namanyayg

Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:47am PST

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Consulted startups for 10 years and now helping software teams ship faster https://gigamind.dev/

Get in touch hi [at] nmn.gl

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Developers are using AI Wrong

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Cosmic Dawn: The Untold Story of the James Webb Space Telescope [video]

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Mon Jun 16, 2025 8:30pm PST

After eighteen years of infertility, an AI tool let a couple conceive

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Mon Jun 16, 2025 8:30pm PST

A better way to turn solar sails

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Sat Jun 14, 2025 5:39pm PST

Series B startup taught their AI to remember every code review pattern

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Sat Jun 14, 2025 4:44pm PST

Finnish Polar Night Energy's industrial-scale sand battery is operational

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Sat Jun 14, 2025 4:44pm PST

Steam goes native on Apple Silicon

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Waymo's market share in San Francisco exceeds Lyft's

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Coco Robotics raises $80M to scale up autonomous delivery fleet

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Reducing the Digital Clutter of Chats

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Thurs Jun 12, 2025 10:13pm PST

I'm going to calculate π on the Moon [video]

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Thurs Jun 12, 2025 10:13pm PST

NASA to silence Voyager's social media accounts

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Thurs Jun 12, 2025 7:47pm PST

The next phase of jank's C++ interop

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Thurs Jun 12, 2025 7:47pm PST

Hare-update assists in addressing breaking changes in your code

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Thurs Jun 12, 2025 7:46pm PST

LLM Assisted Programming "Gold Standard Files" Technique

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Wed Jun 11, 2025 5:37pm PST

Using the Gold Standard Files Workflow for Precise Results

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Wed Jun 11, 2025 5:06pm PST

Getty Images and Stability AI face off in British copyright trial

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Wed Jun 11, 2025 5:06pm PST

The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB dataset of public domain and openly licensed text

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Sun Jun 8, 2025 4:46pm PST

I learnt the Infinite Sum Game in SF from India and I can't stop playing

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Sun Jun 8, 2025 8:23am PST

Building a Slow Web

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Sun Jun 8, 2025 8:22am PST

Black paint on wind turbines sharply reduces bird death but there are issues

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Sat Jun 7, 2025 5:36pm PST

I learnt the Infinite Sum Game in SF from India (and I can't stop playing)

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Sat Jun 7, 2025 6:48am PST

Building a Slow Web

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Sat Jun 7, 2025 6:48am PST

Mixtela Precision Clock MkIV

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Waymos are getting assertive: driverless taxis are learning to drive like humans

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Sat May 24, 2025 4:59pm PST

AI can't even fix a simple bug – but sure, let's fire engineers

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Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests

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Sat May 24, 2025 2:37pm PST

So how do I know my passwords are safe?

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Fri May 23, 2025 11:39pm PST

The mother who never stopped believing her son was still there

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Fri May 23, 2025 11:38pm PST

Personalized software is coming, but not today. Maybe tomorrow?

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Fri May 23, 2025 11:38pm PST

The Demise of Silicon Valley Bank (2023)

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Fri May 23, 2025 2:55am PST

Unexplained electronics found in imported equipment for Denmark's supply network

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AI Can't Even Fix a Simple Bug – But Sure, Let's Fire All Our Engineers

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First gene-edited spider produces red fluorescent silk

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Thurs May 22, 2025 5:24pm PST

Apple adds official Vision Pro support to Godot game engine

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Thurs May 22, 2025 5:24pm PST

Hit hardest in Microsoft layoffs? Developers, product managers, morale

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Wed May 21, 2025 10:55pm PST

Why Good Programmers Use Bad AI

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Wed May 21, 2025 2:29am PST

Magnus Carlsen forced into a draw by more than 143000 people playing against him

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A broken thruster jeopardized Voyager 1, but engineers executed a remote fix

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Wed May 21, 2025 2:17am PST

The unlikely rise of the Indian space program [video]

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Tues May 20, 2025 9:10pm PST

Why Good Programmers Use Bad AI

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Tues May 20, 2025 8:30pm PST

Palworld patching out features as it seeks to invalidate Pokémon patents

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Tues May 20, 2025 8:29pm PST

What we in the open world are messing up in trying to compete with big tech

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Tues May 20, 2025 8:29pm PST

1,700-year-old wooden water pipe unearthed in Belgium

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Sun May 18, 2025 9:31pm PST

YouTube's new ads will ruin the best part of a video on purpose

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Sun May 18, 2025 9:31pm PST

Largest database of nanosatellites, over 4400 nanosats and CubeSats

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Sun May 18, 2025 3:23pm PST

AI Is Destroying and Saving Programming at the Same Time

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Sat May 17, 2025 7:14pm PST

Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI and forced to DoorDash

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Sat May 17, 2025 7:13pm PST

Norway signs the Artemis Accords for responsible space exploration

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Sat May 17, 2025 7:13pm PST

Twilio denies breach following leak of alleged Steam 2FA codes

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Sat May 17, 2025 5:16pm PST

AI is destroying and saving programming at the same time

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Sun May 11, 2025 2:02pm PST

US President Donald Trump Seeks to Cancel NASA's Mars Sample Return

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Sun May 11, 2025 2:02pm PST

In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more

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Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping

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Can electro-agriculture revolutionize the way we grow food?

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Mon May 5, 2025 8:10pm PST

Zuckerberg states that Meta could create ads directly, eliminating ad agencies

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Mon May 5, 2025 5:55pm PST

I tried resisting AI for programming. Then I tried using it. Both were painful

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Mon May 5, 2025 5:53pm PST

Aurora's driverless trucks are making deliveries in Texas

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Sun May 4, 2025 4:35pm PST

I tried resisting AI. Then I tried using it. Both were painful

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Sun May 4, 2025 3:36pm PST

Playdate Mirror: Play your Playdate games on your computer

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Sun May 4, 2025 3:35pm PST

China Has an Army of Robots on Its Side in the Tariff War

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The Scam Network

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Sun May 4, 2025 2:32pm PST

The Enshittification of Tech Jobs

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Sun May 4, 2025 2:32pm PST

The US FDA just approved the first CRISPR-edited pigs for food

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Falling satellites put the atmosphere at risk

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Sun May 4, 2025 4:02am PST

I bought a $1k electric boat from China. Here's what showed up (2023)

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Sun May 4, 2025 1:24am PST

Latest dark energy study suggests the Universe is even weirder than we imagined

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Sun May 4, 2025 1:24am PST

A PostgreSQL planner semi-join gotcha with CTE, LIMIT, and RETURNING

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New Programmers Don't Have a Choice About AI

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Sat May 3, 2025 2:54pm PST

Amazon launches its first internet satellites to compete against Starlink

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Sat May 3, 2025 2:53pm PST

The stock market loves Bitcoin

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Sat May 3, 2025 2:19pm PST

Tell HN: Incorporated my software company today

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Show HN: AI memory and project management (open source)

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Sat Apr 26, 2025 5:05pm PST

AI Prompt Engineering for Developers

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Sun Apr 20, 2025 2:54pm PST

Deep snow and zero delays – inside Arctic airports that never cancel a flight

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Arch Linux to Switch from Redis to Valkey

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Sat Apr 19, 2025 4:34pm PST

Infantilization at Big Tech

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Sat Apr 19, 2025 1:11pm PST

Cancellations of Chinese freight ships begin as bookings plummet

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Sat Apr 19, 2025 1:11pm PST

Playdate Season Two games preorder now available for $40

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Sat Apr 19, 2025 12:14pm PST

CISA extends funding to ensure 'no lapse in critical CVE services'

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Sat Apr 19, 2025 12:14pm PST

Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days

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Russia seeds chatbots with lies. Any bad actor could game AI the same way

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Infantilization at Big Tech

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Adult Daycare Where Developer Dreams Go to Die

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Sun Apr 13, 2025 4:28pm PST

Why LLMs Get Lost in Large Codebases

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Sun Apr 13, 2025 1:07pm PST

RNA Motifs Coming into Focus

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