"Hi HN, we’re Nate and Ty, co-founders of Continue, an open-source autopilot for software development built to be deeply customizable and continuously learn from development data. It consists of an extended language server and (to start) a VS Code extension.

Our GitHub is <https://github.com/continuedev/continue>. You can watch a demo of Continue and download the extension at <https://continue.dev>

— — —

A growing number of developers are replacing Google + Stack Overflow with Large Language Models (LLMs) as their primary approach to get help, similar to how developers previously replaced reference manuals with Google + Stack Overflow.

However, existing LLM developer tools are cumbersome black boxes. Developers are stuck copy/pasting from ChatGPT and guessing what context Copilot uses to make a suggestion. As we use these products, we expose how we build software and give implicit feedback that is used to improve their LLMs, yet we don’t benefit from this data nor get to keep it.

The solution is to give developers what they need: *transparency, hackability,* and *control*. Every one of us should be able to reason about what’s going on, tinker, and have control over our own development data. This is why we created Continue.

— — —

At its most basic, Continue removes the need for copy/pasting from ChatGPT—instead, you collect context by highlighting and then ask questions in the sidebar or have an edit streamed directly to your editor.

But Continue also provides powerful tools for managing context. For example, type ‘@issue’ to quickly reference a GitHub issue as you are prompting the LLM, ‘@[README.md](http://README.md)’ to reference such a file, or ‘@google’ to include the results of a Google search.

And there’s a ton of room for further customization. Today, you can write your own

\- slash commands (e.g. ‘/commit’ to write a summary and commit message for staged changes, ‘/docs’ to grab the contents of a file and update documentation pages that depend on it, ‘/ticket’ to generate a full-featured ticket with relevant files and high-level instructions from a short description)

\- context sources (e.g. GitHub issues, Jira, local files, StackOverflow, documentation pages)

\- templated system message (e.g. “Always give maximally concise answers. Adhere to the following style guide whenever writing code: {{ /Users/nate/repo/[styleguide.md](http://styleguide.md) }}”)

\- tools (e.g. add a file, run unit tests, build and watch for errors)

\- policies (e.g. define a goal-oriented agent that works in a write code, run code, read errors, fix code, repeat loop)

Continue works with any LLM, including local models using ggml or open-source models hosted on your own cloud infrastructure, allowing you to remain 100% private. While OpenAI and Anthropic perform best today, we are excited to support the progress of open-source as it catches up (<https://continue.dev/docs/customization#change-the-default-l>[...](https://continue.dev/docs/customization#change-the-default-llm)).

When you use Continue, you automatically collect data on how you build software. By default, this development data is saved to `.continue/dev_data` on your local machine. When combined with the code that you ultimately commit, it can be used to improve the LLM that you or your team use (if you allow).

You can read more about how development data is generated as a byproduct of LLM-aided development and why we believe that you should start collecting it now: <https://medium.com/@continuedev/its-time-to-collect-data-on->[...](https://medium.com/@continuedev/its-time-to-collect-data-on-how-you-build-software-197d12a020d5)

Continue has an Apache 2.0 license. We plan to make money by offering organizations a paid development data engine—a continuous feedback loop that ensures the LLMs always have fresh information and code in their preferred style.

— — —

We’d love for you to try out Continue and give us feedback! Let us know what you think in the comments : )"

Show HN: Continue – Open-source coding autopilot

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AI will take more jobs from women than men by 2030, report says

Node.js vs Fastify vs Express.js vs Deno vs Bun vs Go

*"Amazon employees who refuse to relocate near their teams' "hub" offices will either have to find a new job internally or leave the company through a "voluntary resignation."*

*Amazon started enforcing its so-called "return-to-hub" policy in recent weeks, according to an internal email and Slack messages obtained by Insider. Hubs are the central locations assigned to each individual team — employees will have to work out of those hubs instead of any office nearest to their current city.*

*One manager declared hubs in Seattle, New York, Houston, and Austin, Texas, for their team, according to one Slack message. It said those who refuse to relocate to one of those hubs will either have to transfer to a new team or they will be considered a "voluntary resignation."*

*The move is part of Amazon's effort to encourage more in-person work. Under the initial return-to-office policy, Amazon assigned offices for most individual employees, but not the whole team. Some employees [told Insider](https://archive.md/o/nk6Si/https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-stirs-employees-anxiety-with-rushed-return-to-office-plan-2023-4) that made office work pointless because many still had to use video calls to connect with their teammates spread across the country. Andy Jassy, the CEO of Amazon, said in his [RTO announcement earlier this year](https://archive.md/o/nk6Si/https://affiliate.insider.com/?h=f8f89d4fb2ed0164c11488e18bdc4221f4aa89d2c94c837e25379ae9907f0a1f&postID=64bacbf775976ff3ff4aab7e&site=bi&u=https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/andy-jassy-update-on-amazon-return-to-office&amazonTrackingID=null&platform=browser&sc=false&disabled=false) that "collaborating and inventing is easier and more effective when we're in person.""*

Leaked messages show Amazon will force a 'voluntary resignation' on employees failing to relocate near their team 'hubs'

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Stuck in my head from first listen, nothing more to say

Nothing New - Fly By Midnight

I heard this at a cafe in Tokyo and it was stuck in my head for the next 2 months. It's so ridiculous, yet so catchy. Only 8k views.

I love this pop music style. Very unique.

Crystal Statues - don't wanna talk

As someone still holding GameStop stock I'm pretty surprised I only started hearing about this movie in the last few days when the trailer has been out for months already. Looks good though, hope it does the story justice.

DUMB MONEY - Official Trailer (HD) - YouTube

I'm a guy who like does stuff or whatever

Marvel Studios' The Marvels | Official Trailer - YouTube

Scientists develop novel brain-computer interface that plugs into your ear canal

Neuronal Boost: Lactate’s Key Role in Brain Development Uncovered

Over the past one and a half years, Stack Overflow has lost around 50% of its traffic. This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of questions and answers, as well as the number of votes these posts receive.

HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36855516>

The Fall of Stack Overflow

TikTok is adding text posts

Working in tech has always required constantly staying up to date. The rate of progress increases exponentially, meaning this rate of catchup required increases over time. Basically there's no long-term stability in tech. On the bright side, this makes it easier for newcomers and people who have the time + energy to enter the industry (eg. I imagine most who profited off the AI craze didn't have an AI background) 

This phenomenon will start affecting every industry including ones that used to be considered stable like law + medicine. No one is safe.

My advice to anyone in tech is to not get married to any one framework, language, or part of the stack. Assume it will be obsolete in a few years. Learn the 80% needed to be productive, but that extra 20% required for mastering that specific tool is prob not worth it given churn.

I personally think we're going to see the rise of generalists. Jobs will become more managerial, delegating tasks to AI + cheap offshore labor. Companies and especially startups will hire less employees and they'll be expected to be able to handle any task, leveraging AI to learn. LLMs like ChatGPT make it drastically easier to get up to speed on anything, and AI code autocomplete tools like GitHub Copilot lesson the need for knowing specific syntax. Eventually coding will just be writing in plan English (Copilot can already do this, it's just very slow now), as well as everything else (eg. managing infrastructure). Eventually one will just say "create a cron job that scrapes this API every X minutes, filters the results on these keywords, stores the filtered results in a database, and sends me an email notification" and the whole thing will be created. The tech for this is already possible.

Job stability will continue to diminish as tech advances, something tech workers are already familiar with

"My supervisor was telling us in stand up today and he said that he spent some time just looking at the first \~100 applicants or so and said that most are people laid off from FAANG, or people at unicorns, and they all have several years of experience. They already shut the post down because they were overwhelmed sorting through all the applicants.

This is for a mid-level position, I am not sure of the TC, it is fully remote.

This is crazy.

I even asked my manager if I could apply to it internally (I'm in DevOps / SRE and desperately trying to get out since my SWE skills are stagnating) but he said I didn't have enough experience which is fair since I am a new grad.

Have you guys seen the same at your companies? I guess I was mostly surprised at the quality of applicants.. usually I hear that maybe 5% would be good but it looks like the majority are actually really good."

Wow my team at Adobe put up a job offer for a SWE position and they received 850 applications in the first day.

HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36791434>

Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM | Hacker News

HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36799548>

Anytype – open-source, local-first, P2P Notion alternative

<https://archive.is/2VTtG#selection-1313.0-1313.108>

HN: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36781860>