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New comment by wcedmisten in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

wcedmisten — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:02:35 +0000

> Software engineering is a mostly solved problem at this point

I guess that's why Claude Code has 0 open issues on Github. Since software engineering is solved, their autonomous agents can easily fix their own software much better and faster than human devs. They can just add "make no mistakes" to their prompt and the model can solve any problem!

Oh wait, they have 5,000+ open issues on Github[1]. I'm yet to be convinced that this is a solved problem

[1]: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues

New comment by wcedmisten in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

wcedmisten — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 03:47:47 +0000

Having spent 3 years of my career working with Clojure, I think it actually gives you even more rope to shoot yourself with than Python/JS.

E.g. macros exist in Clojure but not Python/JS, and I've definitely been plenty stumped by seeing them in the codebase. They tend to be used in very "clever" patterns.

On the other hand, I'm a bit surprised Claude can tackle a complex Clojure codebase. It's been a while since I attempted using an LLM for Clojure, but at the time it failed completely (I think because there is relatively little training data compared to other mainstream languages). I'll have to check that out myself

New comment by wcedmisten in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

wcedmisten — Tue, 27 May 2025 12:40:52 +0000

Currently I don't check the opening_hours, because I've found it's missing for many (most?) restaurants, so I felt it wouldn't be a very useful filter

New comment by wcedmisten in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

wcedmisten — Tue, 27 May 2025 12:40:03 +0000

Sure, my wiki username is the same as HN: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:List...

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New comment by wcedmisten in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

wcedmisten — Sun, 25 May 2025 21:18:51 +0000

That's awesome! I recently picked up bird photography as a hobby and have contributed a few pictures to wiki commons.

Do you have a website I can follow?

New comment by wcedmisten in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)"

wcedmisten — Sun, 25 May 2025 21:15:52 +0000

I got tired of trying to pick a date spot with my girlfriend, so I made this website to randomly pick an restaurant/date activity for me based on OpenStreetMap data.

I've also used the data corrections submitted by users to contribute over 3,000 edits back into OSM!

https://surprisedatespot.com/

A Global Comparison of Restaurants in OpenStreetMap and Overture Places

wcedmisten — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 12:02:10 +0000

Article URL: https://surprisedatespot.com/blog/comparing-overture-osm-restaurants/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41903203

Points: 4

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New comment by wcedmisten in "Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting"

wcedmisten — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 19:22:41 +0000

Have you heard of:

https://www.openhistoricalmap.org

I don't think you can pay for it, but I'm sure they'd accept donations!

New comment by wcedmisten in "Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting"

wcedmisten — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:49:27 +0000

Overture is an awesome resource because it has more coverage than OSM, but at the cost of accuracy. When I was considering using it for restaurants in surprisedatespot.com, I found that it has a lot more automated content with bad geocoding (imprecise locations) compared to OSM.

E.g. restaurants can come from an old Facebook page and the geocoding might not be accurate compared to a survey.

So where OSM might have a restaurant that closed 8 years ago, overture has every restaurant that's been at that location for the past 8 years.

New comment by wcedmisten in "Show HN: OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting"

wcedmisten — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:35:08 +0000

Now I'm curious, what causes the latency for range requests with R2?

Show HN: Surprise Date Spot – Spin the wheel to find a new restaurant near you

wcedmisten — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 13:08:44 +0000

I recently saw that the project Wheel of Lunch fell victim to Yelp's API price changes, so I was inspired to make something similar using crowdsourced OpenStreetMap data.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41456278

Points: 2

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New comment by wcedmisten in "Markov chains are funnier than LLMs"

wcedmisten — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 03:40:57 +0000

Highly recommend this performance from the last Strange Loop on a similar topic! I had the pleasure of seeing it live. A great combination of live music and Markov chains.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M2o4f_2L0No

New comment by wcedmisten in "Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book"

wcedmisten — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 19:40:14 +0000

There have been quite a few articles corroborating the existence of books like this, the only part that needs believing is that someone actually used the books as advertised.

https://www.vox.com/24141648/ai-ebook-grift-mushroom-foragin...

https://fortune.com/2023/09/03/ai-written-mushroom-hunting-g...

Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book

wcedmisten — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 19:24:54 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1etko9h/family_poisoned_after_using_aigenerated_mushroom/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41269514

Points: 248

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New comment by wcedmisten in "OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20"

wcedmisten — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 18:04:33 +0000

Maybe try the National Address Database?

https://www.transportation.gov/gis/national-address-database...

New comment by wcedmisten in "OpenStreetMap Is Turning 20"

wcedmisten — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 11:21:00 +0000

I really enjoy using OSM for my projects! It can be a bit daunting to figure out how to use the data because there are so many different tools in the ecosystem. I wrote this article recently to help anyone looking to get started querying OSM:

https://wcedmisten.fyi/post/how-to-query-osm/

New comment by wcedmisten in "Open source tools to query OpenStreetMap"

wcedmisten — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:49:20 +0000

osmnx looks like a cool library, I haven't seen that one before!

As for self hosting overpass, I have considered it, but the installation steps seemed a bit tedious to me compared to a lot of tools which are dockerized.

New comment by wcedmisten in "Open source tools to query OpenStreetMap"

wcedmisten — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:42:40 +0000

I'm a big fan! I use it for most of my OSM projects. It's pretty easy to download an OSM extract and process it into base tiles.

Protomaps also provides a free set of base tiles that you can download and rehost yourself if you don't want to process the data locally.

New comment by wcedmisten in "Open source tools to query OpenStreetMap"

wcedmisten — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:27:48 +0000

Author here! Happy to answer any questions you all have about this article.

Open source tools to query OpenStreetMap

wcedmisten — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:22:52 +0000

Article URL: https://wcedmisten.fyi/post/how-to-query-osm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41173001

Points: 115

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