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Re:Toit v2.0.0 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:37AM (#50350266)
The last thing this planet needs a new programming language
Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:33AM (#50338241)
much newer software, kernel, default setup is much more user friendly
Dinkelpasta..is...a..acquired taste.. lol
Re:HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:44PM (#50320980)
i wished yt would be so fast. yt itself is the most bloated heavy app
Re:Pidgin 3.0.0 Alpha 4 (2.98.0) has been released on Friday October 30, 2026 @05:51AM (#50301735)
Still looks like an app from 1999
Zuckerberg Mr AIDS himself
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:26PM (#50281128)
The only important benchmark is FrontierSWE and there it is of course 3rd. even after Opus 5.5 which is relatively old compared to their brand new model..
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:24PM (#50281108)
will this again will be one of those mediocre two-prompt models like Nitrogen, or whatever it was called?
Re:Genie 4 on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @02:21PM (#50263516)
i am starting to get model fatigue..
Re:Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:59PM (#50238165)
Hahahah, of course they never list the FrontierSWE benchmark..
Ah yeah, our lovely free market, always asking for tariffs, blocking competition, to build cartels and monopolies.
So Anthropic is now the authority on life or death decisions? How far has the US deteriorated?
Re:DeepSeek: DeepSeek v4.1 Flash 1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @07:30AM (#50130130)
still a myracle to me what people achieve with it? I tried so many things with it, everything is broken it produces
Re:Tesla Roadster on Friday October 16, 2026 @06:06PM (#50125376)
anything still takes this conman serious? Must be bots..
> Google is probably the most aggressive anti-privacy big tech company currently operating

isnt that their only business model almost from day 1? Everyone shitting on Meta because of privacy but Google's the worst.

Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @02:27PM (#50076309)
I hate everything with Google and consumer facing services, they dont give a shit because 99.9% are monetized through spyware or are buisness customers.

They had gemini cli, what happened to that? Was fine

Re:Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data on Monday October 05, 2026 @07:51AM (#49963650)
so more data breached than people live in Denmark..
Hahahah this is too funny 8)

I wished almost it was terminal based

The bullshit machinery is going full blast lately, the correct title: researcher uses Astra to decipher a message nobody really bothered or cared to decrypt.

Is ClosedAI running out of money or what is going on?

Re:Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @07:07AM (#49799344)
How? It is extremely slow and dumb, hundred times dumber than Claude. Why should anyone do that?
Re:Grok 4.7 on Monday September 21, 2026 @01:57PM (#49790844)
DeepSeek 4.1 Flash is garbage, it almost only produced trash code. if you do extremely dumb things it is maybe sometimes fine to use.
Re:Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf] on Monday September 21, 2026 @04:52AM (#49784802)
Absoltely crazy amount of detailed work
Re:Vinix – A modern operating system written in V on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:48PM (#49746351)
the desktop needs 41mb so that must be some external stuff with overhead
Good, nice, who would have thought.
Yep, exactly why Bitcoin people dont understand their own system.
Re:Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @02:54PM (#49717094)
If Google didnt have their ad buisness theiy'd be out by now. They're like BlackBerry and Nokia at this point almost.
Vibe coding?
Re:I spent $220 on Google app ads. 60% of the installs were robots on Saturday September 12, 2026 @08:25AM (#49671631)
Shouldnt this be Google's job? They seem to profit from this scam. Fake clicks and traffik.
God, why are you so stupid.
Amen. I sometimes wonder if all programmers are now marketing people who know shit about software development and engineering.

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