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konamicodeon Ask HN: Are you too getting addicted to the dev workflow of coding with agents?

I think for someone who hasn’t experienced this it would be helpful to see a real world example whether it’s a Claude session or illustrated in some other way. Can anyone share?

konamicodeon Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification

I’ve done that - moved out of a mold infested house into a brand new house and kept some but not all belongings. Can you elaborate on risks? What do I need to watch out for?

konamicodeon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

What would be a good strategy to prevent companies from cottoning on to this and gaming the system? They could for example change packaging on production runs for a product that’s undergoing laboratory.love funding campaign.

konamicodeon Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher detergents and rinse aids

I might be generalising but in some countries (UK) it's common to not rinse soap/washing up liquid off dishes after washing them by hand. Being hypochondriac I was always curious about health aspects of this and feared something similar to what's described in the article.

konamicodeon Making life easier for newcomers to the .NET ecosystem

VS's windowing system is better than Rider's. I often use VS with a layout which takes up two full screens (editor on one and Tests Explorer/Solution Explorer/Output Window/Find window etc on the other). I haven't yet found a way to replicate this in Rider.

konamicodeon Our plans to improve navigation on Gov.uk

Out of interest - who are the senior leaders you’re referring to?

konamicodeon What Is Applied Category Theory? (2018)

If you’re interested in machine learning I can recommend Christopher Olah’s blog: https://colah.github.io/

konamicodeon To the moon: defining and detecting cryptocurrency pump-and-dumps (2018)

> Tether is 80% of trading volume lol.

This statement might need a reference to back it up.

konamicodeon First person receives Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine in UK

N.B. Oxford have since published[0] a peer-reviewed study of phase 3 trial in The Lancet.

[0] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

konamicodeon iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro

Same position here. Pro is compelling because I own an old iPad mini that's due an upgrade and I wonder if Pro would provide that for me. But for size I like my current SE gen 1.

konamicodeon Robinhood 20yo trader with no income loses 700k on options, takes life

If I am a Robinhood customer who is investing for the long term instead of day trading - should I care?

konamicodeon Keeping the coronavirus from infecting healthcare workers

> They just need to be put into boiling water for a few minutes to kill sars-cov-2 at 100%.

I was looking for information on (high) heat killing viruses such as sars-cov-2. Are you able to point to a reliable source on this?

konamicodeon Handbook of Covid-19 Prevention and Treatment from Hospital with 0% fatality [pdf]

Do you know if the other countries you mentioned have equivalent documents to the one you linked for Belgium?

konamicodeon C# Pattern Matching

Unlike in C# pattern matching in F# is exhaustive. I’m guessing this is what was meant by “better”.

konamicodeon Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t know why

This is mentioned elsewhere in the comments at least some of the code for climateprediction.net appears to be on GitHub: https://github.com/CPDN-git.

konamicodeon Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?

“13 Minutes to the Moon” by the BBC World Service.

konamicodeon ProjectPSX – A C# coded emulator of the original Playstation

Any chance you have an example of this pattern you can point to? Also, would the use of Span<T> make it possible to do this without unsafe code?

konamicodeon Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation

One of the harder things with English pronunciation I found was to be able to correctly vocalise "warm" and "worm", "crap" and "crepe" and similar. Think a resource like this would have helped.

konamicodeon Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub

> binding system that's full of footguns

Please elaborate?

konamicodeon Aroma: Using machine learning for code recommendation

Seealso: IntelliCode for Visual Studio.

konamicodeon Programming: Doing it more vs. doing it better

> At the other end of the spectrum are the “cowboys” who are productive by writing sloppy code with bad architecture and are either oblivious of or just ignore the huge pile of technical debt they pass along to the people who get to maintain their code.

Ousterhout uses the term "tactical tornado"s, which I quite like (source: https://twitter.com/johofer/status/1035442341199446017 apologies I don't have a better source handy).

konamicodeon Paul Graham inspired the creation of Redis

I'd be keen to see a simple example of this pattern in Lisp (or another language). Does anybody have a good link?

konamicodeon Oldest Viable Laptop (2017)

I have a 2008 MB (first of the unibody models) and it would be OK if not for hardware no longer being supported by the newer versions of macOS. This means I am unable to install .NET Core 2.0 or some of the newer Node versions which is a shame.

konamicodeon Apple Said to Launch 16-Inch MacBook Pro with All-New Design in 2019

I often have the need to have multiple instances of Visual Studio open simultaneously. I’ve been looking to get an Alienware Area 51M with i9 9900K and 32GB RAM. If this MB Pro comes with similar specs I may have a dilemma on my hands.

konamicodeon Why you should learn F#

There is Mechanic (https://github.com/fsprojects/Mechanic), an OSS project that's meant to take away some of the pain, though I don't have any experience using it and I'm not aware of how useful it is in practice.

konamicodeon Google Plans Large New York City Expansion

> it would fit in the 3x annual income rule for housing affordability

Could you please expand on this rule? Where did it come from? Feels like impossibility in some countries.

konamicodeon Ask HN: What is your best advice for a junior software developer?

I've heard similar things about Scala, though I haven't had a chance to confirm this for myself yet. Not 100% sure if this supports your hypothesis or not given that Scala is multiparadigm?

konamicodeon Miller Columns

My default VS layout is to have two full screens: editor on the left screen where I often have a source file and its tests open side by side and on the right screen - the source tree, the test runner, the output window, team explorer etc.

konamicodeon Build Impossible Programs

This can work well if you are in an environment like the Google Summer of Code program. It's much harder to do this if you don't have a mentor or two who would be able to spot your mistakes and guide you in the right direction. For many engineers out there they would not have the same set up. Someday I would love to help out somebody with something ambitious but I feel like I need to learn a ton before I am in that position.