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Lessons From Cursor's System Prompt

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Cursor’s AI coding assistant is turning heads, and for good reason. It feels like a genuinely...
Cursor’s AI coding assistant is turning heads, and for good reason. It feels like a genuinely helpful pair programmer. But as someone who’s wrestled with system prompts trying to get an AI to just follow the damn instructions, I was very curious as to how Cursor does it. Instead of just wondering, I decided to see i...
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AI Persona Groupthink Makes Group Talk More Realistic

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The £1B British AI dream that collapsed in controversy

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Show HN: Yet another tmux cheat sheet

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Understanding Consistency in Databases: Beyond the Basics

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What to do when dealing with N multiple transactions at the same time?Most of the time...
What to do when dealing with N multiple transactions at the same time?Most of the time we perform CRUD operations under the pragmatic standard transactional scope, thinking it will suffice under all circunstances. After all, what could go wrong when we always apply a standard ACID tool provided by our frameworks, ri...

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Hip: C++ Heterogeneous-Compute Interface for Portability

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Show HN: System Prompt Learning – LLMs Learn Problem-Solving from Experience

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I built a system that lets LLMs automatically learn and improve problem-solving strategies over time, inspired...
I built a system that lets LLMs automatically learn and improve problem-solving strategies over time, inspired by Andrej Karpathy's idea of a "third paradigm" for LLM learning.The basic idea: instead of using static system prompts, the LLM builds up a database of strategies that actually work for different problem t...
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If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued

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Photo by Jorik Kleen on UnsplashAs you progress in your career, understanding the difference between being...
Photo by Jorik Kleen on UnsplashAs you progress in your career, understanding the difference between being useful and being valued is very important. At first glance, they might look similar because the signals you get are more or less the same: a promotion, a higher than expected bonus, a special stock award. This ...
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A man who sailed round the world with a chicken (2019)

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At the tip of Brittany’s wild, wet Côtes-d’Armor peninsula is the village of Plougrescant. Beyond that,...
At the tip of Brittany’s wild, wet Côtes-d’Armor peninsula is the village of Plougrescant. Beyond that, butting right out into the sea, lies Yvinec island, a tiny outcrop intermittently accessible depending on tides via a rock-studded expanse of dunes and seaweed. To get there I have taken two planes, a train and a ...
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Is It JavaScript?

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OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript.My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest of...
OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript.My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest of the day debugging an electron issue— @jonkuperman.com on BlueSky“It’s Just JavaScript!” is probably a phrase you’ve heard before. I’ve used it myself a number of times.It gets thrown around a lot, often to imply that...
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Learn Calculus by Coding in Python

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Show HN: I built an AI Agent that uses the iPhone

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Inventing Japanese Braille

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0.9999 ≊ 1

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I’ve been long fascinated by the endless online debates about whether the infinite decimal expansion 0.9999…...
I’ve been long fascinated by the endless online debates about whether the infinite decimal expansion 0.9999… is exactly equal to 1. The canonical answer is yes. But there’s a considerable number of blogs that will try to convince you otherwise — and in the process, expose the sinister machinations of Big Math.What’s...
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Euro execs mull use of US clouds

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Amid the economic uncertainty of Trump 2.0, dependence on American tech has become a growing concern...
Amid the economic uncertainty of Trump 2.0, dependence on American tech has become a growing concern for many businesses, and a survey of 1,000 IT leaders claims that data sovereignty is now one of the most pressing issues. This comes from research carried out by Civo, a UK-based cloud operator which undoubtedly has...
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Revisiting Loop Recognition in C++ in Rust

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Back in 2011, Google published a report for Scala Days 2011 comparing the idiomatic implementation of...
Back in 2011, Google published a report for Scala Days 2011 comparing the idiomatic implementation of an algorithm in C++, Java, Go, and Scala.Over ten years later, the landscape has changed significantly.The 2011 Stack Overflow Survey (the second ever!) only asked users what languages they were proficient in. Let's...
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Rethinking PostgreSQL Storage

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May 30, 2025 · 3 min readBurak YucesoyPrincipal Software EngineerCloud storage was built around the limits...
May 30, 2025 · 3 min readBurak YucesoyPrincipal Software EngineerCloud storage was built around the limits of old hardware. Spinning hard drives (HDDs) were slow and fragile. So, early on cloud providers moved storage off of servers. They used network-attached disks to boost durability and scalability. But hardware ...
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Implementing TOTP two-factor authentication in 2025

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Rolldown-Vite: a Rust-Rewrite of Rollup

voidzero.dev

TL;DR: Try out the Rolldown-powered Vite today by using the rolldown-vite package instead of the default...
TL;DR: Try out the Rolldown-powered Vite today by using the rolldown-vite package instead of the default vite package. It is a drop-in replacement, as Rolldown will become the default bundler for Vite in the future. Switching should reduce your build time, especially for larger projects. Reach out to discover produc...
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How reliable are MicroSD cards?

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Gabon longs to cash in on sacred hallucinogenic remedy

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In POSIX, you can theoretically use inode zero

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LFSR CPU Running Forth

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Is "The Phoenician Scheme" Wes Anderson's Most Emotional Film?

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Wes Anderson’s new film, “The Phoenician Scheme,” is a funny-ha-ha comedy, but there’s nothing funny about...
Wes Anderson’s new film, “The Phoenician Scheme,” is a funny-ha-ha comedy, but there’s nothing funny about its story, which involves a wealthy industrialist’s attempts to realize a grandiose infrastructure project. Anderson’s signature is instantly recognizable in the movie’s decorative production design, its fronta...
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