alt Hacker NewsI love this. This is a fun hack, but the article also hearkens back to pre-LLM days when people were still interested in _code_.
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stymaar • today at 12:17 PM
I'm definitely gonna use that for April 1st though, just adding this as instruction in Claude.md
That will also serves as a litmus test to check how many of my coworkers are reading the code they push.
kpcyrd • today at 2:28 PM
It feels like it's from back when we unironically thought memorizing quirks like this makes us better programmers, or is somehow important for making computers more secure, aka middle of the 2010s tech bubble.
idkfoekfkdcjjs • today at 1:15 PM
Ah yeah, here we go…
“Back in my days…”
“No true Scotsman…”
“I remember when…”
“Kids these days…”
Gotta love this self-aggrandising humble-brag nonsensical stuff.
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I wonder if there was a period in the 90s where the chess community was more interested in talking about IBM’s stock price than in actually playing chess.