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New comment by dogscatstrees in "A History of IDEs at Google"

dogscatstrees — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:47:17 +0000

I think it's also worth mentioning Piper, Critique, and the infamous monorepo.

[1] Piper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_(source_control_system)

[2] Crituque: https://books.google.com/books?id=V3TTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA399#v=on...

[3] Monorepo: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2854146

New comment by dogscatstrees in "Foucault's Order of Things Explained with Trading Cards [video]"

dogscatstrees — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:01:44 +0000

Fans of Nassim Taleb will know his disdain for Foucault.

New comment by dogscatstrees in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

dogscatstrees — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:13:58 +0000

Another stupid meme-latching name. Don't normalize these *maxxing nonsense words and just use plain language. Let's see, maybe just say they were optimizing for token count?

New comment by dogscatstrees in "Rediscovering the Handcart"

dogscatstrees — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:09:42 +0000

I'll see your handcart and raise you one yatai.

https://youtu.be/FEgTg_IyHwQ

New comment by dogscatstrees in "3.4M Solar Panels"

dogscatstrees — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:32:29 +0000

Beautiful methods. Very nice.

New comment by dogscatstrees in "California has more money than projected after admin miscalculated state budget"

dogscatstrees — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:00:49 +0000

They should have used Claude Code for Excel.

New comment by dogscatstrees in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

dogscatstrees — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:50:50 +0000

Value shifting. Search for SolarCity and cousin Lyndon Rive.

New comment by dogscatstrees in "Kimi K2.6: Advancing open-source coding"

dogscatstrees — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:11:56 +0000

This kimi website, it looks like a stylesheet from the 90's. They could learn a thing or two about typeface design. Steve Jobs would be incensed at this.

YouTube now lets you set your Shorts feed limit to zero

dogscatstrees — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:53:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phonearena.com/news/you-can-now-kill-your-youtube-shorts-feed-with-one-setting_id179694

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789990

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by dogscatstrees in "The secrets of the Shinkansen"

dogscatstrees — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:58:33 +0000

I'm drawn by the style and aesthetics of the charts in combination with the fonts used in them.

New comment by dogscatstrees in "The AI revolution in math has arrived"

dogscatstrees — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:12:32 +0000

It was just yesterday that this top post [] was decrying the "peril of laziness lost", that LLMs inherently lack the virtue of laziness.

So which one are they?

[] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743628

New comment by dogscatstrees in "The AI revolution in math has arrived"

dogscatstrees — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:12:34 +0000

> As they did so, they also learned how to improve the prompts they gave AlphaEvolve. One key takeaway: The model seemed to benefit from encouragement. It worked better “when we were prompting with some positive reinforcement to the LLM,” Gómez-Serrano said. “Like saying ‘You can do this’ — this seemed to help. This is interesting. We don’t know why.”

Four top logical people in the world are acknowledging this. It is mind-blowing and we don't know why.

New comment by dogscatstrees in "Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?"

dogscatstrees — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:15:42 +0000

I don't understand why ships can't just run on Oman's side of the strait, isn't there a dash-line down the middle for territorial waters integrity?

When war crimes rhetoric becomes battlefield reality

dogscatstrees — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:39:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.justsecurity.org/135797/war-crimes-rhetoric-power-plants-iran/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671498

Points: 47

# Comments: 63

New comment by dogscatstrees in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

dogscatstrees — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:25:46 +0000

Hmm, is there a useful analog here for my custom Claude Code persistent memory system?

New comment by dogscatstrees in "Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)"

dogscatstrees — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:17:29 +0000

This article is a gem, thank you. Now off to Sherwin-Williams to see what the equivalent color names are. I wonder if there are matching formula.

New comment by dogscatstrees in "Hubble Snaps a New Dazzling Photo of the Crab Nebula"

dogscatstrees — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:37:21 +0000

This kid built a custom telescope platform and was able to photograph the Seagull Nebula, Bubble Nebula, Rosette Nebula, Horsehead Nebula, Crescent Nebula, Soul Nebula, various galaxies, all from Earth.

https://youtu.be/5A3D06D97jo

I attended a Claude for Excel webinar that 10k people attended

dogscatstrees — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:35:48 +0000

Article URL: https://anthropic.ondemand.goldcast.io/on-demand/dfd8dc34-c59d-469e-aad2-3b093bd8ef86

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47450538

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dogscatstrees in "Worldwide Sidewalk Joy: Adding whimsy to neighborhoods"

dogscatstrees — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:33:46 +0000

i love it!