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A.I.-Driven Education: Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You

DreaminDani — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 14:13:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/us/politics/ai-alpha-school-austin-texas.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44701453

Points: 3

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New comment by DreaminDani in "Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor"

DreaminDani — Wed, 07 May 2025 22:40:07 +0000

agreed! I was not a huge fan of the AI integration before in Zed and would always switch to Cursor (or, lately Claude Code) to actually get something done. Now that Zed can target specific pieces of code from the sidebar and edit them directly, it's been my goto for the last 24 hours. I've yet to "eject" to my old tools.

New comment by DreaminDani in "Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor"

DreaminDani — Wed, 07 May 2025 22:38:32 +0000

I'd say it's closer to Claude Code than to either of the two IDE-oriented ones. I say this because it actually does the right thing more often than either Cursor or Windsurf. It gathers the right context, asks for feedback when needed and has yet to "go back and forth between two failing solutions" like I've seen Cursor do.

I don't know what Zed's doing under the hood but the diffing tool has yet to fail on me (compared to multiple times per conversation in Cursor). Compared to previous Zed AI iterations, this one edits files much more willingly and clearly communicates what it's editing. It's also faster than Claude Code at getting up to speed on context and much faster than Cursor or Windsurf.

New comment by DreaminDani in "Careless People"

DreaminDani — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:04:40 +0000

Reading an audiobook is reading. As a partially blind person, it is the only way I can read comfortably. I'm not sure how a different word would help. If one was reviewing the audiobook, specifically, they might call it out in order to comment on the narration quality, etc. But if you listened to the book, you've read it.

New comment by DreaminDani in "Analyzing R/weirddalle then vs. now"

DreaminDani — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 02:41:32 +0000

IMO the dashcam footage of a car crashing into Shrek was way better with the old Dalle

New comment by DreaminDani in "Stop saying "just" (2019)"

DreaminDani — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:00:48 +0000

It's always been my assumption that we wash our hands when we go to the bathroom for two reasons: 1. Wiping your butt can lead to feces getting in your hand. A lot of diseases can come from feces. 2. It's a good frequency to wash off whatever else you've been touching that day.

Assuming you go to the bathroom 3-7 times a day, that's that many opportunities to wash off the dirt you were digging in, trash you picked up off the street or someone else's hand you shook.

New comment by DreaminDani in "Show HN: Someday, Open-Source Calendly Alternative for Gmail / Google App Script"

DreaminDani — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 18:07:39 +0000

In the desktop version of the calendar, you can click the view settings in the upper right and turn off calendar appointments

They still show up on the mobile version of Google calendar though :/

Gmail Solved the "Impossible" Problem

DreaminDani — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 12:09:56 +0000

Article URL: https://elizlaraki.substack.com/p/how-gmail-solved-the-impossible-problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41776447

Points: 22

# Comments: 10

New comment by DreaminDani in "ADHD headband treats symptoms in 20 minutes per day"

DreaminDani — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 11:44:16 +0000

For those thinking any technology might be a "cure" for a specific disability, I highly recommend checking out the book Against Technoableism by Ashley Shew [1]. It really helps articulate the reasoning behind "nothing about us without us" in the context of "life changing" technology - including snakeoil bullshit like this.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Against-Technoableism-Rethinking-Impr...

New comment by DreaminDani in "Git: Please Stop Squash Merging"

DreaminDani — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 02:38:44 +0000

> what are the downsides of having those commits?

In my experience, having to rebase on top of a branch with a lot of "lint" "quick fix" "let's try this" "oops, how about this" can be draining and sometimes lead to accidental code deletion.

I like squash merges because I know it was the author's intended change that I'm merging or rebasing onto.

New comment by DreaminDani in "Show HN: Affordable text-to-speech for long-form content"

DreaminDani — Sun, 26 May 2024 14:03:59 +0000

This is really cool! One quick note about your marketing copy, though: > Audio for humans, not robots

There are plenty of blind folks who use traditional text to speech for navigating our devices. We prefer the robot text at ridiculously high speeds. We're humans too.

I would love the option to switch to a more natural voice for more literary text (or even a fan fic) so I'll definitely be checking this out

New comment by DreaminDani in "Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go"

DreaminDani — Sat, 18 May 2024 13:07:10 +0000

Agreed. Tauri for desktop, capacitor for mobile. Bring your own front-end library either way.

New comment by DreaminDani in "T-Mobile Completes Acquisition of Mint Mobile"

DreaminDani — Wed, 01 May 2024 22:12:20 +0000

How do you do this? Is there a button somewhere in android to switch networks?

Digital reading soars in Seattle, creating problems for local libraries

DreaminDani — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:32:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kuow.org/stories/digital-reading-soars-in-seattle-creating-problems-for-local-libraries

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136191

Points: 2

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New comment by DreaminDani in "Show HN: magick.css – Minimalist CSS for Wizards"

DreaminDani — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 01:46:59 +0000

swyx already has one: https://github.com/swyxio/spark-joy?tab=readme-ov-file#fun-c...

New comment by DreaminDani in "Over the edge: The use of design tactics to undermine browser choice"

DreaminDani — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 15:18:54 +0000

+1 to BTT. I also love how they have a (fully disable-able) drag to split, similar to Windows' hot edges

New comment by DreaminDani in "Kagi.com is unstable for all regions"

DreaminDani — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 23:59:14 +0000

resolved now. but the status page was excellent and was up-to-date immediately. It made me feel comfortable using an alternative for a bit while I waited for it to come back up

New comment by DreaminDani in "Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2"

DreaminDani — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 14:34:01 +0000

It looks the same to me. A lot of the models wearing the headset appear to be shots from last year's WWDC. The image of the light seal on its own looks like it matches those original images.

New comment by DreaminDani in "The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement"

DreaminDani — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 14:40:32 +0000

The newsroom is a different part of thr company than the legal department. Plus, sometimes your company does something that's newsworthy! Just like all journalism, there's always implicit bias. No reason to get suspicious about a news organization covering the news.

Hacker News: DreaminDani

A.I.-Driven Education: Founded in Texas and Coming to a School Near You

New comment by DreaminDani in "Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor"

New comment by DreaminDani in "Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor"

New comment by DreaminDani in "Careless People"

New comment by DreaminDani in "Analyzing R/weirddalle then vs. now"

New comment by DreaminDani in "Stop saying "just" (2019)"

New comment by DreaminDani in "Show HN: Someday, Open-Source Calendly Alternative for Gmail / Google App Script"

Gmail Solved the "Impossible" Problem

New comment by DreaminDani in "ADHD headband treats symptoms in 20 minutes per day"

New comment by DreaminDani in "Git: Please Stop Squash Merging"

New comment by DreaminDani in "Show HN: Affordable text-to-speech for long-form content"

New comment by DreaminDani in "Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go"

New comment by DreaminDani in "T-Mobile Completes Acquisition of Mint Mobile"

Digital reading soars in Seattle, creating problems for local libraries

New comment by DreaminDani in "Show HN: magick.css – Minimalist CSS for Wizards"

New comment by DreaminDani in "Over the edge: The use of design tactics to undermine browser choice"

New comment by DreaminDani in "Kagi.com is unstable for all regions"

New comment by DreaminDani in "Apple Vision Pro available in the U.S. on February 2"

New comment by DreaminDani in "The New York Times is suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement"

AI attempts to replace human creativity; how we can build a better design field