Hello fellow HN person!
As I understand it, "metta" is a Buddhist word for love.
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- Sorry, is this new? Providing the right data to LLMs supercharges them. Yes, I agree. I've been doing this since March 2025 when there was a blog post about using MCP on HN. I'm not the only one who's doing that.
I've written my whole lifestory, the parts I'm willing to share that is, and posted it in Claude. It helped me way better with all kinds of things. It took me 2 days to write without formatting, pretty much how I write all my HN comments (but then 2 days straight: eat, sleep, write).
I've also exported all my notes, but it's too big for the context. That's why I wrote my life story.
From a practical standpoint I think the focus is on context management. Obsidian can help with this (I haven't used it so don't know the details). For code, it means doing things like static and dynamic analysis to see which functions calls what and create a topology of function calls and send that as context, then Claude Code can more easily know what to edit, and it doesn't need to read all the code.
- Wow... I guess that plausibly explains why I see an n = 2 without looking for it.
- I've met Hungarian people in the Netherlands and they're doing everything they can to become Dutch. One Hungarian even speaks fluent with no accent, and that is quite a feat.
I think it's quite unfortunate as it will mean that Hungary will become less pro EU, simply because the really pro EU people (that are also highly educated) seem to be going out of the country according to my anecdata. It's n = 2 to be fair, but I think it's enough for it to warrant some more research since I am simply stumbling across this group of people, I'm not actively seeking it out.
- I'm from the Netherlands. That is slightly relevant given that we have 20+ parties here, so I'm coming in with that mindset. I understand that Americans have a 2 party political system which makes things a lot more entrenched.
The political parties I've voted for (all across the board) have never felt to me like "our guys". They simply felt like the most sane option at the time.
Not everyone sinks into political tribalism.
I simply want a sane democratic voting process.
And I find first past the post voting to be insane. It seems that a country is then doomed into having a 2 party system.
From a CS course called distributed systems, we know that if you only have a single source of failure, that's a vulnerability right there. A 2 party system can be a single source of failure if one of the two political parties is corrupted and gains too much power. To be fair, that could also happen when there are 20+ parties, but it is less likely.
- Example: log4j. That was an update fiasco everywhere.
- > HTML tools may not have access to server-side databases for storage but it turns out you can store a lot of state directly in the URL.
I use indexedDB for it and will use sqlite if I start to get more serious data needs.
- > Avoid React, or anything with a build step. The problem with React is that JSX requires a build step, which makes everything massively less convenient. I prompt “no react” and skip that whole rabbit hole entirely.
I haven’t found too many issues with loading React and Babel from a CDN. I find React easier to read than straight HTML/JS. I find it more annoying to code in but seeing what state is needed in what components is a pleasant reading experience for me with single file tools.
- I wonder if with that music analysis mode, you can also make your own synths
- Can't comment on this other than that I came in at WCIII RoC and played TFT. Before that, I played a lot of Command & Conquer. I loved those games, so for me WCIII is the apex. I didn't like StarCraft. But it's admittedly the apex for me without having ever played WCII. I've rarely seen it as well.
- The problem is that circumventing the government gets into criminal territory pretty quick, even if enough people view the activity as legitimate.
I remember Thailand letting everyone free with weed related crimes.
Or sometimes being a whistleblower is seen as criminal. Or if it isn’t seen as such but the government wants to view it that way, they will make it happen.
- Ah thanks for putting it into the necessary/sufficient vocab. Makes so much more sense to explain it that way.
- Yea high quality Japanese green tea has been my go to. Unfortunately, I'm addicted to coffee. Thank god I'm also lightly addicted to living frugally and that is currently winning out. Black tea for 20 bags for 35 cents it is.
- Hmm to feel a bit elevated makes sense. I also have that with one glass of alcohol at certain times. Heart rate goes up, things get a bit more intense. It's a nice vibe if you're open to it. It's also a bit subtle.
For me what I've noticed: 2 cups hits the spot, but I always tend to drink more, around 4 cups. On the 3rd cup my mind gets jittery. It's not so much my body or anything and I don't experience the jitters strongly but at the same time I feel a stronger focus while noticing that stronger focus isn't getting anything extra done. Hence I call it mind jitters.
But I can imagine that at 2 cups people are genuinely just a bit elevated in certain ways.
- I don't think it's only humans. All kinds of animals would benefit from knowing that awhoo comes from a wolf and that, in this example, awhoo awhoo is the same sound coming from the same wolf or that an animal recognizes that the first awhoo comes from one wolf and the second awhoo from another wolf.
It also helps for an animal to know the volume of these awhoos as it is a good proxy for closeness, and therefore danger. It's even a good thing to know the rhythm of these awhoos as it helps again to assess if these wolves, or wolf, is on the move while awhooing or on the move between awhoos.
And this is just one example I'm currently making up bit at least makes sense that for many animals: tempo, volume, rhythm, patterns in sound, it's needed for survival. So evolution will select for it.
Music is a lot more than just those things I think, but it at least shows some evolutionary backbone as to why I believe that more animals have been evolved to like music. At least, some elephants sure seem to enjoy a good piano [1].
- Yea I have been asking around for such a feature on their subreddit
I excel at software engineering for business impact. If I can see: the amount of hours saved, amount of revenue/users/clicks gained, then I am on it. I'm currently also being creative with LLMs (both professional and personal). I love to talk to LLM enthusiast and sceptics alike.Location: Amsterdam Remote: Hybrid or remote Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python + Jupyter + Polars + Flask, ReactJS and SQL. But honestly, I dabbled with all the popular languages for 100 to 2000 hours per language (Java, C#, PHP, C, C++, Objective-C, R, Smalltalk, x86-64 assembly, SQL, NoSQL, LaTeX). Résumé/CV: upon request Email: see my profileSome recent successes: * Saved 90% of time for SEO specialists by automating the tedious bits with LLMs and give them all the creative bits. Also the ranking went up during that period!
* Using LLM rewrites to generate better product pages driving higher conversion and higher traffic
* Created a full-stack web app showcasing our bespoke offerings, which halves the time to close the deal (before this, obtaining a price took a while)
* Used triple exponential smoothing to predict supply and demand, showcasing the gap for our company to drive more supply to
* Created my own project management dashboard so that certain weak PM skills I have are actually quite okay now :)
- I'm doing a very simple frontend and backend thingy. I'm basically vibe coding my own project management tool in the way I like it. I'm currently at 4000 lines of code and am beginning to get to the threshold that I can't take technical debt anymore and would need to restructure and refactor.
So yea, fair enough.
Though, the shift that the OP describes, yea I can see that. Writing tests has become way more important. Or well, it feels more important. From a testing perspective, we should see ourselves agents too (aka bug making machines), that's why you need tests. The silly bias I always had was "but I'm writing the code! It'll be fine, I won't make bug- oh... why can't I close my modal window when I click on the x symbol?"
But yea, the apparent need for testing is definitely much more there. The need for architecting it well is also there as LLMs still seem to be a bit in tutorial land with that one. There are a few more things like that.
- Well that song was my digital dopamine for the day. Couldn’t stop bobbing my head while in a busy train
So yea, I definitely, add to the "AI generated" text part but I read over all the texts, and usually they don't get sent out. Ultimately, it's still a lot quicker to do it this way.
For career planning, so far it hasn't beaten my own insights but it came close. For example, it mentioned that I should actually be a developer advocate instead of a software engineer. 2 to 3 years ago I came to that same thought. I ultimately rejected the idea due to how I am but it is a good one to think about.
What I see now, I think the best job for me would be a tech consultant. Or as I'd also like to call it: a data analyst that spots problems and then uses his software engineering or teaching skills to solve that problem. I don't think that job has a good catch all title as it is a pretty generalist job. I'm currently at a company that allows me to do this but the pay is quite low, so I'm looking for a tech company where I could do something similar. Maybe a product manager role? It really depends on the company culture.
What I also noticed it did better: it doesn't reduce me to data engineering anymore. It understands that I aspire to learn everything and anything I can get my hands on. It's my mode of living and Claude understands that.
So nothing too spectacular yet, but it'll come. It requires more prompt/context engineering and fine tuning of certain things. I didn't get around to it yet.