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New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search

Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search 41 by tehwebguy | 19 comments on Hacker News. Not just HN the site, everyone’s fuzzy search sucks. Let me do exact match search. Even if it’s an option I have to dig deep to find. When I ran a site that had lots of search use I agonized over making search good and never nuked exact match for the sake of some fuzzy matching. I wish others would do the same.

New ask Hacker News story: Time for OpenAI and Anthropic to take a leaf from Microsoft's book?

Time for OpenAI and Anthropic to take a leaf from Microsoft's book? 2 by chrisjj | 1 comments on Hacker News. Dear Sam & Dario, please add "AI is for entertainment purposes only" to all output, including your PR announcements of the latest impressive security achievements. Thank you.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Give Me Your Earworm

Ask HN: Give Me Your Earworm 2 by t-3 | 1 comments on Hacker News.

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What former "must-have" AI agent skills have you deprecated?

Ask HN: What former "must-have" AI agent skills have you deprecated? 2 by lpjstack | 0 comments on Hacker News. As LLMs get stronger, I'm pruning my agent skill library. I've removed multi-step workflows (like superpowers) and web wrappers (like Agent Browse) that base models now handle natively, which speeds up context and improves performance. Are you doing similar cleanup? What former go-to tools or skills have you recently ditched?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Navigating Source Code (especially on large projects)

Ask HN: Navigating Source Code (especially on large projects) 2 by thekey | 0 comments on Hacker News. - How much time you spend with navigating source code? - How annoyed you are about that? - What are your strategies to mitigate? - Are there tools you using? - What about polyglot navigation? - How you onboard other people / point them to right locations - with context?

New ask Hacker News story: YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed

YC startup offers interviews to people who get their name permanently tattooed 6 by codexon | 4 comments on Hacker News. Thought this was interesting. Clever recruitment tactic or too much? linkedin.com/posts/jordan-zietz_7-people-left-our-yc-afterparty-with-permanent-activity-7487979543744614401-IFU-

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What have you been curious about?

Ask HN: What have you been curious about? 2 by adityaathalye | 1 comments on Hacker News. If you are anything like me, you will have about five answers at any given point in time for "What are you curious about?". Arguably, a more interesting, revealing, and kinder question is; "What have you been curious about?". I feel a looking-back-to-curiosity exercise has power to shed light on where to look ahead (and why to do it). More so, I feel it has power to grant permission to that "insatiably curious thirteen year old self" to step out and play. Because it probably already has been up to something, while your attention was elsewhere. So, here is a prompt (see what I just did there? ;-)) Um... Except for LLM stuff, if you please. Just for this thread. Because these days the plurality of HN discussion appears to be about the curiosities of LLMs. (cf. More about this in a blog post I published a while back https://ift.tt/oR7l1km )