15:[[37130531,{"by":"nullptr_deref","descendants":89,"id":37130531,"kids":[37130817,37131039,37134480,37133126,37135289,37130763,37132203,37131022,37130940,37131327,37131057,37130781,37131158,37130984,37131218,37130904,37130564,37131267,37130795,37132022,37134231,37132159,37130976,37131853,37131013,37130870,37137807,37133961,37133606,37138802,37130928,37131800,37130563,37131098,37131243,37131221,37130757,37131371,37156161,37136274,37134660,37131044,37130827,37131214,37131034,37133441,37139087,37130857],"score":77,"text":"I consider myself to be a pretty good prompter. Been using the LLMs for a long time now. Most of the time I manage to get the desired results out of LLM models. Do you think this skill is anywhere useful?

So far it has saved me some time on my work, but I don't think promoting will be any relevant in the near future. People can and will build models that follow the same mode of thought.","time":1692077370,"title":"Ask HN: I learned useless skill of prompt engineering, how relevant will it be?","type":"story"}],[37125118,{"by":"remilouf","descendants":303,"id":37125118,"kids":[37126594,37125563,37131269,37125368,37125690,37125874,37125738,37126503,37131928,37126385,37128463,37125916,37125432,37125896,37125950,37127863,37127145,37127577,37126884,37127284,37140417,37128280,37125801,37131359,37131850,37129978,37126329,37125493,37128512,37126565,37128607,37138142,37125920,37129841,37125967,37126463,37140999,37129776,37128672,37126753,37130978,37130851,37129173,37134451,37164747,37130789,37128422,37127558,37130977,37126291,37133338,37126180,37129909,37126824,37126699,37125552,37130831,37126012,37134372,37127827,37130812,37126524,37127291,37130724,37127402],"score":854,"text":"$16","time":1692039174,"title":"Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time","type":"story","url":"https://github.com/normal-computing/outlines"}],[37119311,{"by":"Alanhlwang","descendants":84,"id":37119311,"kids":[37124278,37120437,37120014,37128732,37120760,37122274,37120353,37121543,37129687,37121121,37138193,37124286,37119648,37128499,37120689,37126538,37122979,37131606,37130134,37130219,37120650,37120124,37133631,37134470,37134466,37120252,37129856,37120865,37142064],"score":139,"text":"$17","time":1692007996,"title":"Launch HN: Serra (YC S23) – Open-core, Python-based dbt alternative","type":"story"}],[37129318,{"by":"ca98am79","descendants":58,"id":37129318,"kids":[37130142,37130369,37130237,37131887,37130152,37129945,37131636,37130821,37131049,37130449,37129882,37137687,37136721,37131840,37131334,37130252,37131486,37130708,37129886,37129844],"score":69,"time":1692065307,"title":"Webvan: The dotcom bubble’s biggest bust","type":"story","url":"https://streetfins.com/webvan-the-dotcom-bubbles-biggest-bust/"}],[37123798,{"by":"moongloow","descendants":17,"id":37123798,"kids":[37140991,37129538,37125892,37124924,37126991,37140582,37134050,37144118,37138519,37166851,37128701,37133998],"score":10,"text":"Anecdotally, I've observed that when discussing Scrum the people who will defend it tend to be POs, Scrum Masters, managers and the like. I can certainly understand why even a poorly implemented Scrum would be a positive thing in their world given their responsibilities. What I rarely observe are developers, engineers, QA, and other actual "boots on the ground" workers providing a defense of the methodology. It doesn't necessarily follow that just because I haven't seen it that there aren't developers, and adjacent peers, who feel Scrum benefits them.

Are there individual contributors here who have had positive experiences? What were the conditions that allowed it to function well, or what proactive things did you do to make it work?","time":1692033991,"title":"Ask HN: Do developers have positive experiences with Scrum?","type":"story"}],[37108328,{"by":"andrewstuart","descendants":51,"id":37108328,"kids":[37130941,37132399,37108890,37108888,37108430,37110751,37135238,37131265,37131233,37131519,37109998,37128045,37130969],"score":53,"text":"Listening to the audiobook of “The Innovators” (highly recommend) today and the story tells of how Bill Gates wrote Basic for the Altair on an 8080 emulator written by Paul Allen in 1974.

How is this feat of computer programming not a major legend in computing history? Surely Paul Allen writing this emulator is even more impressive than Bill writing basic?","time":1691920354,"title":"Ask HN: How did Paul Allen write an 8080 emulator in 1974?","type":"story"}],[37111855,{"by":"PaulHoule","descendants":359,"id":37111855,"kids":[37114214,37112381,37112383,37112371,37112410,37113060,37114086,37112355,37112496,37113347,37113482,37112609,37112524,37113014,37112298,37113096,37112352,37112317,37112487,37113035,37112430,37113237,37114207,37116946,37112337,37126722,37112321,37113474,37114846,37115472,37115079,37113672,37113124,37112335,37112577,37114041,37118551,37112405,37115048,37113377,37114434,37112330,37112836,37112396,37112341,37113171,37113820,37113016,37113018,37112331],"score":316,"time":1691946616,"title":"The elite's war on remote work has nothing to do with productivity","type":"story","url":"https://www.okdoomer.io/heres-why-they-want-you-back-at-the-office-so-bad/"}],[37102442,{"by":"bsmth","descendants":212,"id":37102442,"kids":[37102954,37103167,37103155,37103073,37103261,37103306,37103586,37102973,37105047,37103250,37102870,37102839,37103202,37103190,37102822,37103227,37103069,37103001,37114925,37102761,37103593,37103431,37102862,37103204,37103241,37102828,37102866,37106413,37106418,37107136],"score":253,"time":1691861845,"title":"My $0->$100M->$0 in 5 years story","type":"story","url":"https://old.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/15p8qrx/my_0100m0_in_5_years_story/"}],[37092861,{"by":"coloneltcb","descendants":606,"id":37092861,"kids":[37095782,37094523,37094903,37094173,37093403,37094033,37093038,37093787,37094294,37095322,37093029,37093311,37098519,37094570,37094017,37093255,37093383,37093694,37095639,37094716,37094439,37095719,37093256,37093423,37096402,37093014,37094355,37094278,37093400,37093404,37093450,37094053,37098804,37094936,37093649,37094000,37093631,37094796,37093664,37093164,37093025,37096077,37094483,37095023,37094777,37098474,37095509,37096277,37093998,37093705,37093782,37093350,37093982,37093009,37096288,37094129,37093802,37093830,37093448,37094035],"score":597,"time":1691782126,"title":"Judge sends Sam Bankman-Fried to jail over witness tampering","type":"story","url":"https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/11/judge-to-revoke-bail-for-ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-over-witness-tampering.html"}],[37074430,{"by":"throwaway0810","descendants":16,"id":37074430,"kids":[37075052,37075001,37094518,37080758,37090953,37086288,37084236],"score":13,"text":"Today I've seen an ad for the first time on the NYT Wordle.

It was moved to NYT on February 10th, so they have waited exactly 6 months. I wonder if that was a clause in the sale deal.

Many have predicted this back in February, but that isn't so impressive as the enshittification was basically guaranteed.","time":1691664824,"title":"Tell HN: 6 months after the NYT acquisition, Wordle has started showing ads","type":"story"}],[37027639,{"by":"5cott0","descendants":19,"id":37027639,"kids":[37028422,37028283,37028396,37028237,37029744,37029068,37029131,37028049,37030090,37028918],"score":22,"text":"On device LLM generated tarot card readings.","time":1691361463,"title":"Show HN: Tarot Arcana—AI tarot card readings","type":"story","url":"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tarot-arcana/id1539747669"}],[37024564,{"by":"epahsfhem","descendants":25,"id":37024564,"kids":[37024615,37026690,37029212,37027728,37027652,37027671,37024751,37027088,37025515],"score":23,"text":"$18","time":1691343692,"title":"The most difficult thing about working in the big tech is managers","type":"story"}],[37003629,{"by":"kbrannigan","descendants":53,"id":37003629,"kids":[37006263,37004739,37004218,37005675,37004230,37004034,37005628,37004144,37004166,37006553,37003817,37006445,37005238,37005341,37005117,37004007,37006454,37004385,37003972,37006915,37006166],"score":17,"text":"One 1 hand we have "AI", promising chatbots that automate trival tasks, to the industry going back to old boring frameworks.

What are some tech society predictions you have?","time":1691172657,"title":"Ask HN: What are some reasonable black swan tech predictions for 2023?","type":"story"}],[36928481,{"by":"helghardt","descendants":15,"id":36928481,"kids":[36929984,36928846,36929144,36930486,36928878,36966036],"score":6,"text":"It has to be a problem you have. It can be a personal problem or a business problem. It can be big or small. If you have tried finding solutions, explain whether it worked or if not, why not. If anyone else wrote a problem you experience too, elaborate in the thread.

A problem I have at the moment is finding clearly defined problems, like a directory of problems….","time":1690698957,"title":"Ask HN: What problems do you have?","type":"story"}],[36964614,{"by":"CollegeSea9518","descendants":13,"id":36964614,"kids":[36966839,36964836,36971138,36965780],"score":6,"text":"$19","time":1690931844,"title":"Ask HN: Why aren't more UK companies offering WFH friendly jobs?","type":"story"}],[36959267,{"by":"slapshot","descendants":1184,"id":36959267,"kids":[36959721,36961642,36964285,36961993,36959898,36962290,36959871,36963337,36960722,36964801,36959743,36960451,36960997,36959877,36961384,36961485,36961119,36962840,36963898,36961955,36964965,36959974,36964603,36960924,36965469,36963509,36962822,36961957,36963962,36967353,36965483,36965474,36962902,36962327,36967412,36959896,36962823,36961472,36962072,36965378,36962241,36964998,36964168,36965191,36969113,36967198,36960728,36970315,36974562,36962675,36964586,36979599,36967817,36963274,36965419,36973664,36961168,36964294,36963477,36966704,36969766,36963441,36964292,36961124,36961418,36966847,37004327,36965443,36964346,36968438,36968448,36961874,36964937,36965256,36965936,36965189,36965477,36966580,36965811,37000060,36970896,36963596,36964301,36964241,36963991,36963053,36967113,36963630,36964995,36968169,36964557,36962803,36964408,36965996,36959696,36966927,36961026,36965769,36960394,36960684,36962809,36959944,36959910,36961811,36961041],"score":476,"time":1690910864,"title":"Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – early results aren’t encouraging","type":"story","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/07/oregon-drug-decriminalization-results-overdoses/674733/"}],[36947006,{"by":"hiAndrewQuinn","descendants":17,"id":36947006,"kids":[36947728,36947593,36951165,36947776,36948047,36947060,36948972,36949692,36949898,36954844,36952576],"score":11,"text":"I finished my EE degree back in 2020, but I never really got the sense I was working harder than my friends in CS. If anything I felt we sparkies had it a bit easier, because although the computations could be tricky and precise, we didn't usually have classes that required proof-flavored thinking similar to those infamous data structures and algorithms classes the CS kids did (well, okay, most of us did, but that was by elective choice and a minor in math in my case).

Some chatter on Twitter is making it sound like most people believe the opposite to be true. So I pose it to you, hackers: Which one do you think requires more work, and under what circumstances/presuppositions?","time":1690828836,"title":"Ask HN: Do electrical engineering majors work harder than CS majors?","type":"story"}],[36921552,{"by":"JoeyBananas","descendants":51,"id":36921552,"kids":[36922374,36922336,36921938,36922708,36922287,36922862,36922212,36922254,36936897,36928159,36928692,36923699,36922284,36927757,36923026,36923029,36927288,36925171],"score":248,"time":1690646655,"title":"Gzip beats BERT? Part 2: dataset issues, improved speed, and results","type":"story","url":"https://kenschutte.com/gzip-knn-paper2/"}],[36894844,{"by":"hliyan","descendants":20,"id":36894844,"kids":[36897307,36897607,36899508,36899354,36916552,36935026,36899600,36896672,36900703,36900178,36897351,36896275,36899075],"score":55,"text":"$1a","time":1690470900,"title":"Is the era of VC-fueled complexity ending?","type":"story"}],[36896905,{"by":"confoundcofound","descendants":41,"id":36896905,"kids":[36898517,36899759,36898572,36896995,36897272,36897525,36898520,36898077,36901846,36906845,36897450,36897790,36903301,36899141,36898594,36902345,36903126,36903719],"score":22,"text":"$1b","time":1690478295,"title":"Ask HN: Is crypto an unviable, tech-bubble delusion?","type":"story"}],[36875513,{"by":"robalni","descendants":532,"id":36875513,"kids":[36883590,36877323,36876929,36876842,36877355,36883998,36879939,36877024,36877324,36877002,36877512,36876676,36877472,36876912,36878382,36875514,36877009,36876694,36878798,36885083,36876772,36882451,36883604,36878667,36879215,36883834,36878970,36880334,36882694,36879891,36882353,36889530,36876960,36879201,36878035,36878601,36878639,36877470,36878549,36886152,36877623,36883348,36878458,36880892,36884882,36876833,36878337,36883986,36886892,36880585,36880193,36880249,36880604,36878743,36877465],"score":249,"time":1690368422,"title":"A world where people pay for software","type":"story","url":"https://1sub.dev/"}],[36813858,{"by":"rickcarlino","descendants":119,"id":36813858,"kids":[36814646,36814137,36814452,36814370,36814681,36814335,36814094,36814633,36814373,36813881,36814614,36815494,36814862,36814295,36814584,36814717,36814677,36823843,36815223,36814693,36816459,36815090,36814333,36821455,36814863,36814673,36814845,36814310,36823798,36816099,36814602,36814861,36814675,36814659,36818239,36814732,36814395,36814487,36814798,36814528,36814588,36820541,36814649,36814698,36814356,36814665,36815151,36814344,36814325,36814858,36814230,36815214,36814838,36814814,36814801,36815850],"score":73,"text":"$1c","time":1689948072,"title":"Ask HN: Do Agile 'Sprints' Benefit Software Developers?","type":"story"}],[36762373,{"by":"ldjkfkdsjnv","descendants":11,"id":36762373,"kids":[36762569,36763591,36767546,36766463,36767657,36781260,36763627,36782908,36782970],"score":6,"text":"This might come off poorly, but as a highly technical individual that can do sales, I dont understand non technical cofounders. I'm currently working with someone that I raised money with, and 90% of the work is just technical work. He seems to be doing "CEO" stuff, and has a very credible background, but I'm just confused. There is a real need for our product, and we may succeed, but there is a herculean technical effort to get there. With that, this actually feels a bit like a scam? How do technical cofounders rationalize the work split. We did raise money, and his background helped a bit there, but even then I dont think it was a huge differentiator.","time":1689619843,"title":"Struggling to understand the value of non technical cofounders in tech startups","type":"story"}]]

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