoboton Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2021)

  Location: Germany
  Remote: Remote or Berlin
  Willing to relocate: no
  Technologies: React, Solidity, I'm looking to join a small team working on a web3 project
  Résumé/CV: CS Bachelor ~1 year experience as a working student (intern) + 6 months as Backend Dev (Elixir / Go).
  Email: hi@simonoswald.xyz

nocoboton The sexual counterrevolution is coming

'No hymen, no diamond' is, on so many levels, such a disgusting thing to say

nocoboton Ask HN: New APIs to Build on Top Of?

is it really that hard to get access? it was a pretty painless process for me and I was just hacking together some toy projects.

nocoboton TU Berlin shuts down IT Services after cyber attack

The post is in German so here is a quick summary. 3 days ago there was an unspecified attack on the Windows environment at TU Berlin. Since then most infrastructure, including email, have been taken offline.

nocoboton History of Techno

I did not expect to find a link to hör on hn news today. Interesting overlap

nocoboton Berlin rent cap overturned by Germany's top court

This is a disaster for lots of people who signed a "shadow rent" contract and now owe their landlords.

I know quite a few friends who won't be able to pay.

In many cases this essentially doubles their rent.

nocoboton Game of Life oscillator running on tweets

the second link already seems to be broken

nocoboton Ask HN: What do you listen to while you code?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM3pgStuj54&t=336s

posh isolation (and associated artists) are releasing some really nice ambient

nocoboton Tell HN: 19yo, bootstrapped SaaS, 250k ARR after 10 months

I feel like the reason there is a demand for applications like this is not to prevent all cheating but to enable the school / Uni to claim that anti cheating measures where used for online testing.

I think the product is really smart.