News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

JCharante

Re:I'm in a Meeting on Monday October 12, 2026 @02:53AM (#50052303)
cool but i wish the audio was better
Re:My Weird New Hobby: Wandering Around Tokyo on Google Maps on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:23PM (#49839086)
True although I think there’s too much of a correction whenever people bring up Tokyo vs Japan.

I’m grateful to live in Tokyo but if I didn’t live in Tokyo I wouldn’t live in Japan. I’m definitely open to a vacation home in the countryside.

I could see myself living in NYC (Manhattan specifically) but wouldn’t want to live anywhere else in the US. Tokyo is big enough that you rarely have to leave and see the rest of the country. I don’t think we have to judge countries by their countrysides.

Re:OpenJev on Saturday September 19, 2026 @05:00AM (#49764696)
it's due to how rewards work during RL no? it needs to try to check off all the boxes to get a max score
Ah so that's why we need a lunar base. To uphold S3's 11 9s of availability
Re:GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @09:04PM (#49355220)
if I was going to IPO I'd want higher marketshare and openrouter is the most popular way to measure model usage (not saying it's the most accurate b/c it's not)
Re:GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50% on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @04:50AM (#49343099)
Maybe they (oai) want to pump their marketshare on openrouter lol
most mice require more steps per mile of distance
Re:Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:59AM (#49211500)
I wouldn't say it's the vast majority if Tokyo/Chiba/Saitama/Yokohama holds like a third of the population. Add in those other cities you mentioned and the majority of the population lives in cities.
Re:Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities on Friday August 07, 2026 @10:57AM (#49211477)
just don't live in the countryside then, there's a reason their population is decreasing
I have done my own testing and found that smaller models can beat their larger siblings on fact retrieval from documents. I haven’t investigated it in depth with a large enough dataset but my guess is that larger models overthink it while smaller ones just do it. I would like if they compared this with 5.6 Luna instead.
Re:I got into YC (Startup School) by hacking it on Friday July 24, 2026 @03:25PM (#49040521)
surprised running paxel doesn't disqualify you, the program sounds sus
Re:Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled on Thursday July 23, 2026 @04:28PM (#49027589)
I wonder what the tipping point is where machines require less energy than humans to accomplish the same tasks.
I used to donate blood regularly but now that I'm in Japan they require me to be decently fluent in Japanese to "understand" the risks, despite having done it a bunch of times in other countries (and other medical procedures not requiring Japanese knowledge).
I mean eve frontier is a pretty huge fork from almost scratch, did they backport changes into normal eve?
you don't have to arrest everyone, just make the likelyhood of being arrested non-zero to deter people
Re:Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @03:54AM (#48743541)
I mean go do it but don't complain about the company adding countermeasures when they don't want you to do it
Isn’t this like batch processing offered by oai? Your request gets done within 24 hours at half off

https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/batch

Re:Emerich Juettner: The One Dollar Counterfeiter on Sunday May 10, 2026 @06:32AM (#48082675)
> Eventually, Juettner made more money from the release of Mister 880 than he had made by counterfeiting

I'm guessing this was before the law where you couldn't benefit from crimes?

> Couldn't verify you're human — please try again.

I'm on safari without an adblocker, not sure what sketchy stuff my ASN is up to

> Verification not ready, try again.

Japan is trusted enough to leave laptops in but not trusted enough to vote :/

This is like when Aaron ported Reddit over from Lisp to Python

meaning it doesn't matter except for online discourse about X being bad for 2 days

Re:Getting arrested in Japan on Sunday May 10, 2026 @12:34AM (#48081028)
> It makes sense to optimize society for law obiding people.

I agree, and this system is meant to hold people before they have evidence meaning it can hurt law abiding people.

It's not so bad, I'd say the Christmas PS3 hack was worse
Re:Cirrus Labs to join OpenAI on Saturday April 11, 2026 @10:19AM (#47730865)
but they're not

> We are no longer accepting new customers for Cirrus Runners but will continue supporting the service for existing customers through their existing contract periods.

they def pay artists more than pennies on the dollar

artists complaining about not making enough is like programmers complaining their 7 star repo on github isn't making them enough on ko-fi

I mean my github is like that but I wouldn't expect to live off it unless I was Evan You

while I don't like AI music, "Millions upon millions of them, in every conceivable style, for every conceivable mood." is something that's not true. There very often is a gap which forces me to open up Ableton and make edits
to be fair if you don't know about screen studio why are you looking at an oss alternative?
I don't see how a system that relies on trust can scale safely
Re:Apple Just Lost Me on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @01:17PM (#47520325)
Like I'm not a fan but the ecosystem is convenient if you can afford it and liquid glass is fine? I haven't heard a single person complain about it IRL It's not a big design that I got hyped for like iOS 6 but it's fine

I have the vision pro, mbp m4, ip15 pro max, apple watch ultra 2, studio display (2026), 2 official keyboards, 2 magic trackpads, ipad (4th gen), 3 homepod 2, 5 homepod mini, airpod pro 3 (I keep buying new airpod pros every time they come out because the improvements are really good).

I'm fine liquid glass and I use their products like.. 20 hours a day?

Re:Flighty Airports on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @02:54AM (#47514144)
the app has so many bugs and missing features, I'm not a heavy user just like 60 flights a year but I love and hate flighty

Older »