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your_friend··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Hope they use zero knowledge proofs like ZKPassport app
your_friend··on Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking
They should add testing from different ips and account countries, that would be fun too see that Americans are getting different models for example
your_friend··on Stop using natural language interfaces
I think text interface sucks, but at the same time I like how Claude code solve that with questionnaires, I think that’s the most elegant solution to get a lot of valuable context from users in a fast way
your_friend··on No One Is Working
Well, previously people have spent countless hours on routines. Nowadays the biggest blocker for progress in the companies are (the lack of) well defined strategy and good planing. Companies pay money to retain the talent that they would need right after they figure out what's the priority right now.
your_friend··on If you're remote, ramble
Why not one common channel?
your_friend··on Web scraping with your web browser: Why not?
Interesting, I’ve tried checkbot recently and it failed to do any cloudflare gated website, even 1 page. But maybe I’m on the old version
your_friend··on Memorizing the first 100 perfect squares (2022)
reading this just reminded me how i miss talking to my friends with scientific background
your_friend··on Show HN: I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries
How cool! I didn’t expect it will end up with ZK proofs that I was curious about for a long time. (After reading it I still don’t quite get the details of how they are working tho)
your_friend··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2024)
Kudos for creating checkbot! Saved me hours at some point and we were a paying customers for long.
your_friend··on Show HN: QWANJI
sounds like there might be some conspiracy... pls do
your_friend··on Self Learners
Thank you for listening to my therapy session.
your_friend··on Self Learners
Making me a good problem solver and solutions seller but unable to pass a single interview in my whole life .
your_friend··on Self Learners
Also I feel like everyone around went through the more fulfilled kinds of learnings and know subjects in depth, while I was just learning what I needed.
your_friend··on Self Learners
I consider myself an autodidact, but over the years learning became so hard mentally. Feels like my attention span shortened and I’m unable to sit on some problem for long
your_friend··on LLM agents can autonomously hack websites
Humans can also autonomously hack websites. Just saying.
your_friend··on Why do big companies ask unrealistic software engineering interview questions?
That's the thing I was struggling with, I can solve many of problems for the avg company – but I don't know how to solve a leetcode problem. I bet there aren't as many companies solving the complex problems on a scale.

But if we look from the perspective of the company – maybe it's just an filter to get someone very dedicated and nerdy about programming. Less churn, less questions.

your_friend··on Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones
Very clever solution! Would be cool to add a color coding of the time, maybe same way as Apple does sun position in the weather app. So when you scroll time you can see where of all these places the sun is still up.
your_friend··on Show HN: Whataaabout.com – unique activity ideas for the holiday break
The website led me to a Wikipedia article with a list of cognitive biases.

That was fun, thank you.

your_friend··on A new old kind of R&D lab
Sounds like a lab I was born for.

I think there’s a big group of individuals out there that are misfits both for regular jobs and science. Entrepreneur-ish generalists.

your_friend··on Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay for
It was great to look through. I think a cool lens for this dataset would be the date of repository creation.

I’m particularly interested in tools that emerged during last year for example. Since there are many of the very old monsters in the list.