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Show HN: I improved vibe coding with a prompting engine
When vibe coding went viral I saw everybody making the same mistakes. Vibe coding with AI is great, but the quality of the output is largely impacted by the quality of the prompts.

Onlift works as follows:

1. Explain your project idea
2. Onlift generates a detailed project outline that you can paste into your AI coder (like bolt.new or lovable), this will give your project a head start.
3. When you want to add a new feature/component, simply go back to onlift, and tell it what you want to add.
4. Onlift takes your feature request and your bigger project idea into consideration, and delivers a detaild prompt for your feature
5. Besides that it also adds rules for your AI coder to get the best output
6. Repeat per feature/component

Let me know what you think of it!
> other hybrid approach of depending on government funding and generosity (i.e. NPR.)

About 30%, and indirectly at that: "eligible public radio stations may apply to receive annual grants directly from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)" [1].

[1] https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finance...
More than anything, the interface which I want to normalize is holding a laptop as a book and using the touchscreen (and optional stylus) on one side, and the keyboard (say for drawing shortcuts/modifiers) on the other side.

Still surprised that this wasn't a standard for say the Voyager e-book reader.

Hopeful that the Lenovo Yogabook 9i will help to popularize this (and if it had Wacom EMR, I'd have one and be working on such concepts) --- annoyingly, my Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 is just a bit too large for this, and the screen is so impossibly thin, trying it makes me worry about breaking it.
Doesn't the simplicity bias come explicitly from regularization techniques, including drop out or l2 norm?
Being able to borrow at low rates is only one outcome of being a very reliable government (to this point).

People struggling financially and being unable to buy property are policy choices that have nothing to do with reliability.

To illustrate: If we had never created the Social Security program, a lot more elderly people would be impoverished, but that wouldn't be unreliable, it would just be a different policy choice. But now that we do have the Social Security program, if people start being unable to get their payments, then that would be unreliable.

The distinction is: Are we keeping up our end of the bargains we've made? Historically, we have done so to an extremely high degree, which is why our credit is very good. And not just in financial terms. The current administration seems hell bent on ruining that long history of reliability, and that's very bad. But it's just not true that the US government has been unreliable historically.
> I got the car in 2001

It's an extremely rare prototype from 2 years before the company was founded. /s
Saudi Aramco chief says DeepSeek AI makes 'big difference' to operations
"GIMP is not a competitor to Photoshop; Photoshop is an image manipulator while GIMP is a puzzle-based image modifier." - a youtube comment I saw once
I have subscribed to them for other reasons recently, and this only solidifies my subscription to remain for another year.

I sure don't work for anything close to Wired or their parent organization, but if you want good journalism, support it with your dollars. A year's subscription is less than a nice dinner out (or even a not-so-nice dinner out!).
Yes, having an economically-advantaged parent present will more often result in economically-advantaged outcomes.
> Depend entirely on generosity, e.g. Wikipedia.

So... quite profitable?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AFundraising_statis...
Use case: two parties want to transact with cryptocoins on one end and two pizzas on another

Problem: you need an external oracle to verify "real world" part of the transaction and blockchain part simultaneously.

Implications: The security and associated cost of DLT/blockchain is useless as the trust of transaction is offloaded from the distributed consensus to real world entity, which could simply update an entry in a postgres database without sacrificing any security at all, but with lower alternative cost, hence negative value add.

I don't think it's possible to design a general scheme, backed by a smart contract, with economic incentives for all three parties to play nice. In the real world, the inherent mutability of transactions enables economic (dis-)incentives for functional oracles.

> If your concern is oracle manipulation common onchain apps don’t rely on single oracles.

What you are hinting at are bet/prediction-like applications, which eventually deal with the same on-chain objects - memecoins described, circumventing the oracle problem.
it's a lot of complexity and cost for a service that is already replicating 3 ways. 6x replication for a single node's disks seems excessive.
I've voiced my opinion on this before¹.

The problem is on-call is an essential and critical part of a
managerial role, but toxic to those in a developer role.

Managers must be on-call to ensure the appropriate people and
resources are brought to bear on unexpected problems that threaten the
business.

Developers must NOT be on-call to ensure appropriate attention is
spent designing, developing and maintaining the code that makes the
business possible.

The rise of software-as-a-service led to companies promoting "devops"
engineering which conflates these roles and unfortunately helps
unscrupulous executives unfairly squeeze more work from employees.

The core idea of devops, that managers/operators and developers should
understand and be capable of performing each other's role, isn't a bad
one. Those who understand how the business works at all levels can do
more to make it successful. It goes hand-in-hand with continuous delivery.

The best engineers alternate between these roles in a predictable schedule.
When in the managerial role they need to observe, react, delegate and
escalate problems as appropriate. When in the development role they
need to deliver features that create recurring value for the business.

But businesses should not expect engineers to play both roles at the same time!

This form of "on-call" is a toxic moral hazard. It's a sign of instabilty.
It's a signal of executive grift looking for a quick pop.
"on-call" robs developers of attention they need to develop the
features and increases risks that schedules will slip.

It doesn't need to be this way. If a business needs software
development it should hire or train engineers with that experience.
Likewise if it needs managers or operators to deliver software as a service.

As an operator or manager I look forward to working a shift,
but as a developer I will never again accept on-call rotation.

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42230215
Oh, the fun we had when a single emoji which crashed youtube or whatsapp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC4NNUYIIdM
People struggle to wrap their head around logic like yours because it is essentially just being pedantic.

- Before the war the Taliban controlled Afghanistan.
- The US (+ Allies) invaded and conquered the country.
- 20 years later the US Military has left the county.
- The Taliban now controls the country again.
- At no point during that 20 years was the Taliban actually "defeated" like claimed.

Whether you like it or not "Money and patience ran out" = losing the war.

There are many other "lost wars" where they were lost for the same reason. The most obvious one in this context being the Vietnam war.... which is also a popular one for people to argue that the US Military didn't lose either.
It's true, am a cat.

But tax is coercion. Make it voluntary, and people won't pay it. Despite this, a lot of people are fine with it because it gets them roads and state pensions and healthcare or whatever. Some people want it to be increased, thereby volunteering to pay more and volunteering others to do the same. Everything is based on force, and the social contract is a kind of Stockholm syndrome.
The first thing that came to mind was what happens when a giant solar flare hits us? Do the chips in the car survive?
> it looks like your links support what most people are telling you.

?
"Is it just to make collecting a set of concurrent tasks bullet proof?"

At a surface level, yeah basically. And ask anyone who's used python's multiprocessing how hard that is to actually get completely right.

I don't think structured concurrency is going to be some panacea of multiprocessing at all. It's to address code you'd see in golang that's like, make a waitgroup, fire off N goroutines, wait for success and gather errors. That code is not incredibly fun in Java right now.

w.r.t. async/await, imo the beauty of virtual threads is that you've no longer got function coloring, and the "await"s are free, implicit, and performant. and of course you're never precluded from using higher level application locks that have always been there, including synchronized now.

Also, specifically w.r.t. gui programming, I think Java is unfortunately kind of stuck. JavaFX has been put into the back of the closet, Swing is completely ossified (though tbh I still like it), and what energy is there behind any non-electron/web GUI development anymore anyway? In a world where vscode, one of the most popular new "IDEs"/IDE platforms, is written in a frickin web browser, and mobile apps dominate a huge % of what constitutes "native" GUI development, I don't really blame Java for not prioritizing it beyond keeping Swing working on e.g. hiDPI displays and so on.
> I think a chainsaw would suffice.

From the video:

> The carcass (…) couldn’t be cut up and then buried because nobody wanted to cut it up.
Thanks for the recommendation.

Anytype seems worth checking out too. No affiliation, just tried out a bunch Of these and this is one that stood out. Appflowy looks well rounded too.

https://anytype.io/
Yeah, the Alto had a mouse. The Chipmunk had a scrollwheel. LG Prada phone had a touchscreen. Few remember them though.
Can someone recommend good reading on the "psychology of languages", i.e., how does a language develop in the brain; why is it easy for me (as someone who grew up in the East) to learn guttural sounds of Arabic, but it's nearly impossible for my kids raised in the West? Similarly, I could never hope to speak clicking sounds of Southern African languages. Does the writing system affect speech, and if yes, then how? Like for example, in some Central Asian countries the alphabet changed multiple times within a century - from Arabic-based script, to Latin, then Cyrillic, then Latin again. What are some known neuroscientific tricks (for adults, not kids) for acquiring specific languages?
In Israel, a "normal civilian" sees the Sde Teiman video and thinks "those soldiers are heroes".
On the off chance anyone is interested, I just built a Supabase plugin for MindRoot: https://github.com/runvnc/mr_supabase

MindRoot: https://github.com/runvnc/mindroot

Demo of agent using it to update a database after doing research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXwwSj0KSXI

If you give it the actual database password it will use a Postgres client to get the actual information_schema and put it in the system message. It uses the normal Supabase library for everything else.
> How do you think Apple has done that?

1. They aggressively deprecate and modify endpoints. Microsoft maintains APIs for decades. Apple deprecates and modifies them with frequently little or no warning, necessitating expensive and time-consuming maintenance. This makes the one-time purchase unviable as a business model for developers.

2. Apple doesn't permit paid application upgrades (v2). Everything has to be done with IAP. This means developers can't abandon old versions and start selling and supporting new versions without losing all their SEO, affiliate links, marketing, branding, coupons, etc.

3. Apple doesn't facilitate wishlists, meaning sales are much less effective.

4. By disallowing competition, Apple ensures iPhone users are a captive audience. They can't purchase one-time software elsewhere. They have to accept the subscription to get the most value out of their phones.

This is entirely by design. It's hardly "the market" speaking. There is nothing free about the "market" on iPhones.
Given the number of paying subscribers versus total users of ChatGPT, this isn't the case.
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.” -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the USPTO (1899)

He was just as wrong then, as you are now.
I subscribed a few weeks ago, and this has solidified it for at least another year.
Or in this case, to spend far more $$ on io2.
If you allow yourself to sleep then it's not entirely true. I totally agree that it's lurking and you think twice before starting an activity, but what's the worst that can happen?
Run 10 minutes away from your house, take your laptop to the movies, and to your friends and family. I do it all the time and yes sometimes I need to isolate or find a place to work, I still enjoy the rest of the day
The video of this was the first big file that my brother and I downloaded from the internet circa 1995-6 or so. It took a long, long time over our measly 14.4 connection but it was worth every minute.
> CPU or GPU but obv favours gpu

Why obviously?
Are there any notable works that have been created with this model? Or all hobbyist projects?
Do you have anything specific you're pointing to in those search results? Reading the excerpts, all but two are talking about malware on the analysis machine.

2012-09-13 SWGDE Model SOP for Computer Forensics V3-0 merely says to detect "Detect malware programs or artifacts".

2020-09-17 SWGDE Best Practices for Mobile Device Forensic Analysis_v1.0 seemed the most in depth, and it merely states:

> 9.4. Malware Detection Malicious software may exist on a mobile device which can be designed to obtain user credentials and information, promote advertisements and phishing links, remote access, collect ransom, and solicit unwanted network traffic. Forensic tools are not always equipped with antivirus and anti-malware to automatically detect malicious applets on a device. If the tools do have such capability, they do not typically run against an extraction without examiner interaction. If the examiner’s tools do not have antivirus/anti-malware capability, the examiner may need to manually detect malware through the use of common anti-virus software applications as well as signature, specification and behavioral-based analysis.
Everything you “suspect” is completely wrong
to paraphrase a gunnery sergeant I used to work for:

"only [gang]bangers and meth heads own those dogs bro.

like i'm sure there is a wallstreet banker with 3 pitbulls out there, but that's not a trend you see outside of hoodrats and hillbillies.

and real hillbillies will have something more like bloodhounds or livestock dogs"
The honeypot story seems so weird:

> So, to confirm Deel’s involvement, Rippling’s General Counsel sent a legal letter to Deel’s senior leadership identifying a recently established Slack channel called “d-defectors,” in which (the letter implied) Rippling employees were discussing information that Deel would find embarrassing if made public. In reality, the “d-defectors” channel was not used by Rippling employees and contained no discussions at all. ... Yet, just hours after Rippling sent the letter to Deel’s executives and counsel, Deel’s spy searched for and accessed the #d-defectors channel—proving beyond any doubt that Deel’s top leadership, or someone acting on their behalf, had fed the information on the #d-defectors channel to Deel’s spy inside Rippling.

I am sending legal letter to someone warning them that I have dirt on them AND am also mentioning where the dirt is. And that didn't ring any warning bells to Deel's management? Just wow, if true. If they are truly this incompetent, they have no business doing corporate espionage.
Unless you're already a name brand (e.g. the NYT, a handful of very high profile columnists, etc.) you can't just assume people will know the value of your work. You have to demonstrate it in some way. Providing half your content for free while keeping half behind a paywall seems like a perfectly reasonable strategy to address this discoverability problem.

I can't speak to the broader effectiveness of this strategy, but I know that I have paid to see some of a writer's paywalled work after first being exposed to their free content.
£10/month pay as you go SIM for 30gb here in the UK and im sure there are better offers
We did a research in this regard: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17171

The idea is to create bespoke models for org at 90% lower compute. (we cheat a little, where we use an underlying open source model and freeze the existing knowledge). Currently building a specialized model + agent for bioresearch labs. we hope to bring down the costs in long term so that these evolved into continuous learning systems that can be updated everyday. The idea is exactly this: model customization + infra gives you the advantages Prompting + tooling cannot.
I will go one step further:

It doesn't matter whether they have the skills or not, because they don't care.

As long as they can siphon up enough data to increase their revenue or stock price by 0.001¢, they're perfectly content to leave small independent websites shattered and unusable under the weight of their aggressive, unrelenting scraper bots.

I'm firmly of the opinion that they should all be considered hostile, predatory companies, regardless of what supposed "value" they bring.

Train your river-guzzling models with data that's paid for or given voluntarily and then we can talk about your "value".
Can you elaborate on this? The app (both versions!) barely works, and they don’t appear to be compatible with Apple Home like others.
What's your proof that nobody used their product? If you're gonna troll be a dick, not a dumbass.
Agree with most of your points, the one correction (that I think is important) is that they were the fastest from 1M ARR - 100M ARR. Not a straight fastest to 100M.
Note that this was written 2024-08-08. While I haven't kept up to date with exactly what's been happening in rp-rs, I do know that probe-rs has since been updated with support for the RP2350. Other things may be outdated as well.
It's temporal anti-aliasing.

>Temporal anti-aliasing is another form of super-sampling, but instead of downscaling from a much larger image, data from prior frames is reprojected into the current one.

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2024-temporal-anti-...
I snickered at the subtle dig at David Brooks, but this does read like a sly defense of Elon Musk. I would even buy this particular defense, but Elon and his adoring crowds don't applaud him as a "smart guy" but rather "an exceptionally smart guy, a brilliant guy". From that standpoint, this defense falls flat. Elon is supposed to be able to extemporize and remember facts like Tyler Cowen, according to the adoring crowds, and Elon himself.
Just going to throw my own (old) attempt in here.

- Liso (http://breuleux.net/blog/liso.html)
You can also "cheat" a bit by splitting the battery like some cellphones do now. Instead of charging one giant battery you are charging two smaller ones at the same time.
Kinda depends. My first own laptop was 15.4" brick - but I didn't constantly move it around, just randomly to uni 2-3 times a week.

My work laptops have generally been 14" and it's fine with external monitors (current is a 16" mac because it was there), and I hate carrying it to the office because my panniers are too small.

My favourite on-the-go laptop was the x230 with the smaller battery and if I bought a laptop for traveling today (I used to back up my photos from SD to a laptop every night) I'd prefer the smallest and lightest 11"-13" again. Maybe I'll grab a 2016 Intel macbook and put linux on it, or buy a used x290 or something if I feel I need one.

That said, I am not a laptop person at all, I have a workstation at home and only use hand-me-down laptops for the sofa and surfing the web and stuff.
The users of the internet want things for free and then we complain when we don’t get it…. Or when someone else pays for it… :(
What is the top reasonable voltage? Believe chargers are up to 800 now.
I think it's pretty obvious it's 1. Given the recent huge, clearly politically-motivated cuts from the current administration, it feels pretty likely that FOIA could be disrupted under the guise of "cost-saving".

And I think you're supposed to be generous to the commenter, not the current administration ;)
> It’s an entire culture. Violence, crime, usually also associated with poverty, etc. when an entire neighborhood/part of a city is known for this, as often happens, it’s because it’s become the culture.

> As an example, you have an entire genre of music that almost solely glorifies gang life, dealing drugs, carrying guns, etc and they

You're talking about country music right? Because in the rural south where I grew up the most visible pitbull-venerating subculture by far was also really into country music, gun violence, and selling xanax and percocet.
Models might be the product, but data is the material that the products are made out of.

I'm starting to think that if you can control your data, you'll have somewhat of an edge. Which I think could lead to people being more protective of their data. Guess we'll move more and more in the direction of premium paid data streams, while making scraping as hard as possible.

At least in the more niche fields, that work with data that isn't very commonplace and out there for everyone to download.

Kind of sucks for the open source crowds, non-profits, etc. that rely on such data streams.
> Wiz has raised a total of $1.9 billion from a combination of venture capital funds and private investors

> Wiz agreed to acquire Tel Aviv-based Raftt, a cloud-based developer collaboration platform, for $50 million in December 2023. In April 2024, the company acquired cloud detection and response startup, Gem Security, for around $350 million

> Wiz was founded in January 2020 by Assaf Rappaport, Yinon Costica, Roy Reznik, and Ami Luttwak, all of whom previously founded Adallom.

> Adallom was founded in 2012 by Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak and Roy Reznik, who are former members of the Israeli Intelligence Corps’ Unit 8200 and alumni of the Talpiot program.

> Adallom was reportedly acquired by Microsoft for $320 million in July 2015

> On March 18, 2025, Google announced an all-cash acquisition of Wiz for $32 billion

Had never heard of Wiz until they posted the blog post about the DeepSeek database being public earlier this year.

https://www.wiz.io/blog/wiz-research-uncovers-exposed-deepse...
> it doesn't change the fact that all the content[^1] in the ecosystem is still produced for maximizing watch time and/or being advertisement friendly.

That's just not true. There is an enormous amount of content on YouTube right now, which is made chiefly with quality in mind, by some of the most professional people in the industry. There's more than you could watch even if you watched for a thousand years.

You just have to use the like/dislike and subscribe functions, so the algorithm knows what you want.
Tell HN: Dark patterns you should not use on your pricing page
This is an extreme example of the sneaky pricing pattern that's used on many pricing pages these days: https://screen.studio/#pricing

It shows a "monthly price" for if you pay annually, but doesn't show what the annual price is. This particular product jumps from $9/mo to $29/mo (322% increase!)... pretty absurd.

I get it, you want to bootstrap and getting more revenue upfront allows you to do that. But stop trying to obfuscate what the person has to pay. I'm sure your CRO tools are saying this is a good idea because conversions go up, but you're also devaluing your brand by associating it with sneaky tricks.
Curious how you handle hardware failures for all that old equipment, etc. Do you have a huge depot of spare parts? Ebay? etc