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vitaflo··on Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks
You literally have one of the easiest things to retire to. You can do whatever you want with computers when you retire and for the rest of your life.

If you were an ER doctor and loved saving lives it would be a little harder.

vitaflo··on DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
Yes, Deepseek even documents how:

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/agent_integrations...

vitaflo··on DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
I'm not exactly sure what the point of this is. Deepseek already has instructions to use its API with many CLI's including Claude Code directly:

https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/agent_integrations...

vitaflo··on DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier
It does not.
vitaflo··on Ti-84 Evo
Same except mine was over 30 years ago (an OG TI-85). Still on my desk, still use it almost every day for something or other.
vitaflo··on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
You make your own subscription. If you want to pay $20/month then put $20 into your account. When you use it up, wait till the next month (or buy more).
vitaflo··on NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating
The planetary alignment that allowed the Voyager probes to move so fast only occurs every 175 years. Even with this advantage it took them 12 years to get to Neptune. So the short answer is no.
vitaflo··on One item purchased, ten emails
Jon Bois worst video is still better than 99.9% of all videos.
vitaflo··on Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
Or they don’t have enough compute to handle the recent influx of traffic. I’m guessing it’s a bit of both.
vitaflo··on Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset
Reddit has been leaking into HN for years. It’s just finally reached equilibrium.
vitaflo··on Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
Openclaw users are a small percentage of their user base but take up a lot of their compute. Given the cost is subsidized it’s not surprising they would target it. Getting these users to leave is probably the point. These aren’t profitable users.
vitaflo··on PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading
Windows XP install disk is 600 MB, so pretty close to that on this website already.
vitaflo··on Shall I implement it? No
This. Just asking it to ask you questions before proceeding has saved me so much time from it making assumptions I don’t want. It’s the single most important part of almost all my prompts.
vitaflo··on Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV
We only watch OTA TV and have no streaming services so I guess the answer is yes.
vitaflo··on Will Claude Code ruin our team?
One of the more ignorant comments I've read on HN which is saying something.
vitaflo··on Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
As the lead dev on our team told us "You will all have a different journey on this road". Not everyone is going to get along with allowing an LLM to write code for them, something they've probably spent their entire lives crafting a skill for. Others only saw code as a means to and end, so an LLM finally removes that silly barrier.

I'm in the former camp. Every time I have an LLM write code it makes me entirely depressed because the satisfaction I get from programming is the programming. However, what I have found incredibly valuable is having LLM's help me plan. Using it as someone to brainstorm with, to "rubber duck" if you will. I still get to code, it just speeds up the planning process and has gone from a depressing exercise to one where I am excited to work.

Find your own path.

vitaflo··on Gemini 3.1 Pro
Deepseek is 2% of the cost of Opus. But most people aren't using that for code even tho it's ridiculously cheap.
vitaflo··on Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning
When I do YouTube searches I tend to limit the search to video’s prior to 2022 for this reason.
vitaflo··on Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation
That just means they're basically Adobe. What's their valuation?
vitaflo··on Synthesizer Cartridge for the Atari 2600
His Cynthcart for the C64 is much better and more versatile, I use it often with a midi keyboard to make chiptunes.
vitaflo··on Gemini 3 Deep Think
If you want to know where it's headed, look at factory workers 40 years ago. Lots of people still work at factories today, they just aren't in the same places they were 40 years ago and now req an entirely different skill set.

The largest ongoing expense of every company is labor and software devs are some of the highest paid labor on the planet. AI will eventually drive down wages for this class of workers most likely by shipping these jobs to people in other countries where labor is much cheaper. Just like factory work did.

Enjoy the good times while they last (or get a job at an AI company).

vitaflo··on Testing Ads in ChatGPT
You also have easy upgradeability and expansion, easier cooling and the value of the land and hardware as an asset. None of which are available in space.
vitaflo··on Every tech commercial in this year's Super Bowl sucked
Most people haven't even used any AI at all. None of these ads gave a reason as to why they should even start.
vitaflo··on Every tech commercial in this year's Super Bowl sucked
The general population has never used any of these products and haven't heard of most of them except maybe ChatGPT in passing.

All these AI ads had the same problem as the crypto ones of years past, nobody is going to understand WTF any of this stuff is because it's all too inside baseball.

vitaflo··on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else
Make as much money as you can while you still can before the bottom falls out. Or go work for one of the AI companies on AI. Always better to sell picks and shovels than dig for gold. Eventually the gold runs out where you are.
vitaflo··on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else
Smart devs know this is the beginning of the end of high paying dev work. Once the LLM's get really good, most dev work will go to the lowest bidder. Just like factory work did 30 years ago.
vitaflo··on Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use
Wasn't Figma's side panel just a ripoff of Sketch's? Always felt that way.
vitaflo··on Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use
Plus you can buy Sketch outright without the subscription.
vitaflo··on Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use
Maybe the problem with software is feeling the need to satisfy 100% of users instead of being OK with "only" 20%. Not everything needs to be a min/max problem.
vitaflo··on Data centers in space makes no sense
This is the thing I don’t get. Everyone talking about the “how” but nobody talking about the “why”? It makes literally no sense.
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