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Re:Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:17PM (#50354862)
DDG has an entrypoint with AI features disabled at https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:14PM (#50077059)
AI Studio has never been ZDR (retention is noted at 55 days max), but paid usage is excluded from training. Vertex uses enterprise terms, and it's definitely ZDR/no training. What's happening on the 18th?
Re:Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale on Monday August 03, 2026 @04:40PM (#49161132)
vLLM's study also concluded that "FP8 can deliver meaningful latency and capacity gains with small or negligible accuracy loss". Their benchmarks include LiveCodeBench 6.

https://vllm-project.github.io/2026/04/22/fp8-kvcache.html

Re:Tell HN: Old Reddit Now Requires Login on Monday July 20, 2026 @04:14PM (#48984299)
Can confirm that this started happening today.

> Log in to use old Reddit

> To keep Reddit safe, accounts are required to access old Reddit. Log in, or continue without an account on reddit.com.

I don't participate in Reddit conversions and only use old.reddit.com to browse some specific subreddits as a guest.

Re:$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on Thursday July 16, 2026 @05:03PM (#48940218)
Literal music videos are still fun and a valid creative direction, e.g., Vance Joy's "Riptide": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ_1HMAGb4k
Re:Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with Agents on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @08:16PM (#48469577)
Grit was the name of a _Ruby_ implementation of git way back when: https://github.com/mojombo/grit/. I believe it's actually what GitHub was built on then.
Re:Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @02:39PM (#48387980)
Do Gemma 4 models compete with Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite? I would assume even the smallest Gemini model would outperform even Gemma 4 31B, but I can't really get a sense of performance or output quality difference.
Re:Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @12:58PM (#48386548)
There's a comparison of all the Gemma 4 models (+ Gemma 3 27B) on the Huggingface model card: https://huggingface.co/google/gemma-4-12B-it#benchmark-resul...
Re:Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic Coding Power, Now Open to All on Thursday April 16, 2026 @10:42AM (#47793742)
A Qwen research member had a poll on X asking what Qwen 3.6 sizes people wanted to see:

https://x.com/ChujieZheng/status/2039909917323383036

Likely to drive engagement, but the poll excluded the large model size.

Re:JuiceSSH – Give me my pro features back on Monday January 26, 2026 @02:24PM (#46770283)
Local-only usage of Termius is free and doesn't even require logging in to the service. I've been using it like this for years.
Re:GIMP 3.0 Released on Monday March 17, 2025 @08:36PM (#43394451)
For your first point, I'd recommend using Krita (https://krita.org/) and its generative AI plugin: https://github.com/Acly/krita-ai-diffusion / https://www.interstice.cloud/
Re:Visualizing Weather Forecasts Through Landscape Imagery on Friday September 20, 2024 @02:45PM (#41604531)
Note that this kind of visualization is just the collapsed form of a standard forecast graph, e.g.

https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=37.39&lon=-122...

https://www.wunderground.com/forecast/us/ca/mountain-view

Re:Rust 1.75.0 on Thursday December 28, 2023 @12:16PM (#38795699)
I was excited for this one to replace a bunch of single type Box<dyn Trait> returns, but there are still quite a few limitations using -> impl Trait in traits in general. It's still discouraged to use them in public APIs: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/12/21/async-fn-rpit-in-trait...
Re:Penn and Teller's Lab Scam [video] on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @12:23PM (#38087289)
This has been around for a long time called Peter Answers as a modern take on the Ouija. See, e.g., https://www.peter-virtual-tarot.com/
Re:Google Chrome Is Already Preparing to Deprecate JPEG-XL on Saturday October 29, 2022 @10:46AM (#33384463)
I wouldn't be surprised if this is more a legal issue since Microsoft was granted a patent on rANS encoding, which is used in JPEG-XL: https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/17/microsoft_ans_patent/
Re:Unofficial Spotify Client for the Nintendo Switch (PoC) on Thursday August 18, 2022 @08:42PM (#32516525)
> at least for now

Yep, the aarch64-nintendo-switch-freestanding target will (very likely) be available in Rust 1.64.0 [0].

[0]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/88991#issuecomment-11...

Re:Micro – a modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor on Saturday November 06, 2021 @11:11AM (#29130862)
> An user friendly editor should pop some kind of prompt when I pressed the first g/G key and show me what I could press the next,

See vim-which-key [1] and which-key.nvim [2] for something similar to this.

[1]: https://github.com/liuchengxu/vim-which-key

[2]: https://github.com/folke/which-key.nvim

Re:Meow Hash (2018) on Friday October 29, 2021 @11:09AM (#29039386)
A detailed analysis of Meow Hash: https://peter.website/meow-hash-cryptanalysis

It's not the highest of quality hash functions (see the SMHasher benchmarks), but it is fast. A great alternative is XXH3 (https://cyan4973.github.io/xxHash/), which has seen far more usage in practice.

Re:Java 17 / JDK 17: General Availability on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:51AM (#28525720)
No releases for 17 yet, but checking the site, I discovered that AdoptOpenJDK was moved to the Eclipse Foundation and renamed to Adoptium: https://adoptium.net/
Re:How the AWS team will contribute to Rust’s success on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:53PM (#26331980)
An officially supported Rust SDK should be a high priority, IMO. The de facto AWS library Rusoto (https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto) went into maintenance mode is in need of maintainers (https://github.com/rusoto/rusoto/issues/1651).

Microsoft has an Azure SDK under their organization (https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-rust), but oddly, it's marked as "unofficial". It looks like Google doesn't have one for GCP, but there is a community-built one: https://github.com/Byron/google-apis-rs

Given all these companies are part of the Rust Foundation (https://foundation.rust-lang.org/members/), maybe I just expect more.

Re:Building replacement proprietary battery packs on Thursday October 22, 2020 @03:53PM (#24862618)
After buying a transmitter/controller, Liftoff (https://store.steampowered.com/app/410340/) is a great simulation to learn how to fly.
Re:Pressing YubiKeys on Friday October 02, 2020 @12:55PM (#24664538)
Adaprox has various "finger bots" for those who don't want to build their own: https://www.adaprox.io/
Re:Ruby: We have decided to go forward to 3.0 this year on Monday August 31, 2020 @11:42AM (#24332577)
Yes, it was introduced in Ruby 2.6 (2018): https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2018/12/25/ruby-2-6-0-rele...
Re:Ruby: We have decided to go forward to 3.0 this year on Monday August 31, 2020 @11:39AM (#24332547)
Re:TypeScript 4.0 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:04PM (#24227295)
> I've never seen someone who wants to go back from TypeScript to plain JavaScript.

This is a very specific case, but it can happen: https://github.com/denoland/deno/pull/6793

Re:First Impressions of Rust on Thursday August 06, 2020 @09:15PM (#24077038)
I find it absolutely frustrating that Rust packaging/crates.io doesn't support namespaces. The arguments I've read are always theoretical/what ifs, but I've yet to be convinced the current situation is better than the practical benefits of namespaces.
Re:GitHub Super Linter: one linter to rule them all on Thursday June 18, 2020 @12:37PM (#23564825)
Which is funny too because GitHub repos have Docker repository functionality: https://github.com/features/packages

But since its release, you still can't do public pulls: https://github.community/t/docker-pull-from-public-github-pa...

Re:Vim 8.2 on Thursday December 12, 2019 @12:35PM (#21774086)
Yes, I didn't expect to see popup windows, which seems to a be a direct response to Neovim's floating windows (https://twitter.com/Neovim/status/1101879098044043264).
Re:Accidentally Overwriting Another Local Variable in C and C++ on Thursday December 05, 2019 @07:02PM (#21718044)
I was looking for a small image processing library (as opposed to libMagickWand) and came across libvips [1]. I found it absolutely bizarre that the public API in a C library was full of variadic functions to support optional arguments. The last argument to most function calls is required to be NULL to denote the end of the argument list, e.g., https://libvips.github.io/libvips/API/current/using-from-c.h... (vips_image_new_from_file, vips_invert, etc.).

[1]: https://libvips.github.io/libvips/

Re:macOS Catalina on Monday October 07, 2019 @02:59PM (#21184643)
Yep, Native Instruments (on that list) sent out an explicit email saying not to update: https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/articles/360...

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