They should make a version of that runs as an app on a phone

They have one, it's called React Native Web Native

What are we all using as assistants? I tend to copy-paste my code into Gemini. I tried some VS-code assistants, but I can't get them to do the thing I want (like look at selected text or only do small things)...

I've never heard of this case or person. I went in interested in his story. But the information and writing makes it seem like he was reluctant to share anything at all. Why even start a website?

This wasn’t ever meant to be public in this way.

What is hn using for Ai assisted coding? Vscode with some plugin? Would love some tips on what works...

VSCode has the best copilot integration, but I found that Zed can perfectly use my subscription too, with even better results and endless "are you still here?"

They don't support Grok yet, though. It starts from a small "x", and it is ruined the deserialization. So could be a chance the pull request will miss "free trial" deadline for Grok Fast in Copilot, for this particular case.

Once I switched to Claude code, I haven’t touched anything else.

Claude Code / Cline

It's helping me find things, understand things and do things. I'm sure some of those startups will figure something out that makes sense. And eat the rest.

This was the story of Amazon in the .com bubble, but buying Amazon in 1999 was not a good deal. Even if you know who the winner is going to be, you can still lose.

Please share examples. Real life game changing examples that were not possible before.

Google became Expert exchange become stackoverflow became Google again became Chatgpt became Google again. Every time, so much more faster to get your boilerplate.

Anybody willing to walk me through this code? I don't get it.

chain is a global variable. It starts with an empty promise. First call to enqueue changes the (global)value of chain to emptyPromise.then(firstJob), second call to enqueue changes it to emptyPromise.then(firstJob).then(secondJob) and so on.

JavaScript promises are objects with a resolver function and an internal asynchronous computation. At some point in the future, the asynchronous computation will complete, and at that point the promise will call its resolver function with the return value of the computation.

`prom.then(fn)` creates a new promise. The new promise’s resolver function is the `fn` inside `then(fn)`, and the new promise’s asynchronous computation is the original promise’s resolver function.

I feel like with all the silly things humans do, every remotely feasible physics experiment should be top priority on getting funding and attention. Isn't finding out how the universe works, by far, the only thing that matters?

One can plausibly argue that finding out how the universe works is one of the things that matters least.

There’re so many people who think they already know how it works. And that’s a huge problem.

only if you have no imagination or want to be 'discovered' and civilised.

This is such a privileged "I dont have real problems" take its hilarious.

i’d imagine food shelter and dignified employment rank just a little higher.

in terms of higher-order needs, meaningful connection and love are quite a bit more important to me.

> food shelter and dignified employment

None of those are technological or even theoretical problems, tho. We (humanity as a whole) thoroughly understand all of them. Whatever your post meant with listing them is stemming from politics more than scientific understanding. I don't think there's a politician's head collider out there, but maybe we should build one.

Resource allocation is political

there was a scene in SG-1 where O'Neill locks up a bunch of aliens in a room and said they would not be released until they came to some agreement.

I always thought there should be a religious army with the entire world's military might, who's central tenet is that they do and decide nothing except enforce what the nations decide - and the nations get to decide in any way they want except violence - but they may choose a champion on each side of a divide, and the champions may hold a knife fight to the death. the army would then enforce the deal of the winner's side.

Yes, but it needs some rebranding / reframing. We should declare a global war on the universe and spend all the military budget on research and development to exploit its secrets.

>every remotely feasible physics experiment should be top priority on getting funding and attention.

There are innumerable "feasible" experiments, far exceeding global GDP.

>Isn't finding out how the universe works, by far, the only thing that matters?

Is trying to maximize our understanding of a small part of physics really the best way to go about this. Is it even more important than curing cancer.

Both way can work fine, enough great examples out there. The real problem is, imho, we shouldn't need a (graphical) UI at all. That's where all this discussion comes from. When the whole "frontend" disappears in a year or 10, it will make a lot more sense.

I used to type "tree" and go get coffee