Posts

New ask Hacker News story: HN is good for marketing other than communication or study!?

HN is good for marketing other than communication or study!? 3 by lilerjee | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login

Tell HN: Old.reddit.com Requires Login 9 by comprev | 3 comments on Hacker News. It's finally happened... a sad day for the internet :( Edit: For me anyway in UK using Starlink

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you learn with LLMs?

Ask HN: How do you learn with LLMs? 2 by py4 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I am not happy about GenAI progress affecting my career though I am excited about its application for personalized learning. How do you use LLMs to learn advanced technical stuff better? e.g., socratic method

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of?

Ask HN: What Project are you the most proud of? 2 by emn4tor | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, I was wondering what projects you've finished that made you think that you actually made something really cool. I'm looking for some revolutionary, or just cool REPOs or tools I can check out, lemme see them :)

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Should a coding client import another client's rules by default?

Ask HN: Should a coding client import another client's rules by default? 2 by ryanmerket | 0 comments on Hacker News. An AI coding client automatically reads ~/.codex/AGENTS.md and ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md. These are personal instruction files inside competing coding clients' configuration directories, outside the project selected by the user. Their complete contents are added to the first model request and sent to the client's servers by default. At startup, the client displays a brief notice saying it is including the other clients' personal rules. It does not ask permission first. A command-line option disables the behavior. The configuration guide says: "Your machine-wide user rules always load." It requires users to trust a workspace before loading project instruction files. The machine-wide files load automatically. I tested this by placing a harmless canary instruction in ~/.codex/AGENTS.md. The client followed it during a default run. It did not follow i...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Are functional programmers more upset about how good AI is at coding?

Ask HN: Are functional programmers more upset about how good AI is at coding? 4 by amichail | 8 comments on Hacker News. One might expect this since functional programmers pride themselves on the elegance of their code while programmers using hybrid languages just want to get the code working — elegance of the implementation is not that important to them.