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New comment by tomviner in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

tomviner — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 19:45:34 +0000

How do you know what to remove?

New comment by tomviner in "Metric Time"

tomviner — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 09:34:42 +0000

Clock faces were inspired by sun dials. The hour hand traces a version of the path the sun's shadow makes. At least in the northern hemisphere.

All About the Incentivized Testnet for the Tea Protocol

tomviner — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 04:10:21 +0000

Article URL: https://tea.xyz/blog/tea-protocol/all-about-the-incentivized-testnet-for-the-tea-protocol

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37747875

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by tomviner in "macOS command-line tools you might not know about"

tomviner — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 12:27:42 +0000

The Python json library is callable as a module:

    pbcopy | python -m json.tool | pbpaste

It has a load options:

    $ python -m json.tool --help
    usage: python -m json.tool [-h] [--sort-keys] [--no-ensure-ascii] [--json-lines] [--indent INDENT | --tab | --no-indent | --compact] [infile] [outfile]

    A simple command line interface for json module to validate and pretty-print JSON objects.

    positional arguments:
      infile             a JSON file to be validated or pretty-printed
      outfile            write the output of infile to outfile

    options:
      -h, --help         show this help message and exit
      --sort-keys        sort the output of dictionaries alphabetically by key
      --no-ensure-ascii  disable escaping of non-ASCII characters
      --json-lines       parse input using the JSON Lines format. Use with --no-indent or --compact to produce valid JSON Lines output.
      --indent INDENT    separate items with newlines and use this number of spaces for indentation
      --tab              separate items with newlines and use tabs for indentation
      --no-indent        separate items with spaces rather than newlines
      --compact          suppress all whitespace separation (most compact)

New comment by tomviner in "How to Recover from Microservices"

tomviner — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 22:57:46 +0000

Anyone got stories of converting microservices into a monolith?

How to Recover from Microservices

tomviner — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:29:17 +0000

Article URL: https://world.hey.com/dhh/how-to-recover-from-microservices-ce3803cc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36483729

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by tomviner in "Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing"

tomviner — Wed, 31 May 2023 22:47:27 +0000

What's your alternative?

New comment by tomviner in "A New Theory for the Assembly of Life in the Universe"

tomviner — Fri, 05 May 2023 20:19:40 +0000

https://www.transcriptforest.com/en/lex-fridman-podcast/8727...

The Dual LLM pattern for building AI assistants that can resist prompt injection

tomviner — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 06:43:42 +0000

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/25/dual-llm-pattern/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35724150

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tomviner in "Building a ChatGPT-enhanced Python REPL"

tomviner — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 08:04:11 +0000

Copilot CLI is exactly this https://www.npmjs.com/package/@githubnext/github-copilot-cli

New comment by tomviner in "Running Python micro-benchmarks using the ChatGPT Code Interpreter alpha"

tomviner — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 11:52:28 +0000

I wonder what's the simplest Langchain agent that can recreate this?

New comment by tomviner in "Jailbreak Chat: A collection of ChatGPT jailbreaks"

tomviner — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 19:56:26 +0000

There's no generic solution as yet. Bing's Sydney was instructed its rules were "confidential and permanent", yet it divulged and broke them with only a little misdirection.

Is this just the first taste of AI alignment being proved to be necessarily a fundamentally hard problem?

Human brain organoids placed in the mouse cortex react to visual stimuli

tomviner — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 21:22:17 +0000

Article URL: https://interestingengineering.com/science/human-brain-organoids-mouse-cortex

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34251863

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by tomviner in "Ask HN: What are some of the best books you have read in 2022?"

tomviner — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 11:18:44 +0000

The audiobook is worth a listen just for that one special character. Even if you've already read the book