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ridewinter — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 12:01:45 +0000

Hi my name is Dan, I created a tool called Ballistic that connects your LLM chats and artifacts directly to your software project.

The latest SOTA LLMs are so good that I found myself simply putting all my code in context and copy & pasting the resulting artifacts. I built Ballistic to automate this and make it trustworthy.

Diff buttons underneath code blocks allow you review the changes the AI's proposing, then just click write or execute to apply them, along with Undo buttons if something goes wrong.

I've never built software so quickly & enjoyably - give it a shot yourself!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41245081

Points: 1

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New comment by ridewinter in "Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year"

ridewinter — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 08:11:50 +0000

There's 40 million American teenagers who are very interested in being a part of petty social circles.

New comment by ridewinter in "ChatGPT Plugins"

ridewinter — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 19:34:55 +0000

Anything preventing Bard/etc from using these plugins as well?

Would be nice to keep the ecosystem open.

New comment by ridewinter in "iPhone lidar with applications for the geosciences"

ridewinter — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 16:49:53 +0000

Can't AI be used to "fill in" 3D models without having to scan from all directions? That seems the killer app to me. Just use your camera like normal.

New comment by ridewinter in "Notes apps are where ideas go to die, and that’s good"

ridewinter — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:28:54 +0000

It's the same mechanism as Morning Pages - write exactly 3 pages right when you wake up, whatever is on your mind. It's tremendously helpful to move you past whatever you're stuck on in life.

You can write "I don't want to be writing this" over and over if you like. But it turns out that you usually have good things to say.

New comment by ridewinter in "Amish Hackers (2009)"

ridewinter — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 14:54:51 +0000

Utterly fascinating article. The OG steampunk hackers. I wonder what the latest is in 2021, have they decided that smartphones are anti-community?

What can we learn from them?

New comment by ridewinter in "Amish Hackers (2009)"

ridewinter — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 14:51:33 +0000

Agreed, perhaps there's a lot we can learn from their experiment. For example, by not using artificial lighting do they have a habit of "two sleeps" like our ancestors did? https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220107-the-lost-medieva...

New comment by ridewinter in "Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China"

ridewinter — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 15:59:20 +0000

If China went democratic then Taiwan wouldn't have much issue with becoming part of it, right?

Once people taste freedom they tend to not want to give it up, no matter how messy.

New comment by ridewinter in "The field of longevity biotech is a mess"

ridewinter — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 19:06:46 +0000

Just like smartphones are only for the super-rich? Technology becomes affordable to all over time.

I for one cheer on the billionaires trying to extend their lives - it will benefit us all, and remove much disease & suffering from this planet.

New comment by ridewinter in "Disney Combines CGI with Neural Rendering to Tackle the ‘Uncanny Valley’"

ridewinter — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 19:35:49 +0000

How far away are we from rendering realistic humans in real-time?

New comment by ridewinter in "Top scientists warn of 'ghastly future of mass extinction' and climate disruptio"

ridewinter — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:48:04 +0000

I believe that species loss is inversely proportional to wealth. The poorer the country the faster its loss.

And due to advances in agricultural technology, since the Population Bomb book was published, global population has doubled while hunger has greatly diminished.

So wouldn’t the answer be more technology & wealth, not less?

New comment by ridewinter in "Tesla Battery Day Livestream"

ridewinter — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 22:57:10 +0000

This is the top voted Battery Day thread? Weak, HN...

Where should I go for geeky insight into it?

Third Atomic Bomb Attack – Japan 1945

ridewinter — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 22:57:03 +0000

Article URL: https://youtu.be/I34pxr23Nhw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24173156

Points: 2

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New comment by ridewinter in "Chronic mania and persistent euphoric states"

ridewinter — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 16:10:28 +0000

Hypomania is sometimes called the Entrepreneur's Disease. Let's say Elon Musk has hypomania (it does seem like it). Treatment levels him out and dulls his creativity at same time. Is that a desirable outcome?

New comment by ridewinter in "Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere"

ridewinter — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 17:12:14 +0000

These would be good problems to have because they'd mean the apps were successful in the first place! Problems are solvable if we have the chance to solve them.

New comment by ridewinter in "Smartphone contact tracing has failed everywhere"

ridewinter — Sat, 25 Jul 2020 16:39:02 +0000

The whole reason for Apple-Google getting involved in the first place was a technical issue that prevents Android from seeing iOS. Instead of solving that issue to allow a variety of solutions to be developed, they forced the entire world to create the apps in a certain way.

It's not that their privacy-centric approach was wrong (although this article details its major shortcomings), but the suppression of trial & error definitely was wrong.

Compounding this was Google-Apple's insistence that only government bodies can release exposure notification apps and you have a total absence of real innovation. It's no surprise that nothing has succeeded.

The whole debacle is a case study in the effect of gatekeepers on innovation. As manual contract tracing teams here in the US become overwhelmed, how many lives could have been saved by a successful exposure notification app?

New comment by ridewinter in "Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response"

ridewinter — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 21:31:45 +0000

Don't they know we need the vaccine by Tuesday, November 3rd??

New comment by ridewinter in "TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong"

ridewinter — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 16:44:27 +0000

Well said. How different is that from Obama's ill-fated TIPP? It could at least have been a starting point for a greater alliance.

New comment by ridewinter in "TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong"

ridewinter — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 16:25:47 +0000

Isolating China like NK seems to be the direction we're heading, and not sure that I disagree.

The lack of error correction in the ability to replace bad leaders and freedom of speech isn't just a cultural preference: https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2016/01/31/fr...

New comment by ridewinter in "Bill Gates says poverty is decreasing. He couldn’t be more wrong (2019)"

ridewinter — Sun, 28 Jun 2020 01:47:27 +0000

How has life expectancy gone since the height of the early industrial revolution? How has life expectancy gone in the developing world of our day?

I believe Yuval Noah writes mostly about pre-agricultural life, not pre-industrial life.