Articles by rafaepta
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Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016) (sandimetz.com)

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Ask HN: What's the hardest part of maintaining a legacy codebase?

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Ask HN: Does taste matter when writting code

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Ask HN: How do you separate intentional test boilerplate from real duplication?

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Terminal UIs Are an Abomination. AI Needs Better UX (medium.com/balajibal)

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Show HN: Deterministic and offline duplicate-code detector (github.com/rafaelpta)

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Finding code duplicated by AI without AI (github.com/rafaelpta)

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Agent doesn't remember your codebase (dupehound) (medium.com/rafael_pinheiro)

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Show HN: Dupehound – find the code your agent wrote twice (no AI required) (github.com/rafaelpta)

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Show HN: Mirror a terminal to your phone – E2E encrypted, peer-to-peer,no daemon (github.com/lucarp)

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Technical Founders Misread Adoption (avelino.run)

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Most Knowledge Management Systems Fail (desktopcommander.app)

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Filesystems Are Having a Moment (madalitso.me)

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Best MCP Servers for Knowledge Bases (desktopcommander.app)

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Desktop Commander vs. Claude Cowork (desktopcommander.app)

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After 3 yrs of forcing myself to love VC, I quit and became a DJ in Bali (businessinsider.com)

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Obsidian Markdown Cheatsheet (desktopcommander.app)

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I Tell When Candidates Use AI in My Technical Interviews (desktopcommander.app)

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Franklin Ace: The Clone of the Apple II Stolen from Apple (folklore.org)

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Markdown Tables: A Syntax Guide (desktopcommander.app)

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Ask HN: Do Hackathons Still Matter in 2026?

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Building a Personal Knowledge Base with Local Files (desktopcommander.app)

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The AI Trap That Is Quietly Wiping Out Investors (substack.com)

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Creating Obsidian Knowledge Bases (desktopcommander.app)

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Zero-sumness: a framework to reason about how to scale teams post AI (dust.tt)

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One pixel attack for fooling deep neural networks (arxiv.org)

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Hard Mode Veganism (giantmecha.substack.com)

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How to Fool a Neural Network (briefer.cloud)

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'Bandersnatch': The Works That Inspired the 'Black Mirror' Interactive Feature (2019) (hollywoodreporter.com)

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SEO-First SSG: From Social Embeds to Zero-Fetch Pages (vibegui.com)

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Ask HN: What's the oldest piece of code still running in your stack?

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Larry Tesler Obituary (2020) (theguardian.com)

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Clear the impression that Mistral AI is on par with OpenAI and ChatGPT (lemonde.fr)

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Errol Morris Interrotron (telepromptermirror.com)

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Steve Jobs, Atari Employee Number 40 (2011) (gamedeveloper.com)

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Money struggle is unhealed trauma (mibetterelli.substack.com)

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Quick Wins Become a Costly Addiction (ottic.ai)

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ChatGPT's new ads show even AI can't deny the brand-building power of TV (thedrum.com)

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Inventors of Google Earth also invented an interviewing machine (1992) (artcom.de)

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A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition (nature.com)

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Just credentials: How hackers stole 1B from Brazil's central bank (cointelegraph.com)

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Hiring for a job that doesn't exist yet (ottic.ai)

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Context Fail (dbreunig.com)

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Questions Asked on YC Interviews (ottic.ai)

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The Anatomy of Quick Wins (ottic.ai)

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Screenshot guide to check AI Search traffic in 2 minutes (ottic.ai)

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Checking your ChatGPT traffic in 2 min and 5 clicks (ottic.ai)

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The cost of quick wins (with examples) (ottic.ai)

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Apple typewriter memo (2020) (writingball.blogspot.com)

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Handcrafted work is the foundation of success (mastersofscale.com)

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Founders rushing into AEO: think again (ottic.ai)

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How Vercel is adaptîng SEO for LLMs (vercel.com)

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Building Foundation Models into Banks (nubank.com)

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Editorial Hygiene for AI Search (ottic.ai)

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Bureaucratics (janbanning.com)

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YC Interview Question List (ottic.ai)

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Dubious Math in Infinite Jest (2009) (thehowlingfantods.com)

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Did Errol Morris borrowed his "Interrotron" from the inventors of Google Earth? (artcom.de)

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Asimov and the Disease of Boredom (1964) (nytimes.com)

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AI pioneer announces non-profit to develop ‘honest’ artificial intelligence (theguardian.com)

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Kepler Invented Science Fiction (themarginalian.org)

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Job interview questions engineers should ask (but don't) (posthog.com)

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“Bugs are 100x more expensive to fix in production” study might not exist (2021) (theregister.com)

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System Prompt Leak Compilation (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, etc.) (github.com/jujumilk3)