Hackers' Pub

Hackers’ Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Simon Willison @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net

4/24/2025, 5:23:40 PM

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Still can't quite believe that prompting o4-mini with "This code needs to be upgraded to the new recommended JavaScript library from Google. Figure out what that is and then look up enough documentation to port this code to it" worked

One of most tedious problems in software development is piecing together all of the details from a bunch of miscellaneous (and often incomplete) API documentation in order to fix some dependency issue you don't want to have to deal with https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/gemini-image-segmentation/#gemini-2-5-flash-non-thinking

Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5

Max Woolf pointed out this new feature of the Gemini 2.5 series (here’s my coverage of 2.5 Pro and 2.5 Flash) in a comment on Hacker News: One hidden note …

simonwillison.net · Simon Willison’s Weblog

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