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The essential work of is building the theory of the problem + solution. Theory then enables creation of working code. In the end, the code is necessary, but it is not sufficient. Theory is indispensable. (cf. Peter Naur, 1985)

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none of my friends have java Minecraft ://

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Everyone is on bedrock? there are ways to play on the same server even with different versions.

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wait really?! me and my friends were always just talking while in our own worlds..

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you can try GeyserMC, you can get it on a custom server and as far as I know you can also use it on Aternos. I've used it a few times on private servers, works pretty well

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OMGG thank you so much! me and my friends are gonna play tonight!!!

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I’m using textlog to explore the intersection of and tech, with the goal of building an app that solves a problem in this space. Named , it's word represented as a hex color. Of all the words there, it is a cocoa-ish color and is an appropriate name for this idea.

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will go to university

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“Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.” - David Deutsch

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Hello, everyone. I am how are you? Today is Friday. Welcome to my text log.

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What's up ku, welcome to this hard drive where you can share a slice of consciousness with many :--)

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Hi ku (:

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Waves 👋

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hi! 🙌

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Hi 👋

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I have developed a beautiful free app that lays out Instagram feed photos as a perfect masonry grid every time, no matter which photos you provide it. It's completely free to use if anyone wants to check it out

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Very cool! At least the landing page is amazing! I couldn’t try the app because I don’t have photographs locally, I thought it would be able to fetch my photos from Instagram, that part I found a bit confusing.

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It's to create the post FOR Instagram, so does need to pull from your photos on a device 😊

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Ok I see! Curious wouldn’t that be a good paid plugin for WP or standalone?

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I'm unsure why, it's just for general people to use, I feel like you haven't quite grasped what the app is 😅

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Now that you mention it like this, is it that you create the masonry collage so that someone can do a perfect Instagram carousel?

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This seems nice

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I've read about this place a few times on HN but every time I tried to come back I couldn't think of the right search terms

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Happiness is having just enough hot water in my espresso to extend the experience without diluting it overmuch.

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Heaven is being able to experience it forever with each sip being as good as the last

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Sharing your work with others is a hard computer science problem in 2026, the Year of our Lord. You either here the sound of chirping crickets or the sound of "AI Slop" yells.

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My past 3 projects went viral. I didn’t write a single line of code in any of them. But I still feel I engineered them. There were a few people that noticed but the majority didn’t see an issue.

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You're fortunate in that you've genuinely captured something that people clearly want with textlog. No one wants another static site generator or coding harness. Ideas that resonate are pretty few and far between now.

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I should have said past 4 projects went viral but the other one I did a lot of coding too, so wasn’t entirely “AI slop”. In all cases though, I made something I wanted to see. It just happened to resonate with others. Still, none of them extremely popular yet. All <500 users.

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A thing I've been doing lately is trying to come to the same conclusions others have without looking their the direct techniques and code. Last night I tried to figure out why people do vector based retrieval for RAG and ended up running these experiments: n0tls.com/…/2026-09-03-i-think-…rag-with-grep.html I'm still going to do an explore agent.

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Here's a follow up from last night: n0tls.com/…/2026-09-05-fine-tuning-…tiny-retriever.html This has been a great way for me to learn in this space. Learning with AI has been such a fun time for me.

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I noticed today that I'm an idiot. I built a static site generator with NO DATA MODEL. Beginning to fix it now, but my god how embarrassing. Hobbyist less than amateur...wow. Good thing my day job isn't at stake.

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This is a pretty neat site. I remember having vague ideas about something somewhat close to this but doing nothing with them.

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it's so simple and lovable!!

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if it was the first of its kind I would like it but its not and I already have a main one so this is kinda nobolty to me

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What's your main one? I use Substack Notes a bit these days. I was a big Twitter user (and used to work there) years ago, but stopped using it in 2023.

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Love the flat option for threads Edit: didn’t realise that was the old style. Hahaha

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I had a great summer vacation

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hey that's great! happy for u, places you visited?

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My childhood home. I saw enough of the world, now rediscovering what changed back home.

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Still running but already look deceptive. Fck that

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Nothing works ffs

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such a real thread. godspeed

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I still remember Max getting sandwiched between the two Ferraris in the first ever wet night race (Singapore 2017). Today he finally managed to win a race there. That's quite a long wait.

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Not sure if I put it on untappd but I still remember the "soggy" beer at the track that day 😄

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