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trashymctrash··on Show HN: Terse, a Claude Code plugin that halves reply length by cutting filler
Opus 5.5 has reduced this to an acceptable level for me. Are you also using this plugin with that model?
trashymctrash··on The systems that no one will test
i am also worried that all my private data might eventually (once tech is advanced enough) be surfaced somewhere: photos, chats, emails. wondering if i should start cleaning up now or just give up
trashymctrash··on Far-left party wins Berlin election, pledging to nationalise housing
> This party is not far-left, it is just left.

Of all parties in Germany that have a shot at governing, it is the furthest left. Thus, „far-left“ is not wrong in my opinion.

trashymctrash··on Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
That’s a huge overstatement. If that were true, then banks would code their core financial services with that approach but they don’t.
trashymctrash··on The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
If you read the next couple of paragraphs, the author addresses this:

> That said, Steam's policy has been recently updated to exclude dev tools used for "efficiency gains", but which are not used to generate content presented to players.

I only quoted the first paragraph, but there is more.

trashymctrash··on I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs
If you squash your PR before merging, then this alternative worked really well for me:

  git fetch --prune && git branch -vv | awk '/: gone]/{print $1}' | xargs git branch -D
trashymctrash··on The Future of AI Software Development
i was initially confused because i couldn’t find it in the article, but then i found what you quoted here: https://martinfowler.com/articles/expert-generalist.html
trashymctrash··on macOS 26's Cut Corners
Is „Dyehoe“ in the title a typo? Otherwise I don’t get it
trashymctrash··on GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over
What I liked about GraphQL was the fact that I only have to add a field in one place (where it belongs in the schema) and then any client can just query it. No more requests from Frontend developers like „Hey, can you also add that field to this endpoint? Then I don’t have to make multiple requests“. It just cuts that discussion short.

I also really liked that you can create a snapshot of the whole schema for integration test purposes, which makes it very easy to detect breaking changes in the API, e.g. if a nullable field becomes not-nullable.

But I also agree with lots of the points of the article. I guess I am just not super in love with REST. In my experience, REST APIs were often quite messy and inconsistent in comparison to GraphQL. But of course that’s only anecdotal evidence.

trashymctrash··on How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me
I think you are misreading the parent comment here.
trashymctrash··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
never used the web app, but never noticed any sluggishness with the desktop app.

now my company „forces“ me to us Microsoft Teams and i’m thinking back to the good old days with Slack.

trashymctrash··on Cursor 1.0
this maybe? https://liveswebench.ai/
trashymctrash··on Ask HN: Is there a way to block Trump on all my devices?
looks useful. thanks
trashymctrash··on Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
If you are curious, here is how you can integrate it into a Jetbrains IDE: https://glyphy.com/a/2022/structural-diff-with-difftastic-an...

I tried it, but unfortunately it's not as seamless as it could be, so I reverted back to Jetbrain's native diffing, which is quite good anyway.

trashymctrash··on I don't want anything your AI generates
> You're effectively attempting to bully people out of their own opinions for the sake of your convenience.

Maybe it's just me, but "bully" seems like a very exaggerated choice of words here.

trashymctrash··on Henry Kissinger Has Died
it now uses bing to perform searches. so i think he is probably correct to assume that it did that. it would show up as „performing search with bing“ in the chat history.
trashymctrash··on Ask HN: What helps you focus and get things done?
i’ve been using https://www.brain.fm for years now. when i really want to get stuff done, i put on headphones, play something from that website and set a timer for one hour. Then i take a break. repeat two or three times. Then take longer break.

not affiliated with the product. just a fan.

trashymctrash··on Creation happens in silence
Very well put. I love the metaphors, especially the "microwave going bing" :D

Just curious: Where would you put "gather input or feedback from peers" in that process?

trashymctrash··on Why staring at screens is making your eyeballs elongate – and how to stop it
hasn’t the blue light thing been debunked recently? i remember reading a headline about this a while ago
trashymctrash··on Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?
don’t want to spoil anything but do you mean the one with the music?
trashymctrash··on Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?
Control. It’s a bit weird but a great game with a really nice atmosphere.
trashymctrash··on Ask HN: What is the best podcast you listened to in 2022?
Making Sense with Sam Harris. There are so many good podcast episodes. If you don’t like the first one you listen to, browse the list of episodes. There’s a ton of evergreens.
trashymctrash··on Show HN: 1paragraph – a browser-based, offline-first ePub reader
nice one. what were the biggest/trickiest challenges and how long did it take you?
trashymctrash··on Ask HN: What mental models do you use everyday?
Thank you, I understand your original point much better now
trashymctrash··on Ask HN: What mental models do you use everyday?
Could you steel man your argument? I don't see how there is zero connection. To me it seems that the other person oversimplified your argument.

Would be interested in hearing an example from your real life that would illustrate this point a bit better, if you have the time to elaborate.

trashymctrash··on Ask HN: Anyone else miss spontaneous conversations at work?
Maybe check out https://www.wonder.me/? Seems like it could be useful

Some people at my company are using it, but I don't miss the watercooler talk that much, so I haven't tried it

trashymctrash··on Netflix boss: Remote working has negative effects
I agree. I was seated next to a guy with a small kid, so naturally he got sick all the time. And then I got sick as well

I usually tell people to go home if they are sick, but some of them are too proud and say "I'm fine". Since I'm not the manager, I can't force them, but I think I'll switch to home office when those scenarios happen again

Any other suggestions how to deal with those situations?

trashymctrash··on Ask HN: How can we teach our CTO to understand his new role?
I think he knows that he is not performing well. But he also says he does not want to give up coding, because then he would "lose something"
trashymctrash··on Ask HN: Why do so many German websites have dashes in the URL?
Here's Alexa top 50 for Germany

https://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/DE

trashymctrash··on Ask HN: Why do so many German websites have dashes in the URL?
Would be curious to know how many English (USA, UK, Australia, South Africa, etc...) websites use dashes? Did you find any data on that?
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