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Re:Malus – Clean Room as a Service on Thursday March 12, 2026 @04:24PM (#47356535)
If you don't have any contributors, you could just directly relicense without rewriting the whole codebase. If you do, it would be rude to do this.
Re:Wiz Joins Google on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @02:24PM (#47339256)
This isn't a new observation [0] but this means Google will now have two Wizes, since Wiz is also the name of their internal web framework [1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43399077

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41092039

The UK is the world's 22nd most populated and 78th largest country.
Re:We deserve a better streams API for JavaScript on Friday February 27, 2026 @02:26PM (#47184477)
A Uint8Array can be backed by buffers other than ArrayBuffer, which is where the types [0] come from.

[0] https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/924810c077dd410...

Re:Voxtral Transcribe 2 on Thursday February 05, 2026 @05:33PM (#46906365)
It can actually go much lower. Gemini costs around $0.01/hour of transcription last time I checked.
Re:Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @03:37PM (#46801161)
> React Native doesn't even use v8 engine

Are you saying you would use React Native with a language other than JS?

Re:Cloudflare acquires Astro on Friday January 16, 2026 @04:41PM (#46652607)
What are you doing about repeated content?
Re:How Will the Miracle Happen Today? on Friday January 09, 2026 @01:18PM (#46557073)
This comment leaves me confused as to what you believe. Do you believe a man biking across the country "takes and does not give" in a different way from a charity, or was "someone who takes and does not give" simply not meant in a bad way?
Re:How Will the Miracle Happen Today? on Friday January 09, 2026 @12:04PM (#46556011)
Why would he be helped if he truly doesn't give? He speaks about this a little:

  the person being aided can reciprocate with degrees of humility, dependency, gratitude, surprise, trust, delight, relief, and amusement
which, at the time, was genuinely valuable [0].

[0] Discussed more at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46555688

Re:Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:10PM (#46234045)
Does it let you use Gemini 3 in Gemini CLI?
Re:FLUX.2: Frontier Visual Intelligence on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @02:49PM (#46049901)
FYI: photorealism is art that imitates photos, and I see the term misused a lot both in comments and prompts (where you'll actually get subideal results if you say "photorealism" instead of describing the camera that "shot" it!)
To continue the thread, my favorite is https://drop.lol
Re:GitHub Is Having Issues on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @04:01PM (#45972012)
Seeing "404: Not Found" for all raw files
Re:Zed Is Our Office on Thursday November 13, 2025 @03:42PM (#45920263)
The thing about "basic" here is that it's subjective. It could be that these issues only happen on your machine or that the staff (or even most people) don't need what you're asking for. Of course they should try to fix them anyway, but their backlog is enormous.
Re:Use DuckDB-WASM to query TB of data in browser on Friday October 31, 2025 @04:21PM (#45776288)
This also reminded me of an approach using SQLite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748186
AI is penalized for any and all emitted errors through RL, so this kind of carefulness is actually a strong sign of AI.
If GSConnect doesn't work for you, it's also worth trying Valent: https://valent.andyholmes.ca/
Re:Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @11:27AM (#45657007)
I've also had luck with Gemini. If I made a few noises and asked which one was higher pitched, it could easily tell.
Re:State-based vs Signal-based rendering on Monday October 20, 2025 @12:00PM (#45645418)

  Vue can be used without Node.
You lose a lot though! You don't get minification and tree shaking, single file components, or hot module reloading. In practice, HMR outweighs the cost of setting up a Node/Deno/Bun environment.
Re:Claude Haiku 4.5 on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @01:19PM (#45595734)
System card: https://assets.anthropic.com/m/99128ddd009bdcb/original/Clau... (edit: discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45596168)

This is Anthropic's first small reasoner as far as I know.

Re:Svelte is that fast on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @04:14PM (#45520102)
Up to date data - https://krausest.github.io/js-framework-benchmark/2025/table... - shows Ripple, Vue, and Svelte as some of the best performers.
It was added as a subheading.
Re:What happens when coding agents stop feeling like dialup? on Monday September 22, 2025 @05:14PM (#45339524)
You don't have to use the built in subscription. They have support for curated APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, GitHub Copilot, OpenRouter, etc), any OpenAI-compatible API, and agents like Gemini CLI and Claude Code in the AI panel.
Re:OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80% on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @02:45PM (#44239997)
I think it's an illusion. People have been claiming it since the GPT-4 days, but nobody's ever posted any good evidence to the "model-changes" channel in Anthropic's Discord. It's probably just nostalgia.
Re:Reinforcement Pre-Training on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @12:49PM (#44238901)
are we only comparing them in terms of text completion accuracy? does it also improve perf on benchmarks?

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