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zn44··on Zed: High-performance AI Code Editor
I've ended up using aider with pycharm, it's not as feature rich as cursor but works great for me

https://aider.chat/docs/usage/watch.html

zn44··on GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens
i've started using aider with https://aider.chat/docs/usage/watch.html works great and you can keep using jetbrains IDEs
zn44··on Ask HN: What have you built with LLMs?
- tool to analyze and explore unity3d build size reports

- tool to manage examples dataset for another ai application

- macos transcribe app that allows me to hotkey to speak to notion page, with a little status bar menu to select pages

All relatively trivial but I'd never bother to create them manually

zn44··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)
dotplay.games | Founding engineer | Full-time | Remote or Berlin or Valencia

Learn more about business at https://developers.dotplay.games

We're creating an alternative to appstore and playstore for mobile games. By building a portal to publish the games and more importantly technology toolset that allows to optimise successful games to work well on the mobile web.

We're looking for product oriented engineer with extensive experience in either web development or game development (ideally with unity3d). And with interest to lear about the whole stack.

You'll be working on creating the platform backend for game services and our porting toolset.

Backend: c#/f# asp.net, python, postgres, docker Data: airflow (for now, probably migrating soon), dbt, metabase Frontend: react, shadcn

email bartosz@ company domain

zn44··on GPT-4o vs. Claude 3.5 Sonnet for coding
Not really and I use it all day, I tend to have a lot of short chats and don't paste ton of context in
zn44··on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?
Building transcription app that lets me dictate notes to notion.

Doint a lot of exploratory work for my day job and trying to establish practice of good documentation so i hope being able to ramble as i work will make this easier.

At this point it's simple macos flutter app that toggles recording on global keyboard shortcut.

zn44··on GPT-4o vs. Claude 3.5 Sonnet for coding
yes i still pay for both
zn44··on GPT-4o vs. Claude 3.5 Sonnet for coding
For my use cases: web development with python, c#, react and unity3d extension development. Claude is significantly better.

I switched over few months ago and still test GPT from time to time, Claude wins every time

zn44··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)
dotplay.games | Founding engineer | Full-time | Remote or Berlin or Valencia

Learn more about business at https://developers.dotplay.games

We're creating an alternative to appstore and playstore for mobile games. By building a portal to publish the games and more importantly technology toolset that allows to optimise successful games to work well on the mobile web.

We're looking for product oriented engineer with extensive experience in either web development or game development (ideally with unity3d). And with interest to lear about the whole stack.

You'll be working on creating the platform backend for game services and our porting toolset.

Backend: c#/f# asp.net, python, postgres, docker Data: airflow (for now, probably migrating soon), dbt, metabase Frontend: react, shadcn

email bartosz@ company domain

zn44··on Ask HN: How did you find a niche that was financially fulfilling?
Find a company that does things you are interested in that is also hiring people with your skills (webdev?). Get a job there as backend Dev and after a while ask to transfer internally into role that's more interesting. Before you can ask for the transfer hang out and learn from people that do thee job you want
zn44··on Looking for Comprehensive Resources to Systematically Learn Generative AI
I'd highly recommend a course by Andrej Karpathy: https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html
zn44··on Ask HN: Who runs conspicuous spambots on HN comments and for what reason?
some of it is probably just for fun while playing with openai api
zn44··on Ask HN: What EU country has the highest developer salary?
It used to be UK, London specifically. No longer in EU but still reasonably easy to get in.

After that I'd guess Berlin or Stockholm? Note this is from anecdotes and not hard data.

zn44··on Ask HN: Best tool for mapping out a new software project?
i haven't used it yet but https://c4model.com/ might be relevant to what you're looking for.

Personally I start with exploratory code and wiki for documentation (these days notion)

zn44··on Found my business idea already out there
Almost any idea you'll ever have will be out there, usually with small differences not exactly the same but still pretty close.

I would not be bothered and continue working, if you build it right and speak to your customers your idea will evolve 100 times before you realise

zn44··on France’s Mistral AI raises a $113M seed round to take on OpenAI
giving up ~30%/40% of the shares in the seed round. That's something you can regret
zn44··on Ask HN: How can a BE/infra developer handle the FE side of personal projects?
For simple web frontend chatGPT is worth a try. Ask to generate template using tailwindcss, i've only tried it a little and i do already know basics, but it's suprisingly effective for simple layouts.
zn44··on Ask HN: Which startup should have an open source alternative?
looker (i think there's already some projects trying)
zn44··on I trained ChatGPT on my childhood journal entries to talk to my inner child
I'd recommend following author of this thread for technical analysis of chatgpt and other models https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1598874674204618753?t=5W...
zn44··on Tell HN: HN London Meetup
Anyone up to do one of these in Lisbon ?
zn44··on Ask HN: 30s single man, which city should I move to?
Lisbon, great weather and food, big tech/nomad community
zn44··on Ask HN: Need advice about co-founding a startup with a VC and equity
The startup is still going 5 years in. We had great run intially up to raising series A in 2019. Then covid hit us hard we had to lay off most of the team. We are growing slowly again but not quite out of the pit

Now one of my co-foundes pushed out other one last year and now is quitting himself with most of his equity vested.

At many points in the last few years my decisions to stay in the business were much harder because of unbalanced equity. Running a business is hard, hardest thing I've ever done. Last thing you want is feeling someone is going to profit from your effort and you get nothing from it, it's especially risky with your setup because your VC friends might eventually get pref shares. And don't count on your personal relationship with them, end of the day they are running business and have obligations to their investors

Finally raising seed money is not the success, building product people want with supportive business model is, running 18 months with your seed money and failing anyway doesn't sound much better than 18 without investment. I don't have that much experience in investing but I'd also think that cap table like this would make getting more money from other investors hard

zn44··on Ask HN: Need advice about co-founding a startup with a VC and equity
I've joined a start-up as third co-founder and agreed to only 10% equity, regretted it few years in. From now on I'd not accept any offer that's not equal split between funders (few % difference at most)

For your situation if they'd be more engaged I'd suggest equal equity split what you describe sounds like normal investment albeit with fairly hands on investor. They should be getting 20%, 30% if you feel generous.

zn44··on Ask HN: Where do you get your paid news?
Financial Times
zn44··on Ask HN: How to find users if the problem you're working on is widespread?
we have a business in rental space and decided to go for b2b2c distribution. We're partnering with agents and landlords who are offering our product to tenants.
zn44··on Ask HN: Is joining AWS a bad idea? (MSFT, Oracle options)
I've never regretted changing jobs. Go to new place, learn and experience new environment, expand your network.

I'd bet if you don't like it you can always go back to MSFT later, likely for higher salary

zn44··on Ask HN: Who operates at scale without containers?
king games (candy crush) run on prem without containers while i was there (until 2016)
zn44··on Latvia wants permanent U.S. troops, foreign minister tells Blinken
Ukraine is not in NATO. Sacrificing three member states won't happen because everyone knows if that is allowed they will be taken one by one

NATO is doing everything it can to avoid war now but i'm pretty sure everyone is preparing to react in case member is attacked

zn44··on Latvia wants permanent U.S. troops, foreign minister tells Blinken
that's what everyone thought would happen with Ukraine, and Baltic statse will have full support of nato
zn44··on Ask HN: Why doesn't anyone create a search engine comparable to 2005 Google?
ha nice to hear this idea. I'm planning to work on this as a side project, just started recently
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