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Re:I discovered roads in the US across > 1000 themes on Friday September 25, 2026 @06:10PM (#49850594)
Agreed. I chose Robot Names, and it gave me a Mars Orbital Mission for Mom Lane, and Cygnus was a Deke Slayton reference. It seemed more about space and satellites than robots with personalities. And the thumbnail number (over 9000!) did not match the clicked result. And the segmented sections were hard to follow and navigate.
Re:I am often wrong on Monday September 21, 2026 @04:40PM (#49793083)
Define, identify, name
Re:Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @10:07PM (#49735605)
Is Jensen Huang still all-in on OpenClaw? That moment feels more like a flash in the pan.
> or just an excuse to fleece regular buyers

In a market with healthy competition (no collusion), this generally can't happen. Every single vendor is incentivized to lower their prices slightly at all times, with a floor at cost plus margin.

Re:Turn And Face The Strange on Sunday July 26, 2026 @09:13AM (#49057882)
I've been reading these comments and finally read the "Nuts" blog post. I guess I understand the butthurt, but I really appreciate this style of writing. Curt, forceful, to the point, fronting any internal conflict the reader may hold. This is clearly painful for conflicted readers. For the unconflicted, it is satisfying to merely agree or disagree.
Re:An Update on the scraper situation on Saturday July 11, 2026 @07:43AM (#48871171)
This seems nonsensical. Care to elaborate?
Re:Grok 4.5 on Thursday July 09, 2026 @08:06AM (#48844571)
Do you outsource all of your thinking and argumentation to LLMs and other people?
Re:The IBM Granite 4.1 family of models on Sunday May 03, 2026 @02:28AM (#47993985)
What is an enterprise workload?
Re:No Taco: This Is Complete US Strategic Failure on Thursday April 09, 2026 @01:29AM (#47699619)
TACO is misleading. TASAD: Trump Always Seeks A Deal.
Re:Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard on Thursday April 09, 2026 @01:27AM (#47699602)
This reminds me of the various visualizations in WinAmp, and there was no shortage of creativity there! Geiss (sp?) anyone? It really whips the llama's ass!
Re:Six (and a half) intuitions for KL divergence on Thursday April 09, 2026 @01:18AM (#47699555)
Is there a gentler intro to this topic?
Re:The Importance of Being Idle on Thursday April 09, 2026 @01:17AM (#47699548)
The jargon term, slack, comes to mind, in the concept-cluster of the old Google 20%-time, Slackware Linux, and Church of the SubGenius.
Very interesting perspective. I will be reviewing in depth. Much appreciated.
I recently (~6 mo ago) made it a goal to understand and implement a useful Kalman filter, but I realized that they are very tightly coupled to their domain and application. I got about half as far as I wanted, and took a pause. I expect your work here will get me to the finish line, so I am psyched! Thank you!
Re:The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @09:39PM (#47698366)
Thanks for this. My updated relevant portion of ~/.gitconfig:

    [alias]
        st = status
        ci = commit
        co = checkout
        br = branch
        df = diff
        dfs = diff --stat
        dfc = diff --cached
        dfh = diff --histogram
        dfn = diff --name-status
        rs = restore
        rsc = restore --staged
        last = log -1 HEAD
        lg = log --graph --decorate --oneline --abbrev-commit
        cm = commit -m
        ca = commit --amend
        cane = commit --amend --no-edit
        who = shortlog -sn --no-merges HEAD
        dmg = log --oneline -i -E --grep='(incident|outage|downtime|rollback|revert|mitigate|mitigation|hotfix|broke|prod)' --since='1 year ago'
        bugs = log --oneline -i -E --grep='(bug|bugfix|fix|fixed|fixes|defect|regression|hotfix|broke)' --since='1 year ago'
        bugfiles = !git log --name-only --format='' -i -E --grep='(bug|bugfix|fix|fixed|fixes|defect|regression|hotfix|broke)' --since='1 year ago' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
        monthly = !git log --since='1 year ago' --format='%ad' --date=format:'%Y-%m' | sort | uniq -c
        churn = !git log --format='' --name-only --diff-filter=AM --since='1 year ago' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20
Plucked betwixt mine cheeks
Re:GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @01:17PM (#47678480)
I am on their "Coding Lite" plan, which I got a lot of use out of for a few months, but it has been seriously gimped now. Obvious quantization issues, going in circles, flipping from X to !X, injecting chinese characters. It is useless now for any serious coding work.
I have been very disappointed in the Lite plan over the last few months. It started great, but they are obviously quantizing and cutting costs on the low end plans. The agents go into bad loops and contradict themselves, inject chinese characters, etc. There is obvious compression happening which makes it unreliable and unsuitable for serious work.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026) on Sunday February 08, 2026 @09:03PM (#46940759)
Super cool, I was not aware of novasolver.com. You can reach me via HN username at the midpoint between fmail and hmail.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026) on Sunday February 08, 2026 @05:45PM (#46939360)
I'm working on a poker (NLHE) trainer app that includes a web poker room for multiplayer, with bots available and fake chips. Using Event Sourcing with some CQRS in Elixir and Phoenix. The player view is a projection of House Events, suitable for hand history, for feeding to solvers or LLMs for real time advice or post hoc analysis.

The idea is to get tons of reps in, across varied situations, with excellent advice to build good intuitions and decision making abilities. Or to stop making bad or terrible decisions. Or just play poker for free.

I'd like to monetize with at least the hand history format open sourced. Ping me if you would like to get involved with GTM and the revenue side of things.

Re:Some C habits I employ for the modern day on Friday January 23, 2026 @11:44PM (#46741134)
I think that D meets Walter Bright's requirements.
Re:GLM-4.7-Flash on Monday January 19, 2026 @01:41PM (#46682799)
Same, I got 12 months of subscription for $28 total (promo offer), with 5x the usage limits of the $20/month Claude Pro plan. I have only used it with claude code so far.
Re:Finding and Fixing Ghostty's Largest Memory Leak on Saturday January 10, 2026 @08:13PM (#46571762)
https://ghostty.org/docs/about

> Ghostty is a terminal emulator that differentiates itself by being fast, feature-rich, and native. While there are many excellent terminal emulators available, they all force you to choose between speed, features, or native UIs. Ghostty provides all three.

> In all categories, I am not trying to claim that Ghostty is the best (i.e. the fastest, most feature-rich, or most native). But when I set out to create Ghostty, I felt all terminals made you choose at most two of these categories. I wanted to create a terminal that was competitive in all three categories and I believe Ghostty achieves that goal.

> Before diving into the details, I also want to note that Ghostty is a passion project started by Mitchell Hashimoto (that's me!). It's something I work on in my free time and is a labor of love. Please don't forget this when interacting with the project. I'm doing my best to make something great along with the lovely contributors, but it's not a full-time job for any of us.

I like: "In Ether words" and "Example Given"
Re:Claude Haiku 4.5 on Thursday October 16, 2025 @12:15AM (#45601407)
Super helpful, thanks!
Re:Claude Haiku 4.5 on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @01:26PM (#45595834)
If I'm close to weekly limits on Claude Code with Anthropic Pro, does that go away or stretch out if I switch to Haiku?
I had never picked up on the nuance of the V-K test. Somehow I missed the salience of the animal extinction. The questions all seemed strange to me, but in a very Dickian sort of way. This discussion was very enlightening.
Re:How Each Pillar of the First Amendment Is Under Attack on Monday March 31, 2025 @02:26AM (#43531780)
My understanding is that insults are illegal as well as certain expressions of Naziism.
Re:Solitaire on Thursday February 27, 2025 @01:48PM (#43197199)
I never played Angband but got into the closely related Sil. Totally agree on your characterization (and a fan of your HN posts for well over a decade).
Re:Rethinking the C Time API on Sunday February 16, 2025 @09:20PM (#43074268)
The Art of Unix Programming

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