Comment by Karawebnetwork
19 hours ago
"Why I still write raw code instead of prompting the compiler" and "Show HN: A text editor that doesn't use AI" are my two favorite ones.
19 hours ago
"Why I still write raw code instead of prompting the compiler" and "Show HN: A text editor that doesn't use AI" are my two favorite ones.
"Ask HN: How do you prevent ad-injection in AR glasses?"
Things that I haven't thought but, after seeing it, makes total sense. Scary.
2040 HN:
"Ask HN: How do you prevent ad-injection in my brain implant?"
Black Mirror episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror)
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IIRC Asimov included this in Foundation; the poor couldn’t afford good adblockers for the implants they’d bought (in the hope of getting a better job)
I think that "Show HN: A text editor that doesn't use AI" could easily be a post here today
And it’s just a copy of notepad from windows xp.
Given it's HN, it'd likely be emacs, vi(m), or something like acme.
Dave Plummer (ex Microsoft) did this on his YouTuve channel recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmBd39OwvWg
Would also recommend his back catalogue, if you haven't.
I would be the author of the first one
"raw code" is going into my permanent lexicon.
Hot take: regular old source code is just compiler prompting.
Peak HN - captures it perfectly.