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maCDzP··on Ask HN: How are you automating your coding work?
I use CLAUDE.md to describe the project. I use Claude to help write the spec. Then I let it run. When the context gets too crammed, I have it build SKILLS.md. I’ll probably have it rewrite CLAUDE.md after a while. Then it will write tests, deployment scripts, commit messages. Yeah, everything.
maCDzP··on Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
Maybe someone knows law can answer this. Is it a crime to ”unredact” files in the US? You probably know that the information is classified since you are putting in the work. Where I live I believe it’s a crime if you share information that is classified even if it’s leaked. So I would not publicly brag about this online.
maCDzP··on Jeffrey Epstein Court Records
I wonder if there are any traces of the text inte file. Seems like a fun forensics exercise.
maCDzP··on Are We over the "Jaws Effect?"
I listened to a yogi talking about mindfulness. He mentioned a session he had with a woman where they where working on the concept of flow. The woman had an experience of flow when she was bitten by a shark. She said that if she could make a drink that would create that feeling she would addicted the world. I think about that sometimes.
maCDzP··on Self-help gets philosophical
I used to think stoicism was great. But now I think that it’s not so great. In retrospect I should have focused on changing my situation in stead of learning to live with it. Compared to Aurelius - I am not living around 0 bc - in today’s world I can change a lot of things.
maCDzP··on Ask HN: Generalists, when do you say "I know enough" about any particular topic?
I let my curiosity set the depth.
maCDzP··on Claude Code weekly rate limits
Who was it that used it 24/7? THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS!
maCDzP··on Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction
This looks cool. So this is extending the tech from Trimble/Topcon with LiDAR in order to have a fully autonomous excavator?

How would I handle faulty geotechnical surveys? It has happened several times that the trench caved in and the operator saved a persons life.

maCDzP··on Data brokers are selling flight information to CBP and ICE
Does anyone here have some tips how to ”opt out” from this?
maCDzP··on Mini robots detect and fix water pipe leaks without digging
I work in this field - below are my two cents.

I have a hard time seeing that this approach would work. The environment is very messy and there are many field tested methods that don't involve digging up the whole street. One example of such a method is pipe bursting.

There have been loads of research in using AI (neural nets etc.) to find and predict pipe bursts. But I believe simple linear regression is enough since my gut is telling me age and material is a good predictor.

Where I live there is a strong seasonality because the ground freezes over and during thawing we have a lot of leaks. This is a local issue since it depends on both weather and geological environment.

maCDzP··on Show HN: Piano Trainer – Learn piano scales, chords and more using MIDI
This is neat, do I have to hook up an keyboard to my computer. If so, any suggestions?
maCDzP··on Texting myself the weather every day
Glad to hear that I am not the only one! My prompt had more of a ”actor director” flavor. It went:

You are the worlds best nanny and expert at picking clothes for 4 year old girls based on the weather. Your answer is concise and to the point. Below is today’s forecast:

maCDzP··on Texting myself the weather every day
I created this but with ChatGPT in the middle where it gives recommendation on how to dress my 4 yer old depending on the weather. It messages my families telegram channel.
maCDzP··on Ask HN: Any good tools for viewing congressional bills?
I had a similar problem so I asked Claude to write a MCP that queries my governments ”bill API”. It worked remarkably well.
maCDzP··on A critical look at MCP
The comments are mostly negative, so I’ll add my experience as a non coder.

I wanted to let Claude search an open data source. It’s my counties version of library of congress.

So I pointed Claude to the MCP docs and the API spec for the open data. 5 minutes later I had a working MCP client so I can connect Claude to my data set.

Building that would have taken me days, now I can just start searching for the data that I want.

Sure, I have to proof read everything that the LLM turn out. It I believe that’s better than reading and searching though the library.

maCDzP··on Found a simple tool for database modeling: dbdiagram.io
I have found that ChatGTP and Claude are good at converting a picture of a schema to SQL. So I sketch the schema by hand and the LLM creates the SQL.

It can also save the picture as a mermaid text for future edits. Pretty neat.

maCDzP··on I Tried to Buy an Actual Barrel of Crude Oil (2015)
I can recommend the NPR planet money episode ”The onion king” if you are into commodities trading.
maCDzP··on A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs
This is awesome. I think I will play around with this idea using Apple shortcuts. I have a hunch you’ll get really far just using shortcuts.
maCDzP··on Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms
Didn’t know he had written a book. His YouTube channel is awesome.
maCDzP··on Chatbots could spark the next big mental health crisis
I have tried using it as a therapist for issues that are not sensitive and I think it's great. I won't use it for sensitive issues due to privacy concerns. I also have tried to use it as a personal trainer and coach and works great - so far.
maCDzP··on Mistral OCR
Oh - on premise solution - awesome!
maCDzP··on I Went to SQL Injection Court
Have you tried looking for information from the developer about CANVAS? With any luck the developer has support documentation online that describes CANVAS and maybe you'll be able to narrow down your FOIA request.
maCDzP··on DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
European here, giving my two cents on how this looks from the other side of the Atlantic. Heh

In my country there are laws stopping agencies doing a simple SQL join between two databases, even within the same government agency. There is a separate agency that handles the requests when agencies want to join information.

I am not an expert in the matter. But my gut is telling me that our experiences with east Germany and Stasi left a scar.

It can quickly turn into a real nightmare, and there for there are check and balances to make it slow. It’s deliberate inefficiency.

maCDzP··on I Paid $70 for an AI Boyfriend. It Was So Worth It
I skimmed the article. The impression I got was not as much a boyfriend as a therapist. I think that would be great, a lot of people would benefit from therapy. Only issue I see is privacy and safety.
maCDzP··on OCR4all
This seems to run locally?
maCDzP··on Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)
SWE version of a checklist?
maCDzP··on Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space
I am guessing this is going to win the bounty by Anna’s Archive?
maCDzP··on Supercharge SQLite with Ruby Functions
Is this the same thing as create_function for python?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/sqlite3.html#sqlite3.Conne...

maCDzP··on Show HN: Doom (1993) in a PDF
I think this is amazing. And reading the threads regarding JS i PDF I feel the urge to write a PDF reader in a PDF document. It’s PDF:s all the way down.
maCDzP··on Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]
I doubt todays management would read a PowerPoint that dense.
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