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Re:Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues on Monday October 12, 2026 @10:38AM (#50057076)
Or rather rate limit CI or something. Free repos that don't use large scale LLM activity to trigger a humongous amount of workload onto the github servers don't have to be caught in the crossfire.
If that doesn't mean he's wrong, then it makes no sense to not take him seriously on this basis alone.
Re:ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @04:39AM (#49864604)
> What a weird one to pick. Do you think the US doesn't have massive ports like Europe?

Probably alluding to the fact that Europe owns the largest portion of the worldwide fleet.

Re:Spain Orders Blocks on Archive.today and Its Mirrors on Sunday September 20, 2026 @08:25AM (#49775158)
The linked wiki page lists the reasons. You can't just say these are not good reasons without saying why
Re:Performance Improvements in .NET 11 on Thursday September 17, 2026 @02:52AM (#49737262)
That is not my experience. Sure, the background of .NET is windows, but in the last decade or so it opened up to other platforms, and so many shops prefer deploying their .NET based applications to linux for multitude of reasons. Along with this comes linux oriented culture. So windows culture is not tied to .NET per se, more so tied to certain shops I would say. Speaking from anecdotal experience, I have no numbers on this :)
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:40AM (#49696722)
what sets it apart from scheme/lisp?
Re:Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood? on Friday September 11, 2026 @11:08AM (#49659756)
Thanks for sharing. I'm going to give it a spin for a while. The downside is you cannot comment or vote on the external site so you are always juggling the two sites for that.
Re:How An AI math breakthrough ignited a controversy on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @10:11AM (#49626933)
They didn't write a traditional proof, but a lean program, which can be used to validate proofs formally, using a computer. It's still up to humans to check wether the formalization is sensible, but the proof is correct.
Re:IBM Bob on Saturday September 05, 2026 @05:53AM (#49574937)
Where did you find that it is based on sonnet? While I wouldn't be surprised, I'm curious if that is disclosed somewhere
Title of the video: The paradox at the heart of AI and science
I also never had battery issues with my fp4, except it sometimes starts draining really fast. Fix is too charge while phone is shutdown.
Re:The Two Abstractions of System Design: Hide or Reduce on Friday September 04, 2026 @11:11AM (#49565826)
I'm not sure that your description of generalization coincides with the idea of modeling abstraction from TFA. Modeling abstraction is "about identifying what should leak and leveraging it". Generalization is about making something cover more cases. The technique to achieve these things can overlap of course, but the intention/goal is different.
While I agree with the overall sentiment in this thread, it should be clear that any body of water is highly dangerous for kids until they can swim. It is not disclosed in TFA if the kid was able to swim, but the average 5 year old in the USA is not.
Re:Debian polls its developers on AI: permit or ban? on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:56AM (#49447442)
Not using AI to write production code doesn't mean you can't use AI proactively to find vulnerabilities.
Re:Bomb Fishing Is Wreaking Havoc on Indonesia's Coral Reefs on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @02:48AM (#49444950)
Soccer has no fixed pitch size, only upper and lower bounds on the width and height where the size must fall into
Re:The End of Mathematics on Saturday August 15, 2026 @02:16AM (#49308156)
Same. There is such a thing as a title being too ridiculous or provoking to want to read the article
Re:I Made Tinnitus My Friend (Then It Disappeared) on Monday August 10, 2026 @11:20AM (#49244869)
> I take my time unless I feel like I can do it quickly with the smaller amount of weight

What does that mean for you in practice, how long and how many reps?

Re:The Dark Night of Mathematics on Sunday July 26, 2026 @09:40AM (#49058137)
I never felt that the theorems were the most useful part of mathematics, strange as that may sound. In my professional experience, math offers a framework, a language of expressing ideas in an exact way. It clears things up for the writer and the reader. It is like speech; would we stop talking if a machine could utter all phrases?
Looking at the code and the commit log, this is a large pile of slop
Re:Australia is offering free daytime electricity on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @03:40AM (#48903409)
Link? I never heard of this and I'm very interested
Why not use an existing language with proper algebraic effects? This language seems to be a language with something that looks like algebraic effects, but it doesn't look like it properly implemented those.
Re:What AI does to the minds of novice coders [video] on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @03:34AM (#48814737)
Read the research this video is based on about the "widening gap" here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3632620.3671116
For a second I thought the syntax was Koka, which is also a language with effects. But it's not, there are some syntax differences later in the post.
Re:Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026) on Thursday July 02, 2026 @08:46AM (#48760675)
If you literally can't quit your job, that's called slavery, you realize that?
Re:Show HN: Zanagrams on Sunday June 28, 2026 @02:22PM (#48709987)
Cool that they list the definitions of the words afterwards. This makes it even more fun for non-native speakers, as it adds a free learning aspect to it.
Re:IBM claims first sub-1 nanometer chip technology on Sunday June 28, 2026 @12:29PM (#48708865)
Dupe news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674967
Re:My Opinion on RL on Monday June 22, 2026 @04:48AM (#48627546)
It's not good practice to use acronyms without introducing them. From the title alone it's unclear what this is about, from the text it still had me guessing for a while.

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